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“I had a lot of bad jobs but the one big internship I had is I interned for 'SNL' when I was 21 years old and that was the joke. You intern there and you think man, I'm going to be with the writers and the great comedians. Then you're getting everybody sandwiches and then the doors close and then all the great creatives are doing the work.”

Thinking Men Years Bigs Jobs Doors Jokes Comedian Sandwiches Snl Bad Jobs Internships

Author:Jake M. Johnson

“As a society, I think older women are marginalized, but I think that has changed so much in the last twenty years.”

Thinking Years Lasts Changed Twenties Marginalized Older Women

Author:Melinda McGraw

“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

“Phillip Harrison was the production designer, though, I think he's uncredited. He's done most of my films like Blue Thunder. Lots and lots over the years.”

Thinking Years Done Film Blue Productions Designer Thunder

Author:John Badham

“Once publishers got interested in it, it was a year in developing, and it was launched, I think, in 1960. But Willie Lumpkin didn't last long - it only last a little better than a year, maybe a year and a half.”

Thinking Years Littles Long Lasts Half Developing Publishers 1960s

Author:Dan DeCarlo

“I think that Yes' music is kind of on its own out there, and it goes through different chapters, and that involves different people. I don't think it's a case of 'any year is better than any other.' They can all co-exist quite comfortably.”

People Thinking Years Kind Different Cases Music Is Chapters Different Peoples

Author:Geoff Downes

“Styx has their own style of music, and I think that's justifiable, the same way that Asia and Yes have had - Yes particularly has a unique style that seems to have transcended all styles of music for 43 years.”

Thinking Way Years Seems Style Unique Asia Styx Unique Style

Author:Geoff Downes

“I think that after a year of Portishead I've become a little more sober.”

Thinking Years Littles Sober

Author:Beth Gibbons

“My dad, we'll be talking about goals for the next year. He's like, 'I think you can be here,' and I look at him like he's cross-eyed, like, 'Are you serious? That's so far out of my reach.' Well, then I always end up achieving it.”

Thinking Years Wells Looks Ends Next Goal Talking Achieve Serious Dad Crosses My Dad Next Year

Author:Miranda Leek

“I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeopardy. I have spent many good years in training and cultivating it, and I would be foolish to do anything which might impair or ruin it.”

Thinking Years Might Would Be Voice Too Much Training Drinking Foolish Ruins Smoking Cultivating Jeopardy Inhibitions Good Years

Author:Jeanette MacDonald

“I think if you go beyond a year - if this continues into the system in the out years, I think there is a risk and that - that we could have a negative reaction in the bond market and that will offset the good that was attempted to be done.”

Ifs Thinking Years Done Economy Risk Negative Reactions Negative Reactions Bond Market

Author:Franklin Raines

“I see myself as most people see themselves, you have good days and bad days. I don't think I'm better looking now than I did three years ago.”

People Thinking Years Three Years Ago Three Years Good Day Bad Day Have A Good Day Good Days And Bad Days Good And Bad Days

Author:Bill Skarsgard

“Acting was always there, it's true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn't sure about it - not because I didn't like it, but I didn't want people to think I hadn't earned it.”

People Thinking Want Years Long Acting Long Time Teenage Teenage Years

Author:Bill Skarsgard

“As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual amusement. It is a game that can be played by day, by night, at home and abroad, and at which you must win in the long run. . . . What an interest it imparts to life!.”

Thinking Years Long Home Running Night Games Winning Interest Saving Occupation Perpetual Long Runs Amusement Amusing Impart Unbecoming

Book:Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)

“Tim Duncan's foot issue, I think, is a major factor in this year's playoffs. That's not the kind of injury that gets better over time playing NBA basketball.”

Thinking Years Kind Issues Feet Basketball Majors Majority Factors Get Better Injury Nba Playoffs Duncan

Author:Bill Walton

“No scientist or student of science, need ever read an original work of the past. As a general rule, he does not think of doing so. Rutherford was one of the greatest experimental physicists, but no nuclear scientist today would study his researches of fifty years ago. Their substance has all been infused into the common agreement, the textbooks, the contemporary papers, the living present.”

Thinking Needs Years Doe Today Past Science Common Study Students Paper Research Years Ago Scientist Originals Nuclear Contemporary Substance Fifty Agreement Papers Physicist Textbooks

Author:C.P. Snow

“If you don't make the commitment today to start becoming the person you need to be to create the extraordinary life you really want, what makes you think that tomorrow - or next week, or next month, or next year - is going to be any different? They won't. And that's why you must draw your line in the sand TODAY.”

“It's not going to be that hard to be in Heaven, or the Heavenly City or the Millennium, but you're going to have something to do and something to keep you busy, and you'd be unhappy if you didn't. Wouldn't it be ridiculous after being so busy here if you wound up in Heaven with nothing to do but sit on a cloud playing a harp for a thousand years?-Much less all eternity! I think you'd really get bored.”

Ifs Thinking Years Hard Heaven Cities Thousand Eternity Busy Clouds Wounds Ridiculous Unhappy Bored Heavenly Thousand Years Millennium Harps

Author:David Berg

“Granted you want to go beyond ideas and beyond thought, but that takes years of practice. If you must think, think good thoughts, happy thoughts, and constructive thoughts.”

Ifs Thinking Want Years Ideas Practice Granted Constructive Good Thoughts Happy Thoughts

Author:Frederick Lenz

“But as no two (theoreticians) agree on this (skin friction) or any other subject, some not agreeing today with what they wrote a year ago, I think we might put down all their results, add them together, and then divide by the number of mathematicians, and thus find the average coefficient of error. (1908)”

Thinking Years Two Might Today Together Science Results Numbers Subjects Years Ago Skins Agree Add Errors Average Divides Mathematician Friction

Author:Hiram Maxim

“I think it might be better to have the President sort of like the King of England - or the Queen - and have the real business of the presidency conducted by ... a city manager-type, a Prime Minister, somebody who's directly answerable to Congress, rather than a person who moves all his friends into the White House and does whatever he wants for four years.”

“Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years. I didn't get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.”

Thinking Writing Years Art Movement Grew Involved Areas Get Involved Ecological Public Art

Author:Agnes Denes

“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

“I think Dr. Ben Carson is a unique political personality. He's what we call a conviction politician. He actually believes in what he says. Here's a fellow who had been a neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins for over 30 years. Babies conjoined at the head, he is the one that did that. He's a superstar. Ben Carson steps away from medicine, looks at the political environment around him, and he is aghast at what he sees.”

“To have a platform like So You Think You Can Dance, where you're reaching this audience that's been created over the 10 years that they've been on the air. People who didn't know anything about dance and aren't going to go to the theater are learning about it, even if it's ballroom and jazz, by just turning their television ono. They're building this audience that's advanced and educated enough to introduce them to ballet.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Years Enough Audience Air Television Building Theater Jazz Educated Reaching Ballet Introducing Platforms Ballroom

Author:Misty Copeland

“I had no idea what I was walking into, and the years and years of hard work it would take. I felt like an outsider and like it was never going to happen. But even if I would have known, I think I still would have done it. Dancers are perfectionists, and that's what keeps us going and growing.”

Ifs Thinking Years Stills Ideas Hard Done Happens Felt Known Growing Hard Work Walking No Idea Dancer Working It Outsiders Perfectionist

Author:Misty Copeland

“I think most people don't really understand all that it takes to stand on your toes, and to be able to jump and land without any noise, or for a male dancer to be able to lift a girl. All of these things look so effortless, but there's an attention to detail and years of training, as well as being able to transform into a character and being able to meld all of those things together.”

People Thinking Years Wells Looks Character Able Together Girl Attention Land Training Males Details Noise Lifts Dancer Toes Effortless Attention To Detail

Author:Misty Copeland

“I did The Seagull, the Chekhov play, on Broadway, a couple of years ago, and I had done it in London, and I became completely obsessed with the character, Nina, that I played in that. She's an actress. I couldn't find a play after that, that I wanted to do, because I couldn't think of doing anything else. Every part is a disappointment, once you've done that part.”

Thinking Years Done Play Character Wanted Couple Years Ago Disappointment Actresses London Obsessed Broadway Seagull Chekhov Nina

Author:Carey Mulligan

“I just think, as writers, especially with a book that takes years to write, you sort of wake up every morning hoping and praying that you can make it work for the day.”

Thinking Writing Years Book Morning Praying Wake Up Every Morning

Author:Christopher Bollen

“There's got to be a point where we fix the system so that legal immigration is easier than illegal immigration and show respect for people, a kid who might have been here for 10 years, that might be a valedictorian of their high school to say, no, no, no you're not allowed to go to college. I just think there's a point past which we are over the line.”

“It was my dream for years... to train. Dominic [Cooper] went and he's doing alright. But some people don't go and do brilliantly. Although I think there are things I missed from not having trained. I think I'd be more confident on stage had I gone because I think it means you're equipped with better vocal training and things like that.”

People Thinking Years Mean Dream Gone Stage Training Train Vocal Alright

Author:Carey Mulligan

“I never in a million years thought I would be starring in Hairspray, ever. Because if you think about my past, it's been 30 years of playing a macho leading man, so when I was offered it, I said: "Why? Why me? What have I done to deserve that you think I should do this?" After much convincing, over a year and two months, I was convinced they wanted to make a great movie.”

Ifs Thinking Men Should Years Said Two Done Would Be Wanted Past Millions Months Deserve Convinced Convincing My Past Two Months Macho Why Me Hairspray

Author:John Travolta

“I've been talking about income inequality in America for twenty years, and when I was president, people didn't pay much attention to it, probably because wages were going up. But I don't think I've given a single solitary speech since I left office that I hadn't talked about it. It's a problem around the world and within the United States. So these people have put that on the agenda.”

“Around 400 million people in the last year got a smartphone. If you think that’s a big deal, imagine the impact on that person in the developing world.”

People Ifs Thinking World Years Persons Bigs Lasts Deals Millions Imagine Impact Developing Last Year Big Deal Smartphones

Author:Eric Schmidt

“There's nothing like it, but it's not as good as you think it's going to be. . . . I was disappointed because there are records of people finding things that have been there for years. I was hoping for a shirt button, or my club's badge - but not a sausage.”

People Thinking Years Has Beens Records Findings Clubs Shirts Disappointed Buttons Badges Sausage

Author:Billy Connolly

“Getting ahead in a difficult profession - singing, acting, writing, whatever requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve.”

“I'm working, but there is so much still to be done! And it frightens me to think of my weight of years. But on we go, without fear or hesitation!”

Thinking Years Stills Done Weight Hesitation

Author:Giacomo Puccini

“The fools who write articles about me think that one morning I suddenly decided to write and began to produce masterpieces. There is no special trick about writing, or painting either. I wrote constantly for 15 years before I produced anything with any solidity to it.”

Thinking Writing Years Morning Special Produce Painting Fool Decided Experience Tricks Articles Masterpiece Solidity

Book:Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

Source: Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

“You think you're developing and getting better and then you see something you did years ago. Looking at your early work.. sometimes it has a depth that surprises you.”

Thinking Years Sometimes Growth Years Ago Surprise Depth Developing Get Better Early Work

Author:Andrew Wyeth

“I don't think I made a conscious decision as a career choice. From my school days I had decided, persuaded by my parents, to prepare myself for the law. Then the Japanese occupation came and we went through three and a half years of what I would call the university of life, it was hard, it was harsh.”

Thinking Years Made Hard School Law Choices Three Parent Decision Half Careers Conscious Decided University Occupation Harsh Half A Year School Days Careers Choices

Author:Lee Kuan Yew

“I actually think if you have a strong junior class, that's the best possible scenario. In their senior year, guys who are on the threshold of making it to the NBA start getting preoccupied in their thoughts elsewhere more than concerning themselves with the present. The junior class is the perfect age.”

Ifs Thinking Years Age Guy Strong Perfect Class Nba Elsewhere Senior Juniors Scenarios Threshold Senior Year

Author:Rick Pitino

“You think I'm going to ask these sweet 14 year olds to ask their parents to buy a $100 ticket then run around in latex and lip sync? No way.”

Thinking Way Years Running Asks Parent Sweet Lips Tickets Sync Latex

Author:Lady Gaga

“It takes years to establish yourself, and then you have one big film and everyone calls you an overnight success. You think, 'Christ, I've been sweating and crying for seven years.'.”

Thinking Years Bigs Film Christ Cry Seven Seven Years Sweating Overnight Success

Author:Joseph Fiennes

“What do you think happens to a composer who is sincere and loves to write and has to wait thirty years to have someone play a piece of his music?”

Thinking Writing Years Play Happens Waiting Pieces Expression And Love Thirty Sincere Composer Thirty Years

Author:Charles Mingus

“Three years without a Premiership title? I don't think I would still be in a job.”

Thinking Years Stills Jobs Three Titles Three Years

Author:Jose Mourinho

“I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very proud of paint and have let it behave openly.”

Thinking Years Kind Has Beens Lasts Honesty Painting Proud Twenties Paint Painter Behave

Author:Robert Rauschenberg

“I think that's why I play tennis, because of the challenge, because of the competition, .. That's why we love to play tiebreaker in the third set. It makes it more exciting, and the bigger support in the stand, and more fans involved in it. I really enjoyed the competition and took a lot of hard work to make myself No. 1 at 18 years old.”

Thinking Years Hard Play Challenges Support Fans Hard Work Involved Thirds Bigger Exciting Competition Enjoyed Tennis

Author:Maria Sharapova

“But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you.”

People Thinking Years Firsts School Three Cases Teacher Stupid Lows Expectations Tests Three Years You Re Stupid Low Expectations I Was Stupid

Author:Robert Sternberg

“I don't think there is room for 'artistic temperament.' Professional artists understand art is a business. If businesses ran their companies like many artists do their careers, they would not stay open a year.”

Ifs Thinking Years Art Artist Rooms Business Company Careers Art Is Artistic Ran Temperament Artistic Temperament

Author:Jack White

“I don't think we will find a cure for all cancers in the next 50 years let alone 20. I think it's foolishness to say that.”

Thinking Years Next Cancer Cures Foolishness

Author:Robert Winston

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