#luck

I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#am #first #i #lucky

A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#been #bride #flower #guilty #had

I moved out to LA, got an agent, started auditioning. I didn't know anything about how it worked. And since I was really bad, luckily, I didn't get any of those parts. ↗

— Casey Affleck

#agent #any #anything #auditioning #bad

In 1969, at the age of 19, I was lucky enough to work with George C. Scott in the definitive portrayal of his career over a period of many months and several countries on the definitive film version of Patton's WWII career. ↗

— Edward Albert

#career #countries #definitive #enough #film

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away. ↗

— Amelia Barr

#empty #far #favors #form #fortune

I just didn't know what the heck I wanted to do with my life, so I drove out to California and got really lucky. ↗

— Krista Allen

#drove #got #heck #i #just

My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker. ↗

— Woody Allen

#i #instance #last #last night #luck

Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way. ↗

— Aaron Allston

#fingernails #go #hanging #largely #luck

I look at myself as someone who has been very lucky - my job is also what I enjoy most in the world, and I can make my life doing it. ↗

— Fernando Alonso

#been #doing #enjoy #i #i can

Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#actually #among #been #bolshevik #brought