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“Know what the difference between hitting .250 and .300 is? It's 25 hits - 25 hits in 500 at-bats is 50 points. There's six months in a season, that's about 25 weeks. That means if you get just one extra flare a week - just one - you get a ground ball with eyes, you get a dying quail, just one more dying quail a week ... and you're in Yankee Stadium.”

Ifs Knows Mean Eye Differences Week Dying Months Six Seasons Balls Extras Just One Hitting Bats Six Months Yankees Stadiums Flare Yankee Stadium Quails

Author:Crash Davis

“NBC has suspended Brian Williams for six months without pay. Williams said he's not worried because soon his veterans benefits will kick in.”

Said Pay Months Six Benefits Worried Kicks Veteran Six Months Suspended Brian Nbc

Author:Conan O'Brien

“I was literally fabricated over in France and born about six months after the boat landed at Ellis Island. This was the heart of the Depression. For the first 12 years of my life we lived in a terrible ghetto on the East River.”

Years Firsts Heart Sports Born Months Terrible Six Rivers East Boat France Islands Six Months Ghetto Ellis Island

Author:Bob Cousy

“We all laughed. It was more like that whole thing that I was talking about earlier. You go to training camp and after the season is over, you might not see the guys for six months until you go back to training camp.”

Whole Might Guy Sports Talking Months Six Training Seasons Over You Camps Laughed Six Months Bubba Training Camp

Author:Bubba Smith

“Here is an educational bombshell: Take from all of today's industrial nations all their industrial machinery and all their energy-distributing networks, and leave them all their ideologies, all their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.”

“That's a big responsibility, and the details obsess me. And, also, I no longer feel I have to do the Tonight Show every time I open my mouth. Twenty years ago, I told myself I'd rather direct than act, and it's taken me this long. You lose your passion in acting. You make too many mistakes. Maybe that's why I make so many movies; if you don't like this one, another one's opening on Tuesday. But then I spent six months of my life on 'At Long Last Love,' a picture nobody saw. I enjoyed making it, I learned from it, I grew, but that's too much time out of my life.”

“Six months later I was in Paris. I was 16, and it all started to happen.”

Happens Months Six Paris Six Months

Author:Eva Herzigova

“You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it.”

Knows May Film Audience Laughing Know How Comedy Months Six Draws Six Months Vacuums

Author:Theodore Bikel

“I gave up accounting. I went in for about six months writing ad copy. I was fired from that, and then another guy and I did a kind of poor man's Bob and Ray kind of syndicated radio show. Then I decided to stick it out and see what happened. I'd give it a year, a year became two years, and then two years became three years, and then along came the record album.”

“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

“I would never say, "I'm retired." I believe if I decided to just not work, in six months everybody would just forget whether you were working or not.”

Ifs Believe I Believe Forget Months Six Decided Six Months Retired

Author:Jack Nicholson

“We've given Iraq six months and I don't think things are really working out, so we should probably bring our troops home.”

Thinking Should Home Given Months Six Iraq Work Out Troops Six Months Our Troops

Author:Thomas Friedman

“I wanted to be in The Emerald Forest. I chased that one for six months before it all came about. I wanted to work with John Boorman!”

Wanted Months Six Forests Six Months Emeralds

Author:Powers Boothe

“I lived in Paris for six months when I was sixteen. It was a fend-for-yourself environment.”

Environment Months Six Paris Six Months Sixteen

Author:Beau Garrett

“I don't personally follow trends; I don't even like the idea of trends. I think it's kind of absurd that you have to change every six months, so I always try and buy things that hopefully I'll like forever, and resonate with me.”

Thinking Trying Kind Ideas Forever Months Six Absurd Hopefully Trends Six Months

Author:Lily Cole

“The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save enough money to give yourself six months to be a full-time writer. Work every day and the pages will pile up.”

Ifs Way Giving Writing Trying Enough Certain Months Periods Six Pages Six Months

Author:Judith Krantz

“A great silence has descended on me for the last six months. I am as silent as an Arab in the desert, as dry, thirsty, and full of wonder and rumours which do not materialize into camels or travellers at all, but just vanish into the silent spaces from where they came. I expect this is a good thing though it is extremely irritating - the brink of a voice and never a voice.”

Lasts Voice Space Silence Wonder Months Six Good Things Silent Desert Dry Six Months Traveller Thirsty Irritating Camels Rumours

Author:May Sarton

“Six months of looking for a job had made me an expert at picking out the people who, like me, were hurrying up to wait - in somebody's outer anything for a chance to make it through their inner doors to prove that you could type two words a minute, or not drool on your blouse while answering difficult questions about your middle initial and date of birth.”

Source: Mama Day: A Novel

“One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.”

Feels Three Wish Week Months Six Tired Surface Rome Exhausted Six Months Three Months

Book:Italian Days

Source: Italian Days

“The kinds of good friends I have are people who are perfectly willing to have me say I'll see them in six months, and live right next door.”

