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“Movie actors disappear - any young person wouldn't know Cary Grant. They're going to disappear. Fifty years ago, you thought film was here to stay. But nothing is here to stay, actually - except perhaps paintings and drawings.”

Knows Years Persons Film Young Actors Painting Years Ago Disappear Drawing Fifty Grants Movie Actors Painting And Drawing

Author:David Hockney

“I simply can't understand the stereotyping women as film makers who make soppy family dramas. Look at Katherine Bigelow: she has directed Point Break and Strange Days. I hate labels of any kind. Just because you are a woman you can't do this or that? Twenty years ago women entering the work force was enough of a shock. People just like the predictable; they feel safe with it. You know, it's such a bore”

“It's amazing to know that 5 years ago I was writing songs in a basement in the ghetto and now I'm writing for Michael Jackson. I'd be a fool not to say it's a dream come true.”

Knows Writing Years Dream Song Fool Years Ago Dreams Come True Ghetto Writing Songs Basements

Author:R. Kelly

“I don't sleep with a violin in my bed, but there is something very magical about the instrument. You open up the case; it's a masterpiece, it's gorgeous, the varnish is still there from 300 years ago. People who know violins, they look at it and it's almost like a face.”

People Knows Years Looks Stills Faces Sleep Cases Bed Years Ago Instruments Masterpiece Gorgeous Violin

Author:Joshua Bell

“It's funny, everywhere I go some people ask me whether it's going to be a Latino breakthrough, some people ask me whether it's going to be a female breakthrough, and then I'm reminded that five years ago we didn't even know Barack Obama's name.”

People Knows Years Asks Names Five Female Years Ago Barack Ask Me Five Years Breakthrough Latino

Author:Gwen Ifill

“You know we receive an education in the schools from books. All those books that people became educated from twenty-five years ago, are wrong now, and those that are good now, will be wrong again twenty-five years from now. So if they are wrong then, they are also wrong now, and the one who is educated from the wrong books is not educated, he is misled. All books that are written are wrong, the one who is not educated cannot write a book and the one who is educated, is really not educated but he is misled and the one who is misled cannot write a book which is correct.”

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Author:Edward Leedskalnin

“I think sometimes when people get older they start to limit themselves and think that if they wanted to start singing or they wanted to start playing guitar or if they wanted to, I don't know...become an archeologist - whatever it is, they think they just can't do it anymore because they've hit a certain age and I just think that's like putting yourself in jail. I realised a couple of years ago that the more that I did and made things and created things that I could love; it helped me to realise that I was actually loving myself and what came out of me.”

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Author:Theresa Wayman

“A few years ago, they [Neandertals] were thought to be ancestral to anatomically modern humans, but now we know that modern humans appeared at least 100,000 years ago, much before the disappearance of the Neandertals. Moreover, in caves in the Middle East, fossils of modern humans have been found dated 120,000-100,000 years ago, as well as Neandertals dated at 60,000 and 70,000 years ago, followed again by modern humans dated at 40,000 years ago. It is unclear whether the two forms repeatedly replaced one another by migration from other regions, or whether they coexisted in some areas”

Knows Years Humans Wells Has Beens Two Form Found Modern Middle Areas Years Ago East Regions Middle East Replaced Caves Fossils Migration Disappearance Unclear

Author:Francisco J. Ayala

“Many years ago, when I was once saying sadly to Max it was a pity I couldn't have taken up archaeology when I was a girl, so as to be more knowledgeable on the subject, he said, 'Don't you realize that at this moment you know more about prehistoric pottery than any woman in England?'”

Knows Years Said Moments Girl Realizing Taken Subjects Years Ago England Pity Max Knowledgeable Archaeology Pottery Prehistoric

Book:Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

Source: Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

“The happiest people I know are the ones that are still working. The saddest are the ones who are retired. Very few performers retire on their own. It's usually because no one wants them. Six years ago Sinatra announced his retirement. He's still working.”

