Kay Cannon Quotes

It's not about having luck; it's about putting yourself in a position of luck.

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• Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Luck

• Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Show
  • Office
  • Dignity

• I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Luck
  • Chicago
  • Try

• I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural, no interventions. Wish me luck.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • May
  • Hope
  • Wish

• Playing good girls in the 30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad girls. Actually I think playing bad girls is a bore; I have always had more luck with good girl roles because they require more from an actress.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Girl

• There's a reason that there are oodles of young Aussies, Germans, Japanese, even Chinese backpackers traipsing around the world. They are unencumbered by debilitating student loans. No such luck for the American Theater Arts major with $120,000 in loans.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
  • World
  • American
  • Chinese

• I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in the world that you can't choose for yourself - you have to be chosen.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
  • People
  • World
  • Career

• Everyone has to find their own way, it's just that I don't want to go that way myself. If a band likes being on a major and feels happy there, good luck to them.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Band

• I'm a school dropout. So, at the age of 16, I moved to Mumbai to try my luck on some business.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • School
  • Business
  • Age

• I haven't done a marathon for a long time. So we'll see. I will need good luck.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• You have to identify your shot and be 'Push your luck' ready for it.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • You
  • Luck
  • Push

• My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Luck

• If it turns out to be a hit, well, good luck dealing with fame. And if it's not a hit and you can still survive and make music you believe in, well, then you're truly blessed. I think that's where we are now.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Good
  • Music
  • Believe

• First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Successful
  • Christmas
  • Luck

• Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but I've consistently strived to create whatever good fortune I can get in my life - and consistently strive just as hard not to screw it up once I have it!

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I know I've been lucky. But it's what you do with that luck afterwards that really defines whether you stick around.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Know
  • Luck
  • Lucky

• Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Strong

• My first film would have been 'Rough,' and it got delayed. 'Venkatadri Express' released first and became a big success. I signed 'Venkatadri' after 15 days of shooting for 'Rough'. I had lot of faith in the script, and I feel luck plays a major part.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Success
  • Faith
  • Luck

• Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier, Kepler, Cavalieri, Pascal, Fermat, Wallis, and Barrow. It was Newton's good luck to come at a time when everything was ripe for the discovery, and his ability enabled him to construct almost at once a complete calculus.

  

  W. W. Rouse Ball
  • Time
  • Good
  • Writing

• The only way to find the best actor would be to let everybody play Hamlet and let the best man win.

  

  Humphrey Bogart
  • Way
  • Play
  • Winning

• I have such admiration for single mothers. I simply don't comprehend how you'd cope with that intensity, the lack of breaks, ever, on your own.

  

  Jo Brand
  • Single

• As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future.

  

  Thomas Edward Brown
  • Mother
  • Future
  • Sweet

• It's not about having luck; it's about putting yourself in a position of luck.

  

  Kay Cannon
  • Luck