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“There is nothing so depressing as good advice, and I will be pleased if you do not inflict it upon me. Frankly, I am shocked at you. You must know this, surely? Some years ago I suffered such an offensively gratuitous piece of good advice that I was depressed for six months afterward. It was a very close call - I almost never recovered.”

Ifs Knows Years Pieces Advice Months Six Years Ago Depressing Shocked Six Months Good Advice Close Calls

Book:Shantaram: A Novel

Source: Shantaram: A Novel

“Sometimes I don't pick up the guitar for six months or so," "Other times I get away, go to a hotel or something, to write songs. Or go stay with a friend and bring the dog and do stuff away from my normal routine. Then I sit down and play guitar at night. I do it differently every time . There is no set way.”

Way Writing Sometimes Play Night Song Stuff Dog Months Normal Six Picks Down And Guitar Hotel Get Away Routine Six Months

Author:Holly Golightly

“When I was 19 I went to art school. I had six months of teaching myself to play baritone ukulele under my belt so I was sort of a novice folkie... I was singing folk songs at that time.”

Art Play School Song Teaching Months Six Singing Folks Six Months Belts Art School Novices Ukulele Folk Songs Baritones

Author:Joni Mitchell

“When I was about 17, I had a row with my mother and left home for six months, renting a flat and working as a waitress for a while. I learnt you could double your earnings if you gave good, cheerful service. It taught me that in any job you can improve your lot.”

Ifs Home Jobs Mother Left Taught Months Six Flats Earning Cheerful Six Months Waitress Good Cheer

Author:Anne Robinson

“Well, it only dawned on me about six months ago that not everybody's against me all the time. It was something of a revelation.”

Wells Months Six Revelations Six Months

Author:Thom Yorke

“I was 25 years old and pursuing my doctorate in economics when I was allowed to spend six months of postgraduate studies in Naples, Italy. I read the Western economic textbooks and also the more general work of people like Hayek. By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market. In 1968, I was glad at the political liberalism of the Dubcek Prague Spring, but I was very critical of the Third Way they pursued in economics.”

“I was approached to do something for seven years, and it was a quality project. I did seriously think about it, but I didn't want to be away for six months of the year. I've never done the L.A. thing where you go and have loads of meetings; I can't say to my wife, 'I'm going to wait by a pool for six months.'”

Thinking Want Years I Can Done Waiting Quality Wife Months Six Projects Meetings Seven My Wife Pool Load Six Months Seven Years Months Of The Year

Author:Eddie Marsan

“I go on benders where I just exercise like a maniac. And then I go on benders where I just can only take baths. Like, I have to lay down to bathe, and I could go on that for six months.”

Months Goes On Exercise Six Lays Six Months Baths Maniacs

Author:Sharon Stone

“I modeled for a little while in college. I was desperate to travel, and I got scouted, and they wanted me to go to Paris and London for six months. And I discovered that I hated it. I didn't like the expectation to be pretty all the time.”

Littles Wanted College Months Six Expectations London Hated Paris Desperate Six Months

Author:Mackenzie Davis

“Because a part of the entire [Donald] Trump experience or whatever this last six months [of 2015] has been sort of feels like we`ve been living in a dream, but this is all actually happening.I mean, it`s great to be a political journalist in this time. It`s about the rhetoric. You hear his supporters on the campaign trail say we`re glad he`s not politically correct.”

Feels Mean Has Beens Dream Lasts Political Months Trump Six Happenings Campaigns Glad Journalist Rhetoric Supporter Six Months Trails Politically Correct

Author:Greg Gutfeld

“After something crystallizes, I can write ferociously and write novels in six months, which in the past would have taken me two years.”

Writing Years I Can Two Past Novel Taken Months Six Two Years Six Months

Book:Conversations with Paul Auster

Source: Conversations with Paul Auster

“I think all of our ministers are relatively inexperienced. I'm relatively inexperienced. We're a six-month-old government.”