People Knows Want Years Stills Six Years Ago Retirement Performers Retiring Retired Saddest

Author:George Burns

“My way of working was different years ago. I used to wait until an idea came to me. Now I go half-way to meet it, though I don't know whether I find it any the quicker.”

Knows Way Years Ideas Different Used Waiting Half Years Ago My Way Half Way

Author:Sigmund Freud

“It is hard to be with another's pain if we cannot be with our own. Since I was a child I have always felt a deep sense of responsibility to ease others' pain. But I have discovered that often, beneath this genuine and admirable desire, lies an inability to be with my own sorrow. Several years ago, watching a close friend suffer when a brain aneurysm took away her life as she knew it, I wrote in my journal, "I won't ask much. But if you would just let me save your life, perhaps it will not hurt so much to know I cannot save my own.”

“Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over-concern for money, or position, or glory, he said: 'Some day you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.'”

Source: Unfinished Business: Short Diversions on Religious Themes

“I've been very reluctant on the Twitter front. But I do Instagram now, so I'm slowly coming around. I'm quite a private person, so much of what I do for my job means that I have to be quite public so I'm just nervous about everything being public. I might turn around. Three years ago, I was against all social media but I actually really enjoy Instagram now. Who knows? I never say never!”

Knows Years Mean Persons Might Jobs Turns Three Social Enjoy Media Fronts Years Ago Social Media Nervous Three Years Instagram Reluctant Never Say Never

Author:Jeremy Irvine

“I also think within the scene, a specific scene - if I were to play a part that I played 10 years ago now, my interpretation of that scene would be totally different. I would be making different choices. Because I can't somehow subtract all of the experiences that I've had in my life. And it's fascinating to see, because somewhere I'm very reflective in that. You know, I've been playing basically actually close to 40 years old, so I'm somewhere lost in age in this movie. But it's been fascinating to see that I can't subtract that time.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Years I Can Different Play Would Be Age Choices Lost Scene Years Ago Fascinating Interpretation Because I Can Different Choices

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“People realize that we're very good at sending people to war, but we're not good at taking care of them. And people are coming back from war now; years ago, they would have been killed, now they're wounded; and they're coming back alive and with post-traumatic stress. So, I think Americans are sensible enough to know we've got to figure out a way to take care of them.”

People Thinking Knows Way Years Has Beens War Enough Care Realizing Alive Figures Years Ago Stress Very Good Take Care Posts Sensible Wounded Coming Back

Author:Anna Deavere Smith

“I need to know if she [Sarah Palin] thinks dinosaurs were here four thousand years ago... because she's going to have the nuclear code.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Needs Years Four Thousand Years Ago Nuclear Code Thousand Years Dinosaurs Palin

Author:Matt Damon

“It was tough getting fired by the NBA. I really didn't know where I was going, until [ESPN] called me. I said, "Hey, 'ESPN?' Never heard of it. It sounds like a disease." Now I have that same disease as a sports fanatic. All this sports madness we didn't have years ago, now I'm very blessed and fortunate to be part of it.”

Knows Years Said Sports Sound Heard Disease Tough Years Ago Madness Blessed Hey Fortunate Nba Fanatics Sports Fan Espn Getting Fired

Author:Dick Vitale

“There is no normal. What my job was a few years ago was completely different than what it is today. As soon as I have it dialed in, the company changes and the team changes and my role changes as a result. What the company needs is always evolving, and I don't get to choose what I want to do as much as I thought I would be now - which is OK. It keeps me in this position of learning new things and keeping me humble. There is always something I don't know, and I'm comfortable with that.”

