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“everyone who is human has something to express. Try not expressing yourself for twenty-four hours and see what happens. You will nearly burst. You will want to write a long letter, or draw a picture, or sing, or make a dress or a garden.”

Want Writing Trying Humans Long Happens Humanity Hours Four Communication Draws Garden Letters Twenties Dresses Express Yourself

Book:If You Want to Write

Source: If You Want to Write

“I build duets into bigger works. I like to see people working together. What we call a giant solo in my company is about four bars long while twenty other people are doing something dynamically. I like the charge that is set up by a lot of people doing something.”

People Long Together Company Four Bigger Twenties Bars Giants Working Together Solo Duets

Author:Mark Morris

“Indeed, as we begin the twenty-first century, the money and traditional economies are slowly destroying their own support system. Increasing demands of the two economies are surpassing the sustainable yields of the ecosystems that underpin them. For example, one-third of the world's cropland is losing topsoil at a rate that is undermining its long-term productivity, fully half of the world's rangeland is overgrazed and deteriorating into desert, and the world's forests have shrunk by about half since the dawn of agriculture and are continuing to shrink.”

“I was tired of an outlaw's life. I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known a day of perfect peace. It was one long, anxious, inexorable, eternal vigil. When I slept it was literally in the midst of an arsenal. If I heard dogs bark more fiercely than usual, or the feet of horses in a greater volume of sound than usual, I stood to arms. Have you any idea of what a man must endure who leads such a life? No, you cannot. No one can unless he lives it for himself.”

“I didn't cry at my father's funeral, and I felt guilty about that. Of course, he got sick not too long after he and I had had that final altercation, and I felt real guilty because of that, too. Then years later, one day, I was probably in my late twenties, early thirties, and I just broke down crying, because I finally got my father.”

Years Long Real Courses Father Felt Cry One Day Late Sick Twenties Finals Guilty Broke Funeral Late Twenties

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“How long did it take me to delimit this art? Twenty years! ... It was a laborious process, but a methodical and rational one; gradually the hesitations were ironed out, but not all of a sudden.”

Years Long Art Process Twenties Rational Take Me Hesitation Methodical

Author:Joaquin Sorolla

“So here you are, in your twenties, thinking that you'll have another 40 years to go. Four decades in which to live long and prosper.Bad news. Read the papers. There are people dropping dead when they're 50, 40, 30 years old. Or quite possibly just after finishing their convocation. They would be very disappointed that they didn't meet their life expectancy.I'm here to tell you this. Forget about your life expectancy.”

People Thinking Years Long Would Be Forget Four Paper News Twenties Decades Disappointed Papers Dropping Finishing Bad News Expectancy Life Expectancy Convocation

Author:Adrian Tan

“I do hope some of my work has a long lifetime. A piece that works out well this year may work out very well in twenty years' time as well, but I'm very much thinking about what's the right piece now, at this moment.”

Thinking Years Wells May Long Moments Pieces Twenties Lifetime Work Out Immortality Long Life

Author:Judith Weir

“I stopped acting when I was about nineteen, twenty, when I got thrown out of college. I did act for about ten years. I don't know. I suspect I'm still a reasonably good actor, but I don't really know that I want to get on the stage again ... and having to say all those boring words by me over and over again ... I don't know if I want to do that. Also, I like a certain amount of freedom of movement, and if you're acting, you're stuck in one place for a long time. Having said that, I will probably be onstage next fall.”

Source: Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee

“So you play your albums and you smoke your pot And you meet your girlfriend in the parking lot Oh, but still you're aching for the things you haven't got, What went wrong? And if you can't understand why your world is so dead And why you've got to keep in style and feed your head Well, you're twenty one and still you mother makes your bed And that's too long.”

Ifs World Wells Long Stills Play Mother Style Havens Bed Twenties Albums Smoke Girlfriend Pot Twenty One Parking Parking Lot Your Girlfriend

Author:Billy Joel

“In Moscow, dim and green under the summer rain, columns of armour were waiting in the side-roads off the long avenue from Vnukovo airport. Tanks from the Taman Division stood beneath the dripping trees around Moscow University with their field kitchens and command trucks. This was not a new sight to me: the Soviet tanks had rested like that beneath the trees of the parks in Prague, late in another August twenty-three years before. Now they had invaded and crushed one more country -- their own.”

“I have served the Liberal cause for twenty-two years. That ought to be long enough for anyones lifetime.”

