Linda Lael Miller Quotes

I've written since I was 10 years old, so I guess I'm self-taught. I've had some luck along the way, I must admit, and I've worked hard.

Linda Lael Miller

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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.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Universe

• 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

• 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.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Important
  • Person
  • Luck

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  

  Victor Cherbuliez
  • Habit
  • Luck
  • Opportunities

• 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

• 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!

  

  Felix Bloch
  • Life
  • May
  • True

• 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

• I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Beginning
  • Born
  • Depression

• Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Great
  • Ambition
  • Fate

• 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

• 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.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Great
  • Important
  • Writing

• Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest.

  

  Harry Mathews
  • Words
  • Poetry
  • Poems

• Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
  • Life
  • Think
  • Dreams

• I'm having this disbelief and dissatisfaction with an establishment that feels like it's moving backward, and I think there's a similar feeling with everyone of my age and in the world of music and artistic stuff. Art is an important way those feelings get expressed and help people process their feelings and opinions.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• Weave the circle, tightly sewn, Let nothing evil or unknown Enter within. Stay without On pain of death, we cast you out.

  

  Yasmine Galenorn
  • Death
  • Pain
  • Evil

• I've written since I was 10 years old, so I guess I'm self-taught. I've had some luck along the way, I must admit, and I've worked hard.

  

  Linda Lael Miller
  • Luck