Knows Want Needs Years Different Would Be Today Jobs Results Company Roles Team Position Normal Comfortable Years Ago Humble Evolve New Things Learning New Learning New Things

Author:Sophia Amoruso

“I never know what my next move will be in Hollywood. It's such an unpredictable town. People get jaded and lost and I've been able to stay a float. I think the next logical step in my career would be to start my own filmmaking empire like (Harvey Weinstein) and (Bob Weinstein) did so many years ago. I think if only the unions weren't so strict in Boston, I'd set up shop there and make films of a certain quality you don't see represented these days. I'm full of ideas and dreams.”

“The old rule in Massachusetts politics is shape of the field determines the winner. If you have got a whole bunch of hawks, all the way from [Mike] Huckabee all the way across to [Chris]Christie, that covers the spectrum on every other issue, all hawks, all hawks, and one guy out there saying, not me, Jimmy Carter won that way back in `76. I know it`s 1,000 years ago.”

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Author:Chris Matthews

“I remember when I read Walter, for example, six years ago now, I said, "This is the role for me." I said that to my family. There was something there that I knew was absolutely right, and that was just based on the character. That's when gut instinct comes into play. I know there are certain things I won't do.”

Knows Years Said Play Character Remember Certain Roles Example Six Years Ago My Family Instinct Guts Remember When Gut Instinct

Author:John Noble

“I remember a few years ago I was sitting at home with my wife watching the Oscars. I was sitting on the couch and suddenly heard my voice. It's thrilling. It's interesting that a lot of guys do me. I have a friend who does me on his answering machine so when I call him I talk to myself. I don't really know what that comes from. It doesn't seem to me that I speak in a strange way. My wife says Kevin's (Spacey) the best.”

Knows Way Years Doe Home Seems Remember Guy Speak Voice Interesting Wife Heard Strange Sitting Years Ago Machines My Wife Oscars Thrilling Couches Kevin Answering Machines

Author:Christopher Walken

“It`s difficult to judge people from 100 years ago by today`s standards. But I go back into the early middle part of the 19th century also. The know-nothings were a Protestant movement, and they rejected Catholics and didn`t want Catholics brought into America.”

People Knows Want Years Today America Difficult Middle Century Movement Judging Standards Years Ago Catholic Rejected Protestants 19th Century

Author:Steve King

“I chose to be a photographer twenty-two years ago, but I don't know that I'd make that choice again. Back in the early eighties, I still thought I was doing okay, trying to order and shape the world with my camera. Now that I know a bit more about living and dying, about our planet and its complex problems, I'm a lot less comfortable with my images of people. Still, I haven't a clue what else to do.”

“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

“It was at Harvard not quite forty years ago that I went into an anechoic [totally silent] chamber not expecting in that silent room to hear two sounds: one high, my nervous system in operation, one low, my blood in circulation. The reason I did not expect to hear those two sounds was that they were set into vibration without any intention on my part. That experience gave my life direction, the exploration of nonintention. No one else was doing that. I would do it for us. I did not know immediately what I was doing, nor, after all these years, have I found out much. I compose music.”

Knows Years Two Reason Found Sound Rooms Blood Lows Years Ago Intention Silent Nervous Operations Forty Exploration Expecting Chamber Vibrations Harvard Nervous System Circulation Life Direction

Author:John Cage

“My brother died of cancer two years ago (1998), renal cell carcinoma. He was my only real brother and I didn't know what to do. I'd never been so desperate in my life.”

Knows Years Two Real Brother Years Ago Died Cancer Cells My Brother Desperate Two Years Two Years Ago Brother Died My Brother Died

Author:Quincy Jones

“I don't know if there was really ever a golden age of the music business. Most of what was released has always been garbage and some has been able to get through and last. I don't know that it was much better thirty years ago. The music industry just wasn't as efficient. The music industry was more oddball guys who did it for fun and now they are huge corporations that have become more structured.”

Ifs Knows Years Has Beens Age Able Lasts Guy Fun Huge Industry Years Ago Golden Corporations Thirty Efficient Garbage Music Business Thirty Years Music Industry Golden Age Oddballs

Author:Adam Schlesinger

“I've been making Bass Communion music longer than any kind of other music. I don't know if you picked up a copy of a vinyl release I put out a couple of years ago of something called Altamont.”