Years Long Two Enough Causes Ought Twenties Lifetime Two Years Twenty Two

Book:Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage

Source: Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage

“That's a big responsibility, and the details obsess me. And, also, I no longer feel I have to do the Tonight Show every time I open my mouth. Twenty years ago, I told myself I'd rather direct than act, and it's taken me this long. You lose your passion in acting. You make too many mistakes. Maybe that's why I make so many movies; if you don't like this one, another one's opening on Tuesday. But then I spent six months of my life on 'At Long Last Love,' a picture nobody saw. I enjoyed making it, I learned from it, I grew, but that's too much time out of my life.”

“Writers brought up in Africa have many advantages - being at the center of a modern battlefield; part of a society in rapid, dramatic change. But in a long run it can also be a handicap: to wake up every morning with one's eyes on a fresh evidence of inhumanity; to be reminded twenty times a day of injustice, and always the same brand of it, can be limiting.”

Source: This Was the Old Chief’s Country: Collected African Stories Volume One

“What the altar-bound of today end up buying from their numberless vendors is a dog's breakfast of bridal excess - part society wedding of the twenties, part Long Island Italian wedding of the fifties. It's The Philadelphia Story and The Wedding Singer served up together in one curious and costly buffet.”

Long Ends Stories Today Together Dog Twenties Bounds Singers Curious Islands Buying Breakfast Italian Excess Altars Philadelphia Buffets Long Island Vendors Bridal

Author:Caitlin Flanagan

“It is also possible, I believe, if one lives in India long enough, to come across a globe-trotter who is modest and teachable, but we have been out here only twenty-two years, and I am going home without having seen one.”

Ifs Years Believe Long Has Beens Two Enough Home I Believe Travel India Twenties Two Years Globes Modest Going Home Twenty Two Teachable

Author:Sara Jeannette Duncan

“At twenty-eight I'd had a handful of beaux, but had only been in love once, and that had been awful enough to make me doubt men and myself for a good long while.”

Men Long Enough Doubt Twenties Eight Awful Handful Been In Love Good Long Doubt Me

Book:The Paris Wife: A Novel

Source: The Paris Wife: A Novel

“What's weird is when you meet a girl who is 23 and you are talking to her, even her voice is high-pitched, she's young. You ask her how old she is, she says, 'Twenty-three, how old are you?' and when I tell her I'm 41 it's like I've just told her I have cancer. It's, 'Oh my God, how long have you had that?'”

Long Young Girl Three Asks Voice Talking Twenties Cancer

Author:Jamie Foxx

“In these long-standing conflicts, I find that most cases it gets resolved in about twenty minutes after each side can tell me the needs of the other.”

Needs Long Sides Cases Minutes Communication Conflict Standing Twenties Nonviolent Communication

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“Legends grow beards, and twenty-three years is plenty of time to grow a long one.”

Years Long Three Grows Twenties Plenty Legends Three Years Beard

Book:The Dark Tower Boxed Set

Source: The Dark Tower Boxed Set

“Twenty years is, after all, a long time. We are not the same people we were. Old friends, lovers, even family members: they are strangers who happen to wear a familiar face. We have no right to claim to know anyone after such a distance.”

People Knows Years Long Happens Faces Lovers Members Long Time Claims Twenties Distance Stranger Familiar Old Friends Family Members Familiar Faces

Book:Some Kind of Fairy Tale

Source: Some Kind of Fairy Tale

“Most people can stay excited for two or three months. A few people can stay excited for two or three years. But a winner will stay excited for twenty or thirty years...or as long as it takes to win.”

People Years Long Two Three Winning Months Twenties Excited Winner Thirty Three Years Thirty Years Three Months

Author:Arthur L. Williams, Jr.

“If you go to an ATM for a hundred dollars and it keeps spitting twenties, when would you walk away? When it wasn't spitting twenties no more. As long as you can take the money out, you'd stay there. That's what the wrestling business is like.”

Ifs Long Walks Hundred Twenties Dollars Wrestling Atm

Author:Kevin Nash

“To those who have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated, some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel or some slight endearment. Esteem of great powers, or amiable qualities newly discovered may embroider a day or a week, but a friendship of twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life.”

Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

“So long as State constitutions say that all may vote when twenty-one, save idiots, lunatics, convicts and women, you are brought down politically to the level of those others disfranchised.”

May Long States Levels Vote Constitution Twenties Idiot Twenty One Suffrage Convicts Woman Suffrage

Author:Susan B. Anthony

“My grandmother's feet had been bound when she was two years old. Her mother...first wound a piece of white cloth about twenty feet long round her feet, bending all the toes except the big toe inward and under the sole. Then she placed a large stone on top to crush the arch.”

