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I performed in Sydney some years ago for the Sydney Festival and I am just so pleased to be returning to the wonderful Sydney Opera House and also performing in Melbourne for the first time.
Lesley Garrett
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Singer
First Time
House
Melbourne
Opera
Opera House
Performing
Sydney
Years
Years Ago
Festival
Performed
Pleased
Returning
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I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue of political violence because that was the story since I was 19 years old or 20.
Neil Jordan
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Film Director
Ireland
Issues
Mean
Years
Reflected
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I'm a 'specist.' I hate the human race. Of course, therefore, I hate myself the most, because I am the least of the human race. I'm the product of 6 million years of evolution? Come on, man.
Peter Steele
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Singer
Evolution
Hate
Human Race
Race
Years
Myself Man I Am
Course
Least
Million
Million Years
Product
Therefore
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But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import
Harriet Ann Jacobs
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Writer
Girl
Ignorant
Years
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I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments.
Kevin J. Anderson
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Author
Jobs
Eight
Good Job
Nine
Years
Assistant
Comments
Full-Time
Types
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Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians. They met upon the third Wednesday of every month and read each other long, dull papers upon the history of English magic.
Susanna Clarke
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Author
Cities
Long
Years
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I am a firm believer that every few years one needs to shake one's life through a sieve, like a miner in the Yukon. The gold nuggets remain. The rest falls through like the soft earth it is.
Amy Poehler
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Actress
Fall
Gold
Years
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I was a first time bride at 44. I had never even lived with anybody. And after running my own business for many years, I knew how to be the boss - but I had no idea how to be a good partner.
Arielle Ford
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Author
Running
Ideas
Years
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If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: 'What's great about that sixth book is that he met his deadline!' It will be about how the whole thing stands up.
George R. R. Martin
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Novelist
Book
Writing
Years
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Three years ago we said you'd have to think long and hard about hiring a recruiter with less than a couple of hundred LinkedIn connections. Now the same holds true for candidates in general.
Kris Dunn
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Basketball Player
Couple
Thinking
Years
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I'm in four different films this year, and I have four different accents. I sound different in every film. You have to love a character to play it well, and change in my work is what I want.
Robert Carlyle
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Actor
Change
Accents
Character
Years
Love Change Work
To Love
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How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work, that disagreeable thing, is the only way of not suffering in life, or at all events, of suffering less.
Charles Baudelaire
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Poet
Work
Punishment
Simple
Years
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The most dangerous area where our laws are not being faithfully executed are the laws designed to protect Americans against the millions of aliens who enter our country illegally every year.
Phyllis Schlafly
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Lawyer
Country
Law
Millions
Protect
Years
Alien
Designed
Enter
Executed
Faithfully
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With every movie, we will spend a season of prayer just asking God what's on his heart, and we spent about a year, two years, in prayer, trying to figure out the direction for the next film.
Stephen Kendrick
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Film Writer
Heart
Prayer
Years
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I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.
Marilyn Hacker
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Poet
Courage
Literature
Reading
Years
Journals
Mostly
Previous
Send
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Nixon was a professional politician, and I despised everything he stood for -- but if he were running for president this year against the evil Bush-Cheney gang, I would happily vote for him.
Hunter S. Thompson
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Journalist
Running
Evil
Years
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When my husband of almost 20 years can’t take his eyes off me? That’s amazing. But the number one reason I go to the gym is because it keeps me sane; I can deal with whatever’s coming at me.
Jada Pinkett Smith
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Actress
Eye
Husband
Years
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Every day, people say crappy things about my band or whatever, but I live a positive existence. I got through everything by virtue of having the same passion that I've had through the years.
Andy Biersack
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Singer-Songwriter
Passion
People
Years
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I teach child development and social policy as an undergraduate course, and I tell my students, "Look, on any of these issues, if you don't want to work on it for thirty years, don't start."
Edward Zigler
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Children
Issues
Years
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Things like lack of leadership and a lack of the willingness to evolve, they’re so used to keeping people within the constraints of the idea that has been the same idea for a thousand years.
Ziggy Marley
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Musician
Ideas
People
Years
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Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity.
Chris Van Allsburg
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Illustrator
Christmas
Smile
Eight
Pity
Population
Santa
Years
Believed
Large Percentage
Mythic
Percentage
True Believers
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Hard times are when a man has worked at a job for 30 years - 30 years - and they give him a watch, kick him in the butt, and say, 'Hey, a computer took your place, daddy.' That's hard times!
Dusty Rhodes
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Professional Wrestler
Computer
Daddy
Hard
Hard Times
Hey
Years
Job
Butt
Watch
Times
Give
Him
Place
Took
Worked
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To me, reading through old letters and journals is like treasure hunting. Somewhere in those faded, handwritten lines there is a story that has been packed away in a dusty old box for years.
Sara Sheridan
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Writer
Hunting
Reading
Years
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Acts of anti-Semitism in countries throughout the world, including some of the world's strongest democracies, have increased significantly in frequency and scope over the last several years.
Tim Holden
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Former U.s. Representative
Anti Semitism
Country
Democracies Have
Frequency
Including
Scope
Strongest
Years
Acts
Increased
Several
Throughout
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I ignored my stand-up career for twenty-five years, but now, having finished this memoir, I view this time with surprising warmth. One can have, it turns out, an affection for the war years.
Steve Martin
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Actor
War
Views
Years
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I had to watch government fail for 25 years doing consumer reporting before I really saw it because intuitively, the reaction is problem, bring government and government will make it better.
