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“Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated.”

Knows Writing Years Wells Five Lucky Brilliant Just One Screenplays

Author:Patrick Marber

“Well, when you're the youngest of five, parents kind of lose interest more and more through the children. I think my eldest brother was under loads of pressure to do something amazing with his life, but by the time I came around they were like, 'Well, let's hope he doesn't kill a guy.'”

Thinking Wells Kind Children Guy Parent Interest Loses Five Brother Pressure Load Eldest

Author:Chris O'Dowd

“Well, when I did Underworld 2, I was in Vancouver for five months and I was reminiscent to be back up there.”

Wells Five Months Underworld Vancouver

Author:Scott Speedman

“I have permits to be the first person in the world to walk across the Grand Canyon so that's a process we'll start working on. I'd say within three to five years I'll accomplish that as well.”

World Years Firsts Wells Persons Three Process Walks Five Accomplish Five Years Permit First Person Canyons Grand Canyon

Author:Nik Wallenda

“So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other.”

Should Years Wells Said Five Built Should Have Stealing Five Years Italian Stolen

Author:Barry McGuire

“I think I was very lucky that I didn't get well-known until my early thirties. If it had happened when I was younger, you might have seen me falling out of nightclubs. I think I conducted myself as a much better human being because I was already married when all that came along (I got married five months after I got the role as Will).”

Ifs Thinking Humans Wells Might Fall Human Beings Known Roles Five Happened Months Lucky Married Well Known Get Well Nightclubs

Author:Eric McCormack

“Americans have learned to trust free markets. Republican or Democrat, we believe the unimpeded exchange of goods and services will yield better solutions than five-year plans set by even the most well-meaning public servants.”

Years Believe Wells Five Plans Republican Solutions Democrat Servant Five Years Goods Yield Free Market Goods And Services Public Servants Five Year Plans

Author:John Katzman

“In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.”

Years Wells Ideas Enough Time Results Pay Five Greater Feet Source Involved Thousand Resources Years Ago Investment Deeper Surface Oil Operations More Time Texas Natural Resources

Author:Alfred Armand Montapert

“It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. The true object of juvenile education, is to provide, against the age of five and twenty, a mind well regulated, active, and prepared to learn. Whatever will inspire habits of industry and observation, will sufficiently answer this purpose.”

Mind Wells Children Age Purpose Answers Five One Thing Objects Inspire Industry Habit Importance Twenties Prepared Active Observation Juvenile

Book:The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature. In a Series of Essays

Source: The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature. In a Series of Essays

“It has been well said that the food one consumes determines one's thoughts. By eating the flesh of various animals, the qualities of these animals are imbibed. How sinful is it to feed on animals, which are sustained by the same five elements as human beings! This leads to demonic tendencies, besides committing the sin of inflicting cruelty on animals.”

Humans Wells Has Beens Said Human Beings Sin Animal Quality Five Elements Eating Determine Various Flesh Cruelty Tendencies Demonic Well Said Five Elements

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.”

Years Wells Lasts Five Generations Painting Hundred Twenties Immortality Thirty Tombstone

Author:Robert Genn

“There's five factors or characteristics of places where kids from poor backgrounds don't do very well. And those are places that have more economic and racial segregation, places with more income inequality.”

Wells Kids Poor Five Economic Backgrounds Income Factors Inequality Characteristics Segregation Income Inequality Racial Segregation Poor Background

Author:Gwen Ifill

“I grew up in a broken home. My dad was out of the home when I was five years old. I never knew him very well.”

Years Wells Home Five Broken Grew Dad Grew Up My Dad Five Years Five Year Olds Broken Homes

Author:Thomas Kinkade

“One day he [Wagner] was batting against a young pitcher who had just come into the league. The catcher was a kid, too . The pitcher threw Honus a curve ball, and he swung at it and missed and fell down. Looked helpless as a robin. I was kind of surprised, but the guy sitting next to me poked me in the ribs and said, 'Watch this next one.' Those kids figured they had the old man's weakness, you see, and served him up the same dish - as he knew they would. Well, Honus hit a line drive so hard the fence in left field went back and forth for five minutes.”

