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“I felt ten years old and a thousand years old, but I didn't know how to be my own age. I had never felt that way before, but now I feel like that a lot.”

Knows Way Feels Years Age Felt My Own Know How Thousand Ten Thousand Years

Book:Criss Cross

Source: Criss Cross

“I refuse to step inside the ring and fight like a gladiator against my own. I'm not playing that game. Any woman who has survived a year or more of making music has my undying respect.”

Years Fighting Games My Own Steps Refuse Rings Survived

Author:Shirley Manson

“After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May 93.”

Years May My Own Streets Six Decided Own Business

Author:Daniel Boulud

“My parents played bridge, and I remember being fascinated watching them. I sometimes got a chance to sit in on a hand, which I loved. But then I didn't actually play on my own for about 30 years.”

Years Sometimes Play Hands Remember Parent Chance My Own Bridges Fascinated

Author:Louis Sachar

“The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods. It took me four years, seven months, and three days to do it. I didn't know where I was going until I got there.It was a place called the Bridge of the Gods.”

Knows Way Years Three My Own Four Months Seven Woods Bridges Wilderness Four Years Seven Months

Book:Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found

Source: Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found

“It never occurred to me that there was anything odd about writing my own music, and so I used to just jot down little ditties and things like that. And it was only in later years I suppose when I was about nine or so, that I realised there was this thing called composing.”

Writing Years Littles Used My Own Nine Odd Realised Composing

Author:Richard Meale

“I went to Catholic school for 12 years and went to church every Sunday. I may not do that anymore but I think it gave me a good basis. I've also explored things on my own different philosophies and spiritual teachings and I use what works for me.”

Thinking Years May Different Philosophy Use School Spiritual Church My Own Teaching Bases Catholic Sunday Catholic School Spiritual Teaching

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“I'll never make another Hardy picture . . . I'm fed up with these dopey, insipid parts. How long can a guy play a jerk kid? I'm 27 years old. I've been divorced once and separated from my second wife. I have two boys of my own. I spent almost two years in the army. It's time Judge Hardy went out and bought me a double-breasted suit.”

Years Long Two Play Kids Guy My Own Boys Wife Judging Army Suits Two Years Feds Divorced Jerk Fed Up Hardy Insipid

Author:Mickey Rooney

“I'm never gonna go into a studio and work for a whole year non-stop. Just every day on my own in the studio working, it's just too damn hard.”

Years Hard Whole My Own Studios Damn Working It Whole Year Non Stop

Author:Imogen Heap

“For many years now, I feel like my own body struggle has been linked and connected with women I meet in the world. I think we're in this together.”

Thinking World Feels Years Has Beens Body Together My Own Struggle Connected Linked

Author:Eve Ensler

“I want to be top scorer in the Premier League, top scorer at the World Cup and, within five years, I want to be among the best strikers in the world. Trust me, it will happen. I look around at other players, I see my own ability and I can't see anything that tells me it won't happen, I'm sure people will think 'What is he talking about?' But as I have done before, and as I will do again, I will sit at the other end and laugh at those people when it is all done.”

People Thinking World Want Years Looks I Can Ends Done Happens My Own Ability Talking Laughing Five Player Cups League Five Years Trust Me World Cup Premier League Strikers

Author:Nicklas Bendtner

“I've been practising Buddhism for forty years, and that's what has led me to this path of discovering my own humanity and recognizing the humanity in others.”

Years Humanity My Own Path Buddhism Forty Discovering Recognizing

Author:Herbie Hancock

“I started going to a piano teacher at 5 years old, but pretty soon I started picking things out on my own and stopped taking music lessons. I never could read music very well, but I've still been doing it.”

Years Wells Stills My Own Teacher Lessons Piano Music Lessons Piano Teachers

Author:Mose Allison

“I view askance a book that remains undisturbed for a year. Oughtn't it to have a ticket of leave? I think I may safely say no bookin my library remains unopened a year at a time, except my own works and Tennyson's.”

Thinking Years May Book Reading My Own Views Remains Library Reading Books Tickets Tennyson

Author:Carolyn Wells

“I have known nothing the last thirty years save the struggle for human rights on this continent. If it had been a class of men whowere disfranchised and denied their legal rights, I believe I should have devoted my life precisely as I have done in behalf of my own sex.”

