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“If you ask any actor "What single thing would make you really, really happy?" Among the top five things they'd say is not having to audition anymore.”

Ifs Actors Asks Five Auditions Really Happy

Author:Bill Nighy

“Ask 10 people about their family relationships and at least five of them will report an estrangement.”

People Asks Women Five Reports Estrangement Family Relationship

Author:Amy Dickinson

“Five percent seems very little to ask when you consider that the artist, through his or her efforts over many years, is largely responsible for the increased value of their work.”

Years Littles Seems Artist Values Asks Money Effort Five Percent Responsible

Author:Joe Fafard

“When I get up at five in the morning to go fishing, I wake my wife up and ask, 'What'll it be dear, sex or fishing?' And she says, “Don't forget your waders.'”

Asks Sex Forget Morning Five Wife Dear My Wife Get Up Fishing Forget You

Author:Robert Ruark

“Victory [over homophobia] may require five or maybe 20 years. Yet I have no doubt that "don't ask, don't tell" and same-sex adoption bans will be as unspeakable and inexplicable to my grandchildren as counting a slave as three-fifths of a human being.”

Years Humans May Three Asks Sex Human Beings Doubt Five Victory Slave No Doubt Adoption Grandchildren Counting Bans Homophobia Unspeakable Inexplicable My Grandchildren

Author:Jacob M. Appel

“The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once remarked that if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you five, that is a mistake. But if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you ninety-seven, that is no longer a mistake. The man you are talking to is operating with a wholly different logic from your own.”

Ifs Men Two Different Asks Mistake Talking Five He Man Logic Seven Philosopher Plus Ninety

Author:Thomas Friedman

“She that asks Her dear five hundred friends, contemns them all, And hates their coming.”

Hate Asks Five Friends Hundred Dear

Book:The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life, and Critical Notice of His Writings. Eight Engravings on Steel

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life, and Critical Notice of His Writings. Eight Engravings on Steel

“As the original 'Mary Poppins' budget of five million dollars continued to grow, I never saw a sad face around the entire Studio. And this made me nervous. I knew the picture would have to gross 10 million dollars for us to break even. But still there was no negative head-shaking. No prophets of doom. Even Roy was happy. He didn't even ask me to show the unfinished picture to a banker. The horrible thought struck me - suppose the staff had finally conceded that I knew what I was doing.”

“Americans are so direct. They'd ask me, 'What's your five-year plan? Do you have a five-year plan?' I don't know what I'm having for my tea tonight let alone a five-year plan.”

Knows Years Asks Five Plans Direct Tea Ask Me Five Years Tonight Five Year Plans

Author:Ashley Jensen

“They say kids today don't know the value of a dollar. They certainly do know the value of a dollar. That's why they ask for five.”

Knows Kids Today Values Asks Five Modern Dollars Modern Life

Author:Robert Orben

“If I ask anybody who learned to ski after the age of five, they can remember their first day of skiing-what the weather was like, who they went with, what they had for lunch. I believe that's because that first day on skis was the first day of total freedom in their life.”

Ifs Firsts Believe Body Age Asks I Believe Five Weather Lunch Skis Skiing Doms

Author:Warren Miller

“When people ask me how I develop recipes, I have to respond: "travelling, eating, watching, experimenting, and constantly asking myself: 'Do I want to eat this dish again?'" Will I yearn for it some evening when I'm hungry? Will I remember it in six months' time? In a year? Five years from now?”

People Want Years Remember Asks Five Months Travel Six Eating Asking Hungry Evening Ask Me Five Years Dishes Recipes Six Months

Author:Paula Wolfert

“There are five freedoms: The freedom to see and hear what is; The freedom to say what you feel and think; The freedom to feel what you actually feel; The freedom to ask for what you want; The freedom to take risks on your own behalf.”

Thinking Want Feels Asks Freedom Five Risk What You Want Behalf

Author:Virginia Satir

“Ask any school-boy up to the age of fifteen where he would spend his holidays. Not one in five hundred will say, "In the streets of London," if you give him the option of green fields and running waters. It is, then, a fair presumption that there must be something of the child still in the character of the men or the women whom the country charms in maturer as in dawning life.”

“I've worked with five Presidents in America, all of them I ask the same question always: Why didn't the American allies bomb the railways going to Auschwitz?”

America Asks President Five Bombs Allies Railway Auschwitz

Author:Elie Wiesel