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“In Australia I was seen as somebody who did only very modern, contemporary stuff. Then as soon as I went overseas I did two period pieces so it was like, 'When are you going to get out of the corsets?' And I was thinking I just got into them!”

Thinking Two Stuff Pieces Modern Periods Contemporary Australia Corsets

Author:Frances O'Connor

“It has been an honor to work in the Barack Obama Administration and to serve this President, particularly during a period of unprecedented change in the broader Middle East. Obviously, there is still work to do but I promised my wife I would return to government for only two years and we both agreed it is time to act on my promise.”

Years Has Beens Stills Two Government President Wife Middle Return Honor Periods Promise My Wife East Administration Two Years Middle East I Promise Unprecedented

Author:Dennis A. Ross

“Happiness is something that you can definitely achieve. At first, it will just come for a moment or two. Then it will come for longer periods of time. Eventually you will be happy all of the time.”

Firsts Two Moments Happiness Achieve Buddhism Periods

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Experience tells us that few matches are won on the back of one or two good sessions of play. To win a Test match most teams have to win and outplay the opposition for extended periods of time.”

Two Play Winning Team Periods Tests Opposition Session Play To Win

Author:Justin Langer

“After any disturbance (such as two world wars coinciding with a period of growing economic and monetary incomprehensibility) we find our old concepts inadequate and look for new ones. But it unfortunately happens that the troubled times which produce an appetite for new ideas are the least propitious for clear thinking.”

“I can look back . . . at two distinct periods of opinion whose foundations I have successively come to distrust - a period before 1919 or so, when the weight of classic authority unduly influenced me, and another period from 1919 to about 1925, when I placed too high a value on the elements of revolt, florid colour, and emotional extravagance or intensity.”

Looks I Can Two Values Opinion Emotional Periods Authority Elements Weight Foundation Classic Colour Intensity Distrust Revolt Extravagance

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“That the legislative and executive powers of the State should be separate and distinct from the judiciary; and that the members of the two first may be restrained from oppression, by feeling and participating the burdens of the people, they should, at fixed periods, be reduced to a private station, return into that body from which they were originally taken, and the vacancies be supplied by frequent, certain, and regular elections, in which all, or any part of the former members, to be again eligible, or ineligible, as the laws shall direct.”

“I went into my own black-out period which lasted two or three years where the canvases would simply build up until they'd get like stone and it was always just a gray mess. The image wouldn't emerge, but I worked pretty regularly. I was fighting to find I knew not what, but I could no longer stay with what I had.”

Years Two Fighting Three Black My Own Periods Stones Mess Gray Three Years

Author:Lee Krasner

“One of the most insidious myths in American wine culture is that a wine is good if you like it. Liking a wine has nothing to do with whether it is good. Liking a wine has to do with liking that wine, period. Wine requires two assessments: one subjective, the other objective. In this it is like literature. You may not like reading Shakespeare but agree that Shakespeare was a great writer nonetheless.”

Ifs May Two Culture Reading Literature Periods Agree Wine Myth Objectives Subjective You Like It Assessment Great Writers Insidious Reading Shakespeare

Author:Karen MacNeil

“I hold that two principles are important; first that there should be a steady expansion of public services, not an irregular one related to revenue accruing in any particular year; the second that taxes should be constant over long periods (provided, that is, that they are neither burdensome nor inequitable).”

Should Years Firsts Long Two Important Principles Particular Periods Taxes Constant Related Steady Expansion Revenue Public Service

Author:John James Cowperthwaite

“Psychohistory, as a science, will always be problem-centered, while history will always remain period-centered. They are simply two different tasks.”

Two Different Problem Periods Tasks

Book:The New Psychohistory

Source: The New Psychohistory

“I once wrote a lecture for Manchester University called « Moments of Discovery » in which I said that there are two moments that are important. There's the moment when you know you can find out the answer and that's the period you are sleepless before you know what it is. When you've got it and know what it is, then you can rest easy.”

Knows Said Two Important Moments Easy Answers Periods Discovery University Lectures Manchester Rest Easy

Author:Dorothy Hodgkin

“My wife has told me since that I was hungover every mornng until about two in the afternoon, and from five until midnight I was drunk out of my mind. So she says there was this period of about three hours when she could talk to me like a rational human being.”

