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“I have on the one hand a hatred and on the other a yearning for Vienna. I left when I was nine years old because I was Jewish. And even before 1938, the anti-Semitism in Austria was probably deeper than it was in Germany or in other European countries.”

Years Country Hands Left Hatred Deeper Nine Germany Yearning Nine Years Anti Semitism European Countries Vienna Austria

Author:Eric Kandel

“I have been doing this since I was nine years old. So whatever the role is, I am going to do the best I can do. The only thing I am concerned with is stepping on the stage in front of that camera and giving the best performance I know I can give, day in and day out as an actor.”

Knows Giving Years Has Beens I Can Actors Can Do Roles Stage Fronts Concerned Performances Cameras Nine Do The Best Nine Years Best Performance

Author:Darius McCrary

“Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.”

Men Giving Years Turns Mankind Rocks Garden Possession Nine Secure Desert Bleak Nine Years Lease

Book:Travels during the years 1787, 1788, and 1789: undertaken more particularly with a view of ascertaining the cultivation, wealth, resources, and national prosperity of the kingdom of France

Source: Travels during the years 1787, 1788, and 1789: undertaken more particularly with a view of ascertaining the cultivation, wealth, resources, and national prosperity of the kingdom of France

“I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?'”

“I was nine-years-old when I first put on skates.”

Years Firsts Nine Nine Years Skates

Author:Scott Hamilton

“It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.”

Years Firsts School Nine Nine Years

Author:John Bright

“I've been car crazy my whole life, since I was nine years old. It's just something I'm very aware of.”

Years Whole Crazy Car Whole Life Nine Nine Years

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“Many people I know - writers, poets - they have all been sentenced not once but sometimes three times after they come out. They serve five or six years, come out another time, and then nine years. Come out again, 12 years. Only because they have a different opinion. They are innocent people, they have beautiful minds, beautiful hearts.”

People Knows Years Mind Heart Different Sometimes Beautiful Three Opinion Five Poet Six Nine Innocent Three Times Nine Years Another Time Beautiful Heart Different Opinions Beautiful Mind

Author:Ai Weiwei

“Having been a journalist for thirty-nine years, I've developed a pretty thick skin.”

Years Skins Nine Journalist Thirty Thick Nine Years Thick Skin

Author:Pete Earley

“The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract.”

Years Film Development Hollywood Average Studios Nine Abstract Nine Years Hollywood Movies

Author:Stephen Gaghan

“I had worked in this New York theatre company for my first eight or nine years out of college, acting and directing there, and I'd begun to write a little bit.”

Writing Years Firsts Littles Bits Acting Company New York College Little Bit Eight Theatre Nine Nine Years

Author:Clark Gregg

“I've been fighting for nine years and in the beginning there was a lot of backlash and non-supporters of women fighters. We could never find many women fighters and when we did sometimes we were put on the card for the wrong reasons. It was frustrating. When I'd go train in gyms, it seemed like the guys at the gym were skeptical and didn't think I was as serious as they were because I was a woman, but today things are different.”

Thinking Years Different Sometimes Reason Today Guy Fighting Serious Train Nine Cards Fighter Gym Supporter Frustrating Skeptical Nine Years Backlash Wrong Reasons

Author:Miesha Tate

“If you're into the brand and the heritage of the brand, you can always remember where you got your first Fred Perry Shirt, and for me I was nine years old”

Ifs Years Firsts Remember Nine Brands Shirts Heritage Nine Years

Author:Bradley Wiggins

“[At nine years old] I didn't really know what that meant at the time. I thought it might be in a warm summer sport like softball, but I played a variety of sports growing up - basketball, soccer and track. I really didn't care. I just wanted to be an Olympian.”

Knows Years Might Care Wanted Sports Growing Up Growing Basketball Summer Track Warm Nine Variety Soccer Softball Nine Years Olympian

Author:Elana Meyers

“There is no question that Rumanian-Jewish food is heavy. One meal is equal in heaviness, I would guess, to eight or nine years of steady mung-bean eating.”

