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“You don't look for jobs. You don't phone up 10 clubs and say, Here I am. You are offered the job. I was in Benfica many years ago. I was leaving the training ground and I had a car after me. It went on for 10 minutes. Anyhow, he stopped and I stopped and he said, I'm from the Italian embassy. Ah yes, and what do you want? I want your phone number because Roma wants you as a manager next season. Three months later I was sitting on the bench in Roma. I don't think the rest of working society works like football.”

“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.”

“I've tried the female thing. I was in a movie called Dinner for Schmucks a couple of years ago with Steve Carell and I created a female character for that movie. And after a few months of trying her out on the road it just didn't work. I mean, I can think like a terrorist, I can think like a white trash guy, I can even try and think like an African American, but I can't figure out how a woman.”

Thinking Trying Years Mean I Can Character Guy White Figures Months Couple Female Years Ago Dinner Terrorist African American Trash Female Characters White Trash Schmucks

Author:Jeff Dunham

“My sister Tiffany told me years ago, 'You can never write about me.' Then she called six months ago and said she wanted to be in a story. She was worried people thought I didn't like her.”

People Writing Years Said Stories Wanted Months Six Years Ago Worried My Sister Six Months Like Her

Author:David Sedaris

“Moments ago, the U.S. Senate decided to do the unthinkable about gun violence - nothing at all. Over two years ago, when I was shot point-blank in the head, the U.S. Senate chose to do nothing. Four months ago, 20 first-graders lost their lives in a brutal attack on their school, and the U.S. Senate chose to do nothing. It's clear to me that if members of the U.S. Senate refuse to change the laws to reduce gun violence, then we need to change the members of the U.S. Senate.”

“I remember my sense of shock some half-dozen years ago when I read a recommendation to sell shares of a company ... The recommendation was not based on any long-term fundamentals. Rather, it was that over the next six months the funds could be employed more profitably elsewhere.”

Years Long Remember Next Term Half Company Share Months Six Years Ago Fundamentals Sells Investing Long Term Shock Fund Dozen Elsewhere Employed Six Months Recommendations

Author:Philip Arthur Fisher

“The things men come to eat when they are alone are, I suppose, not much stranger than the men themselves.... A writer years ago told me of living for five months on hen mash.”

Men Years Five He Man Months Solitude Eating Years Ago Stranger Hens

Book:The Art of Eating

Source: The Art of Eating

“I don't think that has ever changed. I don't think I see any more or any less than I did years ago. Let's say I have the print of a photo taken in the 1960s and one I took a month ago. I think it's pretty difficult to tell any difference, personally.”

Thinking Years Difficult Differences Taken Changed Months Years Ago Print 1960s

Author:William Eggleston

“Fifty years ago people believed, accurately, that they were entitled to seek the blue bird, whereas today they believe, mistakenly, that they're entitled to find it and take it home, in a complimentary cage with a month's supply of birdseed....Those who think they've a right to catch whatever they are free to chase, are doomed to disappointment. That's our generation in a nutshell.”

People Thinking Years Believe Home Today Generations Months Bird Years Ago Blue Disappointment Fifty Entitled Doomed Cages Our Generation

Author:George Jonas

“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

“Few years ago I did a movie, Good Kill, about drone pilots and for four or five months I'm obsessed with the Air Force.”

Years Force Five Four Air Months Years Ago Obsessed Pilots Air Force Drones

Author:Ethan Hawke

“Well, one thing that has changed is the number of people killed by terrorists in Pakistan. Civilians killed has gone down really quite dramatically. There was a newspaper article here about a month ago that got big headlines which said that civilian deaths from terrorism were down something like 80 percent or 90 percent from their peak of two or three years ago.”

People Years Wells Said Two Bigs Three Numbers Gone One Thing Changed Months Percent Years Ago Terrorism Terrorist Newspapers Articles Three Years Pakistan Civilians Headlines Civilian Deaths

Author:Mohsin Hamid

“I went to yoga for six months straight, but that was about five years ago! I've been trying to get back. I probably could've seen the President five times, it'd be easier than it has been to get back to yoga!”

