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“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 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

“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

“The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.”

Ifs Knows Years Looks Made Hard Hard Times Awkward Wince

Author:Jodie Foster

“My theory stands as firm as a rock; every arrow directed against it will return quickly to its archer. How do I know this? Because I have studied it from all sides for many years; because I have examined all objections which have ever been made against the infinite numbers; and above all because I have followed its roots, so to speak, to the first infallible cause of all created things.”

Knows Years Firsts Made Speak Causes Sides Numbers Rocks Theory Return Roots Logic Infinite Certainty Uncertainty Firm Reasoning Arrows Objections Infallible Ontology Archer

Author:Georg Cantor

“Growing up with three older brothers and being the youngest and the only girl, my mom always made me tough. She's taught me over the years how to be a strong, independent woman, how to carry yourself in a positive way and anything that my brothers can do, I can do.”

“From time to time I think I made some errors in judgment, but I have some really fashionable friends and I feel I've cultivated my own sense of style and what I feel comfortable with over the years.”

Thinking Feels Years Made My Own Style Comfortable Judgment Errors Fashionable

Author:Busy Philipps

“Well, I've been a professional racer for nine years. And if I could get it to pay me as much as acting, I'd give up all the rest in a second. Working in television, however, has made me accustomed to a certain lifestyle that I'd like to maintain.”

Ifs Giving Years Wells Made Certain Pay Acting Television Giving Up Lifestyle Nine If I Could Accustomed Nine Years Racers

Author:Jason Priestley

“I find that I've tried to become a better hockey player every year and not just hold on. At the same time, I've also made it a point to increase or grow in some other area of my life. If I were just playing hockey, I would probably be done with the sport.”

Ifs Years Made Done Grows Sports Player Areas Increase Made It Hockey Hockey Player Playing Hockey

Author:Angela Ruggiero

“My father worked in a post office and never made probably more than $8,000 a year as an employee of the post office, so when people can rise up from very modest circumstances and do well economically, I think that's a good thing about America, and we should encourage that kind of activity.”

People Thinking Should Years Wells Kind Made America Father Circumstances Activity Office Good Things Posts Employee Modest Post Office

Author:David Rubenstein

“I really feel like that concept of enjoying the now and not worrying about the future is what my coach has been trying to teach me for 14 years - and that is what has made me such a different athlete 10 years later, and that is what has made me strong enough mentally to make this Olympic team.”

Feels Trying Years Has Beens Made Different Enough Strong Enjoy Teach Worry Team Concepts Athlete Coaches Strong Enough Not Worrying

Author:Melanie Roach

“I think I had a particular moment when I was 15 years old. I read 'Crime and Punishment,' and that book just, I think, more than any other book made me want to be a writer, 'cause it was the first time that I hadn't just entered a book, but a book had entered me.”

Thinking Want Years Firsts Made Book Moments Causes Crime Particular First Time Punishment Crime And Punishment

Author:Ron Rash

“Well the Bombay film wasn't always like how it is now. It did have a local industry. There were realistic films made on local scenes. But it gradually changed over the years.”

Years Wells Made Film Changed Industry Scene Locals Realistic Bombay

Book:Satyajit Ray: Interviews

Source: Satyajit Ray: Interviews

“When I write something that would have made me laugh as a 10-year-old, or would have scared me or would have excited me, I know I'm onto something.”

Knows Writing Years Made Laughing Scared Excited

Author:Jonathan Stroud

“When I was young, I kept a diary for about 10 years and I had to write in it every day. Even on days when nothing seemed to happen, I made myself think of something to put in it.”

Thinking Writing Years Made Happens Young Diaries

Author:Jonathan Stroud

“People look at you and see that you've made it, but sometimes they forget that it took you years of being a human being.”

People Years Humans Looks Made Sometimes Human Beings Forget Made It

Author:Cristina Saralegui

“What you really remember at the beginning was that you have to throw a budget together. We made some terrible mistakes at the beginning in my own budget that took us at least a year to catch up on.”

Years Made Together Remember My Own Mistake Terrible Budgets

Author:Donna Shalala

“All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind.”

People World Years Made War Effort Progress Mankind Prosperity Convinced Preserves War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I Contributing Through The Years

Author:Eisaku Sato

“The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985 - the progress made by East Asian countries was phenomenal. In a single generation they had been able to transform the character of their economy. They were able to get rid of chronic poverty.”

Ifs Years Looks Made Country Character Able Lasts Poverty Economy Progress Generations Example Grew Percent East Indian Asian 1960s Phenomenal Asian Countries

Author:Manmohan Singh

“I did pose for 'Black and White' magazine, a prestigious, artistic publication, several years ago... I did this as a piece of art and make no apologies for the creative decisions I've made as an artist in my 20-year career.”

Years Art Made Artist Black White Decision Careers Creative Pieces Years Ago Magazines Artistic Apology Black And White Publication Prestigious

Author:Andrea Thompson

“I'm just into having fun, because I went through some bad years that really depressed me and made me angry.”

