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“I did a play I think my first six months on the show, called Bullpen. Then I got involved with Theater Forty and did this play called Plastic which is about two male models coming to a casting call.”

Thinking Firsts Two Play Shows Months Involved Six Models Theater Males Forty Plastic Six Months Casting

Author:Austin Peck

“I'd love to have my own TV show, in the way that Julianna Margulies has 'The Good Wife,' or a lovely ensemble show, like 'Six Feet Under.'”

Way Shows My Own Wife Feet Tvs Six Lovely Tv Shows Ensemble Good Wife Six Feet Under

Author:Lara Pulver

“I've lived in California for six years and I've never surfed.”

Years Six California

Author:Bill Skarsgard

“To the artist, the Book of Genesis is an account of six days in which God suggested some really good ideas.”

Book Ideas Artist Religion Six Accounts Good Ideas Genesis Book Of Genesis

Author:Robert Breault

“When a man is small, he loves and hates food with a ferocity which soon dims. At six years old his very bowels will heave when such a dish as creamed carrots or cold tapioca appear before him.”

Men Years Hate Cold Six Dishes Love And Hate Carrots Six Year Olds Bowels Ferocity

Book:The Art of Eating

Source: The Art of Eating

“I have divers times examined the same matter (human semen) from a healthy man... not from a sick man... nor spoiled by keeping... for a long time and not liquefied after the lapse of some time... but immediately after ejaculation before six beats of the pulse had intervened; and I have seen so great a number of living animalcules... in it, that sometimes more than a thousand were moving about in an amount of material the size of a grain of sand... I saw this vast number of animalcules not all through the semen, but only in the liquid matter adhering to the thicker part.”

“You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.”

Reason Six Height Extras Inches Cheerfulness

Author:Stephen Fry

“I always feel like the less I think of stage presence, the better, because then I have to face the fact that I have really complicated guitar parts, I'm singing almost all the time, and I have like six pedals I've got to keep on top of”

Thinking Feels Facts Faces Stage Six Singing Guitar Complicated Pedals Stage Presence

Author:J. Robbins

“Last time Congress passed a major six-year transportation bill was in 1997, since then there have been 21 short-term extensions.”

Years Has Beens Lasts Term Six Majors Bills Congress Last Time Extensions Short Term Transportation

Author:Ray LaHood

“There is a big risk for the Republicans in a race, especially with Hillary Clinton as a likely Democratic nominee in a contest that will focus on the possibility of the first woman president to be six months suspending up the nomination of a black woman, who is imminently qualified.”

Firsts Bigs Black President Race Focus Risk Possibility Months Republican Six Democratic Clinton Contests Black Women Six Months Qualified Nominations

Author:Barack Obama

“You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.”

Film Five Six Direct Seven

Author:Stephen Fry

“I went through about six or seven painting methods just to see what I didn't want to do. And then I got off the wall, and went into the environment.”

Want Environment Painting Wall Six Method Seven Off The Wall

Author:Agnes Denes

“Sometimes an idea from six years ago will come to me out of the blue. And maybe I haven't even seen the lyrics I wrote down, but I'll just have this physical memory of having written it, and in my mind I can see the piece of paper, and the words I wrote down, and then by muscle memory, I'll remember the chords that go along with it.”

Years Mind I Can Ideas Sometimes Remember Memories Pieces Written Havens Paper Six Years Ago Down And Blue Muscles Chords Muscle Memory

Author:Ryan Adams

“I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old.”

Years Six Decided Tables Rate Lowest Six Year Olds

Author:Warren Buffett

“You learn how to be an individual quick after 15 schools, man. After the first five or six, you realize you're always gonna be the new kid.”

Men Firsts Kids School Individual Realizing Five Six

Author:Yelawolf

“Conductor, when you receive a fare, Punch in the presence of the passenjare. A blue trip slip for an eight-cent fare, A buff trip slip for a six-cent fare, A pink trip slip for a three-cent fare, Punch in the presence of the passenjare! Punch, brothers! punch with care! Punch in the presence of the passenjare!”

Care Three Brother Six Blue Eight Nonsense Slips Cents Conductor

Book:Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews

Source: Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews

“A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.”

Ifs Wells May Persons Self Literature Thousand Six Accounts Seven Biographies

Author:Virginia Woolf

“Shakespeare never had six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion.”

