“When I was 16, I used to drive huge loads of laundry in a three ton truck. I would turn round at night to drive back and see the band in a place north of Toronto called Dunn's Pavilion. I would drive that truck all day and they drive back and all the way until one day I wrecked the truck. I fell asleep and wrecked it. I was OK and so was my helper. I called my dad and the first words out of his mouth were, "are you OK?" I was really lucky I had a kind father.” WayFirstsKindUsedNightTurnsThreeFatherHugeDadOne DayLuckyBandMouthsRoundsMy DadLoadTruckLaundryTorontoHelpers Author:Gordon Lightfoot
“I was lucky to be in a household where whatever I wanted to do was supported and my music was always such a natural part of me, and I was never told that I couldn't do it. So I've always been able to follow my heart and my instincts and what I love, that being my art. And I know that not everybody really has that chance or that environment, the same one that I did, so I kind of want to help in any way that I can.” KnowsWayWantHeartKindArtI CanHelpingAbleWantedNaturalChanceEnvironmentMy HeartLuckyInstinctHousehold Author:Zella Day
“The things I'm grateful for are: I had the one thing that I feel really lucky about, which is that I made something, I made art, that truly - in a weird way - truly comforted me and comforted a lot of people. And I'm really grateful that I got to have that experience.” PeopleWayFeelsArtMadeOne ThingLuckyGrateful Author:David Rees
“I used to be the youngest person on the set [of Bored To Death]. Now I'm very often the oldest person on the set. I feel lucky about that, to be honest. Lena [Dunham], by the way is a doll to me. So much fun to work with and really open.” WayFeelsPersonsUsedFunHonestLuckyUsed To BeBeing HonestBoredDollsBored To Death Author:Richard Masur
“I definitely have friends who - they've gone to multiple jobs, they've had trouble finding jobs, some have gone back to school - it's a very transitional period in anyone's life. I think definitely people have, even like my girlfriend for example, she works her job - and just the fact that she has a job - she just feels super lucky in this economy. But it can really shape, I think, the way you view the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayFeelsFactsSchoolJobsViewsEconomyGoneTroubleExamplePeriodsShapesLuckyFindingsGirlfriendMultipleMy GirlfriendMultiple Jobs Author:Chris Baio
“The continent is incredibly exciting. When I first went there, it consumed me, and I instantly felt like I wanted to be engaged one way or the other, whether on a philanthropic level or business. I'm lucky to say today that I do both. In terms of African Wildlife Foundation, I started working with them roughly around 2009, on the ambassador level. Then I joined the board and was exposed to deeper issues that the Foundation was combating on the continent.” WayFirstsTodayWantedFeltTermLevelsIssuesLuckyExcitingFoundationDeeperOne WayBoardsEngagedExposedContinentsConsumedWildlifeAmbassadorsPhilanthropic Author:Veronika Varekova
“Here I was going to work with Pacino thinking, "I'm not going to get lucky twice. There's no way. This guy is going to hand me my ass." He looks like the kind of guy who's going to hand you your ass. It's Al Pacino.” ThinkingWayLooksKindHandsGuyLuckyAssAlsThis GuyGoing To Work Author:Johnny Depp
“I've been lucky to have played a lot of women, over the years, especially in the sci-fi genre. All of them are special to me, in different ways, and I hate comparing them because it's like comparing people. They're different.” PeopleWayYearsDifferentHateSpecialLuckyI HateCompareGenreDifferent WaysSci FiSpecial To Me Author:Laura Vandervoort
“In a way I'm lucky because when people suggest I won't be able to do something I have no choice but to show them they are wrong. If I say I'm doing it, I'm doing it. No matter how hard it is.” PeopleIfsWayMatterHardShowsAbleChoicesLucky Author:Zoe Cassavetes
“I think that as actresses - and I've definitely gone through this in a really bizarre way, because I worked so much and was really lucky with the roles that I got when I was younger - I remember hearing the older actors saying, "It gets tough," and thinking, "Really? I can't imagine."” ThinkingWayI CanRememberActorsRolesGoneImagineLuckyToughHearingActressesBizarre Author:Winona Ryder
“Politicians are enormously smart and rational. They don't have the same interests as businessmen ... But a man rises to the top of the United States. He's clawed his way out of 330 million people. OK. He didn't do that because he was dumb, or lucky, or something like that. He understands power. And he understands how to take it. And he understands how to keep it.” PeopleMenWayStatesInterestUnitedMillionsUnited StatesPoliticianLuckySmartRationalDumbBusinessman Author:George Friedman