Years Equal Eating Heavy Eight Nine Meals Steady Beans Nine Years Heaviness

Book:Alice, Let's Eat: Further Adventures of a Happy Eater

Source: Alice, Let's Eat: Further Adventures of a Happy Eater

“You think it's hard for me when I go in the ring and fight? That's the least of my problems. I think about the five years that I did in prison. I think about the nine years on parole. Nothing - nothing! - can compare to that struggle. I'm telling you, from being an ex-convict with 30 convictions, a degree nowhere to be found and black? I'm done.”

Thinking Years Hard Done Problem Fighting Found Black Struggle Five Degrees Prison Conviction Rings Nine Compare Five Years Exes Nine Years Convicts Parole

Author:Bernard Hopkins

“Going to set, every day, and working with the incredible actors I get to work with is fulfilling. I've been doing this since I was nine years old, so it's always been something that I've been passionate about. It's always fed me.”

Years Actors Incredibles Passionate Nine Feds Fulfilling Nine Years

Author:Tatiana Maslany

“When I was eight or nine years old, I saw the TV version of 47 Ronin, played by Toshiro Mifune. He played Oishi. That was my first experience. I watched every week with my brother. "Who plays Oishi tonight? Who will play Kira tonight?" And we fought every week.”

Years Firsts Play Saws Week Brother Tvs Eight Nine Versions My Brother Tonight Nine Years Kira Ronin

Author:Hiroyuki Sanada

“My dad actually taught me to box when I was, like, nine years old, because I got picked on at school all of the time. I was on a boys' hockey team, so I would get all of my aggression out there.”

Years School Boys Team Taught Dad My Dad Boxes Nine Hockey Aggression Nine Years Hockey Team

Author:Eliza Coupe

“If you can't explain what you are doing to a nine-year-old, then either you still don't understand it very well, or it's not all that worthwile in the first place.”

Ifs Years Firsts Wells Stills Nine Nine Years

Author:Albert Einstein

“Even in Australia I'd say 80 percent of our television was American. I grew up watching Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone. I used to sit with my mum when I was just nine years old, trying to guess what the twist would be. I love that kind of thing.”

Trying Years Kind Would Be Used Television Grew Grew Up Percent Nine Zone Australia Twilight Mum Twists Nine Years Hitchcock Twilight Zone

Author:Jacki Weaver

“Roger Goodell makes $40 million a year, which more than compensates him for the most difficult and sensitive decision in his nine years as commissioner: How hard to come down on Tom Brady, the best quarterback in NFL history, who Goodell told me last year is a "great ambassador for the game"”

Years Hard Lasts Games Difficult Decision Millions Nine Sensitive Nfl Toms Last Year Roger Quarterback Ambassadors Nine Years Brady Commissioners

Author:Gary Myers

“I had been nine years in the theatre and hadn't had massive success. My only thing was I wanted to be an actor and I didn't care when, where, or how much for.”

Years Care Wanted Actors Theatre Nine Massive Nine Years

Author:Michael Caine

“The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.”

Years Guy Theatre Nine Like Me Nine Years Old Guys

Author:Michael Caine

“I was brought up Catholic. My mom brought us to mass every Sunday - short for 'massive head trauma' that you get from your mother punching you in your little nine-year-old head every minute because you can't sit still for anything that's boring.”

Years Littles Stills Mother Minutes Mom Mass Catholic Boring My Mom Trauma Nine Sunday Massive Nine Years Punching

Author:Richard Jeni

“Love is what makes you do everything. It really does conquer all. With my first album, I was writing about empowerment hoping that would make it true. And now it is. I'm in charge. I make the rules. I've been writing since I was nine years old and I'm very much involved in the creative process. And now that I'm in a happier place in my personal life, I'm spitting songs out left and right.”

