Nine Years Quotes - Page 5

• Thirty-nine years of my life had passed before I understood that clouds were not my enemy; that they were beautiful, and that I needed them. I suppose this, for me, marked the beginning of wisdom. Life is short.

  Iimani David

  Beautiful, Life Is Short, Clouds

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• Nine Years Under is a sparkling debut--- brimming with love and bursting with life. Booker's Baltimore is equal parts The Wire and The Cosby show. She doesn't shrink from the realities of life in an inner city funeral home, but she is also a loving witness, documenting the big hearted community that takes care of its own. Told with compassion, wit, and good old fashioned story telling, Sheri Booker gives us unforgettable characters who will make you laugh right up until they break your heart.

  Tayari Jones

  Character, Home, Heart

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• I just want to keep going with the soaps. Maybe it's because I'm just so used to them. I was 21 when I started 'Passions' and did that for nine years. It's what I know.

  Lindsay Hartley

  Passion, Years, Want

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• When I was nine years old I use to copy ( not trace ) the covers of the Donald Duck comics. Many years later I became a close friend of Jack Hannah, the director of the Donald Duck film shorts.

  William Jackson

  Years, Ducks, Directors

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• It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.

  John Bright

  School, Years, Nine

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• I've been fighting for nine years and in the beginning there was a lot of backlash and non-supporters of women fighters. We could never find many women fighters and when we did sometimes we were put on the card for the wrong reasons. It was frustrating. When I'd go train in gyms, it seemed like the guys at the gym were skeptical and didn't think I was as serious as they were because I was a woman, but today things are different.

  Miesha Tate

  Fighting, Thinking, Years

  Source: me.askmen.com

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• Anybody who is thinking of applying for the Scotland job in the next eight or nine years should go get themselves checked out by about 15 psychiatrists.

  Martin O'Neill

  Jobs, Thinking, Eight

  "Ireland's Martin O'Neill now faces battle to stop career petering out" by Ewan Murray, www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2015.

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• I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to publish my book.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Book, Years, Opposites

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• I go to the favelas in Brazil. It's the same in the South Side of Chicago. It's the same, or just more violent. We're trying to get them to stop selling dope. You see kids with AK-47s, and nine-year-olds with nine millimeters. You know, they don't play. They make us look like nuns.

  Quincy Jones

  Kids, Dope, Years

  "Quincy Jones Recalls "Freaking Out" at Michael Jackson's Death and His Private Nickname for the Star". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 11, 2015.

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• I played a lot of serious parts in a lot of TV movies and early miniseries but what happens is that you get sort of locked into "Oh no, he's a serious actor." Well, I was a serious actor for nine years or 10 years and then I get into comedy and everybody said, "Oh no, he's funny. He can do comedy," and then all of a sudden, you're just a comedy guy.

  Barry Bostwick

  Years, Guy, Actors

  "Barry Bostwick on Rocky Horror, Spin City, and playing rich assholes". Interview with Joel Keller, tv.avclub.com. June 6, 2015.

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• I do write. I actually do want to start my music as well. My sister and I are starting a band. I've been playing a guitar for nine years, and she plays piano, and we sing together. We're going to start up something soon. I mostly am writing songs right now actually, but I would love to write a script someday.

  Kaitlyn Dever

  Song, Writing, Guitar

  Source: collider.com

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• My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer. But as an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics.

  William Kempe

  Eight, Years, Dancer

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• If you're into the brand and the heritage of the brand, you can always remember where you got your first Fred Perry Shirt, and for me I was nine years old

  Bradley Wiggins

  Years, Heritage, Nine

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• [At nine years old] I didn't really know what that meant at the time. I thought it might be in a warm summer sport like softball, but I played a variety of sports growing up - basketball, soccer and track. I really didn't care. I just wanted to be an Olympian.

  Elana Meyers

  Basketball, Summer, Softball

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• She [then nine-year-old daughter Emily] grew up with 'The Rhythm is Gonna Get You,' Well . . . It got her!

  Gloria Estefan

  Daughter, Years, Nine

  Comment to concert audience in Washington, D.C., September 8, 2004.

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• I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better.

  Edward Albee

  Writing, Years, Play

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

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• I remember really vividly kneeling by my bed as a nine-year-old, saying my prayers and asking God to give me boobs that were so big that if I laid on my back I wouldn't be able to see my feet.

  Katy Perry

  Prayer, Years, Feet

  "Perry prayed for bust results". The Sun, August 17, 2009.

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• My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five I read and wrote well enough to do my nine-year older brother's homework in exchange for chocolate or cigarettes. By the time I was 10, I was reading Orwell, Tolstoy's War and Peace, and the Koran. I was reading comic books too.

  Chris Abani

  Mom, Brother, War

  Interview with Amy Sutherland, www.bostonglobe.com. March 22, 2014.

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• Over the past few years, the Supreme Court was six times more likely to accept cases from an elite group of 66 lawyers than it was from more than 99 percent of those who petitioned the court. That's the finding of a recent Reuters special report called "The Echo Chamber." It illustrates how almost half the appeals accepted by the court over a nine-year period came from this cadre of elite lawyers--many of whom have personal connections to the nine justices.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Past, Years, Echoes

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• I didn't write professionally at first. It took me nine years to get anything published. At the beginning I mostly wrote picture books, which were rejected by every children's book publisher in America. The first book of mine to be accepted for publication was ELLA ENCHANTED, and not one but two publishers wanted it. That day, April 17, 1996, was one of the happiest in my life.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Children, Book, Writing

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• Before I was nine years old, I had been a socialist. When young, everyone is a socialist; later he becomes cleverer.

  Janusz Korwin-Mikke

  Years, Nine, Young

  "Przepisy celne, ale ulgowe" ("Customs regulations, but reduced"), Essay by Janusz Korwin-Mikke, Angora magazine, 1998.

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• I know for a stretch, at least nine years, I was one of the best lead-off hitters in baseball

  Brady Anderson

  Sports, Baseball, Years

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• Yes, I know and then in the same time period within those nine years I lost 150 pounds.

  Star Jones

  Years, Nine, Pounds

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. January 10, 2006.

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• I think it took us nine years to get one million subscribers to AOL, and then in the next nine years we went from one million to 35 million.

  Steve Case

  Thinking, Years, Nine

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• What the world is like from a nine-year-old's point of view? My memory is that nothing is explained to you, you've got to try to figure it out, pick up clues from the people around you, try to figure it out from their reactions.

  Spike Jonze

  Memories, Views, Years

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