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I was ripe ten years ago. Now I’m merely preserved, and before long I’ll be buried back in the orchard with the other pits.” -Amanda to Jack
I had a lot of time and the first year I was in prison, I tried to get the party to stop the shooting, to stop the talk about the gun thing.
I was six years old when I saw my first Godard movie, eight when I first experienced Bergman. I wanted to be a director when I was fourteen.
I can't believe I've been doing it so long. In the last three or four years, I've slowed down. I'm doing only the roles I really want to do.
It probably goes without saying that I enjoy the potato pancakes, delicious hams and so forth that maddeningly turn up at this time of year.
There's not a long career span because you can't really make money doing drag for very long the way the system was set up for so many years.
Mark Zuckerberg was named Time's Person of the Year. I'm sorry if you don't recognize the name. A magazine is something people used to read.
Let every head of household see to it that he has on hand enough food and clothing and, where possible, fuel also for at least a year ahead.
As for two years from now... who know where it'll be. I think we'll ideally be doing a lot of the same stuff, but maybe with spell checking.
Ive always enjoyed the enthusiasm of the best studio musicians and, over the years, have collected so many inspired contributions from them.
When I get really hammered I take my clothes off. That's a sure sign. It's been a long time since the last time I did that. Probably a year.
You develop a sensibility when you're a young child. Some people say your personality is formed in the first three, four years of your life.
Especially as an artist who has been signed to one of the majors throughout my last ten years, you don't always get to write your own music.
When you're paid $29 for something and 30 or 40 years later you're seeing it on eBay with pages going for $199 or more, it's like, "Dammit!"
Five years from now on the Web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university.
I think [Hillary] Clinton owes the press some thanks for going so far overboard on the emails and the Clinton Foundation over the past year.
Tim Burton is underrated. I loved Big Fish, loved that movie, think it's the best movie of the year, hands down. Really impressed with that.
Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.
I look at some of my contemporaries trying to emulate what they were 30 years ago and just because of the age factor alone, they look silly.
It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.
I took a year and a half off, when my kid was born, because I didn't want to be one of those dads where the kid doesn't know who his dad is.
Sometimes the entire thing comes out in one burst. Sometimes you hack away at a thing for years before you get something that satisfies you.
I am from Spain, but my family and I have made America our home. For the last 17 years, I have been cooking Spanish food in Washington, D.C.
I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.
Since the 1940s, we've been saying there are no differences, we [humans] are all identical. We're going to know at year end if that is true.
I never think, 'Where am I going to be in a year's time?' That seems to be a sure way of missing the fact that you might be quite happy now.
I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.
When I'm 75 years old, I want to say that I chased my dream. I didn't let other people's opinions dictate what I have in my book of my life.
The U.S. had about 10,000 nuclear warheads. It is estimated that the U.S. is heading towards having 6,000 nuclear warheads in the year 2012.
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
I have failed at unscripted television for five years now, so I am hopeful I can break that trend and get a good unscripted show on the air.
I have more fun now doing a game on a Saturday or Sunday than I've ever had. I love the fact that every year, it's gotten more and more fun.
We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.
What I've lost in years I've gained in wisdom. Bullshit, I haven't learnt one thing in the last 15 years that hasn't just depressed me more.
When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.
The male or female that the child has the most exposure to in the first four to six years of its life is the primary imprinter of the child.
I spent years working in low-budget horror films. When you've done 'Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death,' you can handle anything!
It took me years to eat a lot of shellfish. I was probably 20 years old before I had even seen a shrimp cocktail. I like oysters, but fried.
Some people are going to be impatient no matter what. If I wrote two books a year, someone out there would be pissed I wasn't writing three.
So for, you know, for a good 20 years now I've been involved with veterans and soldiers and in support of them no matter what they're doing.
Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor.
Like the seasons of the year, life changes frequently and drastically. You enjoy it or endure it as it comes and goes, as it ebbs and flows.
Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.
I never really loved school through junior high, but then I started running track my freshman year, and I was just like, 'Wow, this is cool!
I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same track.
You'll learn more in a day talking to customers than a week of brainstorming, a month of watching competitors, or a year of market research.
What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make.
Thirty years ago, the Pandora's box of the Internet wasn't yet a fact of life, and celebrities inhabited a more remote, hard-to-reach plane.
In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.
People who are complaining about the Fed are people who've been predicting runaway inflation for five and six years, and it hasn't happened.