Ifs Men Should Years Believe Humans Done Lasts I Believe Sex My Own Known Class Struggle Rights Should Have Human Rights Thirty Denied Continents Devoted Behalf Thirty Years Legal Rights

Author:Susan B. Anthony

“I have started to say "A quarter of a century" Or "thirty years back" About my own life.”

Years My Own Century Aging Thirty Quarters My Own Life Thirty Years Quarter Of A Century

Author:Philip Larkin

“In my own field, x-ray crystallography, we used to work out the structure of minerals by various dodges which we never bothered to write down, we just used them. Then Linus Pauling came along to the laboratory, saw what we were doing and wrote out what we now call Pauling's Rules. We had all been using Pauling's Rules for about three or four years before Pauling told us what the rules were.”

Writing Years Used Three My Own Saws Four Fields Structure Various Work Out Rays Four Years Laboratory Bothered Minerals Dodge

Author:John Desmond Bernal

“When any man expresses doubt to me as to the use that I or any other woman might make of the ballot if we had it, my answer is, What is that to you? If you have for years defrauded me of my rightful inheritance, and then, as a stroke of policy, of from late conviction, concluded to restore to me my own domain, must I ask you whether I may make of it a garden of flowers, or a field of wheat, or a pasture for kine?”

Ifs Men Years May Use Might Asks My Own Answers Doubt Policy Fields Flower Late Garden Conviction Strokes Domain Inheritance Wheat Ballots Pastures

Book:History of woman suffrage

Source: History of woman suffrage

“My passion is interior decorating. My goal for the next years is to get into carpentry, because I really want to learn how to make my own furniture.”

Want Years Passion Next Goal My Own Interiors Furniture My Passion Next Year Decorating Carpentry Interior Decorating

Author:Anne Hathaway

“The thing that I have been emphasizing in my own work for the last few years has been the group approach. To try to buy groups of stocks that meet some simple criterion for being undervalued-regardless of the industry and with very little attention to the individual company.”

Trying Years Littles Has Beens Lasts Individual My Own Simple Attention Company Groups Industry Approach Investing Criteria Undervalued

Author:Benjamin Graham

“Sometimes when something really works well, it becomes a target, forty years for me, I've been a part, and I've loved every minute of it. My family has done so well with it. It's been a beautiful thing for me. I've saved lives with it and saved my own life several times. Through my loss of my son, it helped me every step of the way for two years solid, and here I am.”

Way Life Years Wells Two Sometimes Done Beautiful My Own Loss Steps Minutes Son My Family Saved Forty Two Years Target My Son Beautiful Things My Own Life Every Step Here I Am

Author:John Travolta

“Oliver Stone is a great director and I've seen many films over the years, but I try to create stuff out of my own imagination. I want to break all the rules and mess about with it and make a different movie just for the fun of it.”

Want Trying Years Different Film Fun Stuff Imagination My Own Break Directors Stones Mess

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“Keeping a commitment to listening has led me to my own growth, beyond any imagined dreams I may have had throughout the years.”

Years May Dream Growth My Own Listening Commitment

Book:Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred

Source: Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred

“I write my books to challenge my own feelings and theories. Perhaps most surprising was what I learned about rice farming. It was really interesting to think of how different Asian and Western cultures are as a result of the kinds of agricultural practices that our ancestors used for thousands of years. The life of a Chinese peasant in the Middle Ages was so dramatically different from the life of a European peasant - night and day different.”

“With the novels, I usually start from something in my own life that I can't resolve, so I turn it into a metaphor and for months or sometimes years I'll exhaust all of my emotional reaction to this issue by making it enormous on the page.”

Years I Can Sometimes Turns My Own Novel Issues Emotional Months Pages Metaphor Enormous Reactions Resolve My Own Life Emotional Reactions

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“Four years ago on this very day I tried to take my own life. And I said, "Zach, do it in front of your co-workers and end the misery." I don't know how many of you ever tried to jump off of a Pizza Hut, but you'll just get a sprained ankle out of the deal. Then you'll have to go back inside, and serve crazy bread.”