Mind Humans Two Three Hours Human Beings Five Wife Periods My Wife Rational Drunk Afternoon Midnight Talk To Me Of My Mind

Author:Stephen King

“There are times when you do a play when you are living in the character over a two-and-a-half-hour period or longer, and you come to the end of the night, and you can feel like you were hit by a truck.”

Feels Two Ends Play Character Night Hours Half Like You Periods Truck Half Hours

Author:Kevin Spacey

“In the course of carrying through our program for which we have calculated four years, two and one-quarter million out of six million unemployed have already received employment again within a period of eight short months.”

Years Two Courses Millions Four Months Periods Six Program Eight Employment Quarters Four Years Unemployed

Author:Adolf Hitler

“Buonaparte is certainly writing, or rather dictating, his memoirs. He walks backwards and forwards with his hands behind him, and dictates so fast that two or three of his suite are obliged to be in attendance, that the one may take down one-half of a sentence, and another the rest; they then literally compare notes, and put the disjointed legs and wings and heads of periods together. This is writing a book as he fought a battle.”

Source: The Life of Mary Russell Mitford ; Related in an Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends. Ed. by A.G. Estrange

“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

“Most American heroes of the Revolutionary period are by now two men, the actual man and the romantic image. Some are even three men - the actual man, the image, and the debunked remains.”

Men Two Three History Hero Periods Remains Revolutionary American Hero

Author:Esther Forbes

“There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety.”

Two Age Women Taken Periods Ninety Sixteen

Book:A Sleeping Life: (A Wexford Case)

Source: A Sleeping Life: (A Wexford Case)

“Will it be said that the judgment of a male of two years old, is more sage than that of a female's of the same age? I believe the reverse is generally observed to be true. But from that period what partiality! how is the one exalted, and the other depressed, by the contrary modes of education which are adopted! the one is taught to aspire, and the other is early confined and limited. As their years increase, the sister must be wholly domesticated, while the brother is led by the hand through all the flowery paths of science.”

Source: Selected Writings of Judith Sargent Murray

“I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but two or three. Life is much simpler ignoring reviews and the nasty people who write them. Critics should find meaningful work.”

People Should Writing Two Life Is Hate Three Periods I Hate Critics Meaningful Reviews I Have Learned Nasty Reviewers Meaningful Work Nasty People

Author:John Grisham

“The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence: the Roman senate appeared to possess the sovereign authority, and devolved on the emperors all the executive powers of government. During a happy period (A.D. 98-180) of more than fourscore years, the public administration was conducted by the virtue and abilities of Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and the two Antonines.”

Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition

“The two Antonines (for it is of them that we are now speaking) governed the Roman world forty-two years, with the same invariable spirit of wisdom and virtue. ... Their united reigns are possibly the only period of history in which the happiness of a great people was the sole object of government.”

People World Years Two Government Spirit United History Virtue Objects Periods Forty Two Years Sole Reign Great People Roman Empire

Book:The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition

Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition

“Youth should be kept strangers to all that is bad, and especially to things which suggest vice or hate. When the five years have passed away, during the two following years they must look on at the pursuits which they are hereafter to learn. There are two periods of life with reference to which education has to be divided, from seven to the age of puberty, and onwards to the age of one and twenty.”

Should Years Looks Two Age Hate Education Five Youth Periods Twenties Seven Vices Following Stranger Pursuit Five Years Divided Hereafter Passed Away Puberty

Book:Politics

Source: Politics

“The U. S. is headed toward a period of business depression... beginning within the next two years, which may exceed that which preceded the War. ... The only thing that will save us is a new gold policy or the discovery of a new process or additional gold fields. If the fall [of gold production] is not prevented by design or accident we shall throttle business, wringing out all profits and experiencing all the evils of deflation.”

Ifs Years May Two War Fall Evil Next Process Policy Design Fields Periods Discovery Gold Investing Profit Productions Accidents Two Years Exceed Throttle Deflation New Processes

Author:Irving Fisher

“When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.”

Two Given Week Land Periods Leaving Covered Given Up Chairman Two Weeks Edinburgh Deputies Glasgow Mps

Author:Jeffrey Archer

“What we need to understand is, one, that there are market failures; and two, that there are things like asset bubbles and irrational exuberance. There are periods of booms, bubbles, and manias. These things, if left to themselves, can lead to crashes, to busts, to panics.”

