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• The average teen today spends about 35 hours a week in front of a screen of some kind: iPod, movie, TV, video. And a lot of it is good, but a lot of it's not. And so I think you've got that five hours a day of media coming into your kid's head that's creating a lot of havoc out there.

  Sean Covey

  Kids, Thinking, Media

  "Glenn Beck Show", www.cnn.com. August 10, 2007.

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• I had a couple of movies that I was passionately involved with that I could never get made. 'Richard Pryor,' I wrote for - gosh - over a year. That was close to getting made for two-and-a-half years after that. We're still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it's like, 'God, five years have gone by.

  Bill Condon

  Couple, Years, Two

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• When I was little, we lived on 8 acres and my mom had a horse. But when I was 7, my mom kicked my dad out, and then in order to feed us five kids, she got critters cheap or for free and raised them for food. We milked a cow, raised chickens, pigs and beef cattle. We heated our one-story house with wood and stayed cold all winter.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Mom, Horse, Dad

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• So, once I get writing I really try and put five to eight hours a day in my room with a guitar to really try and come up with stuff that feels interesting enough to me to keep it.

  Catie Curtis

  Writing, Eight, Guitar

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• I am coming back to New York after five years, and it seems that psychics are taking over the city.

  Aravind Adiga

  New York, Years, Psychics

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• There are more people at Obama's table offering ideas than there were five years ago, but when it came to facing up to the Republicans' threat to force a double-dip recession if they didn't get their millionaires' tax cut, they still amounted to nothing. And therein lies our fundamental problem.

  Eric Alterman

  Lying, Cutting, Offering

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• I buy five of the same shirts. I literally have six blue shirts. Now I have six green shirts.

  Patrick Carney

  Blue, Green, Six

  "The GQA: The Black Keys". Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. March 28, 2012.

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• When I started performing, I decided that if in five years I couldn't earn as much money acting as I could as a teacher, it would be unrealistic for me to continue on the stage.

  Pauline Collins

  Teacher, Years, Acting

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• I adore watching movies; movie marathons are my favorite pastime. I can watch up to five movies back to back. I also love music and like reading whenever I get the time.

  Priyanka Chopra

  Reading, Watches, Marathon

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

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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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• Of the five House Calendars, the Private Calendar is the one to which all Private Bills are referred. Private Bills deal with specific individuals, corporations, institutions, and so forth, as distinguished from public bills which deal with classes only.

  Howard Coble

  Class, House, Bills

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• When I was starting out, I didn't know what the hell I was doing and my person who was helping me out, I didn't even have an agent, got me five or six big auditions for leads in movies in 1986 that I had no business auditioning for. I think I ran out of three of them before I'd even finished.

  John Corbett

  Thinking, Auditions, Six

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• I think that in the last four or five years I've constantly struggled with the balance in my life.

  Kenny Chesney

  Thinking, Years, Balance

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• I started singing at age five and haven't stopped since.

  Kimberly Caldwell

  Singing, Age, Havens

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• I didn't have to do paper routes. I'd sing for 5 bucks a crack at weddings and church functions; I'd have four or five on some Saturdays.

  Len Cariou

  Church, Cracks, Paper

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• Party of Five" won a Golden Globe, it was a well-written television series.

  Neve Campbell

  Party, Television, Golden

  "Neve Campbell lives out a dream with "The Company". Interview with Ben Nuckols, www.today.com. January 8, 2004.

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• The sad fact is that the same terrorist scenarios, if they occurred in five different States, there could be five different sets of responses to the American people. We need, at a minimum, a level of coordination on communicating threats to the public.

  Vito Fossella

  People, Different, Needs

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• I moved to New Zealand from Winnipeg when I was almost five. I hated it. It was to a city in the south of New Zealand called Invercargill and there was constant rain. There was a depressing sensation in the air.

  Daniel Gillies

  Depressing, Rain, Air

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

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• I've been working at performing for five years now. I've been working in Australia and Spain and England. When I was only 15 or 16, 1 was performing in bars; I could have had legal problems, but it's also the only way to get to know what music is all about.

  Andy Gibb

  Australia, Years, England

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• Everybody wants to be a better version of themselves - everybody. And I hope one day I can lose some weight. Maybe, who knows, I'll hire myself a trainer and a fancy cook. In five years, maybe I'll be an action hero. Then again, maybe I'll just be this guy. Who knows? But the fun part is embracing the human side of that.

  Billy Gardell

  Fun, Hero, Years

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• My life just got taken over by my cooking. If you don't have any discipline, which I don't, you can make 10 gallons of chocolate mousse, take a spoonful and another and another, and you won't realize you've eaten like five servings of it. It's just what you do.

  Duff Goldman

  Taken, Discipline, Cooking

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• I think I'm in the best place I've ever been in so many ways. I've just come out of five years of very difficult times for numerous reasons and yet at the same time it's lead to such growth. It's very exciting that way.

  Erin Gray

  Thinking, Years, Growth

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• Some writers and producers are currently writing a sitcom for me, so we'll see what happens there. I'm somewhat reluctant to talk about some of the upcoming projects that I'm working on; I've a lot of stuff on the go, including five pictures that I'm looking at producing.

  Gil Gerard

  Writing, Stuff, Projects

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• Pixar is going in the direction of the early Disney. And it's also corporate, where they have four or five projects in the works. I don't want to get into that subject.

  Joe Grant

  Four, Want, Pixar

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• The first thing I did was a print ad for Century Plaza. I was five.

  Mark-Paul Gosselaar

  Firsts, Century, Print

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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