Years Made Fun Angry Having Fun Bad Years

Author:Sean Young

“Sometimes I'll be channel surfing or something, and I'll see a glimpse of something, and I'll quickly turn the sound down, and then what I look at, that's an interesting movie. But it's not me who made it. It's whoever that guy I was 10 years ago who made it.”

Years Looks Made Sometimes Guy Turns Sound Interesting Years Ago Down And Made It Glimpse Surfing That Guy

Author:Andrew Niccol

“My dad didn't graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year. My mom sold real estate and did it part time.”

Years Made Real School Mom Dad High School My Dad My Mom Graduates Estates Printing Salesman Part Time Graduating High School

Author:Al Franken

“When I was working at Teleflora, I got booked to do 'Talladega Nights,' so I went and did that. That was really my first big break ev-er. I made as much from my per diem during the three-month shoot as I did for the entire previous year.”

Years Firsts Made Bigs Night Three Break Months Three Months Previous Years

Author:Jack McBrayer

“We should be writing more great roles for women, period. Another problem is that movies are generally made for 14-year-old boys, and 14-year-old boys want to watch 25-year-old action heroes.”

Want Should Writing Years Made Problem Action Boys Roles Watches Hero Periods Action Heroes

Author:James Mangold

“One of the things I've really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are. Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.”

Way Years Made Ideas Lasts Past Couple Uncomfortable

Author:Aimee Mann

“Well, as you know, General Motors does not make hybrids. Ford only made 4,000 hybrids last year.”

Knows Years Wells Doe Made Lasts Last Year Motor Hybrid General Motors

Author:Ed Markey

“As the Nazi regime developed over the years, the whole structure of decision-making was changed. At first there were laws. Then there were decrees implementing laws. Then a law was made saying, ‘There shall be no laws.’ Then there were orders and directives that were written down, but still published in ministerial gazettes. Then there was government by announcement; orders appeared in newspapers. Then there were the quiet orders, the orders that were not published, that were within the bureaucracy, that were oral. And finally, there were no orders at all. Everybody knew what he had to do.”

Years Firsts Made Stills Whole Government Law Order Decision Written Changed Quiet Structure Newspapers Decision Making Regimes Nazi Bureaucracy Decree Announcements Implementing

Author:Raul Hilberg

“I couldn't do my show without spending 12 years on the streets of Humboldt Park. It made me a better interrogator. Still, if they had taken me out of my squad car and gave me a show, I would've been terrible. But on 'Springer,' the spotlight was on Jerry and I got to grow up within the show.”

Ifs Years Made Stills Shows Grows Growing Up Taken Streets Car Terrible Spending Parks Jerry Spotlight Squad

Author:Steve Wilkos

“Substantial progress was made in spreading our foreign trade to other areas. Our total trade with Northwest Europe in the first 8 months of last year was 42.3 per cent above the corresponding period the year previous, and our total trade with Asia was up 13.5 per cent. For the first time since 1919, the United States in the first 8 months of 1956 accounted for less than 60 percent of our total trade.”

Years Firsts Made States Lasts United United States Progress Months Periods Percent First Time Europe Areas Trade Cents Last Year Asia Corresponding Foreign Trade

Author:Ramon Magsaysay

“When I'm introspective about the last few years I think the biggest mistake that we made, as a company, is betting too much on HTML5 as opposed to native... because it just wasn't there. And it's not that HTML5 is bad. I'm actually, on long-term, really excited about it. One of the things that's interesting is we actually have more people on a daily basis using mobile Web Facebook than we have using our iOS or Android apps combined. So mobile Web is a big thing for us.”

People Thinking Years Long Made Bigs Lasts Term Interesting Mistake Company Too Much Bases Excited Long Term Native Big Things Mobile Introspective Apps Betting Biggest Mistake Androids Ios

Author:Mark Zuckerberg

“The Graff Hallucination is a sculptural masterpiece; a celebration of the miracle of coloured diamonds. For many years I have thought about creating a truly remarkable watch that illustrates our all-consuming passion for diamonds. The Hallucination has made my diamond dream a reality.”

Years Made Dream Reality Passion Watches Creating Miracle Remarkable Celebration Diamond Masterpiece Consuming Hallucinations

Author:Laurence Graff

“We know the excitement of getting a present - we love to unwrap it to see what is inside. So it is with our children. They are gifts we unwrap for years as we discover the unique characters God has made them.”

Knows Years Children Made Character Unique Our Children Excitement

Author:Cornelius Plantinga

“In retrospect, the past seems not one existence with a continuous flow of years and events that follow each other in logical sequence, but a life periodically dividing into entirely separate compartments. Change of surroundings, interests, pursuits, has made it seem actually more like different incarnations.”

