Twelve Quotes - Page 2

• I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Years, Lasts, Film

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• A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, Lifetime, Novel

  "'When I Run I Am in a Peaceful Place'". Interview with Maik Grossekathöfer, www.spiegel.de. February 20, 2008.

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• At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Girl, Blue Dress

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.20, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• People don't know where to place me. Terry Gilliam used me as a quirky cop in 'Twelve Monkeys', and then he hired me again to be an effeminate hotel clerk in 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'. Another time, I was shooting this indie film 'The Souler Opposite' and six days a week, I'm playing this big puppy dog, then I come to the 'NYPD Blue' set and become this scumbag.

  Christopher Meloni

  Dog, Vegas, Blue

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• I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

  James Thurber

  Thinking, Years, Numbers

  Quoted in an interview with Glenna Syse in Time Magazine, August 15, 1960.

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• I spent twelve years training for a career that was over in a week. Joe Namath spent one week training for a career that lasted twelve years.

  Bruce Jenner

  Inspirational, Sports, Years

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• If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.

  James Hillman

  Inspirational, Change, Hurt

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• Twelve-piece cookware sets for ninety-nine bucks are routinely hawked on late-night TV - often by friends of mine. But with a mere five pieces, you can do whatever you like - slay the dragon and then cook its tenderloin in the style of the duke of Wellington, if you want to.

  Mario Batali

  Night, Ninety Nine, Dragons

  "An Introduction and Rallying Cry" by Mario Batali, www.esquire.com. August 24, 2011.

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• You know, my first album, some of those jokes I'd done for twelve years because I couldn't throw 'em out.

  Ron White

  Years, Albums, Ems

  Interview with Guy MacPherson, www.guymacpherson.ca. October 24, 2006.

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• A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

  Herbert Spencer

  Ignorance, Men, Average

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• Boughton says he has more ideas about heaven every day. He said, "Mainly I just think about the splendors of the world and multiply by two. I'd multiply by ten or twelve if I had the energy.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Thinking, Ideas, Two

  Marilynne Robinson (2009). “Gilead”, p.101, Hachette UK

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• I went to bed last night utterly dejected; I thought I was never going to amount to anything, and that you had thrown away your money for nothing. But what do you think? I woke up this morning with a beautiful new plot in my head, and I've been going about all day planning my characters, just as happy as I could be. No one can ever accuse me of being a pessimist! If I had a husband and twelve children swallowed by an earthquake one day, I'd bob up smilingly the next morning and commence to look for another set. ~Jershua Abbott

  Jean Webster

  Beautiful, Morning, Children

  Jean Webster (2016). “Daddy Long-Legs and Dear Enemy: Illustrated”, p.102, Jester House Publishing

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• I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise moment, crouching behind a crumbling mud wall, peeking into the alley near the frozen creek. That was a long time ago, but it’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Wall, Winter, Past

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.14, Penguin

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• Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.

  Mario Puzo

  Men, Years, Strange Man

  Mario Puzo (2005). “The Godfather”, p.101, Penguin

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• There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer.

  Albert Camus

  Suicide, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus) "Absurdity and Suicide" (1942)

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• Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing. But nobody can handle that other trip-the possibility that any freak with $1.98 can walk into the Circus-Circus and suddenly appear in the sky over downtown Las Vegas twelve times the size of God, howling anything that comes into his head. No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Grandmother, Vegas, Knives

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.47, Vintage

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• There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Intelligent, Boys, Years

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• This is embarrassing and personal, but once a month, since I was twelve years old, I go to my favorite jewelry store and try on my dream ring.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Dream, Years, Trying

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• After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it.

  Larry Hagman

  Years, Play, Long

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• The Clinton administration brought 65 cases from 1995 to 2000 before the World Trade Organization. The Bush administration has brought twelve. Twelve cases. They haven't even been able to stand up for our jobs.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Jobs, Organization, World

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• I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons.

  Rube Goldberg

  Friday, Art, Real

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• I took my coffee into the dining room and settled down with the morning paper. A woman in New York had had twins in a taxi. A woman in Ohio had just had her seventeenth child. A twelve-year-old girl in Mexico had given birth to a thirteen-pound boy. The lead article on the woman's page was about how to adjust the older child to the new baby. I finally found an account of an axe murder on page seventeen, and held my coffee cup up to my face to see if the steam might revive me.

  Shirley Jackson

  Girl, Baby, Morning

  Shirley Jackson (1966). “The Magic of Shirley Jackson”, p.697, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• It's unbelievable what one squadron of twelve aircraft did to tip the balance.

  Adolf Galland

  Balance, Unbelievable, Aircraft

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• How old are you? Twelve?" "Fourteen & three quarters." His eyes sparkled. "You're kind of little for fourteen and three quarters." "Am not," I replied indignantly. "I'm a sophomore this year. How old are you?" "Seventeen and two fifths." Hardy Cateses & Liberty Jones.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Eye, Years, Two

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• It is strange,' pursued he, 'that while I love Rosomond Oliver so wildly-with all the intensity, indeed, of a first passion, the object of which is exquisitely beautiful, graceful, and fascinating--I experience at the same time a calm, unwarped consciousness, that she would not make me a good wife; that she is not the partner suited to me; that I should discover this within a year after marriage; and that to twelve months' rapture would succeed a lifetime of regret. This I know.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Beautiful, Regret, Passion

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.399, Simon and Schuster

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