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Mentoring is the last refuge of the older artist. With luck, disciples will keep one's books in print, one's reputation alive.
Percy: Don't I get a kiss for luck? It's kind of a tradition, right? Annabeth: Come back alive, Seaweed Brain. Then we'll see.
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
You may have a barrelful of luck tomorrow. If so- fine. But don't expect it, and most of all, don't sit around waiting for it.
For there 's nae luck about the house, There 's nae luck at a'; There 's little pleasure in the house When our gudeman 's awa'.
There have been times when I've thought about it - but with my luck it would probably turn out to be only a temporary solution.
I got a call this morning, and it was from Nancy Kerrigan, wishing me luck. She wished me luck and sent me all her good wishes.
I don't believe in luck. I don't believe in destiny. Instead, I believe that our lives are powered by countless microdecisions.
I did try my luck in a handful of commercial entertainers, which came and went so discreetly that they didn't affect my career.
The people have spoken. Their decision is sovereign. We all respect it... I wish good luck to those who will now govern France.
I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.
Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.
One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.
I think in every industry you need to have a lot of talent; you need to have a lot of drive, but you need a little bit of luck.
Luck is not having to worry, but also working hard to preserve the things that once gave your life meaning, like work and love.
I had inherited what my father called the art of the advocate, or the irritating habit of looking for the flaw in any argument.
In dancing, you can work hard and improve and see the results. With acting, you can work hard, and it's still luck of the draw.
One day you will hear the sound of time rustling as it slips through your fingers like sand. Remember me then. I wish you luck.
The main factor in a penalty shootout is luck again. You need to stay calm and focussed but the biggest thing you need is luck.
Aparshakti has his own journey, and as a sibling, I can only wish him good luck. I would also love to work with him as an actor.
You have to have hope. Otherwise, I don't think you could handle it. Of course, you have to have both luck and pluck to make it.
Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I'd follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I've been very lucky.
I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn't involved in his success is deluding himself.
The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
One can hope to be like Julie Christie, and with a bit of luck might be able to, but you couldn't hope to be like Rita Hayworth.
The best way to move a mountain is one stone at a time. Nothing is insurmountable if you take one step before you take the next.
It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
You can do anything you want to do. You have to work hard, you have to create your own luck, and you have to have some luck also.
There is no escaping the fact that, even in a great career, sometimes the best advances happen through luck, chance and accident.
Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.
Critics don't really affect the fact that we live in this paradise and what the meaning of that [is]. And what luck to have this!
Even as an empiricist, I have to say that I believe in luck. I've seen it too many times in politics to let it pass by unnoticed.
I've always had the luck or blessing that someone would say, 'I liked what you did in that movie. I'd like you to be in my movie.'
Luck never built a business. Prosperity and growth come only to the business that systematically finds and exploits its potential.
With any luck, by the time NASA's space probe hits Pluto, you'll be booking a spaceflight with a privately run suborbital airline.
To hear Alice Keppel talk about her escape from France, one would think she had swum the Channel, with her maid between her teeth.
There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
Basically, I guess they just thinking I've been winning my fights just by luck. I just think I've been winning my fights on heart.
The head of state Has called for me by name But I don't have time for him It's gonna be a glorious day I feel my luck could change
I keep my key chain simple because I'm a big believer in luck. And I've heard that having lots of things on it is too much baggage.
Don't sit and wait - For the world on a plate - (It's not a stroke of luck or chance) - Just draw a bead on that sucker, and drive!
You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.
You become friends with your kids' friends' parents. That's just the way it's gonna be. And sometimes you luck out, and it's great.
Francois Hollande is the president of the republic, he must be respected. I want to wish him good luck in the midst of these tests.
Jessica Alba. I have the biggest crush on her, I can't even tell you. I met her in Vancouver when she was filming 'Good Luck Chuck.'
She'd rather hoped for something simple, like a lined piece of notebook paper with MY EVIL PLAN written across the top, but no luck.
With a little luck that epoch may arrive. I am on the side of those who think that things will go better when the world has changed.
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
If my luck held, it wouldn't be a handsome Greek demigod looking for the love of his life or at least his love of a couple of hours.
Every cricketer knows that in the early stages of a batsman's innings i.e. before he gets his eye in - luck plays an important part.