Nine Quotes - Page 11

• I got to a nine-hour surgery, I lost lots of body parts and rearranged, I got really months of infection that I lost 30 pounds. But the idea of pumping poison into my bloodstream just - I couldn't, I couldn't.

  Eve Ensler

  Ideas, Poison, Body

  "Playwright-activist Eve Ensler". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. May 22, 2013.

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• Having been a journalist for thirty-nine years, I've developed a pretty thick skin.

  Pete Earley

  Years, Skins, Thirty

  "My Book Led To A Man’s Execution" by Pete Earley, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2012.

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• I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun.

  Wavy Gravy

  Summer, Fun, Kids

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• I knew what I wanted to do in sport from the age of nine.

  Magdalena Neuner

  Sports, Age, Wanted

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• The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract.

  Stephen Gaghan

  Average, Years, Hollywood

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

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• Well, let's see: I started [in music] at nine and quit. Then got back to it when I was twelve. Then I became a party star. In fact, I became a party!

  Richard Manuel

  Stars, Party, Twelve

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• Could there be a more hilarious sad sack than Duncan Leland, whose trials and tribulations, so wittily conveyed, had me laughing (and wincing) from the first page? Hart's Maine landscape is rich with eccentric characters, dried fish, and other surprising and original treasures. While Duncan sinks, the reader will float on a cloud nine of classy entertainment.

  Mameve Medwed

  Character, Clouds, Laughing

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• Taxation, for example, is eternally lively; it concerns nine-tenths of us more directly than either smallpox or golf, and has just as much drama in it; moreover, it has been mellowed and made gay by as many gaudy, preposterous theories

  H. L. Mencken

  Drama, Gay, Golf

  H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.279, Cosimo, Inc.

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• My father died at 42, of a heart attack. My mother was 32 then. She never wanted to be a victim. And that really resonated as a nine-year-old child. And one of the most revealing things was, very soon after my father died - he was in real estate and he owned some modest buildings - they came to my mother, the men that worked for him, and they said, "You don't have to worry. We will run the business and we will take care of you." And my mother said, "No, you won't. You will teach me how to run the business and I will take care of it and my children."

  Sherry Lansing

  Mother, Running, Children

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• One of the most persistent fallacies about the Christian Church is that it kept learning alive during the Dark and Middle Ages. What the Church did was to keep learning alive in the monasteries, while preventing the spread of knowledge outside them... Even as late as the beginning of the nineteenth century, however, nine-tenths of Christian Europe was illiterate.

  Margaret E. Knight

  Christian, Dark, Europe

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• Staying in the present is the key to any golfer's game: once you start thinking about a shot you just messed up or what you have to do on the next nine to catch somebody, you're lost.

  Paul Azinger

  Golf, Thinking, Keys

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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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• I'm a smart enough person to know that I don't want everyone to be cookie-cutter versions of the nine guys who wear Converse sneakers.

  Mindy Kaling

  Smart, Sneakers, Guy

  Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com.

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• It certainly is an embarrassing fact, then, for certain classical scholars to have to face, that the Platonic Academy continued to function in Athens for over nine hundred years.

  Robert K. G. Temple

  Years, Athens, Faces

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• I was the youngest of nine siblings... I lost my father when I was just 13. For me, the elders have been my gods.

  Tina Ambani

  Father, Sibling, Lost

  "Yesterday's Screen Heartbreaker Tina Munim, Now Ambani, Turns 60". Interview with Khalid Mohamed, www.thequint.com. November 2, 2017.

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• Weve got nine generations of farmers in my family, in Warwickshire. And I do feel connected to being a farmers son. There was a time when I didnt, when I rebelled against it, but theres certainly that sort of work ethic within me.

  Joseph Mawle

  Son, Work Ethic, Generations

  "Joseph Mawle: 'I've played some despicable characters'". Interview with Ursula Kenny, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2011.

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• Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Moving, Selfishness, Principles

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• The clock struck half past two. In the little office at the back of Mr. McKechnie's bookshop, Gordon--Gordon Comstock, last member of the Comstock family, aged twenty-nine and rather moth-eaten already--lounged across the table, pushing a fourpenny packet of Player's Weights open and shut with his thumb.

  George Orwell

  Book, Past, Player

  George Orwell (1987). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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• Nine-tenths of human law is about possession.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Law, Possession, Humans

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.25, Faber & Faber

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• ... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.

  Edith Wharton

  Book, House, Library

  Edith Wharton (2013). “A Backward Glance”, p.216, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Ninety-nine percent of all work on self is attitudinal.

  E. J. Gold

  Ninety Nine, Self, Percent

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• New York was the only city I knew in the world where you could be desperately lonely at nine in the morning, crossing the street for a bagel at Gristede's, and find that seven hours later you were drinking Irish coffee at P.J. Clarke's with all the friends you had inherited along the way.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Lonely, Morning, New York

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• Never have so many been so high so often. When a Boston research group decided to compare the effects of marijuana on experienced and inexperienced users, it took them two months to line up nine student subjects who had never used marijuana.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Marijuana, Two, Boston

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• The astronomers tell us that other planets are gifted with two - four - even nine lavish moons. Imagine the romantic possibilities of nine moons.

  Edna Ferber

  Moon, Two, Four

  Edna Ferber (1963). “A Kind of Magic”

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• I love Britain, I lived there for nine years doing shows and things, but I don't know what a British sensibility is. I'd like to have someone tell me what an American sensibility is.

  Frank Oz

  Years, British, Britain

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 16, 2007.

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