Ifs Needs Two Left Periods Assets Bubbles Panic Crash Irrational Mania Exuberance Market Failure

Author:Nouriel Roubini

“Puerto Rico has two divergent paths forward. After a reasonable transition period, it could become a state. Or it can become a sovereign nation.”

Two States Nations Path Periods Reasonable Transition Sovereign Divergent Puerto Rico Rico

Author:Pedro Pierluisi

“Thus, after a period of about two thousand years the greatest crime became to worship a god other than the God of Moses, whereas injustice became a minor sin. I began to ask myself how this change had come about. Was it linked to a new order in which the female goddesses had been replaced by one male god?”

Years Two Order Asks Sin Crime Periods Thousand Worship Female Males Injustice Goddess Minors Replaced Thousand Years Linked Moses

Book:Walking through Fire: The Later Years of Nawal El Saadawi

Source: Walking through Fire: The Later Years of Nawal El Saadawi

“They say John Kerry is the first Democratic presidential candidate in history to raise $50 million in a three-month period. Actually, that's nothing. He once raised $500 million with two words: 'I do.'”

Firsts Two Three Millions Months Periods Raises Democratic Raised Presidential Candidates Three Months John Kerry Presidential Candidate

Author:Jay Leno

“There are two processes which we adopt consciously or unconsciously when we try to prophesy. We can seek a period in the past whose conditions resemble as closely as possible those of our day, and presume that the sequel to that period will, save for some minor alterations, be similar. Secondly, we can survey the general course of development in our immediate past, and endeavor to prolong it into the near future. The first is the method the historian; the second that of the scientist. Only the second is open to us now, and this only in a partial sphere.”

Trying Firsts Two Past Courses Process Conditions Development Periods Future Scientist Method Endeavor Historian Spheres Minors Surveys Sequels Alterations

Book:If I lived my life again

Source: If I lived my life again

“Past, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. A moving line called the Present parts it from an imaginary period known as the Future. These two grand divisions of Eternity, of which the one is continually effacing the other, are entirely unlike. The one is dark with sorrow and disappointment, the other bright with prosperity and joy.... Yet the Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the Past of to-morrow. They are one-the knowledge and the dream.”

Two Dream Past Moving Joy Lines Dark Known Periods Sorrow Eternity Disappointment Prosperity Yesterday Division Imaginary Acquaintance Fractions Morrow

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“We humans undergo two major growth spurts: one during infancy and another from eleven to twelve until fifteen or sixteen--pubescence. Between the two is a relatively quiescent growth period in which most of the body takes a rest from growing while the brain continues to mature. This period of life is general referred to as childhood or, sometimes, latency.”

Humans Two Sometimes Body Life Is Growth Brain Growing Childhood Periods Majors Mature Twelve Fifteen Eleven Sixteen Infancy

Author:Louise J. Kaplan

“Most writers enjoy two periods of happiness when a glorious idea comes to mind and, secondly, when a last page has been written and you haven't had time to know how much better it ought to be.”

Knows Mind Has Beens Two Ideas Lasts Enjoy Know How Written Havens Ought Periods Pages Glorious

Author:J. B. Priestley

“After a short period spent in Brussels as a guest of a neurological institute, I returned to Turin on the verge of the invasion of Belgium by the German army, Spring 1940, to join my family. The two alternatives left then to us were either to emigrate to the United States, or to pursue some activity that needed neither support nor connection with the outside Aryan world where we lived. My family chose this second alternative. I then decided to build a small research unit at home and installed it in my bedroom.”

“The other main difference between film and television is that you have the opportunity to flush out a character, over a longer period of time. Whereas with a film, you're confined to two or three hours, or whatever it may be.”

May Two Character Film Three Opportunity Hours Differences Television Periods Confined Film And Television

Author:Elijah Wood

“If you wish to collect complimentary material for a record of yourself, never appeal to your relations. They may be proud of you as an asset to the family name, but they have a gift for remembering your gawky period privately, the follies and faults you committed and have forgotten. You may have come up in the world with a laurel on your brow, but if you go back home forty years later wearing two laurels on your brow, and a noble expression, they will miss the point.”

“A child in his earliest years, when he is only two or a little more, is capable of tremendous achievements simply through his unconscious power of absorption, though he is himself still immobile. After the age of three he is able to acquire a great number of concepts through his own efforts in exploring his surroundings. In this period he lays hold of things through his own activity and assimilates them into his mind.”

