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“My attitude goes back to my childhood. I used to audition for theatrical roles, and you can't stand out in a room full of ambitious eight-year-old girls by acting the wallflower. I realised then that I couldn't do things half-heartedly.”

Years Used Girl Rooms Acting Half Attitude Roles Childhood Eight Ambitious Auditions Standing Out Realised Theatrical My Attitude

Author:Jessie J

“The Beatles first appeared on our show on February 9, 1964, and I have never seen any scenes to compare with the bedlam that was occasioned by their debut. Broadway was jammed with people for almost eight blocks. They screamed, yelled, and stopped traffic. It was indescribable ... There has never been anything like it in show business, and the New York City police were very happy it didn't - and wouldn't - happen again.”

People Firsts Shows Happens Cities New York Scene Police Eight Block Compare New York City Traffic Very Happy Broadway Show Business February Debut Indescribable

Author:Ed Sullivan

“I'm the king of the world, I am the greatest, I'm Muhammed Ali, I shook up the world, I am the greatest, I'm king of the world, I'm pretty, I'm pretty, I'm a baaaad man, you heard me I'm a baaad man, Archie Moore fell in four, Liston wanted me more, so since he's so great, I'm a make him fall in eight, I'm a baaad man, I'm king of the world! I'm 22 years old and ain't gotta mark on my face, I'm pretty, I easily survived six rounds with that ugly bear, because I am the greatest.”

Men World Years Wanted Faces Fall Four Heard Bears Kings Six Mark Rounds Ugly Eight Survived

Author:Muhammad Ali

“My parents moved to American Samoa when I was three or four years old. My dad was principal of a high school there. It was idyllic for a kid. I had a whole island for a backyard. I lived there until I was eight years old and we moved to Santa Barbara.”

Years Whole Kids School Three Parent Four Dad High School Moved My Dad Eight Islands Four Years Principal Santa Backyards Barbara Idyllic Santa Barbara Samoa

Author:Eric Stoltz

“I try to do the right thing with money. Save a dollar here and there, clip some coupons. Buy ten gold chains instead of 20. Four summer homes instead of eight.”

Trying Home Four Ten Summer Gold Dollars Eight Chains Right Thing Here And There Clip

Author:LL Cool J

“No great player blundered oftener than I done. I was champion of the world for twenty-eight years because I was twenty years ahead of my time. I played on certain principles, which neither Zukertort nor anyone else of his time understood. The players of today, such as Lasker, Tarrasch, Pillsbury, Schlechter and others have adopted my principles, and as is only natural, they have improved upon what I began, and that is the whole secret of the matter.”

World Years Matter Done Whole Today Certain Natural Secret Principles Player Understood Twenties Eight Champion My Time Adopted

Author:Wilhelm Steinitz

“At the end of drama school, I made a contract with myself: I'd try acting for five years. I was 26. I had already spent eight years working in restaurants and gas stations. So I had seen enough small businesses to understand that that's what acting is: a small business.”

Trying Years Made Ends Enough School Business Acting Five Drama Eight Restaurants Five Years Gas Stations Contracts Small Business Gas Stations

Author:Hugh Jackman

“If you do eight shows a week it's just too difficult to try to put everything that you can together.”

Ifs Trying Shows Together Difficult Week Eight

Author:Jamie Farr

“Last night the Taliban offered to release eight Westerners if the U.S. promised not to attack. The State Department declined but thanked the Taliban for the offer, saying it really felt good to laugh again.”

Ifs States Lasts Night Felt Laughing Offers Eight Release Department Last Night Taliban Westerners

Author:Tina Fey

“My eight-year-old bought a bicycle with the money he saved by not smoking.”

Years Eight Saved Smoking Bicycle

Author:Phyllis Diller

“While the Soviet Union has imposed its rule on its neighbours and drawn an iron curtain between east and west, we in Great Britain have given freedom and independence to more than forty-eight countries whose populations now number more than a thousand million - a quarter of the world's total.”

“I was just at the newly opened Creationist Museum in Kentucky.... And they have this exhibit of a giant dinosaur...with a saddle on its back. Because the world is only 5000 years old, so man and the dinosaurs had to coexist, and, of course, we rode them. A theory I thought laughable at the age of eight when I saw it on THE FLINTSTONES!”

