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“I was a barefoot earth child for a couple of years.”

Years Children Earth Couple Barefoot

Author:Isabel Lucas

“Growing up in Huntington Beach, you were either a traditional sports athlete, a skateboarder, or a surfer. I got my first skateboard when I was five and skated off and on over the years, did a little BMX racing as a kid, and then in my freshman or sophomore year I started getting a little bit more into skateboarding.”

“I wanted to be looked at for the skateboarder that I was. I didn't want to be the 36-year-old skateboarder who's still holding on while owning a company at the same time. I wanted to make my mark and travel and accomplish a few things here and there and then get out.”

Want Years Stills Wanted Company Mark Accomplish Holding On Here And There Skateboarder

Author:Jason Lee

“I'm such a fangirl when it comes to other writers. I read 250 books a year, and I'm always talking up books by other authors.”

Years Book Talking Fangirl

Author:Jen Lancaster

“The first time I saw 'Sunset Boulevard' I was probably eight or nine years old, and it really struck me how it's so simply put and elegant, yet there's so much going on.”

Years Firsts Saws First Time Eight Nine Sunset Elegant Nine Years Boulevard Sunset Boulevard

Author:Jennifer Lynch

“I would like all my friends, followers, fans and fellow travelers to know that I am fighting cancer and will therefore be taking a break from performing while getting the treatment and cure. I shall of course be continuing to write music - in my world it just has to be part of the therapy - and I fully expect to be back in good shape next year.”

“I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I was carrying around. I worked in a neuroscience lab as an undergraduate and then after, almost five years in total, but I realized I just wasn't good at science. I didn't have the discipline for it.”

Years Wanted Five Discipline Scientist I Realized Narrative Five Years Neuroscience Labs Undergraduate

Author:Jonah Lehrer

“I got my first job when I moved to Los Angeles. I worked at a coffee shop for five years and it was one of the best experiences I ever had. It was a bunch of actors covering shifts for each other and becoming great friends.”

Years Firsts Jobs Actors Five Becoming Moved Coffee Bunch Five Years Shops Los Angeles Covering Great Friend Coffee Shop Best Experiences Becoming Great

Author:Katie Leclerc

“My junior year, I was in a play at school and five days before opening night, I still didn't know my lines. Opening night was a disaster. I was so embarrassed. The director made me work backstage for the rest of the performance.”

Knows Years Made Stills Play School Night Lines Five Directors Performances Disaster Opening Embarrassed Juniors Junior Year Opening Night

Author:Katie Leclerc

“I want to live a good life and pay my taxes. 'The Killing' was a blessing. It was two wonderful years. But I had reached a point in my life, especially with a young son, that I was no longer willing to compromise my life for the sake of a paycheque. I was no longer willing to move where the tax credits are strong.”

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Author:Kristin Lehman

“Some of you may know my story: How for nineteen years, I worked as a manager for a tire plant in Alabama. And some of you may have lived a similar story: After nearly two decades of hard, proud work, I found out that I was making significantly less money than the men who were doing the same work as me.”

Knows Men Years May Two Hard Stories Found He Man Proud Plant Decades Managers Tire Alabama Nineteen

Author:Lilly Ledbetter

“I did a commercial when I was, like, 5 or 6 years old for... what was it called?... Cabbage Patch Kids! That was the first thing I ever did. Little bit embarrassing.”

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Author:Logan Lerman

“I started writing seriously when I was a teenager, around 14 years old.”

Writing Years Teenager

Author:Marie Lu

“A lot of people struggle in their younger years, and I think people can relate to that.”

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Author:Matthew Lewis

“I've been developing mobile for years before anybody else really thought it was that important.”

Years Important Developing Mobile

Author:Max Levchin

“I think I was, like, maybe frustrated for many years because I didn't try to direct. And since I made my movie I'm just like, 'It's great.”

Thinking Trying Years Made Direct Frustrated

Author:Melanie Laurent

“The perfect life would be to have an amazing part every year and to spend all my free time to just write.”

Writing Years Would Be Perfect Free Time Perfect Life

Author:Melanie Laurent

“I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year.”

Years Months Cold Seven Canada Freezing Seven Months

Author:Rachelle Lefevre

“Even Rod Woodson will tell you his best year he had as a professional was when he was 36 years old. If you think about why, you're much wiser.”

Ifs Thinking Years Wiser Best Year

Author:Ray Lewis

“I had a terrible motorcycle accident (in the 1970s), in San Francisco as matter of fact. Doing a picture called... oh, this is terrible. It's a very well-known film and I can't remember the name. That's what happens when you get older... I fell off a bridge in San Francisco and was laid up for two years.”

Years Wells I Can Two Matter Facts Happens Remember Film Names Known Terrible Accidents Bridges Two Years Well Known San Francisco Motorcycle Matter Of Fact

Author:William Lucking

“I generally play villains once every three or four years by choice because I get offered villainous roles a lot, because of the way I look and whatever. And I tend to avoid them because I think you can end up in a cul-de-sac of your own making if you're cast in that.”

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Author:Kevin McKidd

“I live in LA so I worry my kids aren't that connected to Britain, I suppose I don't want them to become American kids. We try to get back three or four times a year. When they go to school they speak with a British-American accent but when they come home to us they go back to their British accent, so I can deal with that.”

