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“Growing up in Huntington Beach, you were either a traditional sports athlete, a skateboarder, or a surfer. I got my first skateboard when I was five and skated off and on over the years, did a little BMX racing as a kid, and then in my freshman or sophomore year I started getting a little bit more into skateboarding.”

“I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I was carrying around. I worked in a neuroscience lab as an undergraduate and then after, almost five years in total, but I realized I just wasn't good at science. I didn't have the discipline for it.”

Years Wanted Five Discipline Scientist I Realized Narrative Five Years Neuroscience Labs Undergraduate

Author:Jonah Lehrer

“I got my first job when I moved to Los Angeles. I worked at a coffee shop for five years and it was one of the best experiences I ever had. It was a bunch of actors covering shifts for each other and becoming great friends.”

Years Firsts Jobs Actors Five Becoming Moved Coffee Bunch Five Years Shops Los Angeles Covering Great Friend Coffee Shop Best Experiences Becoming Great

Author:Katie Leclerc

“My junior year, I was in a play at school and five days before opening night, I still didn't know my lines. Opening night was a disaster. I was so embarrassed. The director made me work backstage for the rest of the performance.”

Knows Years Made Stills Play School Night Lines Five Directors Performances Disaster Opening Embarrassed Juniors Junior Year Opening Night

Author:Katie Leclerc

“I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of myself. I didn't feel like an actor anymore. That sounds silly, but when you're doing a play you're using different muscles, and it blew all the cobwebs away.”

Feels Years Different Ends Play Actors Bits Sound Five Four Sick Silly Muscles Five Years Drained Cobwebs

Author:Matthew Macfadyen

“The average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky.”

Ifs Years Long Five Lucky Band Average Five Years Life Span Average Life

Author:Mike McCready

“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

“Given that I have to share my computer with my three children, it's not usually a site that I get to spend that much time on. I'm usually on the Nickelodeon site, coloring with my little five year old or something.”

Years Children Littles Three Given Five Share Computer Five Years Site Five Year Olds Nickelodeon

Author:Todd McFarlane

“Law and Order' is completely story-driven and completely characterless, really. If you do that format for five years and you're an actor, you're bound to get bored. It wears on you. And it was really wearing on me.”

Ifs Years Stories Law Order Actors Five Bounds Driven Bored Five Years Format Law And Order Characterless

Author:Chris Noth

“If you're a big Hollywood star, you make one movie a year at the most. I can make five in Europe.”

Ifs Years I Can Bigs Stars Five Europe Hollywood Hollywood Stars

Author:Franco Nero

“I feel like every five to seven years I really need to put myself in this position of discomfort and exploration, just to survive. Otherwise I feel like I'm falling asleep, like I'll go crazy if I don't do it.”

Ifs Needs Feels Years Fall Five Crazy Position Seven Exploration Seven Years Discomfort Falling Asleep

Author:Karen O

“I'm proud to be on the CBC and to see the management here represents both sides of every story. This is what's unique about the new CBC: you get a Kevin O'Leary on it when five years ago you wouldn't.”

Years Stories Sides Five Proud Unique Years Ago Management Five Years Both Sides Kevin Cbc

Author:Kevin O'Leary

“I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16. I think I have proved my ability in this field and it won't make sense for me to continue for another five or 10 years.”

Thinking Years Art Ability Five Fields Make Sense Martial Arts

Author:Jet Li

“I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.”

Thinking Years Kind I Can Ends Seems Five Periods Six Years Ago Concrete Dead Ends

Author:James Laughlin

“After my second-to-last record called "The Greatest," I had gone on tour for a while and I didn't play an instrument for about five years. And I got kind of - it's not self-esteem or whatever, not anger towards myself - but disappointed in myself that I hadn't been challenging myself to learn musically.”

Years Kind Self Play Lasts Challenges Gone Records Five Self Esteem Instruments Esteem Five Years Disappointed Challenging Myself

Author:Cat Power

“I don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image left about twins, whose father was telling them how their lives were going to go for the next eight years. I wrote a scene about that, and then another and then another and then another, and after five months I had 732 pages.”

Writing Years Dream Remember Next Father Left Five Mines Months Scene Pages Eight Twins Fragments

Author:Tamora Pierce

“I spend so much time with my parents. My mom and I were joined at the hip for five years. There was not one moment when I wasn't with her.”