Men World Years Age Courses Saws Theory Eight Giants Museums Exhibits Dinosaurs Kentucky Coexist Saddles Laughable Creationist Flintstones

Author:Bill Maher

“New Scientist magazine reported that in the future, cars could be powered by hazelnuts. That's encouraging, considering an eight-ounce jar of hazelnuts costs about nine dollars. Yeah, I've got an idea for a car that runs on bald eagle heads and Faberge eggs.”

Ideas Running Car Cost Scientist Yeah Dollars Eight Nine Magazines Eggs Considering Eagles Jars Bald Eagle Hazelnuts

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“You live with life's disappointments and learn from them. At seventy-eight, I know it all.”

Knows Disappointment Eight Seventies Know It All

Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“I remember having a grade-school teacher I thought was a hard-ass. When you're that age, you think the guy is Himmler. Then you visit him eight years later and he's wearing polyester pants, he's four foot eight, you think he's gay, and you're like, 'Are you the guy I was afraid of?”

Thinking Years Hard Age School Remember Guy Teacher Four Feet Gay Eight Ass Grades Pants School Teachers Grades In School Himmler

Author:Jon Stewart

“Brooklyn is the only place where a guy can open up a candy store sell no candy and gross over eight million dollars a year.”

Years Guy Millions Sells Dollars Eight Stores Candy Gross Million Dollars Brooklyn Candy Stores

Author:Richard Jeni

“I like to go see a ball game. I'll have seven, eight, nine - 10 beers, and the second inning will roll around, and I gotta go.”

Games Balls Seven Eight Nine Beer Ball Games

Author:Doug Benson

“People say to me, Hey, Bill, the war made us feel better about ourselves. Really? What kind of people are these with such low self-esteem that they need a war to feel better about themselves? May I suggest, instead of a war to feel better about yourself, perhaps... sit-ups? Maybe a fruit cup? Eight glasses of water a day?”

People Needs Feels Kind May Made War Self Water Self Esteem Lows Bills Fruit Glasses Eight Esteem Hey Cups About Yourself Feel Better Low Self Esteem

Author:Bill Hicks

“I live in California, the worst place in the world for fat people. There are three of us. They have us on eight-hour shifts, so it works out.”

People World Three Hours Worst Work Out Eight Fats California Places In The World Fat People

Author:Louie Anderson

“I got divorced, after having been married for almost eight years. That is a very life-altering experience. There's a period of time that you go through, where you're having to adjust to knowing yourself and knowing who you are from being a couple to being an individual again.”

Years Individual Knowing Couple Periods Married Who You Are Eight Divorced Know Yourself Knowing Who You Are Life Altering

Author:Jenna Fischer

“I am the King of Frost Giants. And if you've seen any of the Frost Giants, you know that I am, of course, the Napoleon of Frost Giants. We've got some massive, fabulous guys who dwarf me and come in at around eight-and-a-half feet, nine feet. But, no. Can't you tell by the commanding presence? I am the boss.”

Ifs Knows Guy Courses Half Feet Kings Eight Nine Giants Massive Boss Fabulous Frost Dwarfs Dwarves

Author:Colm Feore

“It's all in L.A. There might be some location shooting as well. I think it's pretty short. I heard it was like six to eight weeks, which is pretty short. But you don't have to do makeup or anything. There's no hair, there's no makeup, there's like one trailer for Jason and one for the actors who do cameos. It's quick. So that's what they're saying. I don't know if that will change.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Wells Might Actors Heard Week Hair Six Eight Shooting Makeup Location Jason Trailers No Makeup Cameos

Author:Nicholas Stoller

“he first make-up crew had three test runs, so by the time we were shooting, they got it down to three hours. They switched make-up crews for Eclipse and they never had any test runs, and they had to figure out what the other team had done, so the first day, I was in the chair for eight hours. But, they adjusted the scar from New Moon to Eclipse. The first time, there was more pullage on my face, so I had a hard time eating. It didn't hurt, but it was uncomfortable.”

Firsts Hard Done Running Faces Three Hours Hurt Team Figures Moon Eating First Time Tests Eight Shooting Uncomfortable Hard Times Chairs Scar Crew Eclipse New Moon

Author:Tinsel Korey

“Suddenly, I realized how tough trying to structure a story like this is. It was a lot of work. The one big advantage that we had was that we had eight scripts written before we started shooting, or even started casting. We had a really good opportunity to look at it and figure out where we were going to go and how to do it. Once we got a cast, which I love, then we started doing some revisions to make sure that they fit into it.”

