Recipes for good luck: the superstitions, rituals, and practices of extraordinary people

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Agatha Christie -- Akira Kurosawa -- Alfred Hitchcock -- Allyson Felix -- Anna Wintour -- Anthony Bourdain -- Audrey Hepburn -- Augustus Caesar -- Barack Obama -- Benjamin Franklin -- Beyoncé -- Björn Borg -- Charles Dickens -- Coco Chanel -- Dan Brown -- Diane von Furstenberg -- Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) -- Ella Fitzgerald -- Ellen Degeneres -- Flannery O'Connor -- Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Frida Kahlo -- Gabriel García Márquez -- Georgia O'Keeffe -- Gertrude Stein -- Gustav Mahler -- Gustave Eiffel -- Haruki Murakami -- Heidi Klum -- I.M. Pei -- Isabel Allende -- James Joyce -- J.K. Rowling -- Joan Didion -- John Steinbeck -- John Wayne -- Laboratory of the University of Georgia -- Laird Hamilton -- Leonard Cohen -- Lucille Ball -- Ludwig van Beethoven -- Lupita Nyong'o -- Marie Curie -- Mary Shelley -- Maya Angelou -- Michael Jordan -- Misty Copeland -- Mitoizumi -- Napoléon Bonaparte -- NASA -- Niels Bohr -- Pablo Picasso -- Patricia Highsmith -- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky -- Robert Plant -- Salvador Dalí -- Serena WIlliams -- Sigmund Freud -- Taylor Swift -- Thom Yorke -- Tiger Woods -- Virginia Woolf -- Wade Boggs -- Winston Churchill -- Yoko Ono.;"This charmingly illustrated book reveals the real-life creative processes, superstitions, curious practices, and preperformance routines of influential leaders from every walk of life -- artists, writers, scientists, politicians, musicians, actors, and more."--Page 4 of cover.