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“When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexic ward. I sometimes ate as many as seventeen dinners”

Sometimes Dinner Nurse Favourite Assignments Seventeen Anorexics

Author:Jo Brand

“When you're seventeen or eighteen, you bomb on in pre-season immediately, try to impress. But then at the end of pre-season because you were so fast at the beginning, your times aren't getting any better and it looks like you actually aren't getting fitter.”

Trying Looks Ends Like You Seasons Bombs Impress Eighteen Seventeen Pre Season

Author:Colin Kazim-Richards

“Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.”

Needs Done Missions Pilots Flew Sloth Seventeen

Book:If You Want to Walk on Water Get Out of the Boat

Source: If You Want to Walk on Water Get Out of the Boat

“No one's serious at seventeen.”

Serious Seventeen

Author:Arthur Rimbaud

“I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.”

School Young Girl Clear Married High School Queens Retired Seventeen School Girl Beauty Queen

Author:Janis Ian

“I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number.”

Years Mind Different House Numbers Twenties Fascinated Twenty One Seventeen Seventeen Years Old

Author:Robert Indiana

“Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know.”

Knows Way Doe Matter Animal Example No Matter What Species My Favorite Seventeen Crocodiles

Author:Steve Irwin

“In the year of 1902, when I was about seventeen years old, I happened to invade one of the sections [in New Orleans] where the birth of Jazz originated from.”

Years Happened Birth Jazz Sections New Orleans Seventeen Seventeen Years Old

Author:Jelly Roll Morton

“I had a real job at fourteen years old. At seventeen, I was on my own. At twenty, I cut the liver out of a drifter and gave it to my father! 'Cause my dad's a drinker and I love my dad. And for eighty bucks, you can do anything in Mexico!”

Years Real Jobs Father Causes Can Do My Own Cutting Dad Twenties My Dad Mexico Eighty Bucks Fourteen Liver Seventeen Drinkers Real Jobs Love My Dad I Love My Dad Drifters

Author:Christopher Titus

“As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.”

Long Care Faces Pages Don't Care I Don't Care Seventeen

Author:Mick Jagger

“I was partially raised by an aunt who was a dress designer, so I was around her studio all of my early life. I know materials. I can look through Harper's Bazaar and decide what works and what doesn't, or any other magazine, Seventeen if you wish.”

Ifs Knows Looks I Can Wish Materials Dresses Raised Studios Magazines Designer Aunt Seventeen Harper Early Life Bazaars

Author:Ray Bradbury

“I felt so much when I was fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, I felt everything. I didn't understand [myself], I was so happy yet so angry and sad. That was the point when I realized that I needed to tell stories and make characters come alive and I needed to make people cry, and make people angry, and make people happy, and make them laugh.”

People Character Stories Felt Laughing Alive Cry Needed Angry I Realized Fifteen Sixteen Seventeen Making People Happy

Author:Dakota Johnson

“When you're seventeen years old, green and inexperienced, you're grateful for any guidance and direction you can get.”

Years Grateful Green Guidance Seventeen Seventeen Years Old Guidance And Direction

Author:Christina Aguilera

“I also don't like to make really big records, because I feel then that the songs don't get enough space to be themselves, so I would never want to make a record that's like seventeen songs.”

Want Feels Enough Bigs Song Space Records Seventeen

Author:Regina Spektor

“When a book is in its final stages, I've just got to be home, looking at it seventeen hours a day, and that's fine. But all that initial creation of the early drafts, I'd just as soon write it on the road in any extreme place. That's sort of ideal.”

Writing Book Home Hours Stage Creation Fine Ideals Finals Extremes Initials Seventeen

Author:Pam Houston

“In one sense, I felt not seen and heard enough as a child. At the very same time, I'm watching her and modeling her. At seventeen, I left to go to Hollywood to pursue my dream, as if there was no other option. I only learned that, the gift of it, recently. And I often forget it.”

Ifs Children Enough Dream Left Felt Forget Heard Hollywood Pursue Modeling Forget It Seventeen

Author:Daphne Zuniga

“Song "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" is actually about syphilis.”

Song Sixteen Seventeen Syphilis

Author:Amy Schumer

“By the time I was seventeen, I was on my way to Hollywood and didn't look back. My family is supportive now, but like any adult guardian of a seventeen-year-old daughter, they were not thrilled with my plan to run off to the LA to make it as an actress. Even a somewhat functioning parent would think that was a bad, bad idea. Lucky for me, I didn't listen to them.”

