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• If I didn't get a job, between 16 and 18, that wasn't significant, I was just going to go to college. I didn't want to be a struggling actor at 36 with five kids, doing something I hated. You see the story so much. It's such a vicious business to be in when you're not meant to be in it.

  Jessica Alba

  Jobs, Struggle, Kids

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• I started writing 'Brick Lane' when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north of England when I was overtaken by a compulsion to start writing.

  Monica Ali

  Children, Writing, Holiday

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• Without bragging, I've been blessed to have five of the greatest statistical years for a running back.

  Shaun Alexander

  Running, Blessed, Years

  "MVP not sulking over Super Bowl". ESPN Interview, www.espn.com.

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• My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.

  Sherman Alexie

  Father, Lying, Book

  "Encore: Living Outside Tribal Lines". "Moyers & Company" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. May 31, 2013.

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• I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Song, Father, Years

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• The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America.

  Spencer Abraham

  School, America, Ratios

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• I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.

  Tatyana Ali

  College, Roommate, Campus

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I made my first movie when I was five.

  Abigail Breslin

  Firsts, Made

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• For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.

  Douglas Booth

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are probably five songs in the world that I get excited about when I hear them on the radio.

  Sia Furler

  Song, World, Radio

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

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• Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of the Prohibitionists. None of the great boons and usufructs that were to follow the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment has come to pass. There is not less drunkenness in the Republic, but more. There is not less crime, but more. There is not less insanity, but more. The cost of government is not smaller, but vastly greater. Respect for law has not increased, but diminished.

  H. L. Mencken

  Law, Government, Years

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• The founders of Snapchat last year turned down a $3 billion offer from Facebook and a $4 billion offer from Google. It was a surprising show of integrity from the guys who invented the app that lets you look at pictures of boobs for five seconds.

  Cecily Strong

  Integrity, Technology, Years

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• The story I tell is so incomplete, five kids in the house and no food to eat.

  Too $hort

  Kids, Reality, House

  Song: The Ghetto

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• You five and ten cent women with nothing in your heads, I got a real gal I'm loving and Lord I'll love her 'til I'm dead.

  Bob Dylan

  Real, Lord, Gals

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• Where I'm from we don't trust paper. Wealth is what's here on the premises. If I open a cupboard and see, say, thirty cans of tomato sauce and a five-pound bag of rice, I get a little thrill of well-being - much more so than if I take a look at the quarterly dividend report from my mutual fund.

  Garrison Keillor

  Trust, Paper, Littles

  "The Times Book of Quotations". Book by HarperCollins, 2000.

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• The five senses are all correlated, the sixth and seventh is how you elevate it.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Inspirational, Five Senses, Senses

  Song: Rise 'n' Shine

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• In forty-five minutes, it'll all be done. We'll all be good and crispy, but we'll still be number one.

  Don Henley

  Peace, Numbers, Special

  Song: Them and Us, Album: I Can't Stand Still

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• I heard some famous people had an anniversary, five long years together, it was Hollywood history. Now my grandma and grandpa never made no printed page, but they took the love of 57 years right to the grave.

  Clay Walker

  Art, Grandma, Media

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• When Mama prayed, lives were changed. Not much more than five foot tall, but mountains big and small crumbled all away.

  Randy Travis

  Family, Feet, Mountain

  Song: When Mama Prayed, Album: Rise and Shine

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• I wrote a great deal during the next ten [early] years,but very little of any importance; there are not more than four or five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.

  G. H. Hardy

  Science, Years, Paper

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• The only census of the senses, so far as I am aware, that ever before made them more than five, was the Irishman's reckoning of seven senses. I presume the Irishman's seventh sense was common sense; and I believe that the possession of that virtue by my countrymen-I speak as an Irishman.

  Lord Kelvin

  Believe, Science, Common Sense

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• Five common traits of good writers: (1) They have something to say. (2) They read widely and have done so since childhood. (3) They possess what Isaac Asimov calls a "capacity for clear thought," able to go from point to point in an orderly sequence, an A to Z approach. (4) They're geniuses at putting their emotions into words. (5) They possess an insatiable curiosity, constantly asking Why and How.

  James J. Kilpatrick

  Writing, Asking Why, Childhood

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• I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.

  Roger Zelazny

  Writing, Typewriters, Trying

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• Everybody nose dive, hold your breath, count to five. Back slap, booby trap, cover it up in bubble wrap. Room shake, earth quake, find a way to stay awake. It's going to blow, it's going to break, this is more than I can take.

  Peter Gabriel

  Blow, Poetry, Noses

  Song: Steam, Album: Us, 1992

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• I haven't seen one guy beat five people yet. It needs to be done collectively.

  Eric Snow

  Basketball, People, Guy

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