Want Trying Years Home Kids School Three Speak Worry Four Connected British Britain Coming Home Get Back Accents

Author:Kevin McKidd

“I've done movies that I've been advised not to do. 'Dog Soldiers,' the movie I did 11 years ago now, I remember my agent at the time was like, 'You shouldn't do that. It's a weird film about werewolves,' and it became a cult hit.”

Years Done Remember Film Dog Like You Years Ago Soldier Agents Cult Werewolf

Author:Kevin McKidd

“Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today as they ever were.”

Years Made Stills Play Today Comedy Charlie Chaplin Great Comedy

Author:Leonard Maltin

“The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd.”

Thinking Years Kind Persons Made Stills Lasts Film Absurd Repeats Walt

Author:Leonard Maltin

“Baldwin is sort of getting to be a bit funny. I don't know what happened, but a few years ago they suddenly went bankrupt and Gibson bought the whole outfit. Since then they haven't seemed to be doing an awfully good job of providing pianos.”

Knows Years Whole Jobs Bits Happened Havens Years Ago Piano Providing Good Job

Author:Marian McPartland

“I'm a Taurean, so I'm very passionate and determined and materialistic. Down the years, I've spent a lot of money and saved a bit of money and had a lot of fun.”

Years Fun Bits Passionate Determined Saved Lots Of Money Materialistic

Author:Martine McCutcheon

“I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day.”

World Want Writing Years Book Different Written Subtle Admiring

Book:Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader

Source: Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader

“It's phenomenally important to me that, if I'm going to be spending years on a project, I need to be interested in the whole thing. I'm not there to be on my own. And if I'm going to be with these people, I'd best be interested in their work.”

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Author:Mary McDonnell

“With BSG, sci-fi is the human experience taken beyond the envelope. When I first became involved with the project, I knew that I would be able to play a human being for many years, exploring and reflecting on issues that would impact people's lives.”

People Years Firsts Humans Play Would Be Able Human Beings Issues Taken Involved Projects Impact Sci Fi Exploring Human Experience Reflecting Envelopes Sci Fi Film

Author:Mary McDonnell

“Right after I graduated high school, I joined a sushi restaurant to learn how to make Japanese food. And then spent seven years. Then that time - that's enough. Then sushi restaurant - butchering fish and they make your body smell like fishy.”

Years Enough Body School High School Seven Fishes Smell Your Body Restaurants Seven Years Sushi Japanese Food Fishy

Author:Masaharu Morimoto

“I would hate not to do a play every couple of years. I think it's not me.”

Thinking Years Play Hate Couple

Author:Matthew Macfadyen

“I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of myself. I didn't feel like an actor anymore. That sounds silly, but when you're doing a play you're using different muscles, and it blew all the cobwebs away.”

Feels Years Different Ends Play Actors Bits Sound Five Four Sick Silly Muscles Five Years Drained Cobwebs

Author:Matthew Macfadyen

“The average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky.”

Ifs Years Long Five Lucky Band Average Five Years Life Span Average Life

Author:Mike McCready

“My life would have been different without Paul Stanley or Ace Frehley. They would have to be the greatest on my list as an influence to my life at 11 years old.”

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Author:Mike McCready

“It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.”

Years Country Constitution Independence Declaration Declaration Of Independence

Author:Mitch McConnell

“If I make two films in a year, they'll be different. This is my style - I can't have just one way.”

Ifs Way Years I Can Two Different Film Style One Way Just One

Author:Mohsen Makhmalbaf

“I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author!”

Years Kind Girl Century Crush Shy 19th Century

Author:Natalie Merchant

“Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking.”

Years Has Beens Past Ten Hundred Asking Management Indian Fifty

Book:Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire

Source: Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire

“On the contrary, if they are treated with justice and humanity, proper example and the advantages of education given them, the coming years will be as bright and prosperous to the unfortunate race as the past has been dark and painful.”

Ifs Years Has Beens Past Humanity Given Justice Dark Race Example Advantage Painful Contrary Treated Unfortunate Prosperous

Book:SERVING THE REPUBLIC

Source: SERVING THE REPUBLIC

“One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord with the law of God and man.”

Men Years Government Law Hundred Indian Accord Pilgrim Decree American Indian Enslavement Plymouth

Book:SERVING THE REPUBLIC

Source: SERVING THE REPUBLIC

“A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.”

Years Lasts Lost Dying Terrible Ten Seven Eight Closest Getting Old Terrible Things

Author:Norman MacCaig

“And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.”

Way Years Sometimes Helping Happens Lasts Passion Literature Particular Poet Great Passion

Author:Norman MacCaig

“I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.”

Years Literature American Poetry

Author:Norman MacCaig

“There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books.”

Ifs Feels Years Book Happens Happened Lucky Twenties

Author:Norman MacCaig

“I played a scene at the end of my first year, and that's how I was discovered.”

Years Firsts Ends Scene

Author:Olivier Martinez

“The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.”

People Knows Years Said Jobs Remember Danger Years Ago Thirty Forty Website Remember Something

Author:Patrick Macnee

“Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.”

Ifs Years House Talking Crime Changed England Prison Caught Homosexual

Author:Patrick Macnee

“Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated.”

Knows Writing Years Wells Five Lucky Brilliant Just One Screenplays

Author:Patrick Marber

“Whether you like it or not, the last few years I'd be the first one to tell you I haven't been the Pedro Martinez that I'm used to being.”

Years Firsts Lasts Used Havens You Like It

Author:Pedro Martinez