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I've got Flossie dog, and she is great. She and I are still in love, 14 years. That's a relationship that works.
Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.
The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.
I have always respected education, which is why I actually went back secretly and taught school for eight years.
If you're going to get engaged make sure you've talked to your partner about life together in the years to come.
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.
I worked 18 years to become an overnight success. Now MagicPlace.com will short circuit that process for people.
My mum said to me once years ago, which really spurred me on, 'You're the funniest person I know'. I loved that.
After ten years of toiling away in Hollywood, I realized that there's no better place for new ideas than comics.
I still love what I do and I've done OK over the years ... You're a long time retired and anyway, I'd get bored.
I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.
Marijuana you can give up, I've given it up for fifteen years now and it never occurs to me to smoke it anymore.
I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.
I pretty much live on my tour bus.I do well around 300 shows a year. A lot of times I will do two shows a night.
I have a two-year-old boy. Being his mom feels like I have a present I get to spend the rest of my life opening.
I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.
I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust.
I don't believe in delivering four times a year and then also delivering things that are not season appropriate.
The most successful people are those who do all year long what they would otherwise do on their summer vacation.
When you're with somebody for some years, sometimes you need a break from 'em. You grow in different directions.
I spend like $2 million a year on Chinese food and pizza for ten people in the studio who don't sing or produce.
Sir Alex, one of the best managers of all time. After 26 years of success in the game, we all owe him a tribute.
She had for so many years been trying to be like other people, that she was now like nothing in heaven or earth.
If you'd asked me a few years ago about debt settlement companies, I probably would have told you to avoid them.
he kissed me hard. "Promise me. Promise me you'll spend New Year's with me next year," he whispered into my ear.
If everyone practiced cherishing others, many of the major problems of the world would be solved in a few years.
A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don't know why.
After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected.
Three-quarters of the flags, borders and anthems sitting at the U.N. today were not there 60 some-odd years ago.
The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.
I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.
For years, we in publishing have been hearing from Catholic readers that they really yearn for Catholic fiction.
I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.
When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed consent question was answerable.
[Theater] has always been a big focus. I have been away from it for the past few years. I want to get back to it!
Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.
The problem with being Comeback Player of the Year is it means you have to go somewhere before you can come back.
Lilian Ross was a - veteran writer for The New Yorker. She, in fact, brought me to The New Yorker many years ago.
When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little entertainer.
We're sharing things in our lives everyday that we wouldn't have picked up the phone to talk about ten years ago.
Thank you to everybody who voted for me, and to the British public for their encouragement over the last 17 years
People say my content's mature, I don't think it's mature at all. I'm just a normal 20 year old. I'm opinionated.
150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine.
You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.
We shouldn't just think about mammograms and self-exams and self-care once a year. It should be an ongoing thing.
Whatever money you may need for the next five years, please take it out of the stock market right now, this week.
Comediennes are the lucky ones, because if you're funny, you can be 125 years old and they will still accept you.
No one will ever win four [Super Bowls] in six years again. It won't happen. You can chisel that sucker in stone.