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• I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must be a big, serious book. Now I think, 'No - it took you one year to write, and nine years to sit around eating Kit Kats.

  Ian Rankin

  Book, Taken, Writing

  "Ian Rankin, author - portrait of the artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2012.

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• Up until the time Turner Broadcasting bought Hanna-Barbera, it was essentially an independent studio whose planning cycle had to be nine months. You got a pickup in January, and you put it on the air in September. That's been the cycle.

  Fred Seibert

  Independent, Air, Months

  "Q&A with Hanna-Barbera president Fred Seibert". Interview with Phil Gallo and Richard Setlowe, variety.com. March 23, 1994.

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• What I have now are good problems of trying to decide and what I really want to do is good work next. My phone's ringing a lot more and I've got nine lines so when it doesn't ring, it's very frustrating.

  Bob Saget

  Phones, Trying, Lines

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

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• Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.

  David Sanborn

  Growing Up, Ninety Nine, Community

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• Nine out of 10 people who recognize me recognize me from the commercials.

  Justin Long

  People

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• I quit smoking the day I found out I was pregnant, which was nine years ago. But I'll still smoke in a movie. I have other vices, you know, like potato chips and chardonnay - but not together.

  Jean Smart

  Years, Smoking, Together

  "Jean Gets Smart About Fitness and Diet". Interview with Candace A. Wedlan, articles.latimes.com. July 20, 1998.

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• Usually it takes me about nine to 12 months to write a book.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Book, Writing, Months

  "He's a Man of Many Words". Interview with Sandra G. Boodman, www.washingtonpost.com. June 8, 2008.

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• I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.

  Sarah Sutton

  School, Years, Ballet

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• There have been nine Super Bowls in New Orleans, and not all of them have brought the best of luck to NFL Films. We got robbed twice there, got food poisoning, and my hotel room was broken into on the day the Bears played the Patriots in January 1986.

  Steve Sabol

  New Orleans, Nfl, Broken

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

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• I don't think I'm the world's most die-hard sci-fi fan, but I definitely grew up watching 'Star Trek' religiously - all of them: the original, 'Next Generation,' 'Deep Space Nine,' 'Voyager.' I think sci-fi has an important place in the cinema world. Fantasy is a big part of why films actually exist.

  Olivia Thirlby

  Stars, Thinking, Space

  "Olivia Thirlby Talks Loving Her 'Flawed' Character In ‘Nobody Walks,’ More ‘Dredd’ & Her 5 Favorite Performances" by Jen Vineyard, www.indiewire.com. October 18, 2012.

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• I would rather put out two year-defining songs a year than flood the market with eight or nine songs.

  Ryan Tedder

  Song, Eight, Years

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• I started when I was in 'The King and I' when I was on Broadway when I was nine.

  Jenna Ushkowitz

  Kings, Broadway

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• As a young girl, there were the obvious messages about what girls could and couldn't achieve. And to compound the limitations I felt being leveled upon me, I realized at the age of nine, that I was gay.

  Chely Wright

  Girl, Gay, Age

  "Confessions of a Gay Christian Country Singer" by Chely Wright, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2011.

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• I got on stage for the first time when I was seven. From seven until I was about nine it was probably more to do with just being on stage and having the attention.

  Gemma Ward

  Attention, Firsts, Just Being

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• Ninety-nine per cent of opening bands stink.

  Gene Ween

  Ninety Nine, Band, Stink

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• In my case what happened next in 1999 was that I fell apart over that back nine. When I saw I was in genuine contention that year I felt like throwing up. That remains probably the most nervous I've ever been on a golf course.

  Lee Westwood

  Golf, Years, Next

  "Leaner and meaner" by Bill Elliott, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2008.

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• You can be six behind on the back nine and still win the tournament.

  Mike Weir

  Winning, Six, Behinds

  Interview with Claude Nielson, old.augusta.com. April 5, 2005.

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• I feel like I'm on cloud nine right now.

  Nik Wallenda

  Clouds, Feels, Right Now

  "Wallenda exuberant after wire walk across Falls". www.foxnews.com. June 18, 2012.

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• We have made progress from where we were when President Obama took office, when the economy - our economy had just contracted almost by nine percent.

  Mitt Romney

  Office, Progress, President

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• I was a member of the Florida legislature for nine years, the speaker of the house, majority leader, majority whip.

  Marco Rubio

  Florida, Majority Leader, Years

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.

  Samuel Larsen

  Age, Acting, Done

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• Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Adults, United States, Financial

  "Deceptive Overdraft Fees: There Ought to Be a Law!" by Carolyn Maloney, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2013.

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• I know there are things I did in education that will never be reversed. I have not done that in film yet because I have only been here for about nine months.

  Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

  Done, Months, Film

  "Minister's second chance for stardom". Interview with Dan Milmo, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2004.

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• I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deeply in love with my father, and he died when I was nine. She remarried, and her second husband died, too. I saw the grieving process she went through. My mother had this way of moving on. It was a fine trait.

  Robert Winston

  Mother, Regret, Husband

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• Priscilla and I, and nine others, had been charged with
  'disturbing the peace,' among other charges, because we tried to order food at Woolworth. If not for segregation, and the fact that we were all Negroes, we would have been served without incident. At our trial on March 17, 1960,
  Judge John Rudd ruled that our lawyers should
  'get off that race question.'

  Patricia Stephens Due

  Race, Order, Judging

  Tananarive Due, Patricia Stephens Due (2003). “Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights”, One World/Ballantine

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