People Kind Next Doors Willing Months Friends Six Good Friend Six Months

Author:Jane Rule

“I don't want to restrict the life of a play to a particular production. The original actors might leave after the first six months, and I want the play to last 30 or 40 years. You write for the character, not the actor on the stage.”

Want Writing Years Firsts Play Character Might Lasts Actors Stage Particular Months Six Originals Productions Six Months

Author:Neil Simon

“I always wanted to be a comedian. I loved comedy since I was a little kid, and while I was at university I started doing stand up shows. Once I realized that I was good at it I quit college and left although I had six months left. I went to England. I could have done the last six months but I realized that I was better at standup comedy than I was at singing opera.”

Littles Done Shows Kids Wanted Lasts Left Comedy College Months Six Singing England University I Realized Quitting Comedian Opera Six Months Little Kid I Quit

Author:Jim Jefferies

“There is a period in one's life - perhaps not longer than six months - when one lives in two worlds at once ... It is the time when one has freshly learned to read. The Word, till then a denominating aspect of the Thing, has suddenly become detached from it and is perceived as a glittering entity, transparent and unseizable as a jellyfish, yet able to create an independent world that is both more recondite and more instantaneously convincing than the world one knew before.”

World Two Able Reading Months Periods Six Aspect Independent Entity Six Months Convincing Transparent Detached Two Worlds Jellyfish

Author:Sylvia Townsend Warner

“The memo's chief function ... is as a track-coverer, so that you can turn on someone six months later and snarl: 'Well, you should have known about it, I sent you a memo.”

Should Wells Turns Work Known Months Office Six Letters Should Have Function Track Chiefs Six Months Turn-on Should Have Known Memos

Author:Jilly Cooper

“it's a good idea to wait a few months before joining anything when you arrive at a village. A bookseller friend who retired to nearby Oxfordshire, and was worried he might be bored, got himself on to every village committee in the first six months, and spent the next ten years extricating himself.”

Years Firsts Ideas Might Next Waiting Months Ten Six Worried Bored Village Good Ideas Committees Six Months Retired Joining Booksellers

Book:Angels Rush In

Source: Angels Rush In

“Oh, I wish it were in my power to put men in the place of fashionable women for one six months! They should curl their hair, consult the milliner, make spongecake, do a little embroidery, wear long skirts, and dress so tightly that they could scarcely breathe.”

Men Should Littles Long Wish Feminism Hair Months Six Dresses Breathe Six Months Fashionable Skirts Curls Embroidery Long Skirts

Author:Lucy Stone

“If you start thinking about retirement in six months' time, you're already there.”

Ifs Thinking Months Six Retirement Six Months

Author:Brian O'Driscoll

“Most television shows are going to require an actor sign up from four to six years, but an anthology show really amounts to five or six months at the most. I thought serious actors might be attracted to that.”

Years Shows Might Actors Five Four Television Serious Months Amount Six Six Months Television Shows Anthology

Author:Nic Pizzolatto

“Imagine yourself acclaimed, a decorated national hero, an idol to millions of desperate people, then within six months, condemned to death by hanging.”

People Millions Imagine Months Hero Six Desperate Idols Six Months

Author:Joachim Peiper

“You can't know if someone's really your best friend. I think the measure of that is you could not see each other for six months and then when you see each other you laugh the same way you did when you were a little kid.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Littles Kids Laughing Months Six Six Months Little Kid Your Best Friend

Author:Zooey Deschanel

“April is the two-week-old kitten, the month-old lamb, the six-month-old heifer, the two-year-old girl. Too young to know it has either past or future, it wears the ribbon of the fleeting present as part of itself.”

Knows Years Two Past Young Girl Week Months Six Two Years Fleeting Six Months April Two Weeks Lambs Kitten Ribbons Two Year Olds

Author:Gladys Hasty Carroll

“Microsoft obviously takes way too long to fix flaws, .. All researchers should follow responsible disclosure guidelines, but if a vendor like Microsoft takes six months to a year to fix a flaw, a researcher has every right to release the details.”

Ifs Way Should Years Long Months Six Responsible Details Release Flaws Six Months Microsoft Researchers Disclosure Guidelines Vendors

Author:Bill Vaughan

“I wouldn't mind spending six months a year having a private jet take me around the world to visit natural and historical landmarks like the Egyptian pyramids, Mount Kilimanjaro or the Taj Mahal.”

World Years Mind Natural Months Six Historical Spending Around The World Take Me Six Months Jet Pyramids Egyptian Landmarks Taj Mahal Private Jet Mahal Kilimanjaro Egyptian Pyramids

Author:Megalyn Echikunwoke

“For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.”

