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• I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, 'I'm writing plays, I should learn about acting and what it is.' So I went to the HB Studio in New York, and I was there for about nine months.

  Wallace Shawn

  New York, Writing, Play

  "Wallace Shawn juggles acting jobs and play writing". Interview with Dany Margolies, www.reuters.com. February 1, 2011.

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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 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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• I always knew I wanted to be an actor, certainly from the age of eight or nine. I think when you know what you want to do, you're very lucky because you've got a focus.

  Ashley Jensen

  Thinking, Eight, Focus

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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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• If you cage a wild thing, you can be sure it will die, but if you let it run free, nine times out of ten it will run back home.

  Fannie Flagg

  Running, Home, Cages

  Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.290, Random House

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• Since I spent eighteen years of my life as a child, and nine years of that life as a pretty sexually active gay child, my complaint against the current attitudes is that they work mightily to silence the voices of children first and secondarily ignore what adults have to say who have been through these situations. One size fits all is never the way to handle any situation with a human dimension. Many, many children-and I was one of them-are desperate to establish some sort of sexual relation with an older and even adult figure.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Attitude, Children, Gay

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• Darren Hardy has written a new bible for the self-improvement space. If you are looking for the real deal-a real program, with real tools that can change your life and make your dreams a reality-The Compound Effect is it! I plan to use this book to go back and look at what I need to again work on in my own life! Buy ten copies, one for yourself and nine more for those you love, and pass them out now-those who get it will thank you!

  David Bach

  Dream, Real, Book

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• Let me close by bearing witness (and my nine decades on this earth fully qualify me to say this) that the older I get, the more I realize that family is the center of life and is the key to eternal happiness.

  L. Tom Perry

  Keys, Eternal Happiness, Earth

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• Nine out of ten Americans are actually monarchists at bottom. The fact is proved by their high suseptibility to political claims by president's sons and other relatives, usually nonentities.

  H. L. Mencken

  Son, Government, Political

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• During five literary generations every enlightened person had despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons are forgotten and Kipling is in some sense still there.

  George Orwell

  Art, Generations, Entertainment

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.177, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's important to keep your creative muscle strong and working. My most inspiring method though is just sitting down with an acoustic guitar and coming up with melodies. It's what I've been doing nice I was nine years old.

  Zella Day

  Strong, Nice, Guitar

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• With the adult ones, I feel I need to get as deep inside the psychology of a character as I can, and that needs to be first-person. In the children's books, I feel I need some distance. I don't want to be the nine-year-old at the center of the story. I need to have some type of narrative voice.

  John Boyne

  Children, Distance, Book

  "John Boyne hates celebrity children's books". Interview with Kelly Gallucci, www.usatoday.com. April 11, 2014.

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• That happened when I was a freshman in high school. The guy reading it [the Bible] was dating my older sister. I thought he was the cutest thing that had ever happened in Nashville. He was nine years older than me and I thought, 'Mimi, I hate to do this to you, but I'm going to steal this guy away.' So I went to this Bible study thinking I was going to make this guy fall in love with me. I was fourteen. Hey, you know. But I was so overwhelmed by what they were talking about at this Bible study. I became a very serious, committed Christian.

  Amy Grant

  Christian, Falling In Love, Hate

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• This going into Europe will not turn out to be the thrilling mutual exchange supposed. It is more like nine middle-aged couples with failing marriages meeting in a darkened bedroom in a Brussels hotel for a group grope.

  E. P. Thompson

  Couple, Europe, Groups

  1975 On Britain's entry into the EEC, in the Sunday Times, 27 Apr.

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• When I was a young boy I wanted to play for Newcastle United, I wanted to wear the number nine shirt and I wanted to score goals at St James' Park. I've lived my dream and I realise how lucky I've been to have done that.

  Alan Shearer

  Dream, Boys, Play

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• I have nine children... and one of them is an invalid. Her mother is obliged to take her away in the winter, and when one bird is off the nest, the other has to go on.

  Melville Fuller

  Mother, Children, Winter

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• Negative attitude is nine times more powerful than positive attitude.

  Bikram Choudhury

  Powerful, Attitude, Negative

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• But Jesus always leaves the ninety-nine to chase after the one. He always searches for the one lost coin.

  Heidi Baker

  Jesus, Ninety Nine, Coins

  Heidi Baker, Shara Pradhan (2008). “Compelled by Love”, p.68, Charisma Media

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• I do not see the E.E.C. [European Economic Community] as a great love affair. It's more like nine middle aged couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Travel, Couple, Home

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• I was always with a single mom, and we never had schedules or anything. We were just Bohemian, us against the world, which was kind of great, but it certainly didn't breed security. I've gotten hyper-sensitive to schedules and bath time and eating at the dinner table. We don't just 'Bohemian' go out at nine o'clock and go get Chinese food.

  Brooke Shields

  Mom, Chinese, Dinner

  "Brooke Shields on Beauty, Marriage, And Self-Esteem". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.health.com. September 01, 2001.

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• I was a bartender at a Pizzeria Uno's for nine years. The people I worked with were amazing, but it was quite possibly the most miserable time of my life.

  Bobby Moynihan

  Years, People, Miserable

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• There is a dreamlike quality to the 1936 Basque government, the fulfillment of a historic longing that was to be crushed only nine months later in carnage the scale of which had never before been seen on earth.

  Mark Kurlansky

  Government, Quality, Earth

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• Another thing I recall was falling in love with Shirley Temple when I was nine or ten.

  Clint Walker

  Falling In Love, Temples, Recalls

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• Vanity is normal in performers. Does it bother other people? All the time. But nine times out of 10, that says more about them than you.

  Tom Hardy

  Vanity, People, Doe

  "Tom Hardy Talks Grown-Up Love". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. July 19, 2012.

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