A Quote by Decimius Magnus Ausonius

If lucky be not proud; if unlucky, do not despond. — © Decimius Magnus Ausonius
If lucky be not proud; if unlucky, do not despond.

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TV tends to be like, if you're lucky, it's like Las Vegas. You can't get out. There's always another pitch meeting. They keep you on the casino floor. If I'm unlucky, if I'm lucky enough to be unlucky, I would love to write a movie.
There's only two kinds of actors - good ones and bad ones... and lucky ones and unlucky ones.
We must often visit yesterday to see how lucky or unlucky we are today!
Liberals tend to understand that a person can be lucky or unlucky in all matters relevant to his success. Conservatives, however, often make a religious fetish of individualism. Many seem to have absolutely no awareness of how fortunate one must be to succeed at anything in life, no matter how hard one works. One must be lucky to be able to work. One must be lucky to be intelligent, physically healthy, and not bankrupted in middle age by the illness of a spouse.
I think I'm both lucky but also unlucky, because sometimes I miss so many matches.
Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.
It's extremely unlucky to be superstitious, for no other reason than it is always unlucky to be colossally stupid.
I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky.
I'm proud that I've even had a career, but 'proud' isn't the first word I'd use. I feel lucky that I moved to Manchester when I was 12 because I don't think I could have done this in Ireland. And I feel lucky that the government took care of me from the age of 16 to when I signed my first record deal at 19.
Those who were unlucky in life in spite of their skills would eventually rise. The lucky fool might have benefited from some luck in life; over the longer run he would slowly converge to the state of a less-lucky idiot. Each one would revert to his long-term properties.
Believing there's no such thing as luck is very unlucky. Like, the worst. Beyond stealing someone's lucky four-leaf clover.
I'm so lucky in my life, but I'm so unlucky in my abilities. I love art so much, but I'm unable to produce it. I can't even draw a dog that doesn't look like a horse.
Sometimes you are lucky, sometimes you're unlucky. It all weighs out at the end. That is my experience at least.
I do lots of projects in film and TV. You have some that are lucky, and some that are unlucky.
God does not deem you to be lucky or unlucky... you're mindset does.
No one is born just once. If you're lucky, you'll emerge again in someone's arms; or unlucky, wake when the long tail of terror brushes the inside of your skull.
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