Trying Looks Stories Bigs Opportunity Written Figures Fit Tough Advantage Structure Scripts Casts Eight I Realized Shooting Casting Revision Good Opportunity

Author:Remi Aubuchon

“I was basically a broke student, and I moved to Asia and was making some money to go back to school. One thing led to another, and I was supposed to stay two months, but it ended up being eight years. It was the best mistake I ever made.”

Years Made Two School Mistake One Thing Students Months Moved Eight Broke Asia Two Months

Author:Maggie Q

“I grew up playing the guitar. I started when I was nine, and by the time I was nine and a half or ten, I was doing seven or eight hours' practice every day. I did two hours' practice at six o'clock in the morning before I went to school, and another two hours as soon as I got home from school in the afternoon. Then I did four hours at night before I went to bed. I did that until I was fourteen or fifteen.”

Two Home School Night Hours Half Practice Morning Four Grew Bed Ten Six Grew Up Seven Guitar Eight Nine Clock Afternoon Dedication Fifteen Fourteen

Author:Joe Pass

“If you're a host of a video show and you're on the cleanest show on television for eight years, people want to say, 'Well, that's what that person does.' That was the dilemma for me, career-wise.”

People Ifs Want Years Wells Persons Doe Shows Careers Wise Television Eight Video Host Dilemma

Author:Bob Saget

“And I don't want you thinking that my girlfriend is a bad person. She is an amazing woman, the fact that I only have seven stories about her in eight years, says a lot. You know, don't get me wrong, five of them happened this year, but that's still way below the bar, you know what I am saying.”

Thinking Knows Way Want Years Persons Stills Facts Stories Five Happened Seven Eight Bars Girlfriend My Girlfriend Amazing Woman

Author:Gabriel Iglesias

“I've had two great years, probably five good years. So I had 20 years of just kind of uncertainty and suffering and ego destruction and poverty. All these things. There's no way I'm ever going to catch up to the misery years. It's impossible... If I don't do anything dumb or I don't get a disease or something, and then I've got to five to eight years I think where it'll really be great and then it will start to degenerate like uranium, you know?”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Years Kind Two Suffering Poverty Five Impossible Ego Disease Destruction Misery Eight Dumb Uncertainty Degenerates Uranium Great Year Good Years

Author:Louis C. K.

“Don't bring your sand toys to the park. That's another bad move. Because I go to the park, and I'm on the Vicodin and a little weed too - let's face it - and I go in there, and my wife's like, 'Bring the sand toys! Bring the sand toys!' And I know what happens every single time: I become sand toy repo man from the eight little kids that run off in nine different directions with my sand toys.”

Knows Men Littles Different Happens Running Kids Faces Moving Wife Eight My Wife Nine Parks Sand Weed Toys Little Kid Different Directions Vicodin Repo Man

Author:Al Madrigal

“If you get a ticket, you can go to traffic school, and they make you watch movies for like eight hours: head-on collisions, mannequins flying out the windshield. At the end of the movie, the instructor goes, 'Now what have we learned by this?' Never let a mannequin drive your car.”

Ifs Ends School Hours Watches Car Eight Flying Tickets Traffic Collision Instructors Watch Movie

Author:Robert Schimmel

“In France, ballet is on TV ... It's on the eight-o'clock news. It's a cool thing to be a dancer.”

Tvs News Eight France Clock Dancer Ballet Cool Things

Author:Benjamin Millepied

“I started a list of things I want to teach my children, and that list is eight points long. The first one is, do what you love.”

Want Firsts Children Long Teach Eight Lists My Children What You Love

Author:Tina Roth-Eisenberg

“I drink at least five bottles of water a day and always get eight hours of sleep.”

Water Hours Sleep Five Drink Eight Bottles

Author:Rebecca Gayheart

“Well, it is quite daunting, but I made my first appearance on the stage when I was nine, because I went to a theatrical school, because I wanted to be an actress since I was eight.”

Firsts Wells Made Wanted School Stage Appearance Eight Actresses Nine Theatrical

Author:Joan Collins

“Declassified papers report that John Kennedy was taking eight different medications a day. He was so wasted, his Secret Service code name was Ted Kennedy.”

Different Names Secret Paper Eight Code Reports Papers Medication Secret Service John Kennedy Ted Kennedy

Author:Craig Kilborn

“Cuban cigars is a big expense because I do smoke a lot of them, eight to 12 a day, so that would be almost as bad as a cocaine habit, a hundred bucks a day.”

Bigs Would Be Habit Hundred Eight Smoke Expenses Bucks Cocaine Cigar Cuban Cuban Cigars

Author:Kinky Friedman

“I got eight O-levels at school...zero in every subject.”