“My books have done extremely well, I know. But I don't honestly feel much different from when I began to write. I still think we have a long way to go. I suppose my name means more in Nigeria today than it did five years ago. But I feel the job that literature should do in our community has not even started. It's not yet part of the life of the nation. We are still at the beginning. It's a big beginning, because now we are catching the next generation in the schools. When I was their age, I had nothing to read that had any relevance to my own environment.”

Source: Conversations with Chinua Achebe

“Before hastening to secure a possible reward of five taels by dragging an unobservant person away from a falling building, examine well his features lest you find, when too late, that it is one to whom you are indebted for double that amount.”

Wells Persons Fall Five Building Amount Late Rewards Secure Features Too Late Indebted

Book:THE KAI LUNG FANTASY SERIES: The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung's Golden Hours & Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat: The Transmutation of Ling, The Story of Yung Chang, The Probation of Sen Heng, The Experiment of the Mandarin Chan Hung, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Vengeance of Tung Fel and more

Source: THE KAI LUNG FANTASY SERIES: The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung's Golden Hours & Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat: The Transmutation of Ling, The Story of Yung Chang, The Probation of Sen Heng, The Experiment of the Mandarin Chan Hung, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Vengeance of Tung Fel and more

“I’m feeling great. Well, pretty great, unless I’ve forgotten to take a couple of Tylenols in the past four or five hours, in which case I’ve begun to feel some jagged little pains shooting down my left forearm and into the base of the thumb.”

Feels Wells Littles Feelings Pain Past Left Hours Cases Five Four Couple Forgotten Shooting Thumbs Feeling Great Tylenol

Author:Roger Angell

“My faith experience, well, as you can imagine, you need a lot of faith to raise five boys.”

Needs Wells Boys Five Imagine Raises

Author:Ann Romney

“Average Jones had come by his nickname inevitably. His parents had foredoomed him to it when they furnished him with the initials A. V. R. E. as preface to his birthright of J for Jones. His character apparently justified the chance concomitance. He was, so to speak, a composite photograph of any thousand well-conditioned, clean-living Americans between the ages of twenty-five and thirty.”

Wells Character Age Speak Parent Chance Five Thousand Twenties Clean Photograph Average Thirty Justified Initials Twenty Five Birthright Nicknames Composites Clean Living

Book:Average Jones

Source: Average Jones

“The Tyranni rule fifty worlds; they are outnumbered hundreds to one. In such a position, simple force is insufficient. Devious methods, intrigue, assassination are their specialties. The net they weave across space is a wide one, and close-meshed. I can well believe that it extends across five hundred light-years to Earth.”

World Years Believe Wells I Can Light Earth Force Simple Space Five Position Hundred Method Wide Fifty Intrigue Assassination Insufficient Specialty Devious Light Years

Book:The Stars, Like Dust

Source: The Stars, Like Dust

“Alternative medicine people call themselves "holistic" and say it's the "whole" approach. Well, if it's the whole approach, let it be the mind as well. Use logic, use sense, use the incredible five wits you were given by creation.”

People Ifs Mind Wells Whole Use Given Five Creation Approach Logic Medicine Incredibles Wit Alternatives Holistic Alternative Medicine

Author:Stephen Fry

“Pure philanthropy is very well in its way but philanthropy plus five percent is a good deal better.”

Way Wells Deals Five Pure Percent Plus Philanthropy

Author:Cecil Rhodes

“The consensus is that no more than five to ten people in a hundred who die by gunfire in Los Angeles are any loss to society. These people fight small wars amongst themselves. It would seem a valid social service to keep them well-supplied with ammunition.”