Years Firsts Long Two Bigs Mother White Pieces Feet Stones Twenties Bounds Rounds China Wounds Crush Grandmother Two Years Sole Inward Toes My Grandmother Arches Bending Two Year Olds

Author:Jung Chang

“People I know who succeed don't mind working. Those who are competent seem to like doing things well -- not stopping because they haven't accomplished what they wanted to on the first go-round. They're willing to do it twenty times, if necessary. There's an illusion that the good people can easily do something, and it's not necessarily true. They're just determined to do it right. I was impressed by hearing one of the women at Radcliffe talk about writing a poem, how many revisions a single poem sometimes has to go through -- fifty or sixty revisions to come out with a poem sixteen lines long.”

“A child should be allowed to take as long as she needs for knowing everything about herself, which is the same as learning to be herself. Even twenty-five years if necessary, or even forever. And it wouldn't matter if doing things got delayed, because nothing is really important but being oneself.”

Ifs Needs Should Years Children Long Important Matter Forever Knowing Five Twenties Oneself Five Years Twenty Five Delayed Knowing Everything

Author:Laura Riding

“I think about what I wish I had known when I was a teen and tween. I struggled with a lot of insecurity and self-doubt as a young girl and the side-effects of that were long lasting, well into my late twenties.”

Thinking Wells Long Self Young Girl Wish Sides Known Doubt Effects Late Twenties Insecurity Lasting Self-doubt Side Effects Long Lasting Tweens Late Twenties

Author:Deborah Reber

“In the beginning of my twenties, I started transcendental meditation. For years I did nothing else. Every holiday I went to courses. Meditation is a real simple instrument. You don't need a long beard or a sari. It's meant to bring you to yourself. It's as easy as that. And that's what it's all about, being alone with yourself every day, for 20 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes in the evening.”

Needs Years Long Real Courses Easy Simple Morning Meditation Minutes Twenties Instruments Evening Holiday Beard Transcendental Transcendental Meditation Sari

Author:Peter Lindbergh

“I had made a list of about ten things that I remembered from the original 'Total Recall' before I went back and watched. It had been about twenty years. I wanted to write it out before I watched it again. And I felt if those things stayed with me long enough, those are the things that I wanted to highlight.”

Ifs Writing Years Long Made Enough Wanted Felt Ten Twenties Originals Lists Remembered Recalls Highlights Total Recall

Author:Len Wiseman

“In your twenties, I think you should have all of the sex that you're inclined to have, as long as you're safe about it. Use condoms and everything. Go with your instincts. This is the time to have a lot of sex and do drugs. But make sure you live through it.”

Thinking Should Long Use Sex Drug Safe Should Have Twenties Instinct Condom

Author:Sarah Silverman

“As soon as any one is near me, his personality disturbs my self-complacency and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin to hate the best of men: one because he's too long over his dinner; another because he has a cold and keeps on blowing his nose. I become hostile to people the moment they come close to me. But it has always happened that the more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.”

Source: The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)

“You can't count on notoriety lasting very long, and there's no way to predict whether anyone will care about your books or you in three years, let alone ten or twenty.”

Way Years Long Book Care Three Ten Twenties Lasting Three Years Notoriety

Author:Dan Chaon

“Songwriting is never one thing. I've spent as long as three months writing a song. Other times I've done it in twenty minutes.”

Writing Long Done Song Three One Thing Minutes Months Twenties Songwriting Three Months

Author:Greg Lake

“It's gotten to the point where I think my friends would rather hang out with their own kids than hang out with me. And I'm like, "Alright, but where's the loyalty, man. I've known you for twenty-five years. How long have you known your baby, like, a month?"”

Thinking Men Years Long Kids Known Five Baby Months My Friends Twenties Loyalty Five Years Hanging Out Alright Twenty Five

Author:Arj Barker

“On the pilgrim's path each man must become Moses, going on a vision quest to some mountaintop and returning with the ten or twenty commandments that he holds sacred. So long as we obey or break the rules that have been set up for us by the Giants - Parents and other Authorities - we remain good or bad children. Growing into the fullness of our humanity means that we become co-authors of the rules by which we will agree to have our lives judged.”

Men Mean Children Long Has Beens Humanity Parent Vision Break Path Our Lives Growing Ten Authority Twenties Agree Sacred Giants Judged Quests Commandments Fullness Moses Pilgrim Growing Children

Author:Sam Keen

“Twenty-five years is a long time for a girl to live out of a trunk, and after looking over a few houses, I fell in love with one in Southwest Los Angeles.”

