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“What was so good about it was that the set that they originally built stayed there, and weathered over the five years. It got five summers and five winters of weather. It became more and more authentic as we worked in it, and they added bits to it.”

Years Bits Five Summer Built Winter Weather Five Years Weathered

Author:Derek Jacobi

“When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about five minutes just steady screaming, and then they'd cut that in and add it.”

Sound Rooms Five Cutting Minutes Add Finished Steady Five Minutes

Author:Fay Wray

“My brother, Mario, is in show business and so are all my cousins on my dad's side. We come from a family of musicians. My grandmother's sister in Puerto Rico plays five instruments.”

Play Shows Sides Five Brother Dad Musician Instruments My Dad My Brother Grandmother My Grandmother Show Business Cousin My Cousin Puerto Rico Mario Rico

Author:Irene Cara

“There were not fifteen people in the story department and twenty-five producers and stuff. And Roger had produced 1,000 movies and directed a couple of hundred, and their comments were always very, very specific.”

People Stories Stuff Five Couple Hundred Twenties Producers Department Comment Fifteen Roger Twenty Five

Author:John Sayles

“It's difficult to do that internally, because you're flying five, six hours.”

Difficult Hours Five Six Flying

Author:Vince McMahon

“But as a result of that, there was, once the show ended, there was this talk for sort of four, five months about what was going to happen, and if we were going to move to Showtime, and if we were going to be bought by ABC or whatever.”

Ifs Shows Happens Moving Results Five Four Months Showtime

Author:Will Arnett

“So I just took some time off. I was maybe going to do two or three years and it turned into five years. But certainly, I'd say it was the best thing I ever did. And now I come back to this whole thing really energized about it.”

Years Two Whole Three Five Best Things Five Years Three Years Time Off

Author:Woody Harrelson

“Advanced practice is the entrance into the ten thousand states of mind. Most people exist in five or six of these states in their whole lifetime.”

People Mind States Whole Practice Five Thousand Ten Six Lifetime Whole Life Concentration State Of Mind Entrances

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The referee was only five or seven yards away from that incident.”

Five Football Seven Yards Incidents Commentators Referee

Author:Peter Drury

“Of the land which the Romans gained by conquest from their neighbours, part they sold publicly, and turned the remainder into common; this common land they assigned to such of the citizens as were poor and indigent, for which they were to pay only a small acknowledgment into the public treasury. But when the wealthy men began to offer larger rents, and drive the poorer people out, it was enacted by law that no person whatever should enjoy more than five hundred acres of ground.”

Source: Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's

“I come back to the same thing: We've got the greatest pipeline in the company's history in the next 12 months, and we've had the most amazing financial results possible over the last five years, and we're predicting being back at double-digit revenue growth in fiscal year '06.”

Years Lasts Next Growth Results Company Economy Five Months Financial Five Years Revenue Most Amazing Predicting Pipeline Last Five Years Financial Results

Author:Steve Ballmer

“So we believed that strategic alliances and partnerships were critical, and we did that for five years.”

Years Economy Five Critical Five Years Partnership Strategic Alliances

Author:Steve Case

“As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years.”

Writing Years Lasts Literature Five Subjects Changed Twenties Climate Five Years Astonishing Last Five Years

Author:Anthony Holden

“The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.”

Ideas Literature Bits Novel Study Five Students Terrible Consequence Professors

Author:Donna Tartt

“I would suggest to you that at this moment you are the only self that you have ever had; you've never had a childhood; there wasn't a five-minute-ago time.”

Self Moments Science Five Childhood Minutes Buddhism Five Minutes

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once even though I wrote anything between one and five years ago.”

Years Book Together Literature Five Years Ago Five Years Coming Out

Author:Garth Ennis

“It takes five years for a willing person's mind to change. Have patience with yourself and others when treading in an area protected by a taboo.”

Years Mind Persons Five Atheism Willing Areas Five Years Protected Taboo Having Patience Treading

Author:Garrett Hardin

“If I hadn't met those two guys (Billy Martin and Whitey Ford) at the start of my career, I would have lasted another five years.”

Ifs Years Two Guy Careers Five Mets Baseball Five Years Two Guys

Author:Mickey Mantle

“Sometimes people deserve a high five, in the face, with a chair.”

People Sometimes Funny Faces Five Deserve Chairs Funny People Cool Status

Author:Will Rogers

“Knowledge and power doesn't come from an entity, it comes from within yourself. What can these things tell you, to put five bucks on Snowflake in the third race?”

Race Five Buddhism Thirds Entity Bucks Snowflake Knowledge And Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Phil took us to the finals three out of the five years and you want to fire him and want to bring in Mike Krzyzewski? Come on, man. That's like being married to J-Lo, then dropping J-Lo for a girl that's 5-10, 480 (pounds).”

Men Want Years Girl Three Winning Fire Five Basketball Married Finals Five Years Pounds Mike Dropping Being Married

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“If I don't get five [titles], I won't be happy with myself as a basketball player. I don't know how you guys will feel about me.”