People Wells War Seems Dies Fighting Social Loss Five Ten Hundred Los Angeles Consensus Ammunition Social Service

Author:Jeff Cooper

“Well, painting today certainly seems very vibrant, very alive, very exiting. Five or six of my contemporaries around New York are doing very vital work, and the direction that painting seems to be taken here - is - away from the easel - into some sort, some kind of wall, wall painting.”

Wells Kind Seems Today Taken Five Alive New York Painting Wall Six

Author:Jackson Pollock

“I was pretty impressed during the opening of one of my shows, when the five-year-old daughter of a well-known movie actress took a running jump at one of my paintings, like she was diving into a swimming pool. I preferred to treat her impulse as a compliment rather than insult. Sadly she hurt herself more than the painting.”

“My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five I read and wrote well enough to do my nine-year older brother's homework in exchange for chocolate or cigarettes. By the time I was 10, I was reading Orwell, Tolstoy's War and Peace, and the Koran. I was reading comic books too.”

Years Wells Two Book War Enough Three Reading Five Taught Brother Mom My Mom Nine Comic Chocolate Cigarette Comic Book Homework Nine Years Older Brother

Author:Chris Abani

“I had to share a room with my sister, who is five and a half years older than I am. We didn't get along well, and I felt that I had no privacy. So books were my privacy, because no one could join me in a book, no one could comment on the action or make fun of it. I used to spend hours reading in the bathroom -- and we only had one bathroom in our small apartment!”

Years Wells Book Action Used Reading Fun Felt Hours Rooms Half Five Share Privacy Comment My Sister Apartment Bathroom Half A Year

Author:Gail Carson Levine

“Carnal reason is an enemy to faith: it is ever crossing and contradicting it. It will never be well with thee, Christian, so long as thou art swayed by carnal reason, and you rely more upon thy five senses, than upon the four Evangelists. As the body lives by breathing, so the soul lives by believing.”

Believe Wells Long Art Soul Reason Body Christian Enemy Five Four Senses Thee Breathing Rely Live By Crossings Contradicting Evangelists Five Senses Soul Life

Author:Thomas Brooks

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Ive fostered five dogs for the Best Friends Program, which is an amazing no-kill sanctuary for animals, as well as a greyhound named Natasha from the greyhound rescue. All of my fosters have taught me great lessons like patience, nurture, and responsibility. My last foster dog was a Cocker Spaniel, and I couldnt let him go. I adopted him!”

Wells Lasts Animal Responsibility Five Dog Taught Lessons Program Rescue Nurture Adopted Sanctuary Let Him Go Greyhounds Spaniels Natasha

Author:Olesya Rulin

“If you let anything infringe on your writing time, it will. And you won't get the writing done. Taking one day off can cost me five days of getting back in the mood. Going out to lunch can cost me anywhere from five hours to three days. And for me it's not worth it. For my own sense of well-being I have to finish my work before I can play.”

Ifs Writing Wells I Can Done Play Three Hours My Own Five One Day Cost Mood Well Being Lunch Going Out Worth It Days Off Not Worth It

Author:Danielle Steel

“Time the healer (Time the killer) flies faster here in Rome than anywhere else in the world, I believe ... here in Rome there are or seem to be strange differences in the value of things. For instance, the pound weight, instead of being sixteen ounces, is only twelve; the foot measure, instead of being twelve inches, is only nine; and I think, in some way, this must apply to time as well, so that the hour, instead of being sixty minutes long, is only forty-five!”

“I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once, when I was number one on the bestseller list, I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.”

Feels Writing Wells Lasts Three Felt Difficult Numbers Successful Five Minutes Lists Five Minutes Difficult Days

Author:Jacqueline Briskin

“Guys standing around and talking about Spanish fly: 'You know anything about Spanish fly?' 'No, tell me about it.' Well there's this girl Crazy Mary, you put some in her drink man, she, 'Haaaaaaaaaaaaah.' Oh yeah, that's really groovy man, Spanish fly is groovy, yeah. From then on, any time you see a girl: 'Wish I had some Spanish fly.' Go to a party see five girls standing alone: 'Boy if I had a whole jug of Spanish fly, I'd light that corner up over there. HAAAAAAH.'”