Writing Years Firsts Doe Song Left Process Love Is Creative Involved Empowerment Albums Nine Conquer Creative Process Personal Life Nine Years Left And Right

Author:Jessie James Decker

“I have to say that those nine years were full of turmoil and drama and trauma to me, in actual fact.”

Years Facts Drama Trauma Nine Turmoil Nine Years

Author:Joan Collins

“When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, 'One of these days I'm going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.' That's all I've ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.”

Years Bigs Care Wanted Beautiful Life Is Used Mother Father House Strong Sides Four Brother South Seven Take Care Nine These Days Ministers Chicago Mama Living On Nine Years

Author:Mr. T

“I started freestyling with friends about eight or nine years ago. I started writing also around the same time, but didn't meet blockhead until about '94. I started making beats not until about '96.”

Writing Years Beats Years Ago Eight Nine Nine Years Blockheads

Author:Aesop Rock

“The problem with the law is that it's always there. There wasn't a vacation I took over the nine years I practiced - this was back in the dark ages - when I wasn't having faxes and FedExs literally sent to me on the beach in the Caribbean. I used to go on cruises not because I liked cruises, but because it was the one spot they couldn't get you.”

Years Problem Age Law Used Dark Goes On Nine Spots Beach Vacation Dark Ages Cruise Nine Years Caribbean Fax

Author:Megyn Kelly

“I'm picky, very picky. I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old, and I figured that was only one way to ever have any longevity, and that's to be careful about what kind of work you do.”

Way Years Kind Wanted Actors Careful Nine One Way Be Careful Longevity Nine Years Picky

Author:Sam Elliott

“I'm not nervous if I think about something for nine years and then I don't write it. Even if it fades it doesn't concern me. It'll come back if it's worth it.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Years Concern Nine Nervous Fades Worth It Nine Years

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“I'd been a film maniac since I was very young; by the time I was eight or nine years old, I was hooked on movies.”

Years Film Young Eight Nine Hooked Nine Years Maniacs

Author:Charles Ferguson

“I try my best to stay healthy, but I have the appetite of a nine-year-old boy, so I just pay for it in workouts.”

Trying Years Pay Boys Healthy Nine Appetite Workout Nine Years

Author:Italia Ricci

“Let's not forget: This all began when you had eight- and nine-year-old children writing graffiti on walls. Their parents were told: "You will never see them again. If you want to have children, go to your wife and make new ones." [Bashar] Assad's people rebelled. He crushed them brutally. But his military could not protect him. So he asked the Iranians to come in and help.”

People Ifs Want Writing Years Children Helping Parent Forget Wife Military Wall Protect Eight Nine Crushed Nine Years Graffiti Assad

Author:Adel al-Jubeir

“I'll always miss Mad Men, of course, but it is interesting to finally answer different questions after nine years. Not that that's a criticism to anyone, but just simply as a character for nine years, you're going to get a lot of the same questions for many, many, many years. This is sort of refreshing.”

Men Years Different Character Courses Answers Interesting Missing Criticism Mad Nine Refreshing Nine Years Mad Men

Author:Christina Hendricks

“I started publishing stories in small magazines early on, but after seven or eight or nine years you feel like you need a little more than that to show for your efforts.”

Needs Feels Years Littles Stories Shows Effort Like You Seven Eight Nine Magazines Publishing Nine Years

Author:Ben Fountain

“I want to make movies just like "King Kong." You know, dinosaurs, big gorillas - it's everything that a nine year-old boy would fall in love with.”

Knows Want Years Bigs Fall Boys Kings Falling In Love Nine Dinosaurs Nine Years Gorillas King Kong

Author:Peter Jackson

“I'm a nine-year old kid inside and my passion has been all my life to want to travel into space.”

Want Years Has Beens Kids Passion Space Nine My Passion Nine Years Want To Travel

Author:Peter Diamandis

“My brother is the lifelong musician, he made the choice to do that when we were very, very young kids. I remember him playing in bands and listening to the music he was writing in the house - he's nine years older than me.”

