George Roy Hill 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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We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.
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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.
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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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If one marries out of necessity, he will have to reincarnate to reach the point where he wants to live only for God.
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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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Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.
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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!
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I know I've been lucky. But it's what you do with that luck afterwards that really defines whether you stick around.
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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
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The message of Jesus is summed up partly in the Sermon on the Mount, and partly when he begins his ministry and quotes the passage from Isaiah: 'I have come to set free the prisoners and restore sight to the blind.' And certainly, his mission is also to bring hope. It was to heal people, to befriend the outcast.
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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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Serendipity is nice, but hoping for luck and the magic of happenstance shouldn't be an excuse for a lack of proactivity. I had to learn for myself that waiting isn't a life plan.
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There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it.
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When you're someone in the media, the good thing is, I guess, that you can reach a lot of people.
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The Internet is the ultimate vanity-publishing medium, and therefore, the ultimate place for those of us who like to watch. The Internet can reach an audience at lower cost than any medium before it.
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I am a great believer in luck.
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A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
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I think nearly every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness - the point where you can’t go any further.
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To reach new areas, you have to get your brain out of its comfort zone. There are various ways to do it, but I believe the easiest is by training yourself in a neurological phenomenon called synesthesia, in which the brain makes unusual associations between things like sounds, colors and emotions.
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I do get around. Geographically, that is.
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Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions.
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People Watch Luck Go by Them and They're Blind - They Never Reach out and Grab It.