“By the time I was seventeen, I was on my way to Hollywood and didn't look back. My family is supportive now, but like any adult guardian of a seventeen-year-old daughter, they were not thrilled with my plan to run off to the LA to make it as an actress. Even a somewhat functioning parent would think that was a bad, bad idea. Lucky for me, I didn't listen to them.” ThinkingWayYearsLooksIdeasRunningParentPlansLuckyDaughterAdultsMy FamilyHollywoodActressesMy WaySupportiveGuardianBad IdeasSeventeenSeventeen Years Old Author:Amber Heard
“I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did.” ThinkingWayStillsTwoBigsAgeYoungNaturalCreativeBrotherInvolvedLuckyMusicalYoung AgeOlder Brother Author:Kate Bush
“I feel like I'm struggling now, and nearly every musician I know feels that way - even the most successful ones. I realize that I'm very lucky, but I still feel like I could be doing so much better.” KnowsWayFeelsStillsRealizingStruggleSuccessfulLuckyMusician Author:Eleanor Friedberger
“I was lucky to have read a lot of poetry when I was younger; it helped me to remember a way to write.” WayWritingRememberLucky Author:Benjamin Clementine
“I feel like we have so many different ways to express ourselves now, and I relish, I feel very lucky to be doing comedy.” WayFeelsDifferentComedyLuckyDifferent WaysRelish Author:Nick Kroll
“I feel so lucky to have the opportunity to make the show, and that it is in alignment with what I'm interested in, with what I read about. For me, it just felt like an organic step - of course, I'm thinking I want a show that allows for more representation for the community and shows the struggles people face, especially when we're hearing all this political rhetoric - to have a way to show how much this affects people lives.” PeopleThinkingWayWantFeelsShowsFacesPoliticalCoursesOpportunityFeltCommunityStepsStruggleLuckyHearingRhetoricRepresentationAlignmentSo LuckyPolitical Rhetoric Author:Ellen Page
“You have to ask yourself the question, do you have the smartest people in the world working for your company? And if you do, you're lucky. But if you don't, put up the incentive. And have someone who is absolutely brilliant who's a 22-year old in India who says what about this way? And who revolutionizes the way you do business.” PeopleIfsWorldWayYearsAsksCompanyLuckyIndiaBrilliantIncentives Author:Peter Diamandis
“The good news for me is that I have an amazing team behind me, and they've been with me for 20 years now - almost 20 years. And they have seen me as an actress, not necessarily just a black actress. So I have been lucky enough for them to see me that way.” WayYearsHas BeensEnoughBlackBehindsTeamLuckyNewsActressesGood News Author:Regina King
“When you present works of art, one thing I've learned is that if you're lucky - [Laughs] - there will be those few people who, shall we say, get it? Really become engaged, become moved by it in their own way. You cannot control what other people are going to think about it.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayArtLaughingOne ThingLuckyMovedEngagedI've LearnedWorks Of ArtThings I've Learned Author:Robert Barry
“I'm lucky that so many children visit my website. At least I get to talk with them that way.” WayChildrenLuckyWebsite Author:Judy Blume
“I'm really lucky because my sister is a real activist soul and also hyper-intellectualized in this way that's really allowed me to wrap my mind around some of the bigger intellectual concepts and really understand the language around identity in the gender nonconforming community.” WayMindRealSoulLanguageCommunityIdentityLuckyIntellectualConceptsBiggerGenderActivistMy SisterWrapsHyper Author:Lena Dunham
“I've always been a very rebellious, philosophical person, so my mother set the foundation for my appreciation for nature and my empathy for other people. But then, being a sort of rebellious, philosophical thinker, I'm always looking for new ways to shake things up. So I feel like I'm really lucky to be alive in a time where there's so much opportunity to disrupt and shake it up. It's sort of a combination between that and having the foundation that my mother gave me.” PeopleWayFeelsPersonsMotherOpportunityAliveLuckyEmpathyPhilosophicalFoundationAppreciationCombinationShakesThinkerNew WaysRebelliousShake It UpLucky To Be Alive Author:Adrian Grenier