Thinking Government Months Six Ministers Six Months

Author:Rachel Notley

“I was born at six months, and I weighed 900 grams [less than two pounds]. I have a very heroic birth story.”

Two Stories Born Months Birth Six Pounds Heroic Six Months

Author:Etgar Keret

“I lived in Rome for about five or six months during Life Aquatic.”

Five Months Six Rome Six Months

Author:Owen Wilson

“I've been writing music since I was about eight. I would write sporadically. I wrote a lot of music in high school. I guess the oldest song on the record ("I Thought I Saw Your Face") is about eight years old. It's the old "I had my whole life to write my first album and six months to write the second one." I did, to some degree, but actually, a lot of the songs that ended up on the record, I wrote really recently. So it varies.”

Writing Years Firsts Whole School Faces Song Records Saws Months Degrees Six High School Albums Eight Whole Life Your Face Six Months Vary Writing Music

Author:Zooey Deschanel

“I applied for a scholarship to Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. I knew I was good enough, but they turned me down. And it took me about six months to realize it was because I was black. I never really got over that jolt of racism at the time.”

Enough Black Realizing Months Six Racism Down And Good Enough Six Months Scholarship Institute Philadelphia

Author:Nina Simone

“I had been emotionally affected by the story [of Steven King], on my own, and I knew how I wanted to feel watching it because I had felt it already reading it. God bless them, Bad Robot hired me to develop it and I spent the next six months in a room, alone, with a lot of index cards up on a wall, like the guy in A Beautiful Mind.”

Feels Mind Stories Wanted Beautiful Guy Reading Next Felt My Own Rooms Wall Months Kings Six Cards Affected Bless Robots Six Months God Bless Beautiful Mind

Author:Bridget Carpenter

“When you're the commander in chief, you're the commander in chief on day one. You don't get like a six-month grace period. The world doesn't just stop and say, well, let's wait until the president catches up before we start challenging America.”

World Wells America Waiting President Challenges Grace Months Periods Six Chiefs Six Months Commanders Commander In Chief

Author:Marco Rubio

“I was very well paid for my age, and I could make choices, decide not to do a film for six months and wait until I'd get the right thing. Which made me quite a coward.”

Wells Made Age Film Choices Waiting Months Six Paid Right Thing Coward Six Months

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“I was so lucky because I started working very young. And my father was very wealthy and I didn't need to work. I did my films. I was very well paid for my age, and I could make choices, decide not to do a film for six months and wait until I'd get the right thing. Which made me quite a coward, you know. It's so easy to say no to stuff, and then, after a while, it's very hard to go back in.”

Knows Needs Wells Made Hard Age Film Young Choices Father Easy Stuff Waiting Months Lucky Six Paid Right Thing Wealthy Coward Six Months So Lucky

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“Every night for the next week, set aside ten minutes before you go to sleep. Write down three things that went well today and why they went well...Writing about why the positive events in your life happened may seem awkward at first, but please stick with it for one week. It will get easier. The odds are that you will be less depressed, happier, and addicted to this exercise six months from now.”

“If we have a biometric exit-entry system, we know on the day after six months has exceeded his visa.And with that exit- entry system, we can then send ICE, the law enforcement agents that exist, to go and get John and say, OK, you're here illegally now.”

Ifs Knows Law Months Six Ice Agents Law Enforcement Enforcement Six Months Exit Entry Visa Biometrics

Author:Ted Cruz

“Part of the reason I am not there sooner, is that I was not allowed to go to the United States. Now I am allowed. I am so thankful I have been given a second chance and I live there and already more has happened in six months for my career then in the last ten years.”

Years Has Beens States Reason Lasts Given Chance United Careers United States Happened Months Ten Six Six Months Second Chance Given A Second Chance

Author:Shane Bunting

“There's too much emphasis on backstory and personal stuff in music now - it's not going to make the music better if I hear that you did karate for the six months leading up to it.”

Ifs Stuff Too Much Months Six Music Is Emphasis Six Months Karate Personal Stuff

Author:Alex Scally

“I felt like I was homeless anyway, so the change in environment wasn't that much of a big deal. I felt pretty much the same. After six months of living on the streets [in Camden], I started singing, busking.”