School Levels Subjects Eight Zero

Author:Paul Gascoigne

“I think one of the turning points for me was when my brother recorded the Neil Young MTV "Unplugged" performance from the TV. My brother is eight years older than me and he was starting to get into things like that.”

Thinking Years Young Brother Tvs Performances Starting Eight My Brother Turning Points Mtv

Author:James Walsh

“What, keep a week away? Seven days and nights, Eightscore-eight hours, and lovers' absent hours More tedious than the dial eightscore times! O weary reckoning!”

Night Time Hours Week Lovers Seven Eight Absence Weary Absent Day And Night Tedious Reckoning Seven Days

Author:William Shakespeare

“Eight kids and a stepmother, and I just wanted to be out of there and so when I got a scholarship from Boston to the Schillinger House, which is now the Berklee School of Music, I couldn't wait to get out of there.”

Kids Wanted School House Waiting Eight Boston Scholarship Stepmothers

Author:Quincy Jones

“I know how it feels to go into a studio to start a record, and eight weeks later it's finished. I know how an intense schedule feels.”

Knows Feels Know How Records Week Studios Eight Finished Intense Schedules

Author:Amy Grant

“I get female groupies, but I don't get male groupies. I have women who offer to sleep with me all the time. But not men. They're all talk and nay action -- as we'd say in Scotland. If I go anywhere near most of our male following, they are freaked. Absolutely freaked. I think my height has got a lot to do with it. I'm really tall. I'm five-eight, and with heels, I'm six foot, so people are like. 'Whoa, Amazon!' People are a wee taken aback by that 'cause I think people expect me to be small.”

People Ifs Thinking Men Action Causes Sleep Taken Five Feet Offers Six Female Males Following Eight Height Tall Heels Scotland Amazon Groupie

Author:Shirley Manson

“I make sure to sleep eight hours, and I'm much better about eating, because I'm not standing in front of my pantry. I go to the market and pick up little carrot nubs.”

Littles Hours Sleep Fronts Eating Picks Standing Eight Carrots Pantry

Author:Lisa Loeb

“Naturally, in 10 years, you change as a person and you learn a lot from your mistakes. You also learn a lot about wasting time and the right way to handle things. We're not touring as much. We're not doing eight or nine months of the year, so I've got a bit more time to get a perspective on what I do. I think I've improved my songwriting. I'm every bit as enthusiastic about playing as ever and I'm still learning.”

Thinking Way Years Persons Stills Bits Mistake Perspective Months Eight Nine Handle Songwriting More Time Wasting Time Right Way Enthusiastic Touring Nine Months Months Of The Year

Author:Rory Gallagher

“Good Lord's been kind to me, that's all I can say. I wake up in the morning with music in my head a lot of times. I won't say every morning, but I wake up in the morning sometimes with eight bars in my head and I just go to the piano.”

Kind I Can Sometimes Lord Morning Wake Up Eight Bars Piano Every Morning

Author:Horace Silver

“Now I am going to speak a word and this is the word and here's the word. When the clock strikes 2.08. There are eight songs in the Bible. Noah started the world over with eight people. On the eighth day the Bible says Jesus appeared. Thomas because was not a believer but on the eighth day he showed up and Thomas was a believer. Actually Jesus was resurrected on the eighth day.”

People World Song Jesus Speak Eight Strikes Believer Clock

Author:Steve Munsey

“I started freestyling with friends about eight or nine years ago. I started writing also around the same time, but didn't meet blockhead until about '94. I started making beats not until about '96.”

Writing Years Beats Years Ago Eight Nine Nine Years Blockheads

Author:Aesop Rock

“For starters, I should just tell you that The Band was always my favorite band from the first moment that I heard the first note of "The Weight" on WNEW radio. It was when I was eight years old and Music From Big Pink came out. They were my favorite band always. They had a profound influence on me and on my becoming a musician.”

Should Years Firsts Moments Bigs Heard Influence Becoming Band Musician Weight Notes Profound My Favorite Radio Eight Starters Favorite Bands

Author:Colin Linden

“Obviously yeah, but our first album took us five years to put together, to get signed and to put it out, we had a lot of time to think about what we were doing. Black Sunday was like a whirl wind, we had to rush back to the studio after touring, but the last album we had a little longer, what like eight months?”

Thinking Years Firsts Littles Together Lasts Black Five Wind Months Yeah Albums Studios Eight Five Years Sunday Touring Time To Think

Author:B-Real

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