Ifs Knows Years Kind Couple Years Ago Release Copies Communion Bass Vinyl

Author:Steven Wilson

“I've been making music for thirty-six years and, you know, I'm still just as in love with working on music now as I was thirty-six years ago.”

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Author:Moby

“Rhyme as an echo not a closing off of sound. Love it. I don't know where the rhymes came from. Or the puns like "no/know" and so on. Just a way my mind start moving toward what seemed urgent to it. I'd like to claim complete rational intent for it all, but it wasn't that way. if you asked me about rhyme thirty years ago, I'd have said: not me, never. And now I done it.”

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Author:Gregory Orr

“I do talk and think a lot about the legacy before me. I feel like if I didn't know that people had been in Montgomery sixty years ago trying to do similar things that I'm trying to do, with a lot less, with fewer resources, with less security, with less encouragement, with less opportunity - if I didn't know that, then I think doing what I do would be much, much harder.”

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Author:Bryan Stevenson

“I don't know if there is an existing model that anyone can hold on to right now. Every [piece of] advice about how to go about in the record business you would get 5 years ago is no longer valid. Everything is changing very rapidly and there is an increased sense of anger and despair among artists that are not major-selling megastars.”

Ifs Knows Years Artist Records Pieces Advice Right Now Despair Majors Models Years Ago Selling

Author:Olof Arnalds

“I have had a few rough patches in my life, but these last few years have been among the roughest. A few years ago, I left my job as host of the television show Extra. Our parting of ways was completely amicable; they were amazing to me. I had spent over a quarter of my life at that job, and without it, I felt like I had lost my compass. People didn't know how to introduce me anymore, because in L.A., you are your job.”

People Knows Way Years Has Beens Shows Jobs Lasts Lost Left Felt Know How Television Years Ago Extras Rough Host Quarters Introducing Compass Patches Parting Television Shows Rough Patches

Author:Dayna Devon

“He [Erdogan] has crept up to the edge talking about mistakes by pilots. But he also knows that with leaders like himself and Vladimir Putin, apologies may not be the answer. Just look at Israel. Prime Minister Netanyahu apologized years ago to Erdogan over this incident off the coast of Gaza in which Turkish people died onboard an aid ship. And only just now is that relationship at least in talks to be improved.”

People Knows Years Looks May Answers Mistake Talking Leader Years Ago Died Edges Israel Aids Ships Ministers Prime Pilots Apology Coast Prime Minister Incidents Putin Gaza Turkish Erdogan

Author:Peter Kenyon

“And it totally has transformed my relationship with someone like, say, Bach. You know, Bach is born 330 years ago but, you know, gosh, he really is alive.”

Knows Years Born Alive Years Ago Transformed

Author:Mahan Esfahani

“And, there are negatives and positives to it. Like, you know, just like a marriage, where you're like, "Well, this... you know, is the sex still as exciting as it was two years ago?"”

Knows Years Wells Stills Two Sex Like You Years Ago Exciting Two Years Two Years Ago

Author:Mark Duplass

“It's something we do every week. Every week kind of has bigger name headliners. It's all just our taste. There's a lot of people like Ian Edwards or Dan Mintz who a lot of people haven't heard of yet, but we know are really great. When we started the show five years ago it wasn't because Patton Oswalt needs another place to play. It was because we had a lot of new friends like BJ Novak or Morgan Murphy, who didn't have any club to play.”

People Knows Needs Years Kind Play Shows Names Five Heard Week Havens Taste Years Ago Bigger Clubs Five Years Really Great New Friends Murphy

Author:B. J. Porter

“I'm very realistic about the challenges we face. OK? I have seen it up close in 2010. It's why I ran for the Senate five years ago. I have only been there five years, but it's been enough time to know the damage Barack Obama has done to this country.”

