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“I'm used to adapting my novels for feature film - it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred pages into two hours of dramatic action.”

Two Action Film Used Three Hours Challenges Novel Four Cutting Pages Hundred Features Dramatic Adapting

Author:Tom Perrotta

“I'm very stodgy. I'm always looking at old photos of California and Los Angeles, knowing that what I'm looking at is now full of houses. There used to be vacant lots in Los Angeles, now all taken up by three-storey boxes - it's all getting infilled.”

Used Three House Knowing Taken Boxes Used To Be California Los Angeles Vacant

Author:Edward Ruscha

“When I was 14 I used to have a calendar on my wall, crossing the days off until I was 15, because the school leaving age was 15. Then three months before I turned 15 they changed the leaving age to 16.”

Age School Used Three Changed Wall Months Leaving Crossings Calendars Three Months Days Off

Author:Mark E. Smith

“Redistribution depends on three things, amnesia,meaning you don't remember the murderous paths of these beliefs. Envy, you hate the successful in the present and used, people who have nothing to earn yet.”

People Remember Used Hate Three Belief Path Successful Depends Envy Three Things Amnesia

Author:Jedediah Bila

“The old process of social assimilation used to be mainly about English new money - generated in London, the mucky, brassy North or the colonies - buying those houses and restoring them, and doing the three-generation thing, mouldering into the landscape, and the 'community,' identifying with the place in a familiar way.”

Way Used Three House Social Process Community Generations London Familiar Used To Be Landscape Buying Colony Assimilation Identifying Restoring Three Generations

Author:Peter York

“He (Cato) used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was that he had trusted a woman with a secret; the second that he had gone by sea when he might have gone by land; and the third, that had passed one day without having a will by him.”

Firsts Might Used Three Secret Gone Sea Land One Day Thirds Repentance Trusted Three Things Cato

Book:Lives, Translated from the Original Greek: With Notes, Historical and Critical; and a Life of Plutarch

Source: Lives, Translated from the Original Greek: With Notes, Historical and Critical; and a Life of Plutarch

“I arrived at my hut in Beverly Hills just in time to keep real estate men from plotting off and selling my front yard. They will sell you anything or anybody's in the world as long as they can get a first payment... It used to be only Iowa that was out here but now they have three or four adjoining states interested and they are here, too. Real estate agents - you never saw as many in your life; they are as thick as bootleggers.”

Men World Firsts Long Real States Used Three Saws Four Fronts Sells Selling Used To Be Agents Hills Thick Estates Yards Payment Iowa Huts Beverly Hills Estate Agents Too Real

Author:Will Rogers

“If a chieftain or a man leave his house, garden, and field and hires it out, and some one else takes possession of his house, garden, and field and uses it for three years; if the first owner return and claims his house, garden, and field, it shall not be given to him, but he who has taken possession of it and used it shall continue to use it.”

Ifs Men Years Firsts Use Used Three House Given Taken Fields Return Garden Claims Possession Owners Three Years

Author:Hammurabi

“I've weaned myself down to about, on a great day, on a really great day, three cigarettes. For a nicotine junkie the essential cigs are three: the first-of-the-day cigarette smoked after lunch, the after-dinner cigarette and then the one taken whenever you want - the luxury-wild-card smoke. It used to be quite a bit more. It used to be, I'd smoke the table. I'd smoke the patch. I'd smoke the gum. So I feel good about it.”

“You have to remember, Frank Sinatra is 82 years old, which is 240 in your years. He's lived three lifetimes! He has good and bad days. He can't run ... around as fast as he used to.”

Years Running Remember Used Three Lifetime Explanation Frank Good And Bad Bad Day Good And Bad Days

Author:Tom Dreesen

“In 1983, NASA invited Canada to fly three payload specialists, in part because we had contributed the robotic arm that is used on the shuttle.”

Hands Used Three Arms Canada Invited Robotics Nasa Specialists

Author:Marc Garneau

“I used to play Barbies with my Mormon neighbor friend; it was always, "Oh, we're going to go on a date. Ken's taking us out, and we're going with Ken on a date." And I was like, "We're parachuting behind enemy lines to save the Jews." That's how I played Barbies. I was told when I was a girl that every Jewish woman has to have five children to replace three fifths of our people that were killed. That's how I was raised.”

People Children Play Used Girl Three Lines Behinds Enemy Five Goes On Raised Jew Neighbor Barbie Neighbors Friends

Author:Roseanne Barr

“My father died when I was two years old. But my mother was quite capable. She raised three children with his war pension which was peanuts. Yet we did not want for anything. We grew up with a certain parsimony, which is a nice thing. Then if life gives you more good, otherwise you get used to. I'm still thrifty.”

“Arsenal haven't won anything for three years, so they're used to success”

Years Used Three Havens Three Years Arsenal

Author:Glenn Hoddle

“A long time ago, in a town with which I used to be familiarly acquainted, there dwelt an elderly person of grim aspect, known by the name and title of Doctor Grimshawe, whose household consisted of a remarkably pretty and vivacious boy, and a perfect rosebud of a girl, two or three years younger than he, and an old maid of all work, of strangely mixed breed, crusty in temper and wonderfully sluttish in attire.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)

“Mom used to say that having three boys was kind of like having a pet tornado that talked back.”

Kind Used Three Boys Mom Pet Tornadoes

Book:Champion: A Legend Novel

Source: Champion: A Legend Novel

“People are not used to seeing an older woman on screen, unless she's playing a character role. Why can't they make a movie about a woman who's forty-five who's falling in love or getting divorced? Why does the leading role always have to be a woman who's twenty-three or twenty-eight?”

People Doe Character Used Fall Three Roles Five Seeing Twenties Falling In Love Eight Screens Forty Divorced Older Women

Author:Melanie Griffith

“My mum always used to say to me that, out of her three boys, 'Chris, you were the girl!' I'd speak to her about far more things (than my brothers would) and far more things than she needed to hear about, too. I was a chatty kid.”

Kids Used Girl Three Speak Boys Brother Needed My Brother Mum

Author:Chris Hemsworth

“We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don't want to spend two or three years on a whole new set of events. You're used to doing well and it's difficult to give that up.”

Ifs Want Giving Years Wells Long Two Whole Used Three Difficult Events These Days Instant Three Years Crave Jumpers Sprinters

Author:Daley Thompson

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