Years Long Girl House Five Long Time Twenties Five Years Los Angeles Twenty Five Trunks

Author:Ethel Waters

“The Sexual Revolution offered us women this deal: you can particiapate in higher education and the labor market, as long as you agree to chemically neuter yourselves during your twenties, and endure expensive, humiliating, and possibly dangerous infertility treatment during your thirties and forties.”

Long Deals Dangerous Revolution Higher Labor Twenties Agree Endure Expensive Treatment Forty Higher Education Humiliating Infertility Sexual Revolution

Author:Jennifer Morse

“Seances is an internet project where I intended to adapt at least a hundred and maybe three hundred lost films into ten and twenty minute long fragmentary versions. We then uploaded them to an internet archive that fragmented them even more. We treated them like shreds of lost movie spirits and allowed these spirits to interrupt each other in non-consecutive collisions that formed new movies.”

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Author:Guy Maddin

“I still play but for some reason, I am having so much fun playing guitar and singing that I don't really miss it because I've done it for so long like twenty-something years with Motley.”

Years Long Stills Reason Done Play Fun Missing Singing Twenties Guitar Playing Guitar Twenty Somethings

Author:Tommy Lee

“I floundered in my twenties. Though I wore a long scarf. And when I got to be thirty I got a job at Temple University in Philadelphia. I worked there for seven years, and I finally got fired, mostly for political reasons.”

Years Long Reason Jobs Political Twenties Seven University Thirty Temples Seven Years Philadelphia Scarves

Author:Gerald Stern

“Every snotty egotistical teenager thinks they're smarter than the world they crawled out of. It didn't take me so long to grow out of that. I think I was only in my early twenties when I realized I was just relying on received ideas.”

Thinking World Long Ideas Grows Twenties I Realized Teenager Take Me Smarter Egotistical

Author:Matthew Specktor

“We went to a remote Panda Base which was insane because inside there were several cribs which held about twenty baby pandas. They were all different sizes and they were all lying there in a long row. It was so cute, I could hardly stand it. I wanted to take them all home with me.”

Long Different Home Wanted Lying Baby Twenties Size Insane Cute Pandas

Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson

“Going through a divorce after twenty-five years of marriage was the most difficult time for me. It was challenging to reorient my life from being centered around family, a family home, and a long-term relationship.”

Years Long Home Difficult Term Challenges Five Twenties Divorce Long Term Five Years Difficult Times Twenty Five Long Term Relationship Going Through Divorce Family Home Years Of Marriage

Author:Tim Matheson

“I always feel more grounded and stable when I have balance in my life; I'm a Libra! I'm most often surrounded by people, so what I usually crave is time alone. If I can have even a twenty-minute walk or swim and another twenty quiet minutes to myself at night, I can be much more giving all day long.”

People Ifs Giving Feels Long I Can Night Walks Minutes Balance Quiet Twenties Swim Stable Grounded Crave Me Alone Alone Time

Author:Laura Regan

“When you're in your twenties you always think that 30 is a long ways off, and maybe you'll have things in line when you hit that number - maybe own a house or be married.”

Thinking Way Long House Lines Numbers Married Twenties Long Way Being Married

Author:Hamilton Leithauser

“Leading a band and producing yourself and picking cool tunes and putting a show together takes a lot of thought, and a certain amount of courage. In my early twenties, if I wasn't getting good enough at it, then people would not come and see me. Anybody who has lasted this long - I hope we get better with age.”

People Ifs Long Enough Shows Age Together Certain Amount Band Twenties Get Better Tunes Good Enough

Author:Bonnie Raitt

“I am not responsible for creating an opposition, neither am I responsible for appointing my own successor. My job is to allow for the opposition to exist within what the realms of the law. There is space in Rwanda for political parties - if fact we have about a dozen of them - as long as their objective is not to take us back twenty two years. On that point, we are and will always be very vigilant.”

Ifs Years Long Two Facts Jobs Law Political My Own Space Party Creating Twenties Responsible Objectives Realms Opposition Two Years Dozen Political Parties Vigilant Successors Rwanda Twenty Two

Author:Paul Kagame

“Television is what we call the long form of storytelling, where we tell stories over thirteen, twenty-two, or twenty-four hours. Miniseries is an eight-hour form of storytelling, and film is a two-hour form. Each and every one of them are important to me, because they're a different modality of storytelling.”

Long Two Important Different Stories Film Form Hours Four Television Twenties Eight Storytelling Thirteen Twenty Two

Author:Grant Bowler