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Look at me - I was the boo boy for years and years. Did I ever think I would end up in Hollywood or the FA Cup final? No, I didn't.
Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.
I'm pretty sure that eating chocolate keeps wrinkles away because I have never seen a 10 year old with a Hershey bar and crows feet.
There is no change - I'm as deep or as shallow as I ever was. What's new is on-the-job experience. This is what you gain with years.
I think Democracy is threatened in a way it hasn't been in two hundred years, and if America doesn't stand up, we're in big trouble.
My role 14 years ago in Richard III - that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it - they have all the fun!
It's all a farce, - these tales they tell About the breezes sighing, And moans astir o'er field and dell, Because the year is dying.
Ive always really been into science, and in the last five years Ive gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.
Christ's public life extended only over eighteen months, and for this he had silently been preparing himself for thirty - two years.
Some forty years of experience in my field as a scholar and as a teacher have given me great confidence mixed with greater humility.
There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years.
Long ago I'd said that I am "fascinated by the phantasmagoria of human personality" - this is perhaps even truer now than years ago.
What I'm doing, with my image, I have my perfumes. I've had that for almost 20 years, and I have like 14, 15 different perfumes now.
Were you playing with Stuart?" she asked. The question was loaded. I was a filthy, filthy woman, and even the five-year-old knew it.
I dated a lot, but I never really had anyone who was worthy of an anniversary. And most girlfriends never made it to a year, anyway.
I don't do faddy diets any more. I once did a no-carbs diet a few years ago but it made me depressed. I couldn't be doing with that!
When God-given, heaven-sent revival does come, it will undo in weeks the damage that blasphemous Modernism has taken years to build.
Then he almost but didn't say the two sentence he'd been meaning to say for years: part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you
I have been in the field working with my birds for 36 years and I don't think a day goes by that I don't see or learn something new.
If you spend an extra hour each day of study in your chosen field you will be a national expert in that field in five years or less.
I was born and raised in Nigeria. We lived in England when I was 3 and 4, and I would go to summer school every year in Switzerland.
A lot of vices that I've had over the years were always to make up for some sort of character deficiency, one of them being shyness.
My belief that the publishing industry is run by prigs and cowards dates back to many years before I even had the idea for the book.
Set your sights not just on the next few weeks ... set your sights on the years ahead - because our vision will look that far ahead.
A fool may scrawl on a slate and if no one has the wit to wipe it clean for a thousand years, the scrawl becomes the wisdom of ages.
Migration isn't a one-directional process; it's a colossal process that has been happening in all directions for thousands of years.
I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started. … And an enormous debt to boot!
What I've learned in the past 12 years of recording (I made my first CD at 12) is how important it is to find one's authentic voice.
I knew I wanted to be a performer really early on, like around 8 years old. I did tons of acting and loved being in front of people.
Dylan Nice's Other Kinds is the most extraordinary short-story-col lection debut I have read in years. It is a book to be memorized.
Christians, and some Jews, claim we're in the "end times," but they've been saying this off and on for more than two thousand years.
When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else.
My father is a straight- talking guy. He's always been. He has a history of that in business as a personality for the last 35 years.
Politics is an obsolete way of doing things. Although it was good a hundred years ago, it has no place in today's high tech society.
I took a straight picture that made me look like a thirty-year-old Italian who'd kill anybody who said something against his mother.
Over the years, when you're in a band with a catalog like Aerosmith's, you accumulate a lot of instruments to duplicate those songs.
No, I think that if he had known he would be president, he would have started dying his hair, like, 10 years ago. Now it's too late.
When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.
I've had a year out of work, more, and just toughed it out. There are those who think that all actors are overpaid. I beg to differ.
We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put it out.
Say, Britain, could you ever boast, Three poets in an age at most? Our chilling climate hardly bears A sprig of bays in fifty years.
Men ran after and ate horses for four hundred thousand years. The outcome is more than a love of horse flesh; it is a runner's body.
When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
What I’ve learned in these 11 years is you just got to stay focused and believe in yourself and trust your own ability and judgment.
I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.
It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards.
I just don't know a couple that's been married more than three years that doesn't annoy the heck out of each other every 15 minutes.
Have a working spouse, because you won't earn a living from writing - not at first, if ever. My wife worked for years to support us.
I was also told some years ago that I shouldn't 'waste my time' with female-centric films because the audience was not ready for it.
Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in the world.