Knows Years Country Done Enough Faces Challenges Five Years Ago Barack Ran Damage Five Years Realistic Senate Enough Time Challenges We Face

Author:Marco Rubio

“I've been doing it since I was prepubescent when I loved to scratch records and play good music. As it happens, you know I sort of fell into the mix. I really feel like I played a role in bringing dance music to America years ago.”

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Author:A-Trak

“A lot of times I go to the gym and I see people and they don't know how to work out. There's no routine or anything like that. I saw a guy who I haven't seen in five years and the guy looks the same as he did five years ago.”

People Knows Years Looks Guy Know How Five Saws Havens Years Ago Work Out Five Years Gym Routine

Author:Andre Reed

“I was speaking on the radio in South Texas [in 2016], and I was speaking to Hispanics, and I said 'You know, you probably vote Democrat because your parents always voted Democrat, and your grandparents always voted Democrat, but let me tell you something. Thirty years ago in Texas, there were two parties - liberal Democrats and conservative Democrats. Looking at your principles, your values as Hispanics, in all probability your parents were conservative Democrats. The conservative Democrats of 30 years ago are Republicans today!'”

Knows Years Said Two Today Values Parent Party Principles Republican Years Ago Vote Let Me Democrat South Conservative Radio Thirty Texas Grandparent Probability Thirty Years

Author:Rafael Cruz

“We know the Church wasn't born 200 years ago. It's encouraging to see some of the post-denominational churches actually wanting to reconnect with the story and the prayer life of the larger Church.”

Knows Years Stories Born Church Prayer Years Ago Posts Prayer Life

Author:Shane Claiborne

“This is many, many years ago. It was shortly after "Starman" I think. I don't know how close I was to getting the part. I met with [director] Penny Marshall and that's one that I knew would be a hit. It just felt hit-ish. But it's like you go to a store and you see a jacket and you go "I love that jacket" and you try it on and it's too big or too small for you and it's the only one they have. For some reason that part just didn't fit me.”

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Author:Jeff Bridges

“Being a woman in 2016 if very different, imagine being a woman 20 years ago, and when we talk about consent, maybe 20 years from now we'll know things about consent and examine it from a different perspective than we are now.”

Ifs Knows Years Different Imagine Perspective Years Ago Consent Being A Woman Different Perspective

Author:Nate Parker

“I did a pilot for Judd Apatow when I was 20 years old, so 18 years ago. The same year that he did that pilot, he made another pilot called Freaks And Geeks.Judd felt bad for me because I was living in L.A. by myself. Not only did he put me in an episode of Freaks And Geeks, but he was like, "Hey, just come hang out. I'm on set, getting to know everybody." I started hanging with everybody, and they were all either my age or a little younger. Seth and I just got along really well - Jason Segel and I, too - and before you know it, it was a really strong, solid group of friends.”

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Author:David Krumholtz

“It is very difficult to enter a single currency zone having fairly weak economic parameters and maintain a favourable state of the economy, not to mention positive growth rates. We have witnessed it not only in Europe, but for example in Argentina (nearly 10 years ago or more), when they tied the national currency to the dollar and later they did not know what to do about it.”

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Author:Vladimir Putin

“I was just thinking of Rush. I went to see Rush a few years ago, because my record label guy in the States really wanted to go. We had crazy good seats. It was fascinating watching the crowd - mostly men - who were so moved by these really esoteric lyrics. I don't know Neil Peart's lyrics super well, but they're not that straightforward to me.”

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Author:Sarah Harmer

“About four years ago I made a list, for my own amusement, of the playwrights, the contemporary playwrights, by whom critics said I'd been influenced. I listed twenty-five. It included five playwrights whose work I didn't know, so I read these five playwrights and indeed now I suppose I can say I have been influenced by them. The problem is that the people who write these articles find the inevitable similarities of people writing in the same generation, in the same century, and on the same planet, and they put them together in a group.”

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