People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.
Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.
I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.
I'm a lot luckier than most people, although I used to look at it the other way around-that so many people seemed luckier than me.
I still think that luck is what a lot of the good things come from. It's simply the luck of where you are, when.
I don't think I'm an unlucky person.
When you get as lucky as I got, you have to work as hard as possible to earn that luck.
I think we're lucky because there are very few people in life who get to do what we're doing.
It would be ridiculous for me to say I am unlucky, but, like any other family and any other girl, I've had my ups and downs.
The theme of luck comes up a lot. It's something I thought about before, why some people are lucky and some people aren't lucky. It seems like some people you meet can sort of cultivate luck, and I've always been fascinated by that.
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