“I like that kind of stuff. I like doing speeches. I've been lucky because I've had a lot of characters, over the years, who will have three or four page speeches.” YearsKindCharacterThreeStuffFourLuckySpeechPagesStuff I Like Author:Donal Logue
“in reading ... stories, you can be many different people in many different places, doing things you would never have a chance to do in ordinary life. It's amazing that those twenty-six little marks of the alphabet can arrange themselves on the pages of a book and accomplish all that. Readers are lucky - they will never be bored or lonely.” PeopleLittlesBookDifferentStoriesReadingChanceReaderLuckySixPagesOrdinaryLonelyMarkTwentiesAccomplishBoredDifferent PeoplesBook ReadingDifferent PlaceAlphabetOrdinary LifeReading Stories Author:Natalie Babbitt
“Crazy Love is crazy good! Leslie What's brain is evidently crowded with strangeness, awfulness, wonderfulness, wildness, madness of all kinds...and love. Lots of love. How lucky we are that her imagination runs deep, runs true, runs onto the page in crazily beautiful stories -- and lucky, so very lucky, to be holding those stories right now in our hands.” KindStoriesHandsRunningBeautifulImaginationLove IsBrainCrazyRight NowLuckyPagesAnd LoveMadnessAll KindsCrowdedStrangenessWildnessCrazy LoveLeslieAwfulness Author:Molly Gloss
“As an actor, you very rarely have the experience of picking up a script and getting a few pages into it and realizing that what you're holding in your hands is not just a role on a TV show, but it's one of those special parts that comes along, once or twice in a career. If you're lucky, you get an opportunity to do something really memorable and to be part of one of those rare shows that passes into that special category.” IfsShowsHandsActorsOpportunityRealizingCareersRolesSpecialTvsLuckyPagesScriptsMemorableCategoriesTv ShowsLucky You Author:Holt McCallany
“My first jobs were at Pixar and John Lasseter just doing animation would always allow actors to do that, and then animate to that. It was an early lesson for me that, if you're lucky enough, as I've been in my career thus far, to get really incredible iconic people to do your stuff, you want them to tell your story and you want them to be on page in the important moments, and they usually are.” PeopleIfsWantFirstsImportantEnoughMomentsStoriesJobsActorsStuffCareersLessonsLuckyPagesIncrediblesAnimationGet RealIconicPixarImportant Moments Author:Dan Fogelman
“I think that almost every scene was an exploration - it was never going to be just what’s on the page. So I know I was very lucky - we all were - to work with a cast of this caliber. These are extremely experienced and intelligent actors, who are also deeply emotional and - as you say - are also engaged in the world.” ThinkingKnowsWorldActorsEmotionalSceneLuckyPagesIntelligentCastsEngagedExplorationCaliber Author:Oren Moverman
“Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day; the average is probably three pages.” ThreeLiteraturePleaseLuckySixPagesSevenVery GoodAverageCopiesGood DayPlease Me Author:Dean Koontz
“At this rate, I'd be lucky if I wrote a page a day. Then I knew what the problem was. I needed experience. How could I write about life when I'd never had a love affair or a baby or even seen anybody die? A girl I knew had just won a prize for a short story about her adventures among the pygmies in Africa. How could I compete with that sort of thing?” IfsWritingStoriesProblemDiesGirlAdventureBabyNeededLuckyPagesRateAffairPrizeShort StoryLove Affair Book:the bell jar Source: the bell jar
“I used to feel for years and years and years that I was very remiss not to have written a novel and I would question people who wrote novels and try to find out how they did it and how they had got past page 30. Then, with the approach of old age, I began to just think: “Well, lucky I can do anything at all.” PeopleThinkingFeelsTryingYearsWellsI CanAgePastUsedCan DoNovelWrittenLuckyApproachPagesOld Age Author:Alice Munro