Trying Years Has Beens President Five Months Easier Six Yoga Years Ago Five Years Get Back Six Months

Author:Mike Ness

“Maybe 20 years ago, there would be an event every few months or so, maybe once a year. Now, it just seems like every week there are things happening that remind us that Bible prophecy is being fulfilled and Christ is coming. Having said that, I think that should produce in the Christians, an urgency to share their faith.”

Thinking Should Years Said Seems Would Be Christian Christ Week Share Events Produce Months Happenings Years Ago Things Happen Fulfilled Prophecy Urgency Bible Prophecy

Author:Greg Laurie

“My career has been a slow burn, so waiting to do the Edinburgh Festival was a smart move. If I'd spent a month there 10-15 years ago, there's no way anyone was gonna remember me.”

Ifs Way Years Has Beens Remember Moving Waiting Careers Months Smart Years Ago Festivals Remember Me Edinburgh

Author:Bill Burr

“There's nothing new. I think that's the weird thing for me. Over the last couple of months, the keep-fit shows, and then at the end of it you get to lose weight and one of you is going to win a million dollars - that's not real. In many ways, even 10 years ago that wouldn't have worked.”

Thinking Way Years Real Ends Shows Lasts Winning Loses Millions Months Couple Fit Years Ago Weight Dollars Million Dollars Lose Weight Weird Things Nothing New

Author:Gordon Ramsay

“Twenty years ago if you provided someone with horrible service, it may take weeks or even months for the word-of-mouth message to get out to 15-20 potential customers. Today, with social media, thousands of potential customers can learn about horrible service within hours, minutes or even seconds after it happens.”

Ifs Years May Happens Today Social Hours Week Minutes Media Months Messages Mouths Years Ago Twenties Social Media Customers Horrible Seconds Word Of Mouth

Author:Bill Capodagli

“I can tell you one thing, Iran is closer to developing nuclear weapons today than it was a week ago, or a month ago or a year ago. It's just moving on with its efforts.”

Years I Can Today Moving Effort One Thing Week Months Weapons Years Ago Nuclear Developing Moving On Iran Nuclear Weapons Moved On

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“Three years ago, this week, a newly elected President Obama faced the American people and he said, look, if I can't turn this economy around in three years, I'll be looking at a one-term proposition, and we're here to collect! You know the results. It's been 35 months of unemployment above 8 percent.”

People Ifs Knows Years Looks Said I Can Turns Three President Term Results Economy Week Months Percent Years Ago President Obama Three Years Unemployment Propositions

Author:Mitt Romney

“When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity.”

Years Real Felt Months Terrible Activity Six Years Ago Odd Relief Six Months Physical Activity

Author:James Taylor

“Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians. They met upon the third Wednesday of every month and read each other long, dull papers upon the history of English magic.”

Years Long Cities Magic Months Mets Paper Years Ago Thirds Dull Papers Magician Wednesday

Book:Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

Source: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

“Waiting required a future to wait for: a falsehood. I know now that there is only now. I remember things that happened months (or what is years?) ago: old -worn-out nows. The future happens, but it is always shaped from a series of nows.”

Knows Years Happens Remember Waiting Happened Months Years Ago Series Falsehood Worn Worn Out

Author:Kij Johnson

“But what if your obsession has nothing to do with drugs or thrills or money? What if what you want most in the world is to recapture the way life was a week, a month, a year ago-and you are willing to do whatever it takes?”

Ifs World Way Want Years Week Willing Months Drug Years Ago What You Want Obsession What If Whatever It Takes

Book:Perfect Match

Source: Perfect Match

“Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, "Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.”

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.”

People Thinking Inspirational Years Looks Kind Remember Mother Father Grows Change Taken Wise Nice Months Photography Years Ago Remains Photograph Thought Provoking Be Kind Old You

Author:Albert Einstein

“One of the saddest realities is that we never know when our lives are at their peak. Only after it is over and we have some kind of perspective do we realize how good we had it a day, a month, five years ago.”

Knows Years Kind Reality Realizing Five Our Lives Perspective Months Years Ago Five Years Saddest

Author:Jonathan Carroll

“Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches the present, one is filled with a sense of hopelessness; in a year and possibly even a month, there is now more economic comment in the supposedly serious literature than survives from the whole of the thousand years commonly denominated as the Middle Ages ... anyone who claims to be familiar with it all is a confessing liar.' I believe that all physicists would subscribe to the same sentiments regarding their own professional literature. I do at any rate.”

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