Emanuel Ax Quotes
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Some days, I'll tell you that everything in life was meant to be and that there is an order to the universe. Other days, I'm convinced it's all a combination of luck and opportunity.
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I didn't feel very attractive as a child and actually I wasn't.
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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.
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You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.
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It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.
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I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
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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.
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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.
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What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
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My biggest luck was the Terry McMillan era, because what happened after the phenomenon of 'Waiting to Exhale' is that publishing woke up. They said, 'Wow. Black people do read.'
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I'm a school dropout. So, at the age of 16, I moved to Mumbai to try my luck on some business.
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Thanking you once more, I want to wish you the best of luck for your future life and to conclude by saying to you: Dream your dreams and may they come true!
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I haven't done a marathon for a long time. So we'll see. I will need good luck.
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Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.
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You have to identify your shot and be 'Push your luck' ready for it.
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My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.
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Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.
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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.
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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.
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I think comedy is the most difficult thing in the world, I really do. One can always lament, you know - but to laugh in the face of life, that's very hard. And for me the great tragedian should also be a great comedian.
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The village had a mill near it, situated on the little creek, which made very good flour. The population consisted of civilized Indians, but much mixed blood.
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A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity.
