Nine Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• I think that if in your heart, you are seeking out a real puzzle, and you're not looking to frighten anybody, you're not looking to upset anybody, and you're looking to discuss a subject that you yourself went through when you were nine - you just don't remember the difficulties of one's own childhood.

  Maurice Sendak

  Real, Heart, Thinking

  Source: www.dazeddigital.com

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• I'm a lot more selective with work these days. My perfect plan is to do one movie every nine months. It would have to be a project that I found inspiring. It would also have to include other actors and a director I am inspired to work with.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Perfect, Months, Directors

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• One thing they don't tell you about growing old - you don't feel old, you just feel like yourself. And it's true. I don't feel eighty-nine years old. I simply am eighty-nine years old.

  Betty White

  Years, Age, Growing

  Betty White (2011). “If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won't)”, p.143, Penguin

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• Seems like only a year ago they were married nine years!

  Jane Ace

  Years, Married, Seems

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• Ninety-nine per cent of what we say is about values. I firmly believe that ethical capitalism is the best way of changing society for the better.

  Anita Roddick

  Believe, Ninety Nine, Way

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• My views on birth control are somewhat distorted by the fact that I was seventh of nine children.

  Robert Kennedy

  Children, Views, Birth Control

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• I loved dancing with a delirious 'I wish I could die' passion, especially when the music appealed to me ... but alas! only one in ten partners had any notion of time, and what made it worse, the nine were always behind, never before the beat. ... Sometimes I would firmly seize smaller, lighter partners by the scruff of the neck, so to speak, and whirl them along in the way they should go, but I saw they were not enjoying themselves, and oddly enough I wanted these wretches to like dancing with me.

  Ethel Smyth

  Dance, Passion, Dancing

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• Of the many species that have existed on earth - estimates run as high as fifty billion - more than ninety-nine per cent have disappeared. In the light of this, it is sometimes joked that all of life today amounts to little more than a rounding error.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Running, Errors, Light

  "The Sixth Extinction?" by Elizabeth Kolbert, www.newyorker.com. May 25, 2009.

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• The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Clever, Mean, Men

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• By the age of nine I had a thorough knowledge of contemporary Polish literature as well as of foreign literature in Polish translation, and I began to write poems in honour of a lady of thirty years. Naturally, she knew nothing about them.

  Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

  Writing, Thorough Knowledge, Years

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• Father,
  you died once,
  salted down at fifty-nine,
  packed down like a big snow angel,
  wasn't that enough?

  Anne Sexton

  Friends, Father, Angel

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• ... my mother and father ... raised nine of us and taught each to do our best ... We tried.

  Eunice Kennedy Shriver

  Mother, Father, Taught

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• If you think success is about so many more things and is so much more arbitrary, then you can be much more open to the idea that you can be Ben Fountain and publish your great book at forty-nine.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Book, Thinking, Ideas

  "The Rumpus Interview With Malcolm Gladwell". Interview with Stephen Elliott, therumpus.net. January 22, 2009.

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• Sleep is critical to me ... at least eight or nine hours a night. I start to slow down my body and my mind at least 30 minutes before I get into bed. I don't watch any disturbing or invigorating TV at night.

  Richard Simmons

  Sleep, Night, Eight

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• Aching familiar in a way that made me wish I was still eight. Eight was before death or divorce or heartbreak. Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes and boogie boards. Tangled hair, sunburned shoulders, Judy Blume, in bed by nine thirty.

  Jenny Han

  Dog, Divorce, Eight

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• When shopping at Dunkin' Donuts, pretend you are the mother of nine. Say things like, 'Little David likes cream-filled and Susie wanted jelly.' That way, no one will be suspicious when you order a dozen donuts with one cup of coffee to go.

  Linda Sunshine

  Mother, Coffee, Order

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• From my point of view, it is better to take the chance, having had nine jobs in 10 years, to recharge my batteries

  John Richard Reid

  Jobs, Views, Years

  "Reid's shock resignation gives Brown a fresh start" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2007.

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• Nine times out of ten you take the first step in creating your own universe by picking up the phone.

  Georgette Mosbacher

  Phones, Creating, Firsts

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• Am I willing to go to Mars? Yes, but I'm not willing to spend nine months getting there, then wait 18 more months until the planets align to come home.

  Gene Cernan

  Home, Waiting, Mars

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• What I do for a living is re-create human emotion, and that's a pretty weird thing to do from nine till five.

  Amanda Donohoe

  Emotion, Weird Things, Things To Do

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• I ended up doing a local AmDram musical when I was nine or so. We had to sing and dance and act. It was probably terrible, but I loved it.

  Gemma Chan

  Musical, Terrible, Locals

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• I was in like nine schools by ninth grade, so I moved a ton of times when I was younger.

  Jessica Stroup

  School, Ninth Grade, Grades

  "EXCLUSIVE: Jessica Stroup Dishes on 90210". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. April 6, 2009.

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• When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations.

  Paul Merton

  Reading, Book, Listening

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