Years Mind Children Littles Stills Two Age Able Three Numbers Effort Periods Activity Achievement Capable Concepts Lays Acquire Unconscious Exploring Surroundings Absorption

Author:Maria Montessori

“I knew Marilyn over a two-year period. I met her first on a movie called 'Let's Make Love.' I photographed her at that time on and off through the time of her death. I was 22 years old and she was 34 or 35.”

Years Firsts Two Periods Mets Two Years Making Love And Off

Author:Lawrence Schiller

“A dry period for me means perhaps going two or three nights without writing. I probably have dry periods but I'm not aware of them and I go on writing, only the writing probably isn't much good.”

Writing Mean Two Night Three Goes On Periods Dry

Book:Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993

Source: Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993

“There was about a two-year period at the end of the '60s, when I realized I was in the wrong place and entertaining the wrong people with the wrong material and that I was not being true to myself. I went through a metamorphosis into something more authentic for me, a more authentic stage voice and writing voice.”

People Writing Years Two Ends Voice Stage Materials Periods I Realized Being True Two Years Entertaining Metamorphosis True To Myself Writing Voice

Author:George Carlin

“Quite often on a movie like Total Recall you have this training period of two or three months where, like on the first 'Underworld' I was doing gymnastics and trampolining and all this stuff which I don't do in the movie necessarily, but mentally it helps. You come home and you go: 'Well, I've done all that. I must be an action star now!' So it helps you focus a little bit and gets you fit.”

Firsts Wells Littles Two Done Helping Home Action Three Stars Stuff Bits Focus Months Periods Fit Little Bit Training Coming Home Recalls Gymnastics Three Months Underworld Total Recall

Author:Colin Farrell

“We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands: we have a check upon two branches of the legislature, as each branch has upon the other two; the power I mean of electing at stated periods, one branch, which branch has the power of electing another. It becomes necessary to every subject then, to be in some degree a statesman: and to examine and judge for himself of the tendencies of political principles and measures.”

Mean Two Important Hands Political Principles Subjects Judging Periods Degrees Checks Tendencies Branches Voting Statesmen Legislature

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English.”

Men Writing Two Poor Broken Periods Dull Knights Broken Man Broken English

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“I don't have a cellphone or a computer. I deliberately circumscribe my mental life within the periods that I write about, and the power of Perfidia is that it's the result of complete immersion. I was there for the two years that it took me to write that book.”

Writing Years Two Book Results Periods Computer Two Years Cellphone Immersion

Author:James Ellroy

“I've only made short films and two features, which are very different. One is a surreal comedy, and the other is a period tragedy. I'm curious to know what misconceptions this could trigger”

Knows Made Two Different Film Comedy Periods Tragedy Curious Features Triggers Surreal Misconception Short Films

Author:Sophie Barthes

“I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each shall stand guard over the solitude of the other. For, if it lies in the nature of indifference and of the crowd to recognize no solitude, then love and friendship are there for the purpose of continually providing the opportunity for solitude. And only those are the true sharings which rhythmically interrupt periods of deep isolation.”

People Ifs Two Lying Purpose Opportunity Periods Solitude Highest Tasks Crowds Indifference Isolation Providing Love And Friendship

Book:Selected Letters

Source: Selected Letters

“Europe needs an engine, and the Franco-German motor has provided that when the two nations have converged on important topics during critical periods. But that partnership shouldn't be a directorate for other EU members.”

Needs Two Important Nations Periods Members Europe Critical Engines Partnership Topics Motor Franco Two Nations

Author:Francois Hollande

“There was a huge period where I was filming and studying. But then we went into summer and it became easier. I did find combining the two difficult and I haven't figured out how to do it effortlessly just yet.”

Two Difficult Study Havens Huge Periods Easier Summer Combining

Author:Yasmin Paige

“I like playing the social convention. If you're in a period drama, there's always something dancing underneath the surface as a human - but then you always have to conform to the social conventions around you, and those two things get to be juxtaposed against each other. You're being human, but you're trapped within the social convention of the time.”

Ifs Humans Two Social Periods Drama Dancing Surface Two Things Conventions Trapped Being Human Conform

Author:Jenna Coleman

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