Amplifying greatly on Ms. See's 2005 best seller, the screenplay, credited to Ron Bass (he's apparently on the Asia beat: his other studio work, credited and not, includes "The Joy Luck Club" and "Memoirs of a Geisha"), Angela Workman and Michael K. Ray, lurches from period to period with an increasing lack of focus.
He credited his longevity to luck, listening to his parents and blessings from God.
It might take years for the world to realise how talented they are, and I know most of them don't even realise it themselves, crediting their success to luck and good timing.
The show's makers have been credited with luck or prescience for that — and the Republican Party with bad luck and a failure of foresight — but it's less any of those things than a fulfillment of Oscar Underwood's dictum: the issue of the Klan, or at least of the bigotry it represents, has not, after all these decades, been settled.
Although Kovalainen was delighted with his first Formula One victory, he attributed much of the credit for his win to luck.
Some credited luck and others skill in his rapid promotions, and it is fair to say that Brock had substantial portions of both on his way to prominence.
Entrepreneur Barry Narod credits "dumb luck" for the chance to turn his postdoc work into a thriving business with clients in 17 countries on four continents.
Dale Romans, who took over the training of the horse from Rick Dutrow in September, credited luck, rather than magical horsemanship, for the improbable victory.
Forty-six percenamedmed their own hard work, while others credited luck, help from friends or family, or a specific event like a new job or a raise.
Over time, however, we often tend to discount the third, to the point where we don't credit our luck much.
