Esi Edugyan 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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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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I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.
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I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.
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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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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.
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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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My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.
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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.
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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.
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When I began writing in the mid-1960s, I thought it was not important for readers to know whether I was male or female. Also, I was a great admirer of E.B. White, so I may have thought that it would bring me luck to submit my first manuscript as 'E.L.' But if I were starting out today, I would use my first name.
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Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera. I thought, 'Hey, this will be a really fun story to tell my grandkids one day, that I auditioned for a soap!'
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I am a great believer in luck.
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I'm trying to focus on original material. That is what I've had my luck with.
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Why, what a wonderful piece of luck! Here is a red rose! I have never seen any rose like it in all my life. It is so beautiful that I am sure it has a long Latin name.
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'That 's eight times to-day that you 've kissed me before.''Then here goes another,' says he, 'to make sure,For there 's luck in odd numbers,' says Rory O'More.
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The music that I wrote and recorded is music that I really enjoy listening to. It's just dumb luck that a lot of other people do, too.
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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.
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The public regards lawyers with great distrust. They think lawyers are smarter than the average guy but use their intelligence deviously. Well, they're wrong. Usually they are not smarter.
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I don't believe people playing rock n' roll should have crowns. We're not kings and queens. Anybody can play it.
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There are about 46,000 jobs supported by the solar industry right now. That's fewer than it should be, too. And you have a whole other set of jobs in energy-efficiency in buildings and in creating the "Smart Grid," as we call it.
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What is luck but something made to run out.