Ifs Knows Men Wells Whole Light Guy Girl Wish Party Talking Boys Five Crazy Drink Standing Yeah Corners Mary This Girl Standing Alone Jugs Groovy

Author:Bill Cosby

“Well, I don't know. When I signed my contract, I signed to play Loki in five more Marvel movies, but they were unspecified. So, if there will be more movies or not remains to be seen, but I like the idea of Loki turning up in the shadows when people least expect him, but you never know these things, the world changes and the things change, but I feel like I know who Loki is, so I wouldn't mind.”

People Ifs Knows World Feels Mind Wells Ideas Play Five Shadow Remains Contracts Things Change

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“If Party of Five hadnt done well, it would have been a bunch of names involved in the demise. But if Time of Your Life doesnt do well, it will be my name. You have to prepare for the worst. This is a very fickle business.”

Ifs Wells Has Beens Done Names Party Five Worst Involved Bunch Fickle Demise Time Of Your Life Prepare For The Worst

Author:Jennifer Love Hewitt

“I want to thank you for coming to the White House to give me an opportunity to urge you to work with these five senators and three congressmen, to work hard to get this trade promotion authority moving. The power that be, well most of the power that be, sits right here.”

“By the proper intakes of vitamins and other nutrients and by following a few other healthful practices from youth or middle age on, you can, I believe, extend your life and years of well-being by twenty-five or even thirty-five years.”

Years Believe Wells Age I Believe Practice Five Middle Youth Twenties Following Well Being Thirty Five Years Middle Ages Twenty Five Vitamins Nutrients

Book:How to Live Longer and Feel Better

Source: How to Live Longer and Feel Better

“Mr. Fulbright hasn't said anything new or interesting or clever in five years; his intellectual well dried up the day after Walter Lippmann stopped writing his regular column.”

Writing Years Wells Said Interesting Five Intellectual Clever Five Years American Politics Columns

Book:The real Spiro Agnew: commonsense quotations of a household word

Source: The real Spiro Agnew: commonsense quotations of a household word

“My biggest fear is overreaching. I have been in situations where I felt swamped, and it's turned out really well; and I've had other situations where I've had to walk off the film after five minutes because I realized I was in way over my head.”

Way Wells Has Beens Film Felt Walks Situation Five Minutes I Realized Five Minutes Biggest Fear Overreaching

Author:Anne Hathaway

“People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.”

People Want Years Wells Kids Five Six Deserve Paid Treated Rubbish Lottery Apprenticeship

Author:Daley Thompson

“All mathematics is is a language that is well tuned, finely honed, to describe patterns; be it patterns in a star, which has five points that are regularly arranged, be it patterns in numbers like 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 that follow very regular progression.”

Wells Language Stars Numbers Five Mathematics Patterns Progression

Author:Brian Greene

“Well, I was fourteen in Texas. But I looked twenty-five.”

Wells Five Twenties Texas Twenty Five Fourteen

Author:Jerry Hall

“In running, I know that I can train as much as I want and Im never going to break the world record for the five miles. Its partly genetics; Im just not built for it. But if I worked really hard, I might be able to cut my time by half. Could I do the same thing with my mind and my well-being?”

Ifs Knows World Want Mind Wells I Can Hard Might Running Able Half Break Records Five Cutting Built Train Miles Well Being My Time Genetics World Records

Author:Stefan Sagmeister

“If I find what I like, maybe in about five years well be able to afford to build a home in the country.”

Ifs Years Wells Country Home Able Five Five Years

Author:Kent McCord

“Women well understood how to restrict birth through timing of sexual intercourse, herbs and abortifacients. I suspect the focus on men's control of women as the means of reproduction came later, in the last five percent or so of human history, with the idea of children as property and labor. One needed to have as many as possible, never mind about women's health or mobility or brainpower. Women's freedom was restricted in order to make sure of the paternity and ownership of children.”