May Doe Together Lines Six Faults Seven Assertion

Book:Johnson on Shakespeare: Essays and Notes

Source: Johnson on Shakespeare: Essays and Notes

“We are the same people as we were at three, six, ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so, perhaps, at six or seven, because we were not pretending so much then.”

People Years Three Ten Six Twenties Seven Pretending Self Knowledge

Author:Agatha Christie

“When I got to the hospice I was under the impression it would be a two- or three-week stay. But here I still am, six weeks later, and I've gotten so well Medicare won't pay for me anymore.”

Wells Stills Two Would Be Three Pay Week Health Six Impression Medicare Hospice

Author:Art Buchwald

“If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.”

Ifs Giving Firsts Book Law Months Six Six Months

Author:Bertrand Russell

“How tall are you big boy? Six foot nine inches! Let's go up to my place and talk about the nine inches!”

Bigs Boys Feet Six Nine Tall Inches

Author:Mae West

“I'm six foot eleven. My birthday covers three days.”

Three Feet Birth Six Eleven My Birthday

Author:Darryl Dawkins

“I've had three wives, six children and six grandchildren and I still don't understand women”

Children Stills Three Wife Six Grandchildren

Book:The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon

Source: The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon

“A thousand goodbyes come after death - the first six months of bereavement.”

Firsts Dying Months Thousand Six Goodbye Death And Dying Six Months Bereavement After Death

Author:Allan Gregg

“Let us consider what we call vicious luxury. No gratification, however sensual, can of itself be esteemed vicious. A gratification is only vicious when it engrosses all a man's expense, and leaves no ability for such acts of duty and generosity as are required by his situation and fortune. The same care and toil that raise a dish of peas at Christmas would give bread to a whole family during six months.”

Men Giving Whole Care Ability Situation Duty Months Six Raises Fortune Bread Luxury Sensual Generosity Expenses Dishes Toil Vicious Six Months Gratification Whole Family Peas

Book:Selected essays

Source: Selected essays

“A human body is associated with six stages of transformation, birth, growth, change, evolution, death and destruction.”

Humans Body Growth Stage Evolution Birth Six Destruction Transformation Human Body

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Even today, if the Royals win six games all year, if they're going to go 6-156, I hope they beat the Yankees six times.”

Ifs Years Today Games Winning Six Beats Royal Yankees

Author:George Brett

“By the time you get to year six, there's never a break . . . and you get tired. There's always a crisis. It wears you down. This has been a White House that hasn't really had much change at all. There is a fatigue factor that builds up. You sometimes don't see the crisis approaching. You're not as on guard as you once were.”

Years Has Beens Sometimes House White Break Six Crisis Tired Factors White House Fatigue

Author:Ed Rollins

“Luck is always waiting for something to turn up. Labor, with keen eyes and strong will, always turns up something. Luck lies in bed and wishes the postman will bring news of a legacy. Labor turns out at six o'clock and with busy pen or ringing hammer, lays the foundation of a competence. Luck whines. Labor whistles. Luck relies on chance, labor on character.”

“We're in an era where the demand is for immediate hits that are destined to become obsolescent. Six months later, everyone forgets the artist and the tune. It's become like a con job. Producers, engineers, lawyers and accountants all make money, but the artists don't.”

Jobs Artist Forget Money Months Demand Six Lawyer Producers Eras Making Money Tunes Engineers Destined Six Months Accountants

Author:Tony Bennett

“The benefits of becoming fluent in a foreign tongue are as underestimated as the difficulty is overestimated. Thousands of theoretical linguists will disagree, but I know from research and personal experimentation with more than a dozen languages that (1) adults can learn languages much faster than children when constant 9-5 work is removed and that (2) it is possible to become conversationally fluent in any language in six months or less. At four hours per day, six months can be whittled down to less than three months.”

“It takes between three and six hours to make each snowball, depending on snow quality. Wet snow is quick to work with but also quick to thaw, which can lead to a tense journey to the cold store.”

Artist Three Hours Quality Journey Cold Six Stores Snow Wet Tense Snowball

Book:Midsummer Snowballs

Source: Midsummer Snowballs

“When I was six all I could think about was ding-dongs and yo-yos.”

