Eight Quotes - Page 5

• I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Writing, Thinking, Editing

  FaceBook post by Barbara Taylor Bradford from Aug 17, 2014

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• I've been at Liverpool for eight years, and the time has come for us to start achieving.

  Jamie Redknapp

  Years, Achieve, Liverpool

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• I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.

  Will Rogers

  Towns, Newspapers

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• I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.

  Carl Sandburg

  Firefighter, Luck, Trying

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• There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good looking. You can realize that I am kept busy.

  Franz Schubert

  Girl, House, Realizing

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• I'm gonna try to be cured. I've been on heroin eight years and I want to try a different style of life. It made me split up from my wife. It ruined a lot of things for me.

  Johnny Thunders

  Years, Wife, Style

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• I kept quiet for eight years. I did not want to hurt the church.

  Jessica Hahn

  Hurt, Years, Church

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• They put me on the shift where they thought I could do the least harm, midnight to eight in the morning. Although the hours were lousy, they were perfect for an apprentice reporter.

  Andrea Mitchell

  Morning, Perfect, Midnight

  Andrea Mitchell (2006). “Talking Back: . . . to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels”, p.67, Penguin

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• Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.

  Tennessee Ernie Ford

  Years, Sixteen, Written

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• Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Writing, Scripts, Bones

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• Here we spent so much time together - eight months of our lives almost - and it was so great because we all got so close and that really made us not afraid to improve with each other.

  Emmy Rossum

  Together, Months, Made

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• I'd say without a doubt I've had the most sex scenes in any television show, ever. Last season I did eight sex scenes in one day - I haven't topped that yet.

  Julian McMahon

  Sex, Doubt, One Day

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• I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.

  Jack Prelutsky

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• We transported eight giraffes, and there are now nine because one gave birth to a male shortly afterwards. They carry their pregnancies very well-they all looked the same.

  Joanna Lumley

  Pregnancy, Males, Nine

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• Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days.

  Joshua Slocum

  Patience, Philosophical, Entrances

  Joshua Slocum (2007). “Sailing Alone: Around the World”, p.184, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Since the Revolution, eight generations of America's veterans have established an unbroken commitment to freedom.

  Steve Buyer

  Commitment, America, Generations

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• I am getting frustrated by the fact that we have been out of office for eight years. I desperately want to lead the Conservative Party to make quicker progress back into power.

  Kenneth Clarke

  Party, Years, Office

  "Clarke lines up backers for leadership" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2005.

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• Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica.

  J. G. Ballard

  Sleep, Hours, Shows

  J. G. Ballard (2014). “The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard”, p.23, Holt Paperbacks

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• I appreciate Eight is Enough. It made me recognizable.

  Dick Van Patten

  Appreciate, Enough, Made

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• You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.

  Robert Browning

  Girl, Kissing, Romantic Love

  Robert Browning (2014). “A Selection of Poems”, p.121, Cambridge University Press

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• My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.

  Carol Burnett

  Running, Grandmother, Average

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• Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling.

  Philip Emeagwali

  School, Years, Financial

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• Men are those creatures with two legs and eight hands.

  Jayne Mansfield

  Witty, Sex, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It seemed pathetic and terrible to me and it still does, that men and women work eight hours a day at jobs that bring them no joy, no reward save a few dollars.

  Hortense Odlum

  Jobs, Men, Joy

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• Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

  George Orwell

  Birthday, Trust, Feelings

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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