John Stossel
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Reporter
Government
Watches
Years
Government Better Will
Consumer
Fail
Intuitively
Reaction
Reporting
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In recent years... forces have developed in our government over which we have no control, and these forces have an authoritarian approach to justice - meaning, they tell you what justice is.
Jim Garrison
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Attorney
Government
Justice
Years
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I'm constantly watching people. Watching their strengths and weaknesses. I find myself going into theater less and less, let alone horror. I gave that up when I was seven or eight years old.
Jonathan Frid
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Television Actor
Eight
People
Theater
Years
Strengths
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I grew up in church. That's how most young African American musicians learn how to perform. You could be six years old and playing organ or drums in front of thousands or hundreds of people.
Robert Glasper
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Jazz Pianist
African American
People
Years
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I would give gladly all the hundreds of years that I have to live, to be a human being only for one day, and to have the hope of knowing the happiness of that glorious world above the stars.
Hans Christian Andersen
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Author
Knowing
Stars
Years
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Our top story tonight: Famous TV dolphin flipper was arrested today on prostitution ring charges. He allegedly was seen transporting two 16 year olds across state line for immoral porpoises.
Colin Mochrie
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Actor
Famous
Arrested
Dolphins
Immoral
Today
Tonight
Two
Years
Tv
Across
Allegedly
Seen
Ring
Year
Charges
Dolphin
Line
Story
Transporting
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I don't mind playing older characters. I find it interesting. There are parts I couldn't have got when I was 30 years old. So, it continues to interest me in the same way that it always did.
Harrison Ford
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Film Actor
Character
Interesting
Years
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I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.
Thom Yorke
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Musician
Believe
Convenient
Grew Up
Myth
Powerless
Years
Believing
Fundamentally
Gradually
Occurred
Thatcher
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These dudes were 30 years old, and they would compete about getting the best chick. That came before their friendships. Some of them treat women like they're objects. I never felt like that.
Brian Welch
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Musician
Women
Objects
Treats
Years
Chick
Compete
Dudes
Friendships
Treat
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Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.
Roger Ebert
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Film Critic
Daddy
Election
Knees
Praying
Truman
Years
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We had 10 years after the Cold War to build a new world order and yet we squandered them. The United States cannot tolerate anyone acting independently. Every US president has to have a war.
Mikhail Gorbachev
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Former General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of The Soviet Union
War
Order
Years
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Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.
John Carmack
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Programmer
Clever
Competent
Law
Years
Extremely
Number
Graphics
Later
Merely
Moore
Programmer
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Some novelists are luckier than others in the eras of their formative intellectual years, but all Weltanschauungs return, which means that most novelists have at least a chance of a revival.
Jane Smiley
/
Novelist
Eras
Intellectual
Mean
Novelists
Return
Revival
Years
Formative
Luckier
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I would not say Denmark is a multicultural country, but more people live here now who have different roots, backgrounds and religions, more than 30 years ago. This also applies to religions.
Margrethe Ii Of Denmark
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Queen Of Denmark
Country
Roots
Years
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My mother found a letter, though, that I wrote her when I was 8 years old and it was a letter where I asked if she could take me to the orphanage because I would like to adopt a little baby.
Kristen Stewart
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Actress
Baby
Mother
Years
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I'm not able to go in with an act that I use month to month year to year all the time. It's constantly evolving and changing and that keeps me on my toes but certainly adds to the challenge.
Alan Thicke
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Actor
Add
Challenges
Toes
Years
Act
Time Use Me
Adds
Month
Constantly
Certainly
Evolving
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Just being friends with people now for over 15 years, you realize what we all came out of. What we came out of was the intense feeling of growing up. It sounds kind of cliché, but it's true.
Ryan Mcginley
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Photographer
Growing Up
People
Years
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It wasn't sexual in its element. I wasn't being exploited. I was doing what happened. It was very challenging because I played Phyllis from 15 years old to 53 when she died of breast cancer.
Lesley-Anne Down
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Film Actress
Breast Cancer
Cancer
Challenges
Died
Years
Element
Exploited
Sexual
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I was reading a lot of Thomas Jefferson at the time, and Jefferson said that every 20 years, if one party has stayed in power, it's your obligation as an American to vote the other party in.
Dennis Hopper
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Actor
Party
Reading
Years
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Through years of secret work, scientific and basic ground work was laid, in order to be ready again to work the German Armed Forces at the appointed hour, without loss of time or experience.
Gustav Krupp Von Bohlen Und Halbach
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Loss
Order
Years
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That was the year the British decided to get out and sell everything. So I immediately held an election. I knew the people will be dead scared. And I won my bet big-time. The gullible fools!
Lee Kuan Yew
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Singaporean Politician
Fool
People
Years
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To miss one year is a long time. I've never been in this situation before, and I'm getting as much information as I can about my foot, to see what's the best for me and best for the Rockets.
Yao Ming
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Basketball Player
Basketball
Feet
Years
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I'm getting so slow at my work it makes me despair, but... I'm increasingly obsessed by the need to render what I experience, and I'm praying that I'll have a few more good years left to me.
Claude Monet
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Painter
Despair
Needs
Years
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People are always asking me what the world will be like economically in the year 2000. I do know this: in the year 2000, no matter what else happens, there will still be good food in France.
Guy De Rothschild
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Home
Travel
Years
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I started working when I was three years old and was basically known before I knew who my own name was. My parents needed money, so at that time it became my responsibility to pay the bills.
Corey Feldman
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Actor
Names
Responsibility
Years
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