Six Months Quotes - Page 17

• it's a good idea to wait a few months before joining anything when you arrive at a village. A bookseller friend who retired to nearby Oxfordshire, and was worried he might be bored, got himself on to every village committee in the first six months, and spent the next ten years extricating himself.

  Jilly Cooper

  Ideas, Years, Bored

  Jilly Cooper (2012). “Angels Rush In”, p.402, Random House

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• Oh, I wish it were in my power to put men in the place of fashionable women for one six months! They should curl their hair, consult the milliner, make spongecake, do a little embroidery, wear long skirts, and dress so tightly that they could scarcely breathe.

  Lucy Stone

  Men, Hair, Long

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• If you start thinking about retirement in six months' time, you're already there.

  Brian O'Driscoll

  Retirement, Thinking, Ifs

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• Most television shows are going to require an actor sign up from four to six years, but an anthology show really amounts to five or six months at the most. I thought serious actors might be attracted to that.

  Nic Pizzolatto

  Years, Actors, Television

  "‘True Detective’ creator on his gripping new HBO series". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. January 7, 2014.

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• Imagine yourself acclaimed, a decorated national hero, an idol to millions of desperate people, then within six months, condemned to death by hanging.

  Joachim Peiper

  Hero, Idols, People

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• You can't know if someone's really your best friend. I think the measure of that is you could not see each other for six months and then when you see each other you laugh the same way you did when you were a little kid.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Kids, Thinking, Laughing

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• April is the two-week-old kitten, the month-old lamb, the six-month-old heifer, the two-year-old girl. Too young to know it has either past or future, it wears the ribbon of the fleeting present as part of itself.

  Gladys Hasty Carroll

  Girl, Past, Years

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• Microsoft obviously takes way too long to fix flaws, .. All researchers should follow responsible disclosure guidelines, but if a vendor like Microsoft takes six months to a year to fix a flaw, a researcher has every right to release the details.

  Bill Vaughan

  Years, Long, Microsoft

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• I have a creative mind, so if I listen to the song, I have an idea, I thought of five or six months ago, I'll bring it back into the playing field. I can tweak ideas or make them better. Just come up with something and then we go from there.

  Chris Brown

  Song, Ideas, Creative

  "Just Jared" Interview, www2.justjared.com. September 4, 2008.

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• Harold Ramis really got my career going and was a friend for a long time. I was doing a play in L.A., and he came to see it a few times and recommended me to Ivan Reitman for Ghostbusters 2. Six months later, I quit real estate and was acting for good, and it was really because Harold took an interest in me and made a phone call and did stuff that people don't usually do, even if they like somebody.

  Kurt Fuller

  Real, Phones, Play

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• One of many problems with survey research in general is that you can only survey the survivors. In other words, if you were to do a survey of people who were known to have played Russian Roulette and you sent out the questions before the time they were going to play and then you come back six months after they played Russian Roulette, you would probably discover that among the people who did come back there was no harm done.

  Thomas Sowell

  Play, People, Months

  "Do No Harm: An Interview With Thomas Sowell". Interview with David Harsanyi, thefederalist.com. January 13, 2015.

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• The only good Jap is one that's been dead six months.

  William Halsey

  Months, Six

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• Now, if you truly understand how marketing works today, you know there is no individual six-month campaign; there's only the 365-day campaign, during which you produce new content daily.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Marketing, Campaigns, Today

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2013). “Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• The second episode of any new show can be tough. You have about a week to top the well-crafted and polished pilot episode that was written over six months.

  Michael Patrick King

  Pilots, Months, Six

  "Showrunners 2012: '2 Broke Girls'' Michael Patrick King". Interview with Lacey Rose, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 3, 2012.

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• Sports teaches you there is always a second innings in life. If you fail today, theres a second innings maybe two days later. Maybe theres another opportunity coming up three or six months later. If you look at mistake as learnings and commit never to make a same mistake again, then you actually get better with every mistake that you make.

  Harsha Bhogle

  Sports, Mistake, Opportunity

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• In April, 1915, the Ottoman Government began to put into execution throughout Turkey a systematic and carefully-prepared plan to exterminate the Armenian race. In six months nearly a million Armenians have been killed. The number of victims and the manner of their destruction are without parallel in Modern History.

  Herbert Adams Gibbons

  Turkeys, Numbers, Race

  Herbert Adams Gibbons (1916). “The Blackest Page of Modern History: Events in Armenia in 1915 : The Facts and the Responsibilities”

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• I think sometimes you get given a good pile of goodwill, and it's whether you use it up in the first six months or spread it out over a career.

  Ricky Gervais

  Thinking, Careers, Use

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• ... the art of politics is to be ahead of your time--about six months will do it. Any more than that, and people forget you were there.

  Gloria Steinem

  Art, People, Forget You

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• With moviemaking, you can be halfway around the world for six months. So there are amazing benefits to doing TV, and with the platform change and the way it is, I would never ever rule out doing TV again.

  Chris Pratt

  Benefits, World, Way

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• People always think I was just playing in a piano bar, but I only did that for about six months. The rest of the time I was playing in bands.

  Billy Joel

  Thinking, Piano, People

  "Backstage With Billy Joel: The Billboard Cover Story Interview (Exclusive)". Interview with Ray Waddell, www.billboard.com. January 31, 2014.

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• I went to sexaholics anonymous for six months. For research. I wanted to see the structure of the groups, how they were conducted, and what the atmosphere was like, and also to be able to describe the people as human beings, rather than as the dirty jokes that they are in our culture.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Dirty, People, Atmosphere

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• I was offered a job at the Cincinnati Post as their editorial cartoonist in a trial six month arrangement. The agreement was that they could fire me or I could quit with no questions asked if things didn't work out during the first few months. Sure enough, things didn't work out, and they fired me, no questions asked.

  Bill Watterson

  Jobs, Fire, Agreement

  Source: bob.bigw.org

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• I very early caught on that the editor of Cincinnati Post had something specific in mind that he was looking for, and I tried to accommodate him in order to get published. I would turn out rough idea after rough idea, and he would veto eighty percent of them. I pretty much prostituted myself for six months but I couldn't please him, so he sent me packing.

  Bill Watterson

  Order, Editors, Ideas

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• Instead of having a baby, why dont you get a tattoo of a baby first, and see how that works out for six months to a year, and then see if you're ready to have a baby.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Tattoo, Baby

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• I was trying to get into the business from a young age, but I don't think I really realized how much I loved it until I booked my first movie and found myself in New Zealand for six months filming Bridge to Terabithia.

  Bailee Madison

  Thinking, Bridges, Age

  Source: www.etonline.com

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