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“When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.”

Years Film Actors Father Left Company Six Seven University Relief Waking Documentaries Seven Years Documentary Films

Author:Sam Neill

“My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.”

Years Two Moving Left Parent Four Growing College Products Horror Areas Boxes Founders Dylan Juniors Non Stop Bay Area Junior Year

Author:Aaron Levie

“I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.”

Years Kind Play School Left High School Gas Hockey Dropouts School Dropout High School Dropout Pumping Gas

Author:Adam Oates

“I left L.A. and moved to Cleveland for four years in the early 2000s or whatever. I came back and thought that everything had changed. I was like, 'Oh my God, I don't think I ever fit in here. And wait, who are all of these celebrities that are not actors? Where did all of the actors go?”

Thinking Years Actors Left Waiting Four Changed Fit Moved Four Years Cleveland

Author:Monica Potter

“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

“Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.”

Knows Years Stories School Left Car High School Yeah Moved Typical Idaho

Author:Aaron Paul

“People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't have that many years left.”

People Years Left Dying

Author:Oliver Platt

“It's my view that human dignity - an attribute which for years has been taken by the Left in British politics - resides in fact in Tory values of independence, individuality and self determination.”

Years Humans Has Beens Self Facts Values Left Views Taken Determination Dignity Independence Individuality British Attributes Self Determination Human Dignity British Politics

Author:Maurice Saatchi

“I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time.”

Years Left Acting Majors Ucla English Major

Author:James Franco

“My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three weeks old and left, not surprisingly.”

Years Three Found Father Left Week Affair Pregnant Mum Were Pregnant

Author:Carol Vorderman

“A good two years after Hurricane Katrina I remember feeling so devastated and so ignorant that there was so much damage still left. I felt like here I was an American and this is an American city and the government hasn't done enough and people haven't given back enough. Everyone forgot and the city was lying in waste.”

“For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation.”

Years Has Beens Left Nations Decision Foundation Court Supreme Invention Thirty Privacy Supreme Court Assault Thirty Years Systematic Wade Roe V Wade Waging War Court Decision

Author:David Horowitz

“I hope I have a few years left in my 'last days,' but whether I do or do not, I want it absolutely clear when I stand before the judgment bar of God that I declared to the world, in the most straightforward language I could summon, that the Book of Mormon is true, that it came forth the way Joseph said it came forth and was given to bring happiness and hope to the faithful in the travail of the latter days.”

World Way Want Years Said Book Lasts Left Language Given Clear Judgment Bars Faithful Latter Straightforward Last Day Latter Days

Author:Jeffrey R. Holland

“You could spend the rest of your life trying to outlive the scars that are left by what you go through in your formative years.”

Trying Years Left Scar Rest Of Your Life Formative Years

Author:Todd Edwards

“A Fraternity, too, is of such character that after men have left college they delight to renew their own youth by continued association with it and to bring their richest experiences back to the younger generation in part payment of the debt which they feel themselves owe to the fraternity for what it gave them in their formative years.”

Men Feels Years Character Left Generations Youth College Delight Debt Association Payment Fraternity Younger Generation Formative Years

Author:Newton D. Baker

“I think it [Blu-ray] has 5 years left, I certainly wouldn't give it 10.”

Thinking Giving Years Left Rays

Author:Andy Griffiths

“When I left South Africa in 1960 I was 20 years old. I wanted to try to get an education, and music education was not available for me in South Africa.”

Trying Years Wanted Left South Available South Africa 1960s Music Education

Author:Hugh Masekela

“I was in The Wire for three years, and I left at the highlight of that.”

Years Three Left Three Years Wire Highlights

Author:Idris Elba

“I've been talking about income inequality in America for twenty years, and when I was president, people didn't pay much attention to it, probably because wages were going up. But I don't think I've given a single solitary speech since I left office that I hadn't talked about it. It's a problem around the world and within the United States. So these people have put that on the agenda.”

“I'm getting so slow at my work it makes me despair, but... I'm increasingly obsessed by the need to render what I experience, and I'm praying that I'll have a few more good years left to me.”

Needs Years Left Praying Despair Obsessed Working It Good Years

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“I haven't many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.”

Ifs Years Ends Left Achieve Havens Painting My Time Worthwhile

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“When I left college, I was out of work for three years. I had this dream of being on 'SNL,' and that was all I could imagine.”

Years Dream Three Left Imagine College Three Years Snl

Author:Josh Gad

“When you get to be my age, you begin to count how many Mays you have left - the best time of year for flowers and birds in North America.”

Years Age America Left Flower Bird Aging Best Times North America

Author:Robert Bateman

“Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.”

“We have the Bible in our hands; but how little we know of its teaching! And how little are we governed by it! We go on, from week to week, year to year, with things which have no foundation whatever in its pages- yea, with things utterly opposed to its teaching; and, all the while, we boast of having the Scriptures, just like the Jews of old, who made their boast of having the oracles of God, while those very oracles condemned themselves and their ways, and left them without a single plea.”

