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“I'm kind of a manic exerciser. I'll like exercise for a week and be crazy, and then I won't do it for six months.”

Kind Week Crazy Months Exercise Six Six Months Being Crazy Manic

Author:Jane Lynch

“Cooking for six people every day is like having a cafe.”

People Six Cooking Cafes

Author:Linda McCartney

“I never had trouble getting an agent. I went out and got my first couple roles, and literally within six months I never had to have another job other than acting.”

Firsts Jobs Acting Roles Trouble Months Couple Six Agents Six Months

Author:Dean Norris

“I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.”

Trying Years America Parent Half Study Groups Six Excellent Permission Boston Scholarship Yale Consulting Half A Year

Author:Indra Nooyi

“I have writing songs on my own for about six years.”

Writing Years Song My Own Six Writing Songs

Author:Joanna Newsom

“When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.”

Years Film Actors Father Left Company Six Seven University Relief Waking Documentaries Seven Years Documentary Films

Author:Sam Neill

“We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.”

Long Brain Five Greater Six Logic Infinite Depth Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Dimensions Broads Inches Geometry Magnitude Ontology

Book:Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression

Source: Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression

“I say that the God who created the world in six days and who sent His son, and also his son himself, are not God, but that God is the one existing, incomparable good, the beginning of everything.”

World God Son Six Incomparable

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.”

May Play Whole Used Night Stuff Five Minutes Six Meetings Piano Weekend Schedules Downtime Weekdays

Author:Aaron Levie

“I sort of play golf because a lot of my friends are into it, but I'm awful - my handicap is about six or seven thousand.”

Play Thousand Six My Friends Golf Seven Awful Handicaps

Author:Dennis Lehane

“I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.”

Thinking Years Kind I Can Ends Seems Five Periods Six Years Ago Concrete Dead Ends

Author:James Laughlin

“I didn't really have the entire high school experience. I've been working since I was six years old, so I didn't go to the classic high school.”

Years School Six High School Classic Six Year Olds School Experience

Author:Thomas Ian Nicholas

“I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mandolin because it was the only instrument that would fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into the drums when I was six, and then I started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.”

Years Firsts Three Parent Four Fit Six Instruments Seven Guitar Eight Four Years Playing Guitar

Author:Chord Overstreet

“I'm really tall - almost six feet - and my features tend to be extreme, especially on TV.”

Feet Tvs Six Extremes Features Tall

Author:Missi Pyle

“I think there is a heritage which I’m proud of, which is a fight for democracy, a fight for social justice, a fight for freedom. My grandfather went to jail or exile six times in his life, fighting for his principles for democracy, or for his country. And my father twice.”

Thinking Country Fighting Father Social Justice Principles Democracy Proud Six Social Justice Jail Heritage Grandfather Exile My Grandfather Fighting For Freedom

Author:George Papandreou

“I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice. If my family and my country didn't have this history, I might be a professor somewhere today.”

Ifs Country Might Today Father Military Becoming Politician Six My Family Prison Professors Grandfather Dictatorship My Grandfather

Author:George Papandreou

“Yes, I have been studying piano since I was six. Classical, jazz, compositional, Broadway, everything. I just love it all.”

Has Beens Study Six Jazz Piano Broadway

Author:Janel Parrish

“I feel like movies, if there's any kind of budget whatsoever, there's so much sitting, and I really like to work. Otherwise my blood sugar just drops, you know, six hours sitting in a camper.”

Ifs Knows Feels Kind Hours Blood Six Sitting Budgets Sugar Blood Sugar Campers

Author:Mary-Louise Parker

“I lived on couches for something like six months. I had no home. I was totally broke. I would stay at a friend's house for two weeks, then move because I didn't want to become this permanent mooch.”

Want Two Home Moving House Week Months Six Broke Permanent Six Months Couches Two Weeks

Author:Sean Parker

“Every time I get on an airplane I have a routine. I cover the inside of my nostrils with anti-bacterial ointment. I'm popping Zicam like it's candy. And I drink, literally, from L.A. to New York, six bottles of water.”

Water New York Drink Six Bottles Routine Airplane Candy Popping

Author:Zachary Quinto

“I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little stick men with little speech bubbles, and I'd have a spy story, a space story and a football story.”

Men Littles Stories Age Space Half Break Cutting Written Football Speech Paper Six Pages Sticks Seven Edges Eight Squares Bubbles Sheets Spy Folds

Author:Ian Rankin

“My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough money to live on, and was beginning to think I'd have to give up the dream of being a full-time writer.”

Thinking Giving Firsts Book Enough Dream Half Novel Five Giving Up Six Dozen Publishers Turned Down

Author:Ian Rankin

“I'm a theater actress. I love rehearsal. I could have six weeks of rehearsal and think it's not enough. But on film, you don't get that luxury.”

Thinking Enough Film Week Six Theater Actresses Luxury Rehearsal

Author:Kelly Reilly

“I make good money: One speech nets me more than what most people make in six months.”

People Months Speech Six Six Months Good Money

Author:Alain Robert

“By 21, I was earning six figures a week. By 23, I had a Ferrari. It was nuts.”

Week Figures Six Nuts Earning Ferrari

Author:Michael J. Fox

“The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot.”

People Shows Together Form Night Five Player Six Theater Tables Dinner Every Night Ensemble Dinner Table

Author:Michael J. Fox

“And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea what I saw, all I know is that I left the theater floating six feet above the ground.”