Firsts Talking Careers Months Six Six Months Alright

Author:Jack Whitehall

“My daughter Lily's the oldest, and by the time she was six months, we just had books of photos. Poor little Maeve, who's six months old now My mom hasn't met her yet, and last night she said, 'Show me some pictures!' I'm looking through my phone like, 'Well, I got a couple, but they're from two months ago'”

Wells Littles Said Two Book Shows Lasts Night Poor Mom Months Couple Mets Six Daughter Phones My Mom My Daughter Show Me Six Months Last Night Lilies Two Months

Author:Chris O'Donnell

“I have a work presently in the Press named 'Six Months in Hell' which you may one day read. I consider it will be worth perusing, bruising badly the morals of Britain and America, while Royalty, clergy, critics, society and bloodhounds of law must all incur its censure.”

May America Law Moral Hell Months One Day Six Presses Critics Britain Six Months Royalty Clergy Censure Bloodhounds Britain And America

Book:Thine in storm and calm: an Amanda McKittrick Ros reader

Source: Thine in storm and calm: an Amanda McKittrick Ros reader

“I pride myself in the fact that in the six months tour of Cinderella, I didn't take one show off.”

Facts Shows Pride Months Six Six Months Showing Off

Author:Lea Salonga

“I'm the guy that gets up at three in the morning to jot down an entire sheet of lyrics for something that won't be recorded for six months. You have to get it down when you can, because thoughts are fluid.”

Guy Three Morning Months Six Get Up Sheets Six Months Fluid

Author:Corey Taylor

“For the last several years and culminating in six months in orbit next year, I've been training for my third space flight. This one is almost in a category completely different than the previous two, specifically to live in on the space station for six months, to command a space ship and to fly a new rocket ship.”

Years Two Different Lasts Next Space Months Six Training Thirds Ships Command Flight Stations Categories Six Months Next Year Rockets Orbit Space Flight

Author:Chris Hadfield

“In February of 1996, about six months after I created eBay, I started receiving a spate of complaints. Everyone was complaining about each other. I felt very much like I was a parent who had to adjudicate the brothers beating each other up.”

Felt Parent Brother Months Six Complaining Receiving Complaints Six Months February Ebay

Author:Pierre Omidyar

“My sister Tiffany told me years ago, 'You can never write about me.' Then she called six months ago and said she wanted to be in a story. She was worried people thought I didn't like her.”

People Writing Years Said Stories Wanted Months Six Years Ago Worried My Sister Six Months Like Her

Author:David Sedaris

“I have a creative mind, so if I listen to the song, I have an idea, I thought of five or six months ago, I'll bring it back into the playing field. I can tweak ideas or make them better. Just come up with something and then we go from there.”

Ifs Mind I Can Ideas Song Creative Five Fields Months Six Come Up Six Months Playing Fields Creative Mind Tweak

Author:Chris Brown

“Harold Ramis really got my career going and was a friend for a long time. I was doing a play in L.A., and he came to see it a few times and recommended me to Ivan Reitman for Ghostbusters 2. Six months later, I quit real estate and was acting for good, and it was really because Harold took an interest in me and made a phone call and did stuff that people don't usually do, even if they like somebody.”

People Ifs Long Made Real Play Stuff Interest Acting Careers Months Six Long Time Phones Quitting Estates Six Months Phone Calls I Quit

Author:Kurt Fuller

“One of many problems with survey research in general is that you can only survey the survivors. In other words, if you were to do a survey of people who were known to have played Russian Roulette and you sent out the questions before the time they were going to play and then you come back six months after they played Russian Roulette, you would probably discover that among the people who did come back there was no harm done.”

People Ifs Done Play Problem Known Months Six Research Harm Survivor Six Months Surveys Roulette Russian Roulette

Author:Thomas Sowell

“The only good Jap is one that's been dead six months.”

Months Six Six Months

Author:William Halsey

“Now, if you truly understand how marketing works today, you know there is no individual six-month campaign; there's only the 365-day campaign, during which you produce new content daily.”

Ifs Knows Today Individual Produce Months Six Marketing Campaigns Six Months

Book:Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World

Source: Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World

“The second episode of any new show can be tough. You have about a week to top the well-crafted and polished pilot episode that was written over six months.”

Wells Shows Written Week Months Six Tough Pilots Episodes Six Months Polished

Author:Michael Patrick King

“In April, 1915, the Ottoman Government began to put into execution throughout Turkey a systematic and carefully-prepared plan to exterminate the Armenian race. In six months nearly a million Armenians have been killed. The number of victims and the manner of their destruction are without parallel in Modern History.”

Source: The Blackest Page of Modern History: Events in Armenia in 1915 : The Facts and the Responsibilities

“I think sometimes you get given a good pile of goodwill, and it's whether you use it up in the first six months or spread it out over a career.”

Thinking Firsts Sometimes Use Given Careers Months Six Spread Six Months Goodwill

Author:Ricky Gervais

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