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• I was lucky - the first eight productions I auditioned for, I got cast.

  Emily Browning

  Lucky, Firsts, Casts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've been playing the bad guy in the last seven or eight projects I've done. I like it. It's a lot more interesting! Being the good guy gets a little stale after a while, you know?

  Greg Evigan

  Interesting, Guy, Done

  "It's Greg Evigan vs. a Three-Headed Dog!". Interview with Matt Webb Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. October 28, 2005.

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• The Byrds flew off the fallout shelter, eight miles high and falling fast.

  Don McLean

  Fall, Musical, Shelter

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• Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall with a joint, drinking some eight-ball.

  Ice Cube

  Wall, Drinking, Games

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• The first, sickness (vyadhi), is a physical obstacle, but the other eight can be considered mental. These include languor (styana), doubt (samshaya), heedlessness (pramada), sloth (alasya), dissipation (avirati), false vision (bhranti-darshana), nonattainment of yogic states (alabdha-bhumikatva), and instability in these states (anavasthitatva).

  Richard Rosen

  Vision, Doubt, Sloth

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• The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight pages.

  David Foster Wallace

  Jobs, Wall, Book

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• From the three, you then use one to make eight ones. You add those ones to the three, and you get one-three base eight, or, in other words, In base ten you have eleven, and you take away seven. And seven from eleven is four. Now go back to the sixty-fours, you're left with two.

  Tom Lehrer

  Two, Add, Three

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• Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats's letters and his poems. The letters were fresh, intimate and irreverent, as though he were present and speaking. The Keats spell went very deep for me.

  Jane Campion

  Reading, Years, World

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• I'm doing a fun EP. It's called 'Songs in the Key of Phife: Eight Is Enough.' It's radio-friendly, but then a lot of it just has that raw hip-hop. Some of it will be vintage Tribe, but for the most part I'm just letting my voice be heard.

  Phife Dawg

  Song, Fun, Keys

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• France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.

  Raoul Dufy

  Art, Long, Nine

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• And it was back in the mid-1980s, and as I point out in a piece, that was when we are spending about eight percent of our gross domestic product on health care. And even then, we had the impression that so much of the excessive, aggressive medical treatment that took place at the end of life was not only unnecessary but it was cruel.

  Richard Dooling

  Pieces, Care, Medical

  "Op-Ed: Cut Health Care Spending On The Elderly". "Talk of the Nation" with Rebecca Roberts, www.npr.org. August 17, 2009.

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• Then I was playing the piano at eight, and that helps you learn about women because most of the people I was playing for were women.

  Jamie Foxx

  Piano, People, Helping

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• I was so honored to be on 'Entourage' for eight years but I want to show people that I can do other things.

  Jerry Ferrara

  Years, People, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I trained as a ballet dancer - well, I started when I was two and a half, and was serious about it from when I was eight until I was 18.

  Jessica Brown Findlay

  Two, Dancer, Ballet

  "Jessica Brown Findlay's Sybil Liberties". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 12, 2012.

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• Our teachers are responsible for our children's welfare for the six or eight hours they are at school and we need to know without question that their safety will be paramount on the minds of teachers, faculty and volunteers.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Teacher, Children, School

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• I just filmed a movie with my boyfriend, an indie film called 'Conception.' And it's kind of like an R-rated version of 'Valentine's Day.' So it's like all about eight couples, and me and my boyfriend play one of them together. And that was a lot of fun.

  Sarah Hyland

  Valentines Day, Couple, Fun

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• We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child.

  Jessica Hagedorn

  Children, Drama, Two

  Interview with Kay Bonetti, www.english.illinois.edu.

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• After eight months of one of the most intensive public and private investigations in American history, no one - no one - has come up with a shred of evidence that I had anything to do with the anthrax letters. I have never worked with anthrax. I know nothing about this matter.

  Steven Hatfill

  Letters, Matter, Months

  Hatfill's Statement, www.foxnews.com. August 11, 2002.

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• I had eight brothers and sisters. Every Christmas my younger brother Bobby would wake up extra early and open everybody's presents - everybody's - so by the time the rest of us got up, all the gifts were shredded, ribbons off, torn open and thrown aside.

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Brother, Wake Up, Ribbons

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• My grandmother used to cook for eight every day - sitting down lunches and dinner, the way you do it in Italy, you sit down. And when my parents could afford their own place, I went with them but still my mother used to work but used to come back from work to cook lunch for my father, come back from work, cook dinner for my father and me.

  Carrie Ann Inaba

  Mother, Father, Lunch

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• If I would get an album out every eight months and if I would write songs that were more up-tempo and try to focus more on making singles, then I could probably get more attention. But I don't think the albums would be very fun to listen to, and it would be a drag for me.

  Chris Isaak

  Song, Fun, Writing

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• I do freestyle jumping. Been doing since I was eight years old and can't quit. I'm addicted. I've broken many bones, but I ride with confidence. It's my thing - there's no high on earth like it. It's my hobby and I really enjoy it.

  Vanilla Ice

  Jumping, Years, Broken

  "Catching Up with ...", www.washingtonpost.com. February 17, 2006.

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• I spend a lot of time obsessing about getting a dignified eight hours' sleep.

  Miranda July

  Sleep, Hours, Obsessing

  "This much I know: Miranda July" by Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2011.

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• I started writing songs when I was eight.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Song, Writing, Writing Songs

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• Making sleep happen is a must - anytime, anywhere, from a plane to a train to an automobile. Ideally, I like to get eight to ten hours a night, though I'll take it broken up in two segments if I have to.

  Chantal Kreviazuk

  Sleep, Night, Two

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