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• Well, we don't take money from people and then show the product. It has to be a product that we like anyway, and that's true for all five of us, which is one of the really nice things about the way we make the show.

  Ted Allen

  Nice, People, Way

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

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• The only result my father got for his money was the certainty that his son had laid faultlessly the foundation of a system of heavy drinking and could be always relied upon to make a break of at least twenty-five even with a bad cue.

  Flann O'Brien

  Father, Drinking, Son

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• Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world.

  Augustine Birrell

  Book, Men, Years

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• Sometimes we go to a play and after the curtain has been up five minutes we have a sense of being able to settle back in the arms of the playwright. Instinctively we know that the playwright knows his business.

  Anton Chekhov

  Play, Theatre, Arms

  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1955). “The Selected Letters of Anton Chekhov”

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• ... so many tremendous decisions in life are made because it is five o'clock.

  Arthur Miller

  Decision, Clock, Made

  Arthur Miller (2012). “Timebends: A Life”, p.12, A&C Black

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• My problem is that the audience is more fiction-literate than ever. In Shakespeare's day, you probably expected to see a play once or twice in your life; today you experience four or five different kinds of fiction every day. So staying ahead of the audience is impossible.

  Steven Moffat

  Play, Different, Fiction

  "'There is a clue everybody's missed': Sherlock writer Steven Moffat interviewed". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2012.

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• I have four to five months, tops!, per year to give to my acting work.

  Meryl Streep

  Years, Giving, Acting

  "Meryl Streep on 'Marvin's Room'". Interview with Henri Behar, www.filmscouts.com. December 22, 1996.

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• My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels.

  Shelby Foote

  Book, Successful, Firsts

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• When I was boxing I made five million and wound up broke, owing the government a million.

  Joe Louis

  Government, Boxing, Owing

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• The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.

  Anthony Burgess

  Art, Writing, Six

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• I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.

  Carrie Nation

  Inspirational, Strength, Rocks

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• Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I can testify that it's one of the most arduous trips that anyone can make on this continent and yet I had a power boat to do it in.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Ocean, Rivers, Twenties

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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 worst job I ever had was working nights in the Chrysler Building. I was part of a team of about five guys, and we polished the leather furniture.

  Gene Hackman

  Jobs, Team, Night

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• I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Song, Writing, Years

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• Growing up, I thought I'd have at least five kids.

  Minnie Driver

  Growing Up, Kids, Growing

  "Minnie Driver Wants More Babies". www.zimbio.com. March 8, 2010.

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• To have lived long does not necessarily imply the gathering of much wisdom and experience. One who has pedaled twenty-five thousand miles on a stationary bicycle has not circled the globe. He or she has only garnered weariness.

  Paul Eldridge

  Wisdom, Long, Twenties

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• Crying to God for five minutes is equal to one hour of meditation.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Meditation, Cry, Hours

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• Up to the age of five, children should be given a lot of love. From the age of five to fifteen they should be brought up under strict discipline especially regarding their study. It is at that time that life's foundation is formed. Love without discipline will only spoil them. Above the age of fifteen children should be given maximum love otherwise they may go astray.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Children, Kids, Discipline

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• The original concept of rock and roll... was supposed to be this young angst with mistakes and all. Four or five guys get together, get angry and that's really how it starts, and it's all this energy.

  Peter Frampton

  Mistake, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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

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• Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living!

  John Lydon

  Lunch, Three, Nice Cars

  "Filthy lucre: what the Sex Pistols can teach us about finance" by Johnny Sharp, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2015.

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• Whoever after due and proper warning shall be heard to utter the abominable word "Frisco", which has no linguistic or other warrant, shall be deemed guilty of High Misdemeanour, and shall pay into the Imperial Treasury as penalty the sum of twenty-five dollars.

  Emperor Norton

  San Francisco, Twenties, Bay Area

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• I like the fog that creeps over the whole city every night about five, and the warm protective feeling it gives...and lights of San Francisco at night, the fog horn, the bay at dusk and the little flower stands where spring flowers appear before anywhere else in the country...But, most of all, I like the view of the ocean from the Cliff House.

  Irene Dunne

  Country, Spring, Ocean

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• Well, as a short-story writer, I don't think there are any weaknesses to the genre itself. I guess I would say that the difficulty of the form is that one must create an entire world in five to 30 pages, as opposed to 300. There is very little room for fat - you must be economical. And you must begin as close to the end as you possibly can.

  ZZ Packer

  Writing, Thinking, Weakness

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• Appealing to the five senses is the feature that will always set writing apart from the visual media. A good writer will tell us what the world smells like, what the textures are, what the sounds are, what the light looks like, what the weather is.

  Janet Fitch

  Writing, Light, Media

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