Bigs Felt Deals Environment Streets Months Six Singing Homeless Six Months Big Deal Living On Camden Busking

Author:Benjamin Clementine

“I had to let myself imagine a calendar with no lines; when every single day is being predetermined six months in advance, there's no more fluidity to time.”

Lines Imagine Months Six Six Months Calendars Predetermined Fluidity

Author:Feist

“I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It's a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I'm trying to do myself.”

People Trying Done Helping Hours My Own Nice Months Six Come Up Albums Studios Helping Others Six Months Helping Other People

Author:Beck

“I could not possibly be in a relationship now for more than six days. When I was younger, I might have said six months, although I think the longest relationship I was ever in was three years.”

Thinking Years Said Might Three Months Six Three Years Six Months

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“I hate cats. But this cancer cat made me feel bad, so I was like, Okay, I'll take her back to L. A. and give her her last six months of pain-free life.”

Giving Feels Made Pain Lasts Hate Months Six Cat Okay I Hate Cancer Six Months Free Life

Author:Emmy Rossum

“I didn't want people to wait six months to get the clothes, I wanted a very immediate, real feel to it. You see it one night, the next morning you can go and buy the same outfit!”

People Want Feels Real Wanted Night Next Waiting Morning Months Six Clothes Six Months One Night

Author:Esteban Cortazar

“We started when we're around 13 writing it - maybe 14. I'm a little older than Evan Goldberg is, like, only like six months. But like, I would say, like, the general structure of the movie, like, the series of events is very similar to what it was when we first wrote it.”

Writing Firsts Littles Events Months Six Structure Series Six Months

Author:Seth Rogen

“[The consumer] shown new styles in the moment, but she's not going to get them for another six months - and I think that's very confusing for her. She feels she's seen it all by the time it comes around. She's also a little bored. She's really into [snaps her fingers], "Wear-now-buy-now."”

Thinking Feels Littles Moments Style Months Six Fingers Consumers Bored Confusing Six Months Snaps

Author:Donna Karan

“Louis Brandeis really inspired me to write this book [Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet]. It was a crazy deadline. The editor said I'd miss the hundredth anniversary unless I pumped the thing out in six months, because I'd been delaying and dilly dallying for so long. So he both inspired me to get up early and write.”

Writing Long Said Book Crazy Missing Months Six Inspired Get Up Prophet Editors Six Months Deadline Up Early Louis Brandeis

Author:Jeffrey Rosen

“Tony [Blair] slowly sucked me back in for the 2005 campaign, and from six months out, I was basically working full time trying to keep the Tony[Blair] - Gordon[Brown] thing together for the campaign. It was awful.”

Trying Together Months Six Campaigns Awful Brown Six Months Blair

Author:Alastair Campbell

“My wife and I took a sabbatical and we went from Europe to India, where we lived in an ashram for six months and did meditation and yoga vigorously, like from 5:00 in the morning until 10:00 in the night in very austere circumstances. I think then my practice became less superficial, more like the traditional definition of what meditation was: to truly find oneness.”

Thinking Night Practice Morning Meditation Wife Months Circumstances Six Yoga Europe India Definitions My Wife Traditional Oneness Superficial Six Months Meditation And Yoga Sabbatical

Author:Karan Bajaj

“When I started on the path, too, I really thought I would become a yogi in a cave, but I didn't have clarity about my path. When I evolved in the ashram for six months, I learned a lot, but I realized that it was not my natural state of being. So, I came back to the world.”

World States Natural Path Months Six I Realized Clarity Caves Six Months Yogi

Author:Karan Bajaj

“[Sandra Day O'Connor] is a justice whose graciousness and sense of duty fuels her continued service, even agreeing to serve more than six months after her retirement date.”

Justice Duty Months Six Fuel Retirement Six Months Graciousness Sandra Day O Connor

Author:Patrick Leahy

“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 went to yoga for six months straight, but that was about five years ago! I've been trying to get back. I probably could've seen the President five times, it'd be easier than it has been to get back to yoga!”