Thinking Six

Author:Aaron Paul

“Invest in yourself. It's like being a boxer, you've got to be in training so that when the bell rings, you get your direction you come out of the corner and you're *ready*. Do not let the audition be the first thing you've done in six months.”

Firsts Done Ready Months Six Training Corners Rings Bells Auditions Six Months Boxers Invest In Yourself

Author:Karl Urban

“The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit.”

Way Littles Able Lost Difficult Months Habit Six Coaches Accents Embarrassed Six Months Dialect Dialect Coach

Author:Martin Henderson

“Women are really demanding more flexibility in the workplace. Control is the new currency.. Forty-six percent of women want to start their own small businesses.”

Want Six Percent Forty Currency Workplace Flexibility Small Business Women Want

Author:Celinda Lake

“Six Flags has to be a destination, but it's got to be a place that you want to go to every single summer and you don't want to go just for a roller coaster or a new ride. We have to sell the experience and sell the image: clean, safe, friendly and fun. The parks are not necessarily all of those attributes, but they will be.”

Want Fun Safe Six Summer Sells Clean Parks Friendly Destination Attributes Flags Roller Coaster Coasters

Author:Mark Shapiro

“Summer is the sweet spot of the movie-going season -- and it's also peak season for Six Flags theme parks.”

Sweet Six Summer Seasons Spots Parks Theme Flags Theme Parks

Author:Mark Shapiro

“In 2006, the number of children in targeted school choice programs nationwide will reach six digits for the first time, representing a 40 percent increase in the number of children in targeted school choice programs and an even bigger increase in the amount of public funding.”

Firsts Children School Choices Numbers Amount Six Percent First Time Program Bigger Increase Funding Representing School Choice

Author:Clint Bolick

“Work - get paid; don't work - don't get paid. Everybody is on commission, .. Try not coming to work for six weeks. Work gets paid; don't work, don't get paid. When they earn those dollars, and when you're 4, and you clean up your room, it really means mom cleaned up the room and you did two toys. When you're 14, it means you cleaned up your room. But still, we got the money caused by work, and then, we have teachable moments on how to handle the money they earn.”

Trying Mean Stills Two Moments Rooms Week Mom Six Paid Dollars Clean Handle Toys Really Mean Cleanliness Your Room Teachable Teachable Moments

Author:Dave Ramsey

“It might be a move in six months. But I'll make up my mind. I'll have a look at where I've been and where I want to go and I'll continue in that way.”

Way Want Mind Looks Might Moving Months Six Six Months

Author:Duncan Fletcher

“Presidents by six years have been there long enough for the media and the country to see their flaws.”

Years Long Has Beens Country Enough President Media Six Flaws

Author:Robert Dallek

“Since the age of six I have had the habit of sketching forms of objects. Although from about fifty I have often published my pictorial works, before the seventieth year none is worthy.”

Years Age Form Objects Habit Six Worthy Fifty Dissatisfaction Sketching Pictorial

Book:Day and Night in the Four Seasons: Sketches by Hokusai, 1760-1849

Source: Day and Night in the Four Seasons: Sketches by Hokusai, 1760-1849

“The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity.”

Girl Voice Beauty Sweet Speech Six Chastity Great Gifts Needlework

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.”

Ideas Helping Wanted Values Parent Class Figures College Months Six Saving No Idea Expensive Help Me Working Class Six Months Savings Tuition Stanford Going To College College Tuition

Author:Steve Jobs

“I'm having a bad day. I am not size six. My legs are not skinny as sticks, and dammit, someone's got to pay. I'm afraid that I can't satisfy myself and that my happiness depends on someone else. I feel weak, so you're gonna take the fall. You're so shallow.”

Feels I Can Feelings Fall Pay Depends Sad Six Weak Sticks Size Legs Shallow Skinny Bad Day Glitter Having A Bad Day

Author:Jewel

“Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.”

Has Beens Politics Millions Power Revolution Six Hundred Europe Empires Great Empires

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Osama bin Laden... lived in one house for, like, six years with three wives. And earlier today, they ruled his death was a suicide.”

Years Today Three House Wife Six Suicide Bin Laden Osama Bin Laden

Author:David Letterman

“I've made six or seven good films. The others, not so good.”

Made Film Six Seven Good Films

Author:Errol Flynn

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