“My grandmother took me to a lot of theater. I was exposed to performance quite a bit - everything from Broadway to off-Broadway and dance and music as well. I was very lucky that way. It was a very rich childhood.” WayWellsBitsRichChildhoodLuckyPerformancesTheaterGrandmotherExposedMy GrandmotherBroadway Author:Julia Stiles
“I might take from the current political chaos a desire to somehow reflect its essential qualities in a story - the blatant lies that get accepted with repetition; the way mass media seems to be agitating people en masse; the way, particularly, that a relatively lucky and affluent and privileged population can be undone by a certain spoiled quality; that feeling when two decent people violently disagree, because they are arguing from two non-intersecting data sets - well, the list goes on.” PeopleWayWellsTwoStoriesFeelingsSeemsMightPoliticalLyingDesireCertainQualityMediaGoes OnLuckyEssentialsMassChaosPopulationCurrentsArguingListsAcceptedDataDecentDisagreePrivilegedRepetitionSpoiledUndoneMass MediaAffluentBlatant Lies Author:George Saunders
“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 think you get one great love in your life like that, if you're lucky enough, where you hold nothing back. And I'm not saying that's the healthiest way to love either.” IfsThinkingWayEnoughLuckyGreat Love Author:Linda D. Thompson
“The people who taught really knew their stuff. My chemistry teacher, Frank Wade, was actually a chemist. I was so lucky in a number of ways.” PeopleWayStuffNumbersTeacherTaughtLuckyChemistryFrankSo LuckyChemistWadeChemistry Teachers Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“One of [ways being lucky] was to go to school during the Great Depression because teaching became a plum job.” WaySchoolJobsTeachingLuckyGreat DepressionPlums Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“I guess I'm lucky to have been blindsided. I'm lucky to have gotten into fistfights, in a way. I'm lucky I learned how to stop them.” WayHas BeensLucky Author:Uma Thurman
“I'm lucky. I think it's good that I have a body of work that addresses different things in different ways.” ThinkingWayDifferentBodyLuckyDifferent WaysAddressesDifferent Things Author:Bell Hooks
“For me, I'm not in an industry where I'm starving. I'm so lucky to have this job, I'm compensated for my work in an incredible way. But what I do ask is when I join a production I want to make sure that the male actor isn't making four times my salary, which has been true, or seven times my salary. And if that's true you go, you know what, I don't need this job. It's not really asking for more - it's asking for something that is respectable and equal to the male actor and you have to go, why are women being valued less?” IfsKnowsWayWantNeedsHas BeensJobsActorsAsksFourIndustryLuckyEqualAskingSevenMalesIncrediblesProductionsSalaryStarvingRespectableSo LuckyTrue You Author:Jessica Chastain
“I am lucky enough to live in Miami so dinner on the beach with people I love is one of my favorite ways to relax.” PeopleWayEnoughLove IsLuckyMy FavoriteDinnerBeachRelaxMiami Author:Adriana Lima
“There are a lot of movies I feel good about. It was a great experience that I was lucky enough to be there in it. That's the way I feel.” WayFeelsEnoughLuckyFeel GoodGreat ExperiencesI Feel Good Author:Diane Keaton
“I feel lucky in that the same way I've surrounded myself with people I'm creatively comfortable with, I've surrounded myself with people who are accepting of the way that I look.” PeopleWayFeelsLooksAcceptingLuckyComfortable Author:Lena Dunham
“The first thing to recognize is how fortunate Ireland is to be an island off the west coast of Europe, and therefore helped by the prevailing winds to escape the effects of acid rain and other problems. We were also lucky not to have had the same kind of industrial revolution and industry as some other countries. Our problem now is to create employment, but to do it in ways that value our environment.” WayFirstsKindCountryProblemValuesEnvironmentEffectsWindRevolutionIndustryLuckyEuropeRainWestEmploymentFortunateIslandsIrelandOther CountriesCoastOur EnvironmentAcidPrevailingSo LuckyIndustrial RevolutionWest CoastAcid Rain Author:Mary Robinson
“I am an artist and a writer, and I do think that one always places oneself in the picture to see where one fits. I left home when I was sixteen and lived in places where it was very easy for me to have fallen the other way. I could have been on the large convoy because I was a woman and I was alone. In India, that's not a joke. I could have ended up very, very badly. I'm lucky that I didn't.” ThinkingWayHas BeensHomeArtistLeftEasyFitLuckyJokesIndiaOneselfFallenCould Have BeenSixteen Author:Arundhati Roy