Ifs Knows Feels Guy Winning Know How Five Player Basketball Titles Basketball Player

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“What the Latins have done in this text (1 John v, 7) the Greeks have done to Paul (1 Tim. iii, 16). They now read, "Great is the mystery of godliness; God manifest in the flesh"; whereas all the churches for the first four or five hundred years, and the authors of all the ancient versions, Jerome as well as the rest, read, "Great is the mystery of godliness, which was manifest in the flesh." Our English version makes it yet a little stronger. It reads, "Great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh."”

Years Firsts Wells Littles Done Church Five Four Mystery Atheism Hundred Stronger Ancient Positive Atheism Flesh Versions Greek Latin Manifest Godliness

Author:Isaac Newton

“Some people are saying that the reason Michael Phelps isn't doing so well is because he let himself get too out of shape. I just have to say that I have been watching the Olympics, and if that guy is out of shape, I have been dead for five years.”

People Ifs Years Wells Has Beens Reason Funny Guy Five Shapes Five Years Olympics That Guy London Olympics

Author:Conan O'Brien

“Imagine if you've got the diva of all divas. If we've got to be somewhere at five or six o'clock, I tell her its time to go at noon so she gets those five hours to do what she needs to do. But were both kids at heart. She is the funniest person ever and she has a great sense of humor. We connect at a spiritual level.”

Ifs Needs Heart Persons Kids Funny Spiritual Hours Levels Five Imagine Six Clock Sense Of Humor Noon Kid At Heart

Author:Nick Cannon

“There are five top superstars in golf, 20 great stars, and 30 good ones. The rest should go and get jobs.”

Should Jobs Stars Five Golf Superstar

Author:Mark McCormack

“There is nothing for me to be sour about. What you got to understand is that I'm a military man. We usually do my shift for four or five years and then you got to move on.”

Men Years Moving Five Four Military Basketball Five Years Sour Lakers Military Man Got To Move On

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“I have a lot left. There's only four or five good centers in the league and I'm in that number. ... I've been in it for 17 years but I've missed three years because of injury. If you do the math, I've still got three years left. You got that?”

Ifs Years Stills Three Left Numbers Five Four Basketball Math League Injury Three Years

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“Like everything, personal relationships and all that stuff is sort of put on ice while you go off to your location for five or six months. So, do I feel more settled in my life and in my work? Absolutely, yeah.”

Feels Stuff Five Months Six Yeah Ice Location Six Months Personal Relationships

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“It's amazing to completely focus on something for four, five or six months, have it completely consume your life and be constantly thinking about somebody else's set of circumstances and how they would react to something. I find it fascinating. It's rewarding and on a professional and personal level.”

Thinking Levels Five Focus Four Months Circumstances Six Fascinating Six Months Constantly Thinking

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“Every club if I am not playing, I leave because I want to play football. All I wanted to do since I was a kid is play football and if I wasn't at a club I'd be playing with my mates on a Sunday. I still come home and play five-a-side with my mates.”

Ifs Want Stills Play Home Kids Wanted Sides Five Football Clubs Sunday Coming Home Mates

Author:Kevin Kilbane

“In USA, a black man only have like five years we can exhibit maximum strength, and that's right now while you a teenager, while you still strong, while you still wanna lift weights, while you still wanna shoot back. 'Cause once you turn 30, it's like they take the heart and soul out of a man, out of a black man, in this country. And you don't wanna fight no more.”

Men Years Heart Stills Soul Country Turns Fighting Strong Causes Black Five Right Now Weight Teenager Lifts Usa Five Years Maximum Heart And Soul Exhibits

Author:Tupac Shakur

“No man is an island, as they say. No. I've tried it. I've gone on retreats at various times in my life for three or four or five days. I was desperate to get out of there and talk to somebody. But I fly fish a lot, and I can only do that really by myself. I find I'm never lonesome when I'm on a river, far from it, but it's a lonely practice.”

Men I Can Three Practice Gone Five Four Rivers Lonely Fishes Various Islands Desperate Retreat Lonesome

Author:Liam Neeson

“I started acting when I was five years old. I found it randomly, through listening to my brother study monologues. I auditorally started memorizing them for no reason, and started repeating them to anyone who would listen to me. And then, I begged my mom to let me do whatever that meant because I couldn't put into words exactly what that meant. It just meant me happy. And then, when I was 11 years old, I realized what I was doing and I looked to my mom and said, "Can I make this something I can do for the rest of my life?" She was like, "Yeah, sure, if you want to." And I was like, "Okay, great! I think I might want to do this forever."”

“I've been working since I was five years old, and everyone in my life, outside of my family, would look at us and go, "You're crazy! Take your kid out of the business and put them in school because you're never gonna succeed."”

Years Looks Kids School Five Crazy Succeed My Family Five Years Five Year Olds

Author:Chloe Grace Moretz

“The first five years of my career, I was Inmate #1, Bad Guy #1 and Mean Guy #1. I had a great career going, until somebody told me that I was typecast. I said, "Well, what's typecast?" And they said, "Well, you're always playing the mean Chicano dude with tattoos." I thought about that and I said, "Wait a minute! I am the mean Chicano dude with tattoos, so somebody is getting it right."”

Years Firsts Wells Mean Said Guy Waiting Careers Five Minutes Five Years Tattoo They Said Bad Guys Inmates Mean Guy

Author:Danny Trejo

“My wife has told me since that I was hungover every mornng until about two in the afternoon, and from five until midnight I was drunk out of my mind. So she says there was this period of about three hours when she could talk to me like a rational human being.”

Mind Humans Two Three Hours Human Beings Five Wife Periods My Wife Rational Drunk Afternoon Midnight Talk To Me Of My Mind

Author:Stephen King

“My main purpose is to pray five times a day. And that's not easy.”

Purpose Easy Five Praying

Author:Muhammad Ali

“Some of the most interesting and happiest kids I've seen have lived with a lot of different adults, because a kid can go up to one guy and wear him out. And as soon as the adult gets tired, there are five other guys, or five other chicks to go and wear out, and the kid gets to be very bright - and tolerant, you know, with that many kinds of people around.”

People Knows Kind Different Kids Guy Interesting Five Adults Tired Most Interesting Chicks Other Guys

Author:Grace Slick

“It might be a good idea to have government totally by the people - that each person takes four or five hours of the week doing some kind of government job - in other words, along with what you do you also help maintain the government so no one person has total control - I might go down to an office for four hours and do whatever I'm capable of doing - writing out receipts for food distribution in a certain area - but it's all actually a monstrous secretarial job and that's all I think it should be.”

People Thinking Should Writing Kind Persons Ideas Helping Government Might Jobs Certain Hours Five Four Week Office Capable Areas Good Ideas Distribution Monstrous Receipts Government Jobs

Author:Grace Slick

“In my writers' room, which is mostly men, I get a lot of questions like "What would be the quickest way to pass as a seemingly normal guy between the ages of twenty-five and forty years old?"”

Men Way Years Would Be Age Guy Rooms Five Normal Twenties Forty Twenty Five Forty Years Old

Author:Mindy Kaling

“I gave my heart to Jesus when I was five-years-old and since then it's been a special relationship. To me it's not a religion; it's just talking to God, reading his word, and doing my best to honor him in everything I do.”

Years Heart Reading Jesus Talking Five Special My Heart Honor Five Years Five Year Olds Talking To God Special Relationship

Author:Bethany Hamilton

“It's no coincidence that all the greatest rappers - whoever you put in your top five - I guarantee you they a great storyteller.”

Five Guarantees Rapper Coincidence Storyteller

Author:J. Cole

“In the theater you rehearse for a minimum of five to six weeks. And then you get to play it. Which means you get to get better. That's the great thing about the theater.”

Mean Play Five Week Six Theater Great Things Get Better Minimum

Author:Christopher Walken

“This country is always changing. But my point about the Supreme Court is the Supreme Court didn't wait for the country to change. Five unelected lawyers overruled 320 million Americans.”

Country Waiting Millions Five Court Lawyer Supreme Supreme Court

Author:Ted Cruz

“The success factor is a combination of intuition and honestly, it's mostly only intuition. A design business is inherently dependent upon the intuition of its chief designer. Luckily I have a track record that if you show me five pairs of shoes I will almost always pick the one pair that will sell the best. It's just a gift I have for mass taste - a link with what people want in a certain moment in time.”

“I did 30 Minute Meals for five years on local television, and I earned nothing the first two years. Then I earned $50 a segment. I spent more than that on gas and groceries, but I really enjoyed making the show and I loved going to a viewer's house each week. I knew I enjoyed it, so I stuck with it even though it cost me.”

Years Firsts Two Shows House Five Week Minutes Television Cost Stuck Locals Enjoyed Meals Five Years Gas Two Years Viewers Groceries

Author:Rachael Ray

“Don't mind the five or more million Germans. Stalin will see to them they will cease to exist.”

Mind Millions Five Cease

Author:Winston Churchill

“[The 4 spiritual laws and sinner's prayer] is not the gospel of Jesus Christ, and that methodology and envangelism has done more to hurt this country than every heresy introduced by every cult combined. Millions of people in this country whose lives have never been changed believed themselves born again because we have so reduced the gospel of Jesus Christ that it means now nothing more than simple decision that will only take five minutes of your time.”

People Mean Country Done Spiritual Law Jesus Christ Born Hurt Prayer Simple Decision Millions Five Minutes Changed Jesus Christ Sinner Cult Five Minutes Heresy Born Again Methodology

Author:Paul Washer

“To be aroused in the dark by five feet of cold, green snake gliding over one's face is unpleasant.”

Faces Dark Five Feet Cold Green Snakes Gliding

Book:Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries: And of the Discovery of the Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa. 1858-1864

Source: Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries: And of the Discovery of the Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa. 1858-1864

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