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• I learned to knit in 2002, six months after my 5-year-old daughter, Grace, died suddenly from a virulent form of strep. I was unable to read or write, and friends suggested I take up knitting; almost immediately I fell under its spell.

  Ann Hood

  Daughter, Mother, Writing

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• It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small village in New England, but my children are not named Heracles and Persephone, and my daughter doesn't disappear underground every six months and emerge in the spring.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Daughter, Mother, Children

  "'Our Sassy Black Friend' Jamaica Kincaid". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2013.

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• How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? . . . Twelve white men say a black man must die, and another white man sets the date and time without consulting one black person. . . . They sentence you to death because you were at the wrong place at the wrong time, with no proof that you had anything at all to do with the crime . . . . Yet six months later they come and unlock your cage and tell you, We, us, white folks all, have decided it's time for you to die, because this is the convenient date and time.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Men, White Man, People

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• It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and then write it sentence by sentence - no first draft. I can't write five words but that I change seven.

  Dorothy Parker

  Writing, Thinking, Stories

  The Paris Review, 1956.

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• I worry that our lives are like soap operas. We can go for months and not tune in to them, then six months later we look in and the same stuff is still going on.

  Jane Wagner

  Goal, Worry, Tunes

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• If I'm writing... even a piece of a song... I write it down. If it still resonates six months down the line, a year, even five, those are the ones you put in your bag and you take to the studio. You come to realize, the ones that don't make it, they were only meant to live for that moment in your notebook or on the 4-track-and plenty of songs never get any farther than the 4-track.

  M. Ward

  Notebook, Song, Writing

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• The Air Force had put out a secret order for its pilots to capture UFOs. For the last six months we have been working with a congressional committee for investigating official secrecy concerning proof that UFOs are real machines under intelligent.

  Donald Keyhoe

  Real, Intelligent, Air

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• MSNBC has abruptly ended their relationship with Keith Olbermann, and according to his contract he's not allowed back on television for at least six months. Or as industry experts call it, The Conan.

  Conan O'Brien

  Experts, Television, Keith

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• I've found that eating vegan the last five or six months has really given me energy, I feel good and I look fabulous.

  Ted Danson

  Feel Good, Energy, Looks

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• I remember Berlin. Berlin to me was the star of the film. I loved for six months that we filmed there.

  Marton Csokas

  Stars, Berlin, Remember

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

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• When you're single again, at the beginning you're very optimistic and you say, 'I want to meet someone who's really smart, really sweet, really sensitive.' And six months later you're like, 'Lord, any mammal with a day job.

  Carol Leifer

  Sweet, Jobs, Smart

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• I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick.

  John Hurt

  Order, Play, Sick

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• I sold my first screenplay six months before 'Glee,' but they had the option for a year and now it's back with me.

  Dianna Agron

  Years, Six, Glee

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• Domesticity has to mean nesting. Otherwise, six months go by, and you don't know where your underwear is.

  Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

  Mean, Underwear, Knows

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

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• I make about two movies a year outside the 'True Blood' schedule. I work on a great show six months a year, then outside that I get to satisfy whatever creative urges I have. It's a great position, especially for a single guy like me.

  Ryan Kwanten

  Blood, Years, Two

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• After I went through two years of not winning an event, what kept me going was winning one more major. Once I won that last U.S. Open, I spent the next six months trying to figure out what was next. Slowly my passion for the sport just vanished. I had nothing left to prove.

  Pete Sampras

  Sports, Passion, Winning

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

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• The President's budget pays for only six months of the war in Iraq and completely overlooks the transition costs of Social Security reform. The Administration always lied about the cost of the Medicare drug bill.

  Jim Cooper

  War, Iraq, Drug

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• Take the veto. Bush is the first president since James Garfield in 1881 not to veto a single bill. Garfield only had six months in office; Bush has had over four years.

  Jim Cooper

  Years, Office, President

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• One of the frustrating things for people who miss the first rally in a bull market is that they wait for the big correction and it never comes. The market just keeps climbing and climbing. It feeds on itself in frenzied fashion and propels prices considerably higher for six months or so, and sometimes longer.

  Martin Zweig

  Fashion, Climbing, People

  Martin Zweig (2009). “Martin Zweig Winning on Wall Street”, p.60, Hachette UK

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• I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Fun, Animal, Editors

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• Some men can love forever, some for six years, some for six months, and others for six hours.

  Michael Bassey

  Men, Years, Forever

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• The best food I've had was actually in catering at 'Single Ladies.' It's insane. I can't live in Atlanta. In fact, even if I'm offered, I'm not sure I could come back for another six months, because I'll just be fat.

  Ricky Whittle

  Atlanta, Insane, Facts

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

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• I think we had made some tremendous progress in the six months before I left.

  Jeffrey Skilling

  Thinking, Progress, Made

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• Pain? Yes, of course. Racing without pain is not racing. But the pleasure of being ahead outweighed the pain a million times over. To hell with the pain. What's six minutes of pain compared to the pain they're going to feel for the next six months or six decades. You never forget your wins and losses in this sport. YOU NEVER FORGET.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Success, Sports, Pain

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• Six months ago, I traveled to India to see firsthand what the prime minister of that country calls a national shame. It is the systematic, widespread, shocking elimination of India's baby girls. Some 50,000 female fetuses are aborted every month in India.

  Elizabeth Vargas

  Girl, Country, Baby

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