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“I remember attending Toronto Comicon shortly after the release of Captain Marvel and seeing a five-year-old girl who'd come in a handmade Captain Marvel outfit with her hair moussed up - and I totally got the need for this book, for this hero. Someone who looks like her, and acts like her. So, in a way, Captain Marvel helped pave the road to the expanded role of female leads.”

Way Needs Years Looks Book Remember Girl Roles Five Seeing Hair Hero Female Release Comic Five Years Captains Comic Book Attending Like Her Toronto Five Year Olds Handmade

Author:Axel Alonso

“I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years.”

Years Funny Five Shoes Witty Five Years Pairs Worn Pair Of Shoes Oxymoron Funny Oxymoron

Author:Samuel Goldwyn

“When the word began to get out, the idea of tying imitations of aquatic worms was not met with universal approval in the fly-fishing community. It seems that worms had somehow gotten a bad name. I think a fishing pal of mine hit it on the head when he said, It just pisses them off that you can catch trout, I mean really big trout, on a fly that a five-year old can tie in twenty seconds!”

Source: Fly Fishing the Tailwaters

“I don't have to be jealous of Barcelona because they have 100 years of history and have won the European Cup once. I have only been managing for five years and I have the same amount of Champions League trophies to my name.”

Years Names Five Football Amount Cups Managers Soccer League Champion Five Years Jealous Chairman Trophies Barcelona Being Jealous Champions League

Author:Jose Mourinho

“Faith-healing is peculiar enough at the best of times, but applying it to football merits a special league of barking. Why would God bother to perform a miracle that enabled Sol Campbell to yell Oh holy Jesus, now I can win the ball in the air. It's been five years since I could defend from corners, brothers and sisters, it's a miracle.”

“Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything's very good between us now, but it was a long haul.”

Years Long Sports Five Very Good Five Years Haul Long Haul

Author:Billie Jean King

“Well I forgot how different it was because I've been here for about four or five years. It's a big load off my shoulders now. Now that I'm there, I'm like, man, I can breathe a little bit, you know?”

Knows Men Years Wells Littles I Can Different Bigs Bits Sports Five Four Little Bit Breathe Shoulders Five Years Load

Author:Latrell Sprewell

“I was alone for five years. Having a love is a gigantic bonus in life, but I wasn't unhappy when I was single, either.”

Years Love Is Five Unhappy Five Years Bonus

Author:Bo Derek

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“You remember when you were maybe five years old and you went out in the morning and you looked at the day - and it was a very, very beautiful day. You looked at flowers and they were very beautiful flowers. Twenty-five years later, you get up in the morning, you take a look at the flowers - they are wilted. The day isn't a happy day. Well, what's changed? You know they are the same flowers, it's the same world. Something must have changed. Well, probably it was you.”

Source: Scientology, a New Slant on Life

“There is no moment where you can rest and think: 'Wonderful, I have that job now. I'm going to spend five years here.' There's a constant judgment on your work that's very strongly related to what you are.”

Thinking Years Moments Jobs Five Wonderful Judgment Constant Related Five Years Very Strong

Author:Clemence Poesy

“I'm one of those people who lives for the moment. If you concern yourself with what's going to happen a year from now, or five years from now, you defuse the moment. Whatever comes, comes. For this time I enjoy the ascent. I don't worry about anything except getting thinner thighs.”

People Ifs Years Moments Happens Enjoy Worry Five Concern Five Years Live In The Moment Thighs Ascent

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“The average person's short-term memory can hold only five to seven bits of data at any one moment. If you put more items in, others fall out. The older you are, the more you have crammed into those memory circuits. Twenty-five-year-olds can remember things because they still have empty space. Some of us take our children to the supermarket in the hope they will remember why we are there.”

Source: Thinking In The Future Tense

“That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.”

Needs Feels Years Difficult Five Advantage Five Years Sixty Impatient Difficult Days

Author:Thornton Wilder

“There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.”

Years Has Beens Easy Five Hundred Years Ago Letters Twenties Five Years Shakes Captured Twenty Five Octopus

Book:A Happy Half-century: And Other Essays

Source: A Happy Half-century: And Other Essays

“My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.”

Years Mother Five Five Years

Author:Lillian Hellman

“if you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago. ... you must write to the human heart, the great consciousness that all humanity goes to make up. Otherwise what might be strength in a writer is only crudeness, and what might be insight is only observation; sentimemnt falls to sentimentality - you can write about life, but never write life itself.”

Ifs Writing Years Humans Heart Might Humanity Fall Force Perfect Consciousness Five Quiet Years Ago Insight Observation Five Years Mature Human Heart Better Than You Sentimentality

Author:Sarah Orne Jewett

“Confederation is only yet in the gristle, and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone.”

Years Five Bones Five Years Confederation

Author:John A. Macdonald

“I'm out there having as good a time as I did in the backyard since I was five-years-old.”