Years Moments Parent Five Mom My Mom Hips Five Years

Author:Kay Panabaker

“My whole thing is I want to have a backup plan because maybe I won't get another acting job after 'Fame', maybe I'll want to give up on acting in five years or whatever and I want to have something else that I enjoy just as much as I enjoy acting.”

Want Giving Years Whole Jobs Enjoy Acting Five Plans Fame Giving Up Five Years Backup Backup Plan

Author:Kay Panabaker

“I served at a time when we had a strong economy, when we had deficits that we would die for today. I was able to propose a balanced budget, not over ten years, but over five years. I'm proud of that record.”

Years Today Able Dies Strong Economy Records Five Proud Ten Budgets Five Years Balanced Deficit Propose Balanced Budget Strong Economy

Author:Rob Portman

“One of the first times I ever performed in front of a big group of people was at my kindergarten graduation. I did, like, a Michael Jackson impersonation as, like, a five year old. I had the suit and blazer, the glove and the fedora, and I just performed a whole Michael Jackson song. I'm sure it was 'Smooth Criminal.”

People Years Firsts Whole Bigs Song Five Groups Fronts First Time Criminals Suits Five Years Smooth Gloves Kindergarten Five Year Olds Blazers Fedoras

Author:Chance the Rapper

“There are people who would love to spend their last ten years, or five years, or whatever it is, on the surface of Mars.”

People Years Lasts Five Ten Surface Five Years Mars

Author:Mary Roach

“I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and off.”

Years Lost Five Four Grew Grew Up Five Years And Off

Author:Tania Raymonde

“I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write every single day. I never thought I'd be published.”

Writing Years Book School Five High School Five Years Juniors Writing A Book Five Year Olds Junior High High School Junior

Author:Karrine Steffans

“I studied acting for five years. I quit college at that point. You know, I go hard. When I know I'm supposed to go in a direction, I'm fully committed and I go all the way. Everything falls to the side and I'm all in. So I completely dove into acting even though I was almost 30.”

Knows Way Years Hard Fall Sides Acting Five College Committed Quitting Five Years Dove I Quit Go Hard

Author:Sonja Sohn

“I'm bad on Valentine's Day, but even worse on Christmas. I go shopping at nine o'clock on December 24th every year. Nobody else is there. I'm in Toys'R'Us all by myself. I get there five minutes before closing.”

Years Five Minutes Nine Christmas Clock Shopping Toys Valentine Five Minutes Valentine's Day Closing December

Author:Jamie Foxx

“I like to cover news when it happens, not five years later.”

Years Happens Five News Five Years

Author:Shepard Smith

“I probably won't be able to hear it until five years from now anyway. That's when I always hear my own music. It takes five years to sit down with it after not hearing it for a couple of years.”

Years Able My Own Five Couple Hearing Five Years

Author:Alan Vega

“You know, it's a different world now, but to skip ahead and really answer your question, only in the last five years did I find what I call holy maturity, finding the balance, finding the right person in my life so that I could live a normal life.”

Knows World Years Persons Different Lasts Answers Five Balance Holy Normal Findings Maturity Five Years Skip Different Worlds Normal Life Right Person Last Five Years Finding The Right Person

Author:Burt Ward

“If you do an American TV series, before the audition you sign away the next five years of your life.”

Ifs Years Next Five Tvs Series Five Years Auditions Tv Series

Author:Dominic West

“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

“A quarter of my life has been spent on 'Secret Life.' I'm 20 and I've been doing it for five years, so I think the best moments have been when all the cast members get to work together and we get to collaborate and share experiences. We all grew up together.”

Thinking Years Has Beens Moments Together Secret Five Share Grew Members Grew Up Casts Five Years Working Together Quarters Secret Life Best Moments Cast Members

Author:Shailene Woodley

“An actor's career doesn't feel like just one career to me. It feels like about five or six. Because every six or seven years, you look in the mirror and you have a completely different product.”

Feels Years Looks Different Actors Careers Five Products Six Mirrors Seven Just One Seven Years

Author:Ron Livingston

“I've been doing independent films for 10 years, but one out of five didn't see the light of day.”

Years Light Film Five Independent Independent Film

Author:Scoot McNairy

“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 moved on from the whole 'Playboy' thing five years ago and really never looked back. I'm not one of those girls who goes back to all the parties and things.”