Knows Years Said Ends Humor Funny My Own Deals Know How Four Crazy Fronts Years Ago Misery Workers Bread Four Years Pizza My Own Life Ankles Huts Co Worker

Author:Zach Galifianakis

“I'll work by myself for years and then I'll think it'll be fun to et one of my friends like Marshall Brickman or Doug McGrath into a room and not be alone for the writing of the thing; to have the pleasure of taking walks and get lunch together; its sort of a fun process and then I do it and then I get back on my own for a while until I feel the need to do it again.”

Thinking Needs Feels Writing Years Together Fun Process My Own Walks Pleasure Rooms My Friends Get Back Lunch

Author:Woody Allen

“I'm in a really good place. I used to be a right worrier, but being in a settled relationship has made a massive difference. I was on my own for three years before meeting David. I'm very happy with him, he's a fantastic man. But you never know what's around the corner, so you just hope for the best.”

Knows Men Years Made Used Three Differences My Own Meetings Corners Used To Be Fantastic Massive Three Years Very Happy Around The Corner Good Place Hoping For The Best Happy With Him

Author:Anna Friel

“The Drama Years is filled with heart-stirring stories, just-been-there advice from recent teens and practical, actionable tips for parents. It's full of real girls talking about everything from stress and body image to love and materialism. Reading this book, I cringed in recognition of my own drama years, just wishing this book had been around back then and so grateful I'll have it as a guide for my own daughter.”

“I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don't exist. I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.”

Years Shows My Own Medicine Including Radio Entertainment Mediums Circus Carnivals

Author:Al Lewis

“I would like to say that I have software that allows me to model worlds to a high degree of scientific plausibility. I'd also like to be six foot two and fifteen years into my reign as Emperor of Europa. The simple truth is that past the character's name and a long history of making my own body cover distances, I did very little in the way of targeted research.”

World Way Years Littles Long Two Character Body Past Names My Own Simple Feet Truth Is Degrees Six Models Research Distance Software Fifteen Reign Emperor Fifteen Years Simple Truths

Author:Robert Reed

“I am crazy about my own films. The films I've just made I'm crazy about them. But then I don't see them for many years. It's like when you get a new child you're very crazy about this child but then after a few years you're like, "what was its name again?"”

Years Children Made Film Names My Own Crazy I Am Crazy

Author:Lars von Trier

“I decided to do what I do when I was 2 years old. At 2 years old, you know, I heard the sound of a drum playing in the village, and I found my own drum and just picked it up and started playing, the worst song ever written by Wyclef Jean.But it actually started a vibe.”

Knows Years Song Found Sound My Own Written Heard Worst Decided Village Old You

Author:Wyclef Jean

“I've been extremely lucky to work with Elmer Bernstein, Howard Shore over the years, but I've always imagined films with my own scores, because I don't come from that world or that period of filmmaking. And so how could I make up my own score on a film like this where it isn't necessarily made up of popular music from the radio or the period; it isn't necessarily classical music. But what if it's modern symphonic music?”

Ifs World Years Made Film My Own Modern Periods Lucky Radio Score What If Shore Filmmaking Classical Music Popular Music

Author:Martin Scorsese

“I'm coming from a place that's more experimental and indulgent already, so for the last 10 years, it's been more like, "How can I defend my own sensibilities by writing a nugget of a little catchy pop song?" That's how I'm stretching myself, by writing something really simple.”

Writing Years Littles Lasts Song My Own Simple Pops Sensibility Stretching Pop Song Catchy Nuggets

Author:Andrew Bird

“I go back to many films that I really love. Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don't watch, unless I need them.”

Needs Years Film My Own Watches

Author:Agnes Varda

“I have time to write 1-2 novels per year, and get roughly novel-sized ideas every month. I have to perform triage on my own writing impulses.”

Writing Years Ideas My Own Novel Months Impulse Triage

Author:Charles Stross

“I initially wanted to tell 'Oscillate Wildly' story because it wasn't one I had heard or seen before. The invisibility piece resonated most. Somewhere over the past couple of years I realized that I've essentially been making movies for my teenage self who struggled with isolation and my own brand of invisibility living in rural Ohio.”

Years Self Stories Wanted Past My Own Pieces Heard Couple I Realized Brands Isolation Teenage Over The Past Ohio Invisibility

Author:Travis Mathews

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