Knows Ideas Film Left Saws Happened Feet Six Theater No Idea Cinema Twins Floating Craziest Twin Peaks

Author:Jacques Rivette

“When I was a kid of six or seven, I used to get up on the stove woodpile for a stage and I'd put on the wildest show.”

Shows Kids Used Stage Six Seven Get Up Stoves

Author:Jerry Reed

“I've just been more interested in doing film right now and I don't want to go away from my family for six months, which was what I would have had to have done if I did the play on Broadway.”

Ifs Want Done Play Film Months Right Now Six My Family Going Away Broadway Six Months Want To Go Away

Author:Mark Ruffalo

“Hollywood, that whole industry, is a lot like a really small town. You bump into the same people all the time. I think Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon can be played with anyone and everyone in Hollywood.”

People Thinking Whole Industry Degrees Six Hollywood Towns Small Town Bumps Kevin

Author:Gabourey Sidibe

“I don't really remember the day we lost our home in the floods, but looking back I can understand how devastating it was for my parents. I was only six, so I remember us having to move to Adelaide - but not much of the actual day and night of the flood. We had to start all over again and my parents opened a café.”

I Can Home Remember Moving Night Lost Parent Six Flood Looking Back Day And Night Cafes Adelaide

Author:Samantha Stosur

“I could wake up six in the morning, go downstairs and record. I learned how to use ProTools and everything. Whenever I felt it, I could record.”

Use Felt Morning Records Six Wake Up

Author:Beanie Sigel

“You know, that's kind of the thing, I can't freestyle and I used to always wonder why I couldn't, and when I would try once out of every six months, but I was always a great writer!”

Knows Trying Kind I Can Used Wonder Months Six Six Months Great Writers Freestyle

Author:Bubba Sparxxx

“Even from a really young age I was a huge movie buff - five, six, seven, eight. Just loved movies, but in a more in-depth way than most kids that loved movies at that time. I'd find a filmmaker or something and want to see all his movies.”

Way Want Kids Age Young Five Huge Six Depth Seven Eight Filmmaker Young Age

Author:Danny Strong

“I took six months off, finished high school, and hung out with friends.”

School Months Six High School Finished Hung Six Months

Author:Devon Sawa

“And I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations. It could be that it would take me 12 more books at six years each to get it - which means I would have to live to be 126. Which I fully intend to do, of course.”

Knows Writing Years Mean Book Courses Given Six Aspiration Take Me Accommodate

Author:George Saunders

“Yes. That's exactly what I'm saying and I've been saying this for six months.”

Values Months Six Conservative Six Months Conservative Values

Author:Mike Lee

“He should release the tax returns tomorrow. It's crazy. You've got to release six, eight, ten years back tax returns. Take the hit for a day or two. He has to give a big speech in defense of capitalism, and that will elevate, I think, this race above this tactical back and forth, which I do think he's on the margin of losing.”

Thinking Giving Should Years Two Bigs Race Crazy Return Tomorrow Republican Ten Taxes Speech Six Losing Capitalism Eight Defense Release Back And Forth Margins Tactical Tax Returns

Author:William Kristol

“The male or female that the child has the most exposure to in the first four to six years of its life is the primary imprinter of the child.”

Years Firsts Children Life Is Four Awareness Buddhism Six Female Males Primaries Exposure

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There were some super-lean years, yeah. I'm six feet four. And I entered into this period all of a sudden when I was too big to play a kid and I was too young to play an adult. Like, I couldn't play the lawyer, but I couldn't play the high school kid anymore.”

Years Play Bigs Kids School Young Four Feet Periods Six High School Adults Yeah Lawyer

Author:Jason Segel

“But as soon as I joined 'Six Feet Under', I felt like I was finally doing something again that the fans really loved, and I could stop being afraid of 'Clueless' fans!”

Felt Feet Fans Six Being Afraid Clueless Six Feet Under

Author:Jeremy Sisto

“I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.”

Sound Higher Six Singing Notes Range

Author:Nancy Sinatra

“I wish I could spend six years writing one novel.”

Writing Years Wish Novel Six

Author:Paullina Simons

“I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now.”

Years Book Young Written Havens Six Adults Young Adult Goosebumps

Author:R. L. Stine

“I was ballet dancing at four, playing piano by six, and doing commercials by 12. When I was 21, I was on the number one live comedy show in Puerto Rico. I told my parents, 'I'm going to New York to become a performer.' And I left.”

Shows Left Parent Numbers Comedy Four New York Six Dancing Piano Performers Ballet Puerto Rico Rico Comedy Shows Playing Piano Ballet Dancing

Author:Roselyn Sanchez

“Fame sweeps you away. I had to go home every six months to remember who I am.”

Home Remember Months Fame Six Who I Am Six Months

Author:Sissy Spacek

“In the past we couldn't talk to non-union workers. Now we can at least talk to non-union workers so we'll be mobilizing them and educating them not for just six or eight months before an election, but we'll be doing it year-round.”

Years Past Months Six Election Unions Workers Rounds Eight

Author:Richard Trumka

“It's been a dream for me since I was six years old to go to the Olympic Games and to finally have that dream realised is something massive for me.”

Years Dream Games Six Massive Realised Olympic Games Six Year Olds

Author:Natalie du Toit

“I get like six or so hours of sleep a night.”

Night Hours Sleep Six

Author:James Franco

“My Soul to Keep is the ultimate love story with a black man and a black woman. I call it the ultimate love story. It's about an immortal. We're shooting for this Fall and that's been a six year development right there.”

Men Years Soul Stories Fall Black Development Six Ultimate Love Story My Soul Shooting Immortal Black Women Ultimate Love

Author:Blair Underwood