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• If you do an American TV series, before the audition you sign away the next five years of your life.

  Dominic West

  Years, Next, Auditions

  "Dominic West: 'People seem to think I'm Satan'" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2011.

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• I have been accused of being ignorant of economics (although I am the founder and Chairman of the Board of a company which publishes seven professional economic newsletters), of being ignorant of sociology (although I am trained in sociology and was C. Wright Mills' research assistant at Columbia), of being unable to use statistics (although I earned my living as a professional statistician for five years) and of ignoring political factors (although all my graduate training was in political science).

  Lloyd deMause

  Years, Political, Ignorant

  Lloyd DeMause (1975). “The New Psychohistory”, New York : Psychohistory Press

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• Making people laugh is what I've been doing since I was like four or five years old. I still have a lust, I still have a passion. I don't care about how I look, I'm dedicated to the laughs.

  Bernie Mac

  Passion, Years, Laughing

  Interview, www.ign.com. March 27, 2003.

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• Michael made his debut in John Carpenter's 1978 horror classic, Halloween, possibly the best scare movie to come along in the last twenty-five years. With the release of the sixth (and hopefully final) movie to bear the Halloween moniker, we see how far the mighty have fallen. In the final analysis, The Curse of Michael Myers is a horrific motion picture just not in the way the film makers intended.

  James Berardinelli

  Halloween, Years, Scare

  "Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers". Movie Review, www.reelviews.net. 1995.

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• Lots of girls will work for five years before Mario Testino will use them, and I was not prepared to slog around doing that.

  Liberty Ross

  Girl, Years, Use

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• One pound invested for five years gives the same result as five pounds invested for one year, the product being five pound years.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Years, Giving, Pounds

  William Stanley Jevons (1970). “The Theory of Political Economy”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• A quarter of my life has been spent on 'Secret Life.' I'm 20 and I've been doing it for five years, so I think the best moments have been when all the cast members get to work together and we get to collaborate and share experiences. We all grew up together.

  Shailene Woodley

  Thinking, Years, Secret

  "Shailene Woodley channels her 'Inner 'Glee' for 'Secret life'" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. June 25, 2012.

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• I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write every single day. I never thought I'd be published.

  Karrine Steffans

  Book, Writing, School

  "Former 'Video Vixen' Talks Sexuality and Power". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. October 9, 2007.

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• I'm a very thoughtful, forward-thinking, planner kind of person. I love Excel spreadsheets and five-year-plans, and I love to review every year how my New Year's resolutions went.

  Jenna Fischer

  New Year, Thoughtful, Thinking

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2011.

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• Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist. You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don't look at it as if it were some kind of oddity.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Thinking, Oddities, Years

  Roy Lichtenstein, David Sylvester, Galerie Lawrence Rubin (1997). “Roy Lichtenstein: new paintings”

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• The pleasure and sadness of youth is that the speed of its passing is never thought about; and so you say that you will do this or that in a year, in five years, only to wake up one morning to realize that what you thought was infinitely prolonged has ended.

  Derek Tangye

  Morning, Sadness, Years

  "The Way to Minack". Book by Derek Tangye, 1968.

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• The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)

  Larry Wall

  Order, Years, Court

  Usenet article, 1998.

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• I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and off.

  Tania Raymonde

  Years, Four, Grew Up

  "Tania Raymonde Talks MTV’s DEATH VALLEY and THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 3D". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 11, 2011.

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• Twenty-five years now and I still love to watch my wife sleep. I'm fascinated by the way the unconscious self (the deeper self) rises when consciousness falls away and often expresses itself in the face of a sleeper.

  David Bottoms

  Fall, Sleep, Self

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• If I were a dictator I should make it compulsory for every member of the population between the ages of four and eighty to listen to Mozart for at least a quarter of an hour daily for the coming five years.

  Thomas Beecham

  Years, Age, Population

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• I was pretty impressed during the opening of one of my shows, when the five-year-old daughter of a well-known movie actress took a running jump at one of my paintings, like she was diving into a swimming pool. I preferred to treat her impulse as a compliment rather than insult. Sadly she hurt herself more than the painting.

  James Nares

  Daughter, Running, Hurt

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• I was raped when I was very young. I told my brother the name of the person who had done it. Within a few days the man was killed. In my child's mind--seven and a half years old--I thought my voice had killed him. So I stopped talking for five years.

  Maya Angelou

  Brother, Children, Men

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• When your life has been spent in one war after another for forty-five years, you have to be pretty handy to survive.

  David Gemmell

  War, Years, Handy

  "Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 7, 1984.

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• The old horse is coming back in a high lope. Thousands of people are riding a horse today that five years ago couldn't sit in a Ford with all the doors locked.

  Will Rogers

  Horse, Doors, Years

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other.

  Barry McGuire

  Italian, Should Have, Years

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• You know, it's a different world now, but to skip ahead and really answer your question, only in the last five years did I find what I call holy maturity, finding the balance, finding the right person in my life so that I could live a normal life.

  Burt Ward

  Maturity, Years, Balance

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• I studied acting for five years. I quit college at that point. You know, I go hard. When I know I'm supposed to go in a direction, I'm fully committed and I go all the way. Everything falls to the side and I'm all in. So I completely dove into acting even though I was almost 30.

  Sonja Sohn

  Fall, College, Years

  "Sonja Sohn ReWires Baltimore". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. March 15, 2012.

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• I served at a time when we had a strong economy, when we had deficits that we would die for today. I was able to propose a balanced budget, not over ten years, but over five years. I'm proud of that record.

  Rob Portman

  Strong, Years, Records

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• It all felt like a terribly long time. It would have meant that I had to make five movies in five years and if you don't like the movies, too bad. I guess I just wanted my freedom, and I think my life has been incredibly enhanced as a result.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Thinking, Years, Long

  "Dukes of Hazzard? Me? I mean, hello?" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

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• Young children are naturally so philosophical. They ask: 'What is real? What is truth?' They have to learn it; they don't automatically know it. To them, it's a game. You can study this for years in college, and yet you probably asked it when you were four or five years old.

  Sharon Creech

  Children, Real, Philosophical

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