Years Five Nfl Five Years Backyards Five Year Olds

Author:Philip Rivers

“Here is a myth for you if myths are your pleasure: "There is no more opportunity in this world." Most people held this false belief fifty years ago, the majority agreed with it five years ago, and practically everyone clings to it today. Clearly, this myth will also be the screaming rage in the future. Hang on to this myth, and you are destined to miss great opportunities for the rest of your life.”

People Ifs World Years Today Opportunity Belief Pleasure Five Missing This World Years Ago Majority Myth Rage Five Years Fifty Destined Rest Of Your Life Great Opportunity

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“I was guaranteed a hundred thousand dollars a year for five years, which was big money in the early 60's. You think, acquiring that should cool you out, but for me it wasn't true.”

Thinking Should Years Bigs Five Thousand Hundred Dollars Five Years

Author:Dion DiMucci

“Since the songs were written over a five-year period, I think these are little snapshots. Some people call it political or topical, but I think each song is self-contained. I think it fits together as a picture of the last half-decade of time.”

People Thinking Years Littles Self Together Lasts Political Song Half Five Written Periods Fit Decades Five Years Snapshots Self Contained

Author:Conor Oberst

“Twenty-five years ago, Christmas was not the burden that it is now; there was less haggling and weighing, less quid pro quo, less fatigue of body, less weariness of soul; and, most of all, there was less loading up with trash.”

Years Soul Body Five Years Ago Twenties Burden Christmas Five Years Ridicule Trash Fatigue Twenty Five Weariness Weighing Quid Pro Quo

Author:Margaret Deland

“my mother always found me out. Always. She's been dead for thirty-five years, but I have this feeling that even now she's watching.”

Years Feelings Mother Found Five Thirty Five Years

Author:Natalie Babbitt

“Proust has been dead since 1922, yet the annual appearance of his posthumous works has left him, to the reader, alive. Now there is nothing left to publish. Five years after his interment, Proust seems dead for the first time.”

Years Firsts Has Beens Seems Left Five Alive Reader First Time Appearance Five Years Publish Annuals Proust Posthumous

Author:Janet Flanner

“When two kids came along, I couldnt see how I could support them. The way it played out, I was away from the theatre for five years. I was a postie for the first part and then worked as an advertising copywriter, but I somehow found my way back.”

Way Years Firsts Two Kids Found Support Five Theatre Advertising My Way Five Years

Author:Peter Hambleton

“Today age segregation has passed all sane limits. Not only are fifteen-year-olds isolated from seventy-year-olds but social groups divide those in high school from those in junior high, and those who are twenty from those who are twenty-five. There are middle-middle-age groups, late-middle-age groups, and old-age groups - as though people with five years between them could not possibly have anything in common.”

“If you take men and lock them in a house for five years and tell them to come up with two children and they fail to do that, then we will chop off their heads.”

Ifs Men Years Children Two House Five Failing Come Up Five Years Locks

Author:Robert Mugabe

“Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that's it. Some of them don't have that. They get a couple of releases. If you don't sell two million copies, you're gone, you're out of here.”

Ifs Giving Years Two Today Artist Forget Millions Gone Five Four Couple Sells Release Five Years Copies Forget You

Author:George Jones

“I've been very careful about what I say yes to and what I say no to. And I think seriously always about... this may be a good idea right now or it may be a lot of money right now, but will it be good for me five years from now? Will it be fun? Will it make me hate myself? I think about all of those things.”

Thinking Years May Ideas Hate Fun Five Right Now Careful Be Good Five Years Good Ideas Lots Of Money Hate Myself

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“I'm not the businessman. I don't deal with the business at all. Not anymore. Occasionally, every four years or five years, they tell me I've run out of money, I have to go and make some more.”

Years Running Deals Five Four Five Years Four Years Businessman

Author:Mick Jagger

“I had been drawing my weekly comic strip, 'Life in Hell,' for about five years when I got a call from Jim Brooks, who was developing 'The Tracey Ullman Show' for the brand-new Fox network. He wanted me to come in and pitch an idea for doing little cartoons on that show.”

Years Littles Ideas Shows Wanted Hell Five Drawing Brands Comic Developing Five Years Foxes Cartoon Brooks Brand New Comic Strips

Author:Matt Groening

“Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting vividness comparable only to the texture of dreams, when dreams are tumultuously alive.”

Years Firsts Book Dream Memories Five Alive Impression Five Years Haunting Texture Picture Books Vividness

Book:Delphi Works of E. F. Benson with the Complete Mapp and Lucia Novels (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of E. F. Benson with the Complete Mapp and Lucia Novels (Illustrated)

“Im like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, Im still going to be asking for more time two days before its due.”

Ifs Giving Writing Years Stills Two Five Give Me Asking Dues Five Years More Time Composer Symphony Two Days

Author:Darren Criss

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