“Having done a normal job for 10 years, as a psychiatric nurse dealing with emergencies, I know what terrible, hopeless lives some people have. So in many ways, it's great to be able to wield the financial power that I can, and do gigs, fundraisers or give money. I feel lucky I can help out.” PeopleKnowsWayGivingFeelsYearsI CanDoneHelpingAbleJobsTerribleLuckyNormalFinancialHopelessNurseEmergenciesGigsPsychiatricFundraiser Author:Jo Brand
“I think the worst professional advice I've received... I feel I've been lucky in that I've gotten a lot of wonderful guidance, but I remember - and I would never do this to someone - I remember going into a manager's office, the manager I had in New York, and this was way back when. And she said to me, immediately, "You should never wear striped T-shirts. You look much bigger than you are."” ThinkingWayFeelsShouldLooksSaidRememberWonderfulWorstAdviceNew YorkLuckyOfficeBiggerManagersGuidanceShirtsT ShirtBack WhenWay Back When Author:June Diane Raphael
“I was so thankful that I got to go back to comedy and I felt bad that I had abandoned something that I guess I was naturally given and lucky to have an loved all of my life, but didn't love it anymore because I didn't get to do it the right way.” WayGivenFeltComedyLuckyAbandonedRight Way Author:Sandra Bullock
“But really - look at the span of my career, and it's something people dream about. And to be spared major injury: I had some moments along the way, but being able to retire on my own terms after having driven during those decades when safety conditions were more precarious than today - am I lucky, or what?” PeopleWayLooksMomentsDreamTodayAbleTermMy OwnCareersConditionsLuckyMajorsSafetyDrivenDecadesInjuryRetiringPrecarious Author:Mario Andretti
“I've been really lucky to spend some time around actors and artists I really admire. One thing I gathered from asking a lot of questions is that part of this job and this life we've chosen is doing personal exploration in front of an audience. In a lot of ways, that's what art is: personal searching with people watching.” PeopleWayArtJobsArtistActorsAudienceOne ThingFrontsLuckyArt IsAskingChosenAdmireThis LifeExploration Author:Jason Segel
“When you are an historian, there's probably nothing that matters more than to be recognized by your colleagues in your own profession. I was lucky enough to win the Pulitzer Prize for History. I had to give a talk right after that to some young people. The most important thing to tell them, I think, is that you can't ever know that it's going to turn out that way.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayGivingImportantMatterEnoughYoungTurnsWinningLuckyImportant ThingsProfessionPrizeHistorianColleagues Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin
“I don't see myself as successful because I've worked on only a handful of films. The way I look at it, if you're really, really lucky, if you consistently work hard over the course of ten years, if you refuse to take no for an answer, if you surround yourself with great mentors and are a sponge, willing to learn, then you're bound for something to happen.” IfsWayYearsLooksHardHappensFilmCoursesAnswersSuccessfulWillingHard WorkLuckyTenBoundsRefuseGreat MenSurroundMentorConsistentlyHandfulSurround YourselfSpongesWilling To Learn Author:Haley Bennett
“I have to say I've been lucky in that way in that I've been able to go from different films and different genres with different challenges.” WayDifferentAbleFilmChallengesLuckyGenreDifferent Genres Author:Amy Adams
“I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.” WayWealthPayCareersSuccessfulCollegeLuckyModelsLoanSuccessful Career Author:Padma Lakshmi
“At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.” IfsWayDesignLuckyEvolveLucky You Author:Daniel Day-Lewis
“He was so gorgeous... Kurt. I don't know how I got lucky that way.” KnowsWayKnow HowLuckyGorgeous Author:Courtney Love
“I do a job and am lucky enough to do a job that I love, but it is a hard one. I'm not saying it is as hard as working in a coal mine, but it is still difficult in a different way. Sometimes you have to go through very strong emotional journeys and then come back to yourself. And that can be difficult to control.” WayStillsDifferentSometimesHardEnoughJobsStrongDifficultJourneyEmotionalMinesLuckyDifferent WaysVery StrongCoalStrong Emotional Author:Javier Bardem
“A big part of who I am is just the way I was raised. Nobody is better than anyone else, and if you really work hard, you might get lucky and get what you want.” IfsWayWantHardBigsMightHard WorkLuckyRaisedWhat You WantWho I Am Author:Martina McBride