Trying Years Has Beens President Five Months Easier Six Yoga Years Ago Five Years Get Back Six Months

Author:Mike Ness

“If I were in the director's chair, I would cast [Geena Davis] in something awesome every six months if I had the choice.”

Ifs Choices Months Directors Six Casts Chairs Six Months

Author:Emma Watson

“You have people that practice law and are lawyers and go to school for eight years, but you can become a cop in six months and don't have to have the same amount of training as a cosmetologist. That's insane. Someone that's holding a curling iron has more education and more training than people that have a gun and are going out on the street to protect us.”

People Years School Law Practice Streets Months Amount Protect Six Training Gun Eight Lawyer Insane Iron Cop Going Out Six Months

Author:Colin Kaepernick

“If everything stops functioning our level will be able to ensure our trade turnover using its gold and foreign currency reserves for at least six months or more, which is more than enough.”

Ifs Enough Able Levels Months Six Gold Trade Currency Reserves Six Months Turnover

Author:Vladimir Putin

“I usually think about a play anywhere from six months to a year and a half before I sit down to write it out.”

Thinking Writing Years Play Half Months Six Six Months

Book:Conversations with Edward Albee

Source: Conversations with Edward Albee

“I wish everyone in this country could magically leave the country for six months and view the United States from the outside for six months, and I think you'd see a new perspective to the people of this country.”

People Thinking Country States Wish United Views United States Perspective Months Six Six Months New Perspective

Author:Jesse Ventura

“I missed a tuna-fish sandwich with mayo on toasted wheat bread more than anything. Six months after I went vegan, I snuck into a deli and took one home. And, of course, it wasn't nearly as good as I fantasized. It tasted, well, fishy.”

Wells Home Courses Months Six Fishes Bread Vegan Six Months Sandwiches Wheat Tuna Fishy Tuna Fish

Author:Kathy Freston

“The visa thing can be an issue, if you're going to work for someone here make sure they will help you with this. However, so that you know what you need make sure you research the visa issue on your own. A 90 day visa is not a problem and I saw six month visas being offered through the Vietnamese Embassy in Cambodia, but nothing about one year visas or temporary residence cards. Of course you are probably aware that you need some sort of visa in advance just to gain entry into Vietnam.”

Ifs Knows Needs Years Helping Problem Courses Issues Saws Months Six Research Gains Cards Temporary Vietnam Six Months Going To Work Entry Visa Vietnamese Residence Cambodia Embassy

Author:Doug Rice

“I was talking to Cecil [Castellucci], who writes Shade, and I was saying to her, and she was saying the same thing, that I'm not even the same person who wrote the first issue of Doom Patrol, and that was six months ago. I'm a totally different person now, already. It's weird to look back at stuff, but it's an honor that there's a legacy of people who still keep it in their heads. It's really cool!”

People Writing Firsts Looks Persons Stills Different Stuff Talking Issues Months Honor Six Legacy Shade Six Months Doom Really Cool

Author:Gerard Way

“When Pearl Harbor was bombed, you know, there was a whole lot of buy-in to a national mobilization. And 25% of the economy was transformed in six months. And we're not calling for six months, we're saying 15 years. That's about what we've got. And probably all that we've got.”

Knows Years Whole Economy Months Calling Six Transformed Pearls Six Months Harbors Mobilization

Author:Jill Stein

“I learned more in those six months [ in the White House] than in the prior six years. I don't think that anybody who has had the privilege to serve the country at that level should walk out and behave like a crybaby. And I plan to continue to serve the country in other capacities.”

Thinking Should Years Country House White Walks Levels Plans Months Six Capacity Privilege Behave White House Six Months Crybabies

Author:Van Jones

“In March 2011 I'm trying to decide on a sermon series that I will preach in January 2012. So, I'm about six months out.”

Trying Months Six Series March Six Months Sermons January

Author:Max Lucado

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