Years Whole Girl Party Five Years Ago Moved Five Years Playboy Moved On I Moved On

Author:Holly Madison

“Indeed, the FHA was born out of the Great Depression, which was also caused in significant part by a foreclosure crisis. Mortgages in the early 1930s were mostly three- to five-year 'bullet' loans, which did not amortize and were due in full at maturity.”

Years Three Born Five Crisis Dues Significant Maturity Five Years Bullets Loan Mortgage Great Depression 1930s Foreclosure Dodging Bullets

Author:Mark Zandi

“Comics have a problem, and that is continuity - the obsession with placing the characters in an existing world, where every event is marked in canon. You're supposed to believe that these weepy star boys of now are the same gung-ho super teens fighting space monsters in the '60s, and they've only aged perhaps five years.”

World Years Believe Character Problem Fighting Stars Space Boys Five Events Monsters Obsession Five Years Teens Continuity Canon

Author:John Hodgman

“We need to see men and women as equal partners, but its hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!”

People Thinking Men Needs Years Hard Five Equal Men And Women Years Ago Partners Five Years Forty Hepburn Tracy

Author:Betty Friedan

“A snarky but accurate description of monetary policy over the past five years is that the Federal Reserve successfully replaced the technology bubble with a housing bubble”

Years Past Technology Five Policy Five Years Description Bubbles Accurate Reserves Replaced Housing Over The Past Monetary Federal Reserve Monetary Policy Housing Bubble

Author:Paul Krugman

“I know where I'm going and I have told the French. I am sure if hope is there, we will be able to put France back on its feet to live better in five years than we do today.”

Ifs Knows Years Today Able Five Feet France Five Years

Author:Francois Hollande

“I would just sweat so much. I'd be dry when I run on the stage. By the time I got in front of the microphone, it just, just like a river pouring out. I don't know what made that happen. It took five years for that to stop happening to me.”

Knows Years Made Happens Running Five Stage Fronts Happenings Rivers Dry Five Years Sweat Pouring Microphones

Author:Nickolas Ashford

“Something new has taken place in the past five to eight years. Technologists are providing almost religious visions, and their ideas are resonating in some ways with the same idea of the Rapture.”

Way Years Ideas Past Religious Vision Taken Five Eight Something New Providing Rapture Resonating

Author:Eric Horvitz

“A lot of people give actors credit when they gain weight for a role in a drama when they win an Oscar, but when you’re doing a sitcom, people don’t give you a lot of credit, because you’ve got to keep your weight on for five or six years if it’s successful.”

People Ifs Giving Years Actors Winning Roles Successful Five Drama Six Gains Weight Credit Oscars Sitcom

Author:Mike O'Malley

“Six years ago, I completed the premier episode of Hawaii Five-O, and Jack Lord and I immediately realized that we had a good series, that this was a success such as we'd never hoped for!”

Years Lord Five Six Years Ago Series Episodes Hawaii

Author:James MacArthur

“When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before I had learned to read and write.”

Writing Years Kind Parent Five Magic Casts Five Years Chests Spells Five Year Olds

Author:Wolfgang Hildesheimer

“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

“One of the towering people in this industry said, why don't you go and make a five-year contract with somebody, make yourself several million dollars and put it away, then go and do whatever you want, work for public TV if you want.”

People Ifs Want Years Said Millions Five Tvs Industry Dollars Five Years Contracts Million Dollars Do Whatever You Want

Author:Roone Arledge

“In the Astronaut Office we're never totally out of training, we always keep our hand in it. But after five years, things have changed and so it's been good to get back into the flow and relearn a lot of things.”

Years Hands Five Changed Office Training Flow Five Years Get Back Astronaut Things Have Changed

Author:Linda M. Godwin

“That was my way, and I also use the music after five years, I started hearing opera, opera, it was very good instrument to keep the spirit very strong because you feel like you are yourself singing opera, and I used to hear a lot of opera, they send me tapes.”

Way Feels Years Use Used Spirit Strong Five Like You Singing Instruments Very Good Hearing My Way Five Years Opera Very Strong Tape

Author:Mordechai Vanunu

“Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.”

Giving Years Humor Funny Five Taxes Vote Crush Five Years Bachelors

Book:The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion