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“When I was 13 years old, a professional theater company in my town needed a kid actor. I auditioned, and I got the part, so for just a few weeks I became a member of the company and I met some professional actors.”

Years Kids Actors Company Week Needed Mets Members Theater Towns

Author:Trevor Nunn

“When I'm writing, which is 8-9 months out of the year, I'm in a concerted writing pace, where I work 5 days a week for at least a few hours a day, maybe a little bit more. But I won't work for more than 2 hours at a time. I'll work for a couple hours and take a break.”

Writing Years Littles Bits Hours Break Week Months Couple Little Bit Pace

Author:Amy Ray

“I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.”

Years Week Retired

Author:Sally Rand

“For so many years, fans and friends have been wanting me to succeed and be back on TV every week, which hasn't happened since 'Full House.' I feel like I came through for them.”

Feels Years Has Beens House Happened Week Fans Tvs Succeed Full House

Author:John Stamos

“My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three weeks old and left, not surprisingly.”

Years Three Found Father Left Week Affair Pregnant Mum Were Pregnant

Author:Carol Vorderman

“I feed my kids organic food and milk, but I've also been known to buy the odd Lunchable. My kids are not allowed to watch TV during the week, but on weekends even the 2-year-old veges out to 'The Simpsons.”

Years Kids Known Watches Week Tvs Odd Weekend Milk Organic Food

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.”

Years Firsts Said Enough Guy Three Comedy Week Feet Shots Yeah Making Money Ran Gates Three Years Had Enough Misled

Author:Al Franken

“I have a conviction that a few weeks spent in a well organized summer camp may be of more value educationally than a whole year of formal school work.”

Years Wells May Whole School Values Week Summer Conviction Organized Camps Formal Summer Camp Whole Year School Work

Author:Charles William Eliot

“No one prepared me for the stress and insanity of a week leading up to a movie. Years and years of work come down to three days.”

Years Three Week Stress Prepared Insanity

Author:Evan Daugherty

“I live in New York and I was only there for 2 weeks all last year.”

Years Lasts Week New York Last Year

Author:Patricia Velasquez

“My favorite pre-Ponzi schemer was known as '520 Percent Miller' because he promised 10 percent returns a week, or 520 percent a year. Of course he was just using new investors' money to pay old investors, and soon he was on the lam.”

Years Courses Pay Known Week Return Percent My Favorite Investors

Author:Mitchell Zuckoff

“It's like this: The time between having an idea and its public launch is measured in days not months, weeks not years.”

Years Ideas Week Months

Author:Tim Bray

“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

“During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice to run the kingdom of Denmark for a year.”

Years Running Evil Week New York Kingdoms Useless More Money Denmark Evil Things

Book:Prejudices Fourth Series

Source: Prejudices Fourth Series

“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.”

“The conversation of most middle-class Americans, we are told, revolves around consumption: what to buy, what was just bought, where to eat, the price of the neighbor's house, what's on sale this week, our clothes or someone else's, the best car on the market this year, where to spend a vacation. Apparently we can't stop eating, shopping, or consuming. Success is measured not in terms of love, wisdom, and maturity but by the size of one's pile of possessions.”

Source: The Signature of Jesus

“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 did the David Cronenberg film, A History of Violence, with Viggo Mortensen and I played a real sociopath. For the next seven years, I played the psycho-of-the-week.”

Years Real Film Next Violence Week Seven Seven Years Psycho Sociopath

Author:Greg Bryk

“The world is full of what seem like intractable problems. Often we let that paralyze us. Instead, let is spur you to action. There are some people in the world that we can't help, but there are so many more that we can. So when you see a mother and her children suffering in another part of the world, don't look away. Look right at them. Let them break your heart, then let your empathy and your talents help you make a difference in the lives of others. Whether you volunteer every week or just a few times a year, your time and unique skills are invaluable.”

“Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a dilettante?”

Years Artist Understanding Week Months Cost Reflection Understood Flash Dilettantes

Book:On Music and Musicians

Source: On Music and Musicians

“Gasoline inventories are tighter than they were a few weeks ago. It's all about perception, because inventories are well above where they have been in previous years.”

Years Wells Has Beens Week Perception Gasoline Inventory Previous Years

Author:Kyle Cooper

“I like to capture moments. It's like a photograph. Ten years from now you look at the photograph and you don't remember it but rather the whole week or month around the photo.”

Years Looks Whole Moments Remember Music Week Months Ten Photograph Capture

Author:Keren Ann

“When there is some fear about accounting and growth and the economy, food stocks are a decent place to be, ... This company has been through a bit of a restructuring the last couple of years. Management is doing a great job. The company is improving and people are buying chocolate. So, what a great week to buy it.”

People Years Has Beens Jobs Lasts Bits Growth Company Economy Week Couple Management Decent Buying Chocolate Improving Accounting Great Job Restructuring

Author:Liz Miller

“Talks have reached a critical stage and negotiators need to reach a deal on agriculture in the next two weeks if efforts to restart the Doha round by the end of the year are to succeed. Some speak of a deadlock in the talks, .. I prefer to talk of a padlock, and the key is in the hands of the EU.”

Ifs Needs Years Two Ends Hands Next Speak Deals Effort Week Stage Keys Succeed Rounds Critical Agriculture Two Weeks Padlocks

Author:Celso Amorim

“I take two walks up hills each day, and bike ride each morning. I also have an exercise bike to increase my heart rate. My wife and I have been going to a personal trainer for weights and balance twice a week for 10 years. My balance has improved tremendously and the weights decrease my age. I only feel 52, not 82.”

Feels Years Heart Has Beens Two Age Walks Morning Wife Week Balance My Heart Exercise Weight Increase Aging Rate My Wife Hills Each Day Bike Decrease Trainers Heart Rate

Author:Robert Bateman

“Wander a whole summer if you can. Thousands of God's blessings will search you and soak you as if you were a sponge, and the big days will go by uncounted. If you are business-tangled and so burdened by duty that only weeks can be got out of the heavy laden year, give a month at least. The time will not be taken from the sum of life. Instead of shortening, it will indefinitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.”

Ifs Giving Years Whole Bigs Taken Week Duty Months Blessing Summer Heavy Wander Immortal Tangled Sponges

Author:John Muir

“I worked 120 hours a week for eight years. That's 20 to 22 hours a day every day and one week I only got 15 hours sleep.”

Years Hours Sleep Week Eight

Author:Heston Blumenthal

“We have the Bible in our hands; but how little we know of its teaching! And how little are we governed by it! We go on, from week to week, year to year, with things which have no foundation whatever in its pages- yea, with things utterly opposed to its teaching; and, all the while, we boast of having the Scriptures, just like the Jews of old, who made their boast of having the oracles of God, while those very oracles condemned themselves and their ways, and left them without a single plea.”

Knows Way Years Littles Made Hands Christian Left Week Teaching Goes On Pages Foundation Jew Scripture Boast Oracles

Author:Charles Henry Mackintosh

“Success is relative and individual and personal. It is your answer to the problem of making your minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years add up to a great life.”

Years Problem Motivational Individual Hours Answers Week Minutes Months Add Relative

Author:Wilferd Peterson

“I've been filming time lapse flowers continuously, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for 35 years. To watch them move is a dance I will never get tired of. Their sensual beauty immerses us with color, smell, taste and touch.”

Years Moving Hours Watches Week Movement Color Flower Taste Tired Smell Sensual Lapses Time Lapse

Author:Louis Schwartzberg

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