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"We could use some good luck. That doesn't mean we'll get it."
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"Luck always favors those who are bold."
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"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."
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"Luck is a dance of possibilities and opportunities."
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"Make your own luck, and then share it with others."
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"Good luck' is like the shadow of a tree, for some time it gives comfort to a traveler but it doesn't go ahead with a traveler."
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"Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck."
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"Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent."
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"Frankly - and believe me, I say this without any pretense - when I see the road I've taken, I have to say that thanks to good luck, because without good luck one can do nothing, I've come out pretty well."
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"I felt really sorry for Oliver Kahn. Up to that point he had made lots of saves for the German team. Of course he could have caught the ball but it just happened. It was bad luck. In that situation, you need to be very strong psychologically to carry on."
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"We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud."
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"I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit."
Applause

"A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity."
Luck

"Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have such a hard time just getting things right; arguing is for string players."
Time

"All of us love applause, and so we should - it means that the listener likes us!"
Love

"If there were no rules about when to applaud, we in the audience would have the right response almost always."
Right

"Even if you don't like a concert of mine, please, please applaud at the end anyway."
End

"Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end."
Applause

"Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty."
Music

"It is wonderful to see how happy all my friends in the LA Philharmonic are in their new home."
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