Thirteen Quotes - Page 8

• I was a chubby, chubby little tub-tub. At the times when it mattered: twelve, thirteen, and fourteen. I'm so happy I was. If you're beautiful young, you really miss out on developing parts of yourself.

  Rashida Jones

  Beautiful, Missing, Twelve

  Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com. May 2013.

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• I've always been interested in directing. I started acting when I was thirteen years old, so I've had some desire to do something else in my life.

  Ethan Hawke

  Years, Desire, Acting

  "Watch TIFF Talk: ‘Good Kill’ Team Ethan Hawke & Andrew Niccol Explore Drone Warfare". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. September 17, 2014.

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• If the Founding Fathers and other patriots who fought during the Revolutionary War could see the United States today, I believe they would be proud of the path that the thirteen colonies, now fifty strong states, have taken since then.

  John Linder

  Strong, War, Father

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• . . . Thirteen governments [of the original states] thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence of miracle or mystery, and which are destined to spread over the northern part of that whole quarter of the globe, are a great point gained in favor of the rights of mankind.

  John Adams

  Religious, Father, Rights

  John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.293

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• Send me no more reviews of any kind. I will read no more of evil or good in that line. Walter Scott has not read a review of himself for thirteen years .

  Lord Byron

  Years, Evil, Lines

  "Learn to love the critics. Even the stinkers" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2005.

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• I've been able to go so many places. I had the opportunity to go to Hong Kong when I was thirteen years old which is crazy. I lived there for three months. It was amazing. I couldn't ask for a more enriched life so far.

  Dakota Fanning

  Crazy, Opportunity, Years

  "Push - Dakota Fanning interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• When I was thirteen, I had a nervous breakdown, and I was put into this grown-up mental hospital with all these 50-, 60-year-old men and women. This big, Victorian mental house. There were like five boys in there, all my age, looked after by this woman who was 22 or 23. And it was like "Empire of the Sun" meets "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"-type of arrangement where you've got this young boy overcoming and becoming heroic in the face of this awful place.

  Duncan Roy

  Boys, Men, Years

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• It was at thirteen years old that Marya Morevna learned how to keep a secret, and that secrets are jealous things, permitting no fraternization.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Jealous, Years, Secret

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.25, Macmillan

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• There are nearly thirteen million people in the world. None of those people is an extra. They're all the leads of their own stories. They have to be given their due.

  Charlie Kaufman

  People, Stories, World

  Charlie Kaufman (2008). “Synecdoche, New York: The Shooting Script”, Newmarket Press

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• It's my heart that is tired. A thirteen-year-old heart shouldn't feel like this.

  Markus Zusak

  Tired, Heart, Years

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• Dan," she said. "I'm worried about him. It's not right that a thirteen-year-old knows as much as he does bout stealing things." " You're right," Jake said. "He should have been at least sixteen like you before he became part of an international crime ring.

  Roland Smith

  Stealing Things, Should Have, Years

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• A thirteen-year-old is a kaleidoscope of different personalities, if not in most ways a mere figment of her own imagination. At that age, what and who you are depends largely on what book you happen to be reading at the moment.

  Jessica Mitford

  Book, Reading, Years

  Jessica Mitford (1960). “Hons and Rebels”

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• I was sixteen then, and I'm seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I'm about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am--I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything.

  J. D. Salinger

  People, Sixteen, Sometimes

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.

  George Montgomery

  Drinking, Years, Alcohol

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• You have a wonderful child. Then, when he's thirteen, gremlins carry him away and leave in his place a stranger who gives you not a moment's peace. You have to hang in there, because two or three years later, the gremlins will return your child and he will be wonderful again.

  Jill Eikenberry

  Children, Years, Two

  "For the Love of Children". Book by Eva Shaw (p. 133), 1998.

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• I've dealt with numbers all my life, of course, and after a while you begin to feel that each number has a personality of its own. A twelve is very different from a thirteen, for example. Twelve is upright, conscientious, intelligent, whereas thirteen is a loner, a shady character who won't think twice about breaking the law to get what he wants. Eleven is tough, an outdoorsman who likes tramping through woods and scaling mountains; ten is rather simpleminded, a bland figure who always does what he's told; nine is deep and mystical, a Buddha of contemplation.

  Paul Auster

  Character, Math, Intelligent

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• When Babe Didrickson Zaharias, often called the 'athletic phenomenon of all time,' won the British woman's gold tournament, people said of her what they had said many times before: "Oh, she's an automatic champion, a natural athlete." When Babe started golfing in earnest thirteen years ago she hit as many as 1,000 balls in one afternoon, playing until her hands were so sore they had to be taped.

  James Keller

  Perseverance, Women, Athlete

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• Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers.

  Ida Lupino

  Age, Path, Tenderness

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

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• If you want a favorite book, Orson Scott Card's 'Ender's Game'. You'll be hooked. I think he's written like twelve or thirteen.

  Marisol Nichols

  Book, Thinking, Games

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

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• In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds.

  William Lilly

  Years, House, Pounds

  William Lilly, Elias Ashmole (1822). “William Lilly's history of his life and times from the year 1602 to 1681”, p.78

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• I put my friends and family first. I'm really just a normal thirteen-year-old girl who has a different hobby than most girls my age. Acting is kind of an extracurricular activity.

  Natasha Calis

  Girl, Years, Family And Friends

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• I think from the age of thirteen, I really wanted to be a producer and I've always thought that the producer was the top of the tree.

  Jeff Lynne

  Thinking, Tree, Age

  "Conversations With Electric Light Orchestra’s Jeff Lynne, The Monkees’ Micky Dolenz and The Rippingtons’ Russ Freeman". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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• I love Prada. Not so much the clothes, which are for malnourished thirteen-year-olds, but I covet, with covety covetousness, the shoes and handbags. Like, I LOVE them. If I was given a choice between world peace and a Prada handbag, I'd dither. (I'm not proud of this, I'm only saying.)

  Marian Keyes

  Years, Shoes, Clothes

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• Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Success, Humility, Order

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• it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.

  Anne Frank

  Years, Musings, Seems

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.11, Bantam

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