Years Made Different Seems Past Interest Existence Events Reflection Flow Pursuit Made It Logical Surroundings Sequence Incarnation Retrospect Dividing

Book:The Fabric of Memory

Source: The Fabric of Memory

“I would just sweat so much. I'd be dry when I run on the stage. By the time I got in front of the microphone, it just, just like a river pouring out. I don't know what made that happen. It took five years for that to stop happening to me.”

Knows Years Made Happens Running Five Stage Fronts Happenings Rivers Dry Five Years Sweat Pouring Microphones

Author:Nickolas Ashford

“Think of how many mistakes you made at 22 years old. Like, I made a million.”

Thinking Years Made Mistake Millions

Author:Daniel Cudmore

“Back before 'Brick,' I wrote a short film that I never ended up shooting: hit men in the present who work for a mob in the future who send their victims back in time. A guy is sent his future self, he lets him run, and the whole short was them chasing each other across the city. That sat in a drawer for 10 years until after I made 'Brothers Bloom.”

Men Years Made Self Whole Running Film Guy Cities Brother Victim Shooting Sat Chasing Bricks Drawers Back In Time Short Films Future Self

Author:Rian Johnson

“I did extensive, extensive recordings and made a classical CD-ROM set, which is still on the market. For ten years, it was by itself as the cream of the crop of samples.”

Years Made Stills Ten Cream Crops Cds Sample Cream Of The Crop

Author:Miroslav Vitous

“It's flattering to make a picture which becomes a classic within 10 years; it's not so flattering, however, when people get the impression it's the only picture you've ever made.”

People Years Made Impression Classic Flattering

Author:Robert Hamer

“I did Lassie for six years and I never had anybody come up to me and say, 'It made me want to be a farmer.”

Want Years Made Six Come Up Farmers Lassie

Author:June Lockhart

“I feel that I can't do certain things that have sent to me, scripts, because I think that really - I've been June Cleaver for so many years, because we went back, you know, and we did - 20-year hiatus we had - and we went back and made 105 new ones. And so I really feel very strongly that there are certain things I won't do.”

Thinking Knows Feels Years Made I Can Certain Scripts Very Strong June Hiatus Cleaver

Author:Barbara Billingsley

“Because actually it's really hard to get things made. It takes years. To fight the fights you inevitably have to fight, even when you've produced Harry Potter, you'd better have the commitment and the passion to knock down walls, not take no for an answer.”

Years Made Hard Fighting Passion Answers Wall Commitment Made It Harry Potter Potters

Author:David Heyman

“When I was about 13 or 14, I had an English teacher who made a deal with me that I could get out of doing all of the year's regular work if I would write a short story a week and on Friday read it to the class.”

Ifs Writing Years Made Stories Deals Class Teacher Week Short Story Friday English Teacher

Author:Victor Salva

“It could hardly be made since the pyramids, it is thought, were erected in the predynastic age under the regency of Pharaoh Cheops. This pharaoh, who was also known as Khufu, lived between 2589 and 2566 BC, or one thousand years before the Hyksos (Levites) were ever heard of.”

Years Made Age Known Heard Thousand Thousand Years Pyramids Pharaohs Khufu

Author:Michael Tsarion

“Gastronomers of the year 1825, who find sateity in the lap of abundance, and dream of some newly-made dishes, you will not enjoy the discoveries which science has in store for the year 1900, such as foods drawn from the mineral kingdom, liqueurs produced by the pressure of a hundred atmospheres; you will never see the importations which travelers yet unborn will bring to you from that half of the globe which has still to be discovered or explored. How I pity you!”

Years Made Stills Dream Enjoy Half Food Hundred Discovery Pressure Stores Kingdoms Pity Atmosphere Abundance Dishes Globes Traveler Lap Unborn Minerals Importation

Book:A Handbook of Gastronomy

Source: A Handbook of Gastronomy

“[P]opulation, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twenty-five years, or increases in a geometrical ratio. ... [T]he means of subsistence, under circumstances the most favorable to human industry, could not possibly be made to increase faster than in an arithmetical ratio.”

Years Humans Mean Made Science Five Food Goes On Industry Circumstances Increase Twenties Faster Five Years Twenty Five Ratios Subsistence

Author:Thomas Malthus

“My granddaddy died when I was about 6 years old, I think. And my grandmother took a job cooking in the school lunchroom. So she did great. She made $18 a week.”

Thinking Years Made School Jobs Week Died Cooking Grandmother My Grandmother School Lunch Granddaddy

Author:Willie Nelson

“The man who has acquired the habit of study, though for only one hour every day in the year, and keeps to the one thing studied till it is mastered, will be startled to see the way he has made at the end of a twelvemonth.”

Men Way Years Made Ends Hours Study One Thing He Man Habit One Hour

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“In most states you can get a driver's license when you're sixteen years old, which made a lot of sense to me when I was sixteen years old but now seems insane.”

Years Made States Seems Family Insane Drivers License Sixteen Sixteen Year Olds

Author:Phyllis Diller

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