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• Because I tend to kind of hide under the sheets when it comes to reality television. I've seen probably one episode of maybe five different shows, and that's about it.

  Diane Lane

  Reality, Different, Television

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• I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.

  James Laughlin

  Thinking, Years, Six

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• I guess I am just not the marrying type. I have given it a few chances, and it just goes haywire after a month or two. I am on wife number five right now, maybe five's a charm?

  Vince Neil

  Two, Numbers, Wife

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• After my second-to-last record called "The Greatest," I had gone on tour for a while and I didn't play an instrument for about five years. And I got kind of - it's not self-esteem or whatever, not anger towards myself - but disappointed in myself that I hadn't been challenging myself to learn musically.

  Cat Power

  Self Esteem, Years, Play

  "Cat Power: 'I'm Not Ashamed To Hear My Voice'". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. August 31, 2012.

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• Our points of reference in America aren't steeped in literature; they're steeped in that five minutes between commercials.

  Clarke Peters

  America, Literature, Minutes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I guess people recognize me, but I'm not a household name. Two out of every five people who come up to me know my name. The one thing I don't want is to be followed by paparazzi.

  Michael Pena

  Names, Two, People

  "Michael Pena's adjusting to the view from up there". Interview with Luis Gomez, www.chicagotribune.com. September 21, 2012.

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• The joy of 'Crash' was that it was all about the work. It was my first real part. Before that, it was a line here and there, maybe a scene. 'Crash' was five scenes, a beautiful arc, a little vignette of my own. It really meant something.

  Michael Pena

  Beautiful, Real, Joy

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

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• As a mom, I understand how important it is to ensure kids start their day right and always make sure my kids have a nutritious breakfast. One in five U.S. children live in homes where food is not always available, which is why I partnered with Kellogg's on their 'Share Your Breakfast' campaign, which provide breakfasts to kids in need.

  Monica Potter

  Mom, Children, Home

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• I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper.

  Ridley Pearson

  Thinking, Two, Voice

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• I don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image left about twins, whose father was telling them how their lives were going to go for the next eight years. I wrote a scene about that, and then another and then another and then another, and after five months I had 732 pages.

  Tamora Pierce

  Dream, Father, Writing

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• We did a gig at the Marquee and we were supposed to be paid five pounds but we never got it, and it cost us something like 10 pounds in petrol to get there to do it. So what we did was steal some equipment from The Marquee.

  Andy Partridge

  Cost, Gigs, Pounds

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• I'm blessed to come from a family with five brothers. We're all physical and athletic and like to work out, like to be outside, like to throw the ball around. We spent our entire childhoods on some kind of corner or in a field. We still do a Turkey Bowl every Thanksgiving. It gets competitive, man. Bloody.

  Danny Pino

  Brother, Blessed, Men

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• I spend so much time with my parents. My mom and I were joined at the hip for five years. There was not one moment when I wasn't with her.

  Kay Panabaker

  Mom, Years, Parent

  "Kay Panabaker Interview NO ORDINARY FAMILY". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 28, 2010.

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• My whole thing is I want to have a backup plan because maybe I won't get another acting job after 'Fame', maybe I'll want to give up on acting in five years or whatever and I want to have something else that I enjoy just as much as I enjoy acting.

  Kay Panabaker

  Jobs, Giving Up, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As a relatively young woman - I'm 33 - I hope to one day have a family and already have commitments. If and when I'm elected as an MP, I would face a choice: take my family with me to London each week or be apart for four, maybe five, nights a week.

  Lucy Powell

  Commitment, Night, Mps

  "Despite Sarah Palin, the glass ceiling for women in politics remains" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2008.

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• Now, I don't actually know the exact cut-off age where beautiful ceases and "must have-once-been-beautiful" begins. It's true it's not forty-five. I can still get attention when I try really hard, even if it's greatly reduced.

  Paulina Porizkova

  Beautiful, Cutting, Age

  "Aging" by Paulina Porizkova, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2010.

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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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• I take it very seriously, music. I think it's one of the tools that a director has with which to kind of paint. The right music can sometimes do five pages of scripted dialogue.

  Todd Phillips

  Thinking, Directors, Tools

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

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• 25 percent of search results for the world's top 20 largest brands are links to user-generated content. 34 percent of bloggers post opinions about products and brands.

  Erik Qualman

  Twenties, World, Links

  "Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live and Do Business". Book by Erik Qualman, 2009.

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• Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records.

  Robert Quine

  Records, Four, Genes

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• One of the first times I ever performed in front of a big group of people was at my kindergarten graduation. I did, like, a Michael Jackson impersonation as, like, a five year old. I had the suit and blazer, the glove and the fedora, and I just performed a whole Michael Jackson song. I'm sure it was 'Smooth Criminal.

  Chance the Rapper

  Song, Years, People

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• My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough money to live on, and was beginning to think I'd have to give up the dream of being a full-time writer.

  Ian Rankin

  Dream, Giving Up, Book

  "Ian Rankin, author - portrait of the artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2012.

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• I thought maybe I'd be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I'd last about five minutes, being a farmer.

  Matthew Rhys

  Silly, Thinking, Lasts

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

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• I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest.

  Alain Robert

  World, Building, Climbs

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• I've always loved old hot rods. I have four or five of them at home that I work on when I'm not working out.

  Buddy Rice

  Home, Work Out, Hot

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