Writing Years Made Kids Remember Young Choices House Brother Listening Band Musician Nine My Brother Lifelong Nine Years

Author:Kevin Bacon

“I've been saying for the last nine years, our power comes as much from - our respect in the world comes as much from the exercise of our power as it does from the power of our principles.”

World Years Doe Lasts Principles Exercise Nine Nine Years

Author:Joe Biden

“I started out on guitar when I was nine years old, and I started playing bars and stuff when I was thirteen, and I've been playing ever since.”

Years Stuff Guitar Nine Bars Thirteen Nine Years

Author:DJ Ashba

“I went to business school, and I went straight from that to a nine-year career at Microsoft. Eventually, I ran a big chunk of the consumer products division for Microsoft.Then I left with the birth of our first daughter because Bill and I both wanted to have a few kids.”

Years Firsts Bigs Kids Wanted School Left Careers Products Birth Daughter Bills Nine Consumers Ran Division Microsoft Nine Years Chunks Business School

Author:Melinda Gates

“It's important to realize that the series actually grows with the reader. "March: Book One" is a great introduction for kids as young as eight or nine years old. But then they grow with the reader. Book Two is bigger, Book Three is even bigger. And they grow more violent and more confrontational.”

Years Two Important Book Kids Young Three Grows Realizing Reader Bigger Series Eight Nine Violent March Introduction Nine Years Book Readers

Author:Andrew Aydin

“Do you know how many men that are out of work that just stand around on the corner just watching your daughters coming home from school? Today, with the hormonal things that they are putting in foods, these hormones, when you eat the meat, you'll find a nine-year-old daughter with breasts bigger than her mother's, hips wider than her mother's - and men haven't got anything to do but sit and watch you go and come from school.”

Knows Men Years Home Today School Mother Watches Know How Havens Daughter Bigger Corners Nine Hips Meat Breasts Coming Home Do You Know Hormones Nine Years Our Daughter Your Daughter

Author:Louis Farrakhan

“My mother didn't feel very satisfied about the English background that I had received in the public schools in Littleton. So, she insisted that I take a year under the high school level. So, I was in boarding school nine years.”

Feels Years School Mother Levels High School Nine Backgrounds Satisfied Public School Nine Years

Author:Ella Baker

“When I was fifteen I wrote seven hundred pages of an incredibly bad novel - it's a very funny book I still like a lot. Then, when I was nineteen I wrote a couple hundred pages of another novel, which wasn't very good either. I was still determined to be a writer. And since I was a writer, and here I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better.”

Writing Trying Years Littles Stills Book Play Seems Novel Poet Couple Pages Hundred Twenties Seven Very Good Determined Nine Novelists Fifteen Nine Years Nineteen Funny Book

Book:Conversations with Edward Albee

Source: Conversations with Edward Albee

“I think my dream would have been to be a solo artist. But it didn't work out like that, and I also love to sing lots of musical stuff; I was really good at that, I've got a big voice. I dropped into musical theater and really enjoyed it and I sang for about nine years of my career.”

Thinking Years Has Beens Dream Bigs Artist Stuff Voice Careers Theater Musical Work Out Nine Enjoyed Solo Nine Years Musical Theater

Author:Luke Evans

“I came to America when I was seven and a half in 91. I think the first full length book in English that I read was Return to Oz when I was nine years old.”

Thinking Years Firsts Book America Half Return Seven Nine Length Nine Years

Author:Mila Kunis

“I've spoken about this completely independent of this movie prior to ever being attached to this film that as a kid the first movie that I remember seeing that resonated with me was the Wizard of Oz. I think just visually the color, the spectrum of it and how fantastical it was and how much you wanted to live in that world, for a nine-year old was so magical and so grand so I have the greatest, fondest memories of it.”

Thinking World Years Firsts Kids Wanted Remember Film Memories Seeing Color Independent Nine Wizards Spectrum Nine Years

Author:Mila Kunis