Knows Way Years Littles Made Hands Christian Left Week Teaching Goes On Pages Foundation Jew Scripture Boast Oracles

Author:Charles Henry Mackintosh

“Through books you can start today where the great thinkers of yesterday left off, because books have immortalized man's knowledge. Thinkers, dead a thousand years, are as alive in their books today as when they walked the earth.”

Men Years Book Motivational Today Earth Left Alive Thousand Yesterday Thinker Thousand Years Great Thinkers

Author:Wilferd Peterson

“I didn't know anything about conceptual art when I left Kansas. I went to Cal Arts to be a painter, but the exciting stuff was happening elsewhere, so I took a holiday from painting for a few years.”

Knows Years Art Left Stuff Painting Happenings Exciting Painter Holiday Elsewhere Kansas Conceptual Art

Author:David Salle

“At 12 years old in the dangerous world that I was in, with a very difficult home life, I found the stage was the safest place to be. It was predetermined and predictable - and furthermore you got to be someone else. All the problems only began when you left the building.”

World Years Problem Home Found Left Difficult Stage Dangerous Building Predictable Predetermined Home Life Dangerous World

Author:Patrick Stewart

“After 10 years, I have been touring for 20, playing basically the same type of music, a four-piece or three-piece type of music with loud, crashing drums and screaming vocals. It gets to the point where you're looking for something new, and you don't want to do something that's way too left-field, for fear that it might seem contrived.”

Way Want Years Has Beens Seems Might Three Left Pieces Four Fields Type Loud Something New Vocal Touring Left Field

Author:Dave Grohl

“I always find myself loathing what I've just been before - the person who was living in the apartment that I just left, the person I was a year before. I constantly have the feeling of shedding skins and changing.”

Years Persons Feelings Left Skins Apartment Loathing Self Loathing

Author:Joan Juliet Buck

“I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.”

Thinking Years Kids Certain Left Too Much Threat Episodes Naive

Author:J. J. Abrams

“What is there to understand? The significance of life? How long will it take to understand the significance and the meaning of life? 20 years? 30 years? And the same question will be here in another 20 years, I guarantee you. Until you stop asking that question. When that question is not there, you are there. So that's the reason why you keep asking the question: you do not want the question to come to an end. When that comes to an end, there will not be anybody, left there, to find out the meaning, the purpose and the significance of life.”

Want Years Long Ends Reason Purpose Left Asking Reason Why Meaning Of Life Guarantees Significance Significance Of Life

Author:U.G. Krishnamurti

“We are made out of stardust. The iron in the hemoglobin molecules in the blood in your right hand came from a star that blew up 8 billion years ago. The iron in your left hand came from another star. We are the laws of chemistry and physics as they have played out here on Earth and we are now learning that planets are as common as stars. Most stars, as it turns out now, will have planets.”

Years Made Hands Earth Law Turns Left Stars Common Blood Planets Years Ago Physics Billions Iron Chemistry Molecules Stardust Left Hand

Author:Jill Tarter

“And my father left me a legacy of his handwriting through letters and a notebook. In the last two years of his life, when he was sick, he filled a notebook with his thoughts about me… There are times when I want to trade all those years that I was too busy to sit with my dad and chat with him, and trade all those years for one hug. But too late. But that's when I take out his letters and I read them, and the paper that touched his hand is in mine, and I feel connected to him.”

Want Feels Years Two Hands Lasts Father Left Mines Dad Paper Late Letters Sick Trade Filled My Dad Busy Connected Legacy Too Late Touched Two Years Hug Notebook Too Busy Handwriting

Author:Lakshmi Pratury

“The dirty little secret is that I grew up in a household where there were no carbohydrates allowed, ever. No cookies, no bread, no potatoes, no rice. My mother was very extreme in terms of what she served. Since I left home more than 40 years ago, I've been making it right for myself.”

Years Littles Home Mother Left Term Secret Grew Grew Up Years Ago Extremes Bread Dirty Household Potatoes Cookies Rice Naughty Carbohydrates

Author:Ina Garten

“I have left the obvious, essential fact to this point, namely, that it is the Russian Armies who have done the main work in tearing the guts out of the German army. In the air and on the oceans we could maintain our place, but there was no force in the world which could have been called into being, except after several more years, that would have been able to maul and break the German army unless it had been subjected to the terrible slaughter and manhandling that has fallen to it through the strength of the Russian Soviet Armies.”

World Years Has Beens Done Facts Able Left Force Break Air Terrible Essentials Ocean Army Obvious Fallen Guts Soviet Could Have Been Slaughter

Author:Winston Churchill

“Years go by Will I still be waiting For somebody else to understand Years go by If I'm stripped of my beauty And the orange clouds Raining in head Years go by Will I choke on my tears Till finally there is nothing left One more casualty You know we're too easy Easy Easy”

Ifs Knows Years Stills Left Easy Waiting Tears Rain Clouds Orange Choke Casualties

Author:Tori Amos

“I see not a step before me as I tread on another year;But I've left the Past in God's keeping,-the FutureHis mercy shall clear;And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near.”

