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Writing novels reminds me of being an awkward 15-year-old typing on a Commodore 64 in his bedroom, trying to be the next Stephen King.
You have to do something else by 30 years old, if you haven't found another way to explore your own identity and make something of it.
I have believed for many years that Oscar Peterson is not only the greatest pianist in jazz today, but the greatest it has ever known.
Professional football is no longer a game. It's a war. And it brings out the same primitive instincts that go back thousands of years.
I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985.
I will wear the same thing for three years straight unless somebody, like, forces me not to. It's like, hey, I got this Gucci sweater.
A lot of my fears and anxieties are the fears and anxieties of a six-year-old boy. When I finally confront them, they're really small.
Love them for who they are, and what they are they are; they are not you. Good stuff, isn't it? You have to live 73 years to get that.
I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.
My career is going to be played out year by year. Will I be here in 2004? I don't know. The record won't keep me here. Happiness will.
I've been playing concerts for many years, and it's still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I'm performing.
Yara: Youre a great warrior. I saw the bodies above your gates. Which one gave you the tougher fight, the cripple or the six year old?
One day, when I was about eight years old, some kids pushed me on stage at school during a talent show because they knew I could sing.
If they [Guns N' Roses] didn't get back together soon they would have missed their window and no one would have cared in 3 or 4 years.
The ones the listeners loved most of all in those early years were the four Lennon girls who became the whole nation's little sisters.
Once a year ask the boss, "What do I or my people do that helps you to do your job?" and "What do I or my people do that hampers you?"
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
Men of great genius and large heart sow the seeds of a new degree of progress in the world, but they bear fruit only after many years.
Fifty years is the long time to think about a thinker's relevance or to think of the relevance of their work to a contemporary period.
I can talk to anybody but when it comes to somebody that I like, then I turn into like this five-year-old kindergartener in a sandbox.
What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.
I would not give one moment of heaven for all the joy and riches of the world, even if it lasted for thousands and thousands of years.
[To woman bragging about having kept her husband for seven years:] Don't worry, if you keep him long enough, he'll come back in style.
I had a period in my life when I was eight or nine when I was so scared of dying that I wouldn't go out of our house for a whole year.
I absolutely would not have liked playing in Spain or somewhere like that, so I was just gonna do it a year. Then I was gonna be done.
Do you know how many houses all of the nonprofits have built? No more than 5,000 in five years. Do you know how many we lost? 200,000.
So learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come.
When you're successful for so many years, the scariest part is that you're getting too comfortable because you've had so much success.
In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn
Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America.
The pinpoints of starlight we see with the naked eye are photons that have been streaming toward us for a few years or a few thousand.
I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.
For the first time in 15 years, Georgia this winter has its electric power guaranteed without deficit. This is a historic achievement.
We cannot accomplish as much as we think we can in one day and we can accomplish more than we think we can in a year. Isn't that true?
I don't see myself doing catalog shoots in Madrid anymore like I was doing two years ago. I hope that the acting side of things grows.
I'm clean and sober for over a year and no one seems to care! They're like, 'Oh, her dramatic weight gain.' So, stop making fun of me!
I firmly believe that the next great breakthrough in bioscience could come from a 15-year-old who downloads the human genome in Egypt.
It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then.
There are occasions when I have moved boulders, but I'm reluctant to, especially ones that have been rooted in a place for many years.
I bet I'm the only person in history who went from being the star of a sitcom to the host of a public-access show in less than a year.
Put simply, what I'd like to do is to see the first two years of community college free for everybody's who is willing to work for it.
I started watching The Stooges religiously and obsessively when I was probably about four or five years old till around the age of 18.
Im always intrigued when you are travelling through a place and there is somebody who has lived there and done the same job for years.
Over the years, I've learned that a confident person doesn't concentrate or focus on their weaknesses - they maximize their strengths.
The best book of the year, Grobel's writing is quite marvelous. The Hustons reads vividly, just like one of John Huston's great films.
After this many years of being a lead singer in a touring rock band, I've had my fair share of fun. But those days are long behind me.
Well, all I can say is thank goodness I had 15 years of theater before ever I did film roles. You build technique that you can rely on
If in your mind it was possible to take a year's sabbatical from work to reassess your life, what would you do and where would you go?
I'm just wondering, folks, if I gave a speech on anti-capitalism, do you think I could be named Person of the Year by 'TIME Magazine?'
I've been producing documentaries on global warming for 20 years and have seen the early warnings of extreme weather events come true.