Thinking Way Years Looks Ideas Running Parent Plans Lucky Daughter Adults My Family Hollywood Actresses My Way Supportive Guardian Bad Ideas Seventeen Seventeen Years Old

Author:Amber Heard

“The goal of dream study is to increase one's contact with and access to the abilities of their subconscious mind. I became interested in dreams as an avenue to increase my knowledge of the subconscious mind, and increase my psychological and emotional effectiveness. I have been recording my dreams since I was seventeen.”

Mind Has Beens Dream Goal Ability Study Emotional Increase Access Contact Psychological Subconscious Avenues Effectiveness Seventeen Subconscious Mind

Author:Charles McPhee

“It was very fortuitous that the show [True Detective] actually spans seventeen years - so as I was getting older on the show, I was gaining weight. When I'm playing fifty, I'm ten pounds heavier! I don't know if they thought maybe I was method? But it actually worked to my benefit.”

Ifs Knows Years Shows Ten Benefits Weight Method Fifty Pounds Getting Old Getting Older Detectives Seventeen Fortuitous Gaining Weight

Author:Michelle Monaghan

“Elle Fanning was fifteen when we started [The Neon Demon]. She turned seventeen during the shoot. Four weeks before Cannes, she turned eighteen. She had her prom at Cannes.”

Four Week Demon Fifteen Eighteen Seventeen Prom Neon Cannes

Author:Nicolas Winding Refn

“I liked seventeen-year-old me, I was happy when I was seventeen. I was this troubled goth kid that wore eyeliner and make-up to school and listened to punk-rock music and I loved my friends and I started to make music - I like seventeen-year-old me.”

Years Kids School Rocks My Friends Punk Rock Music Punk Rock Seventeen Goth Eyeliner Seventeen Years Old

Author:Mark Hoppus

“I had a bad knee injury when I was about seventeen. I wasn't able to climb for about six months. It was kind of like a transformative time for me, because it was really hard for me not to be able to climb. It forced me to appreciate things without just climbing.”

Kind Hard Able Months Six Appreciate Knees Injury Climbs Climbing Six Months Seventeen Knee Injuries

Author:Chris Sharma

“I did act as a kid, but I quit when I was seventeen.”

Kids Quitting Seventeen I Quit

Author:Gaby Hoffmann

“I remember as a seventeen-year-old kid saying, "If attitude made me captain of this team, I'm going to have a good attitude all my life."”

Ifs Years Made Kids Remember Attitude Team Captains Seventeen Good Attitude Seventeen Years Old

Author:John C. Maxwell

“I lived in New Mexico until I was seventeen, and honestly I've been homesick ever since I left.”

Left Honestly Mexico Seventeen Homesick New Mexico

Author:Liza Campbell

“Hilary Clinton stated multiple times, falsely, that seventeen U.S. intelligence agencies had assessed that Russia was the source of our publications. That is false; we can say that the Russian government is not the source.”

Government Source Clinton Russia Agency Multiple Publication Seventeen Intelligence Agencies Russian Government Hilary Clinton

Author:Julian Assange

“The Zionist movement based in Palestine pretty much took over the camps and instituted the policy that every man and woman between the ages of seventeen and thirty-five should be directed to Palestine - not allowed to go to the West.”

Men Should Age Five Policy Movement Men And Women West Every Man Thirty Camps Palestine Seventeen Zionist

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I wanted to do comic books... as a comic book artist, as an illustrator. But I'm not very good so I thought I should do something else! So I went to a film school when I was seventeen and came out when I was nineteen.”

Should Book Wanted School Film Artist Very Good Comic Comic Book Seventeen Nineteen Film School Illustrators

Author:Gaspar Noe

“You go to the marketplace and there are seventeen consciousnesses moving in and out. Sometimes you want the same shirt that I want, and our thought bubbles collide a bit and that makes plot.”

Want Sometimes Moving Bits Consciousness Shirts Plot Bubbles Our Thoughts Marketplace Seventeen Moving In Collide

Author:George Saunders

“Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.”

Folks Seventeen

Author:Sam Kinison

“When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.”

Serious Adolescence Teenage Seventeen Puberty

Author:Max Lerner

“Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.”

People Thinking Feelings Might Stars Hero Fame Romantic Charlie My Hero Seventeen Hendrix Romantic Feelings

Author:Jean-Michel Basquiat

“At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.”

Looks Made Stills Body Girl Inspiring Dresses Blue Twelve Seventeen Orphanage Blouses Blue Dress

Book:My Story

Source: My Story

“I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.”

Years Country Home Basketball Thirteen Seventeen

Author:Hakeem Olajuwon

“We're rewarding either the reality or the appearance of youth, which is why you have all these people in their fifties trying to act like they're seventeen. You know, it's great to be young. Be young. By all means, be young. But always remember that youth is also kinda dumb, and doesn't know a lot yet.”

