“I've gone up for loads of jobs in the past that I knew were going to be terrible, and I've done my best, and I still haven't got them. So I think I've been lucky in who's decided I'd be worthy of their time.” ThinkingStillsDoneJobsPastGoneHavensTerribleLuckyDecidedWorthyLoad Author:Chris O'Dowd
“I mean, I'm new but I've always been very interested in film making process and I've been lucky enough to work with film makers in my past that have been very encouraging to let me hang around. I get so emotionally vested - that the producer part of me was natural.” MeanHas BeensEnoughPastFilmProcessNaturalLuckyLet MeProducersMakersMy Past Author:Charlize Theron
“I've been really lucky to work with some really great film people in the past, but television works on a much quicker schedule, and it's the TV directors I've worked with that I looked to and became a big fan of.” PeopleBigsPastFilmFansTelevisionTvsLuckyDirectorsSchedulesReally GreatGreat FilmPeople From The Past Author:Michael Weatherly
“I've been lucky over the past few years. Things have just happened for me.” YearsPastHappenedLuckyOver The Past Author:Joe Wright
“What I got out of baseball is what I have today, and I've got to look at that. I still see some of my friends that never made it past Triple-A. I made that last big step. I was lucky. I'm in love with my land. I got it all from playing ball. It gives me prestige. Someone says, 'What you got?' I say, 'One hundred and twenty-one acres of nice land.'” GivingLooksMadeStillsBigsTodayLastsPastStepsNiceLandLuckyHundredMy FriendsBaseballBallsGive MeTwentiesMade ItTwenty OnePrestigeAcres Author:Mark Fidrych
“I've been very lucky. I've had my problems in the past, I've had my troubles, but you move on. I had a great life and I am really thankful for it.” ProblemPastMovingTroubleLucky Author:Anthony Hopkins
“Speaking as someone who bought the party line for far too long, you would be amazed what you can believe if you keep convincing yourself the press, the libs, the universities - hell, everyone but a few on the religious fringe and big business - are out to get you. I was lucky - I started to snap out of this a couple of years ago and hopefully will now apply to both major parties the same skepticism and cynicism I had in the past reserved for Democrats.” IfsYearsBelieveLongBigsWould BePastReligiousLinesPartyHellCoupleLuckyMajorsYears AgoPressesDemocratUniversityHopefullyCynicismSkepticismAmazedConvincingFringeReservedSnapsBig BusinessConvincing Yourself Author:John Cole
“I think that compared to other politicians who have been put in jail in the past, compared to the human-rights activists in history who have had to face political prosecution, the activists in Hong Kong nowadays are already quite lucky compared to that.” ThinkingHumansHas BeensPastFacesPoliticalRightsPoliticianLuckyHuman RightsJailActivistHong KongProsecution Author:Joshua Wong
“When I'm sitting at my computer writing, I really have this fiendish smile on my face. I am not thinking about the past or the future or how it's going to be received. I feel that I'm very lucky that way; I don't carry that particular anxiety around with me. I'm not anxiety-free by any means, but that happens to be one that I've been spared.” ThinkingWayFeelsWritingMeanHappensPastFacesParticularLuckyAnxietyComputerSittingSmile On My FaceThinking About The Past Author:Maria Semple
“I was really lucky in that my mom and dad never got caught in the act, so to speak. So my mom was caught fraternizing with my dad. My mom was caught, you know, in the building that my father lived in. My mom was caught in a white neighborhood past curfew without the right permits. My mother was caught in transition. And that was key because had she been caught in the act, then, as the law says, she could've spent anywhere up to four years in prison.” KnowsYearsPastLawMotherFatherSpeakWhiteFourBuildingKeysMomDadLuckyPrisonMy DadCaughtMy MomNeighborhoodTransitionPermitFour YearsMom And DadCurfewCaught In The Act Author:Trevor Noah
“Most of the theater I've done in the past was when I was a kid or a teenager so it feels like being a kid again. I'm happier than I've ever been. You really get to go to work every day and play, and try different things. I don't know, I've never felt so lucky to do this job. So I hope to do a lot more theater.” TryingDifferentDoneKidsPastLuckyTeenagerSo LuckyBeing A Kid Author:Alexis Bledel
“I feel so lucky to have done so many things that I love in the past few years so I'm just going to keep trying to do them.” TryingDonePastLuckySo Lucky Author:Melanie Lynskey
“I like complex characters. I've been very, very lucky to portray, in these past three years, characters that are strong and fragile at the same time. It's those characters that I'm looking for. In the last year and half I played three different religions, and that allowed me to educate myself so much.” DifferentCharacterPastStrongLuckyEducate Author:Moran Atias
“How did scientists get money in the past? They were either lucky and independently wealthy, like Darwin, or they had patrons, like Galileo. Universities or governments have become patrons only in the last few generations. Many of the great scientists of the past were in debt to their patrons in the same sense that modern scientists are influenced by what their granting agencies want.” PastModernLuckyScientistWealthyGet MoneyPatronGreat Scientist Author:Stephen Jay Gould