Years Looks May Past Left Dark Steps Clear Draws Mercy Distance Another Year

Author:Mary Gardiner Brainard

“I'm not particularly inventive. If you left me in а room and told me to write a novel, I wouldn't be able to do it. But if you gave me two years in a public library around the corner, I could. It all comes from sort of mixing the true and the invented. I'm not a fabulist. I'm more of a reporter.”

Ifs Writing Years Two Able Left Rooms Novel Library Corners Two Years Reporters Mixing Around The Corner Public Library You Left Me

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“One hundred years ago, people were faced with the choice of learning to read or remaining illiterate laborers who would be left behind as have-nots in a rapidly modernizing world. In the coming century, being able to command a world that will be thoroughly computerized will set apart those who can live successfully in the future from those who will be utterly left behind.”

People World Years Would Be Able Choices Left Behinds Century Hundred Years Ago Command Left Behind Illiterate Laborers Learning To Read

Author:Yishan Wong

“Damian Lillard is having a better year than Chris Paul. Lillard got snubbed when he was left off of the USA Men’s Basketball team, and now the All-Star team.”

Men Years Left Stars Team Basketball Usa Basketball Team All Stars

Author:Kenny Smith

“My father left Nazi Germany a year after Dr. Kissinger, and so in my household he was very much an icon. He was a kind of immigrant success story, a refugee success story.”

Years Kind Stories Father Left Germany Immigrants Household Drs Nazi Refugee Icons Nazi Germany Success Stories Kissinger

Author:Eugene Jarecki

“I have seen how patients with arthritis, crippled for years, have left their crutches and beds and walked.at the biological clinics (Europe). After a few days or weeks of simple and harmless treatments, the pain from which they suffered for years disappeared and their joints became mobile and flexible again.”

Years Pain Left Simple Week Bed Europe Patient Treatment Flexible Joints Mobile Crippled Crutches Clinic Arthritis

Author:Paavo Airola

“Sometimes I have visions of myself driving through hell, selling sulphur and brimstone, or through heaven peddling refreshments to the roaming souls. If me and the children I've got left could find a place where there's no shooting, I wouldn't mind a few years of peace and quiet.”

Ifs Years Mind Children Soul Sometimes Left Heaven Vision Hell Quiet Driving Selling Shooting Roaming Refreshments Peace And Quiet Peddling

Book:Collected Plays: The life of Galileo. The trial of Lucullus. Mother Courage and her children

Source: Collected Plays: The life of Galileo. The trial of Lucullus. Mother Courage and her children

“One just spends as much money as one has. Very peculiar that! You never actually have any money. You think, If I had this much money ten years ago, I would have thought I was amazingly rich, but I still manage to spend it all and not have any left.”

Ifs Thinking Years Stills Left Money Rich Ten Years Ago Manage Peculiar

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“I decided to be a filmmaker between my sophomore and junior years at Morehouse. Before I left for the summer of 1977, my advisor told me I really had to declare a major when I came back, because I'd used all my electives in my first two years. I went back to New York and I couldn't find a job. There were none to be had. And that previous Christmas someone gave me a Super-8 camera, so I just started to shoot stuff.”

Years Firsts Two Jobs Used Left Stuff New York Summer Majors Decided Cameras Filmmaker Two Years Juniors Advisors Sophomore Junior Year

Author:Spike Lee

“I left Cuba when I was two years old. They took away my country, they stole the most intimate thing a human being can have. How could I forget that Fidel Castro was the person who did me so much harm?”

Years Humans Persons Two Country Left Human Beings Forget Harm Intimate Two Years Cuba Castro Two Year Olds

Author:Gloria Estefan

“It's about the girlfriend who left me last year. I tried to put all my anger in those words, even though I'm just as much to blame for the break-up. 'Soma' is based on the idea that a love relationship is almost the same as opium: it slowly puts you to sleep, it soothes you, and gives you the illusion of sureness and security. Very deceivable.”

Giving Years Ideas Lasts Left Sleep Break Security Illusion Blame Girlfriend Last Year Love Relationship Opium Soma

Author:Billy Corgan

“A friend of mine said to me a year ago, "You're so lucky, Nancy, because Ronnie left you the library," She said, "You have that to work on, and to go to, and, in a sense, to be with him." I had never thought of it like that, but it's true. I go to the library or work for the library all the time, because it's Ronnie. I'm working for Ronnie.”

Years Said Left Mines Lucky Years Ago Library So Lucky Nancy

Author:Nancy Reagan

“Though I have usually posed as a Catholic, I have not done my duty for 15 years, and have not the slightest tincture of faith left.”

Years Done Left Duty Catholic

Author:James Connolly

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