Nine Years Quotes

• I had a series of childhood illnesses... scarlet fever.... pneumonia.... Polio. I walked with braces until I was at least nine years old. My life wasn't like the average person who grew up and decided to enter the world of sports.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Sports, Pneumonia, Average

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• I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.

  Antonin Artaud

  Suicide, Time, Morning

  "Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society". Essay by Antonin Artaud, 1947.

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• If for nine years I have possessed a goodly apple that is rotten at the core and discover its rottenness only in nine years and six months less four days, isn't it true to say that for nine years I possessed a goodly apple?

  Ford Madox Ford

  Years, Apples, Six Months

  Ford Madox Ford (2015). “The Good Soldier”, p.6, Booklassic

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• I intend to be, the richest man in the world.

  Howard Hughes

  Positive Thinking, Men, World

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• Now every girl is expected to have: Caucasian blue eyes, full Spanish lips, a classic button nose, hairless Asian skin with a California tan, a Jamaican dance hall ass, long Swedish legs, small Japanese feet, the abs of a lesbian gym owner, the hips of a nine-year-old boy, the arms of Michelle Obama, and doll tits. The person closest to actually achieving this look is Kim Kardashian, who, as we know, was made by Russian scientists to sabotage our athletes.

  Tina Fey

  Girl, Sarcastic, Athlete

  "Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, April 5, 2011.

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• I came to America when I was seven and a half in 91. I think the first full length book in English that I read was Return to Oz when I was nine years old.

  Mila Kunis

  Book, Thinking, America

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• When I look in the mirror, I sometimes think I'm getting old, but then I have two generations behind me so that helps puts things into perspective. I am a grandmother now, but at least my nine-year-old grandson Jude calls me Glamma and not Granny.

  Stephanie Beacham

  Grandmother, Thinking, Mirrors

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• I started dancing when I saw Fred Astaire in 'Flying Down to Rio,' at approximately nine years old. Fred Astaire influenced me, more than anything, to be in 'show business.

  Stanley Donen

  Years, Dancing, Flying

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• I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Jobs, Eight, Years

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• I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old.

  Ewan McGregor

  Years, Actors, Nine

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• My brother is nine years older than I am. He's a psychology professor, I'm an actor, and so we look at life in two different ways. We thought it would be interesting to come together and take our unique perspectives and share them with everybody else.

  Matt Czuchry

  Brother, Unique, Years

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

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• I'm a nine-year old kid inside and my passion has been all my life to want to travel into space.

  Peter Diamandis

  Passion, Kids, Years

  Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

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• I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Lying, Men, Years

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

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• When I first started acting I was about nine years old. I had never been to audition in my life and my agent sent me out. It was just a commercial for 'Harry Potter.' That was the first thing I ever went out for and I got the 'Harry Potter' commercial which was really cool, but I didn't play Harry Potter.

  Alexander Ludwig

  Years, Play, Acting

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• The first time I saw 'Sunset Boulevard' I was probably eight or nine years old, and it really struck me how it's so simply put and elegant, yet there's so much going on.

  Jennifer Lynch

  Sunset, Eight, Years

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• I think I was about nine years old when I got my first job.

  Tyler Hoechlin

  Jobs, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• Nine years ago on September 14, 2001, I placed the lone vote against the 'Authorization for Use of Military Force' - an authorization that I knew would provide a blank check to wage war anywhere, at any time, and for any length.

  Barbara Lee

  Military, War, Years

  "Afghanistan War Review Conclusions Misguided" by Barbara Lee, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2010.

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• Maybe I'm misjudging people, but I feel like a lot of people still have an image of me in a bonnet at nine years old.

  Anna Paquin

  Years, People, Nine

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• I'm becoming more squeamish. I didn't use to be - nine years of 'Silent Witness' prepared me for most things one will have the misfortune to see in life. Before, I'd be wading up to my neck in gore, but now I tend to look away.

  Amanda Burton

  Years, Looks, Use

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• Of course, my father was a soccer player. He used to play very good. Then, when I was young, eight or nine years old, ten years old, I just want to be like my father.

  Pele

  Soccer, Father, Player

  "Talk Asia" with Anna Coren, edition.cnn.com. April 27, 2011.

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• I was a singer professionally when I was four years old, and I did not really begin to play any instrument - the first one, of course, was drums - till I was about nine years old.

  Mel Torme

  Years, Play, Four

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• I think my dream would have been to be a solo artist. But it didn't work out like that, and I also love to sing lots of musical stuff; I was really good at that, I've got a big voice. I dropped into musical theater and really enjoyed it and I sang for about nine years of my career.

  Luke Evans

  Dream, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I was fifteen I wrote seven hundred pages of an incredibly bad novel - it's a very funny book I still like a lot. Then, when I was nineteen I wrote a couple hundred pages of another novel, which wasn't very good either. I was still determined to be a writer. And since I was a writer, and here I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better.

  Edward Albee

  Couple, Book, Writing

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.49, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• My mother didn't feel very satisfied about the English background that I had received in the public schools in Littleton. So, she insisted that I take a year under the high school level. So, I was in boarding school nine years.

  Ella Baker

  Mother, School, Years

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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• The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer the intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and muscles for a gestation period much longer than nine months or even nine years.

  Aberjhani

  Prayer, Light, Gestation Period

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.28, Lulu.com

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