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" A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next. "

" A career path is rarely a path at all. A more interesting life is usual a more crooked, winding path of missteps, luck and vigorous work. It is almost always a clumsy balance between the things you try to make happen and the things that happen to you. "

" A combination of tenacity and luck brought me here today. "

" A couple of people I knew went to university apart from me, but all the way through I was the smartest kid in the school. That's luck, but I was proud of it. And I was also proud of doing well without trying. As you get older, and it took me a long time to realise it, that's a disgusting attitude, revolting. "

" Acting is a mix of luck and choice. I got lucky. "

" Acting on the theory that sometimes luck is better than work, I randomly called several people named Dattilo in Kentucky. All were unfailingly polite, and none knew anything about a major with their last name who died in World War II. I also discovered that more Dattilos lived in Kentucky than I would have imagined. "

Mitchell Zuckoff

" A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm. "

James Thomas Fields

" A film like 'Good Night And Good Luck,' you make that for $7 million because you know it's a black-and-white film, and it's not an easy sell. If you make it for $7 million, then everybody can have a chance to make a little bit of money, and you get to make the film you want to make. "

" A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent. "

" A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time. "

" All Americans knew was 'The Joy Luck Club' and children of dry cleaners trying to assimilate. The Asia that I was seeing was a world of people who are incredibly sophisticated, and I wanted to represent that side. "

" All I set out to do was to earn a living playing drums, you know? And as luck would have it, I've surpassed that. "

" A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity. "

" A lot of people that I started out with, I don't know where they are. I guess it takes tenacity to still be doing this, and luck, but I've been very blessed. "

" Also at the top of the list was my three day appearance on 'Press Your Luck'. In addition to the intense competition of each of those games, it slowly started to dawn on me in the minutes between tapings that I was winning some serious money. "

" Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. "

Fergus Henderson

" And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that. "

" Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it. "

" A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. "

James A. Garfield

" Art depends on luck and talent. "

Francis Ford Coppola

" Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art you're stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is. "

" As an actor I am always waiting for my luck to run out. "

" As an actor, I'm always just so pumped when I get any job. To be a working actor takes a lot of luck. "

" As artists, we are so not in control most of the time of the content or the narrative of our characters, and sometimes writing takes a turn and it's not something we necessarily have control over. It's just a lot of random dumb luck, so when things click, you've just got to enjoy it. "

" As far as the timing, well, I'd write that off to luck as much as anything - I happened to be out looking for a development deal, and Disney happened to think my team and I might be the right people to make a Mickey Mouse game. "

" At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future. "

" Authors should do multiple submissions to agents. I mean, that's the way the business world works and whether or not the industry likes it or not, they can't stop you from submitting to multiple agents and you know what? If an agent misses out on you because they took too long with your query letter, tough luck for them. "

" Baseball is a game of averages, but over a short period of time, to have a little luck going is not a bad thing. "

" Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant. "

" Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest... beautiful, no. Amusing, yes. "

Josephine Baker

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