People Knows Trying Mean Reality Remember Young Youth Appearance Dumb Seventeen Be Young

Author:Patton Oswalt

“When you're seventeen to early twenties, that's the time you're trying to work out who you are. If you're trying to make some kind of artistic or creative impact, that's the age when you start to figure out how to do that.”

Ifs Trying Kind Age Creative Figures Twenties Impact Who You Are Work Out Artistic Seventeen

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through the taming constraints and delicacy of Impressionism for good. Nineteen gnarly paintings, starting in 1909 and carrying through his final seventeen years, finish off the notion that Monet went happily ever after into lily-land.”

Years Land Painting Notion Finals Starting Broke Constraints Lilies Happily Ever After Ever After Seventeen Delicacy Nineteen Taming Impressionism Gnarly Monet

Author:Jerry Saltz

“Isaiah is by far the finest and least objectionable of the seventeen prophets whose supposed productions form the latter part of the Old Testament. A distinctly higher moral tone appears in the writings called by his name, and this is especially noticeable in the 'Second Isaiah,' who wrote after the Babylonish captivity.”

Writing Form Names Moral Higher Productions Tone Prophet Latter Finest Testament Old Testament Seventeen Captivity

Book:The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

Source: The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

“I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.”

Writing Years Firsts Book Twenties Seventeen

Author:David Sedaris

“I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy.”

Hours Members Responsible Staff Seventeen Embassy Staff Members

Author:Shirley Temple

“I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.”

People Said Two Age Together Asks Crazy High School Aging Insane Uncles Seventeen Farenheit 451

Book:Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

“No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine.”

Born Training Fifteen Infancy Heroines Seventeen

Book:Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.

Source: Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.

“During the terrible years of the Yekhov terror I spent seventeen months in the prison queues in Leningrad. One day someone ‘identified’ me. Then a woman with lips blue with cold who was standing behind me, and of course had never heard of my name, came out of the numbness which affected us all and whispered in my ear—(we all spoke in whispers there): ‘Could you describe this?’ I said, ‘I can!’ Then something resembling a smile slipped over what had once been her face.”

Years Said I Can Faces Courses Names Behinds Heard Months Cold Terrible One Day Standing Ears Blue Prison Lips Terror Spokes Affected Seventeen Numbness Queues Leningrad

Author:Anna Akhmatova

“How old are you? Twelve?" "Fourteen & three quarters." His eyes sparkled. "You're kind of little for fourteen and three quarters." "Am not," I replied indignantly. "I'm a sophomore this year. How old are you?" "Seventeen and two fifths." Hardy Cateses & Liberty Jones.”

Years Kind Littles Two Eye Three Liberty His Eyes Quarters Twelve Fourteen Seventeen Hardy Sophomore

Author:Lisa Kleypas

“I took my coffee into the dining room and settled down with the morning paper. A woman in New York had had twins in a taxi. A woman in Ohio had just had her seventeenth child. A twelve-year-old girl in Mexico had given birth to a thirteen-pound boy. The lead article on the woman's page was about how to adjust the older child to the new baby. I finally found an account of an axe murder on page seventeen, and held my coffee cup up to my face to see if the steam might revive me.”

Source: The Magic of Shirley Jackson

“It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.”

Knows Wonderful Youth Thought Provoking Seventeen

Book:2010: Odyssey Two

Source: 2010: Odyssey Two

“If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if you've got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've still got seventeen grand. There's a math lesson for you.”

Ifs Stills Left Wealth Money Lessons Dollars Math Riches Bread Cents Seventeen Value Of Money

Author:Steve Martin

“I will be thin and pure like a glass cup. Empty. Pure as light. Music. I move my hands over my body - my shoulders, my collarbone, my rib cage, my hip bones like part of an animal skull, my small thighs. In the mirror my face is pale and my eyes look bruised. My hair is pale and thin and the light comes through. I could be a lot younger than seventeen. I could be a child still, untouched.”

Looks Children Stills Body Hands Light Eye Faces Moving Animal Hair Pure Empty Mirrors Glasses Bones Shoulders Cups Hips Pale Cages Skulls Thighs Seventeen Ribs Bruised Rib Cage

Book:The Hanged Man

Source: The Hanged Man

“I’m seventeen years old, my name is Juan García Madero, and I’m in my first semester of law school. I wanted to study literature, not law, but my uncle insisted, and in the end I gave in. I’m an orphan, and someday I’ll be a lawyer. That’s what I told my aunt and uncle, and then I shut myself in my room and cried all night.”

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