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It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.
I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, 'Dang, she looks good for her age!'
I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.
I intended to give you some advice but now I remember how much is left over from last year unused.
We haven't had a recession for 25 years in Australia. It's partly because of our trade with China.
I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.
I love planting bulbs. It is making promises with tomorrow, believing in next year and the future.
What's happened is we have lost, over a period of years, short years, 70,000 factories in America.
I need a break. I've been working for about a year and a half. I think I'd like to go to Pakistan.
I'm not an overnight success. I've been doing it for 12 years. It's been lovely and varied so far.
I crashed my boyfriend's birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn't invite me and so I showed up.
When I retired, I felt that I lived more in that year than I had the previous 27 years of my life.
Racing Stripes was so much fun to do. It's one of the funniest movies I've seen in a couple years.
What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?
Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.
If I make two films in a year, they'll be different. This is my style - I can't have just one way.
If you double the number of experiments you do per year you're going to double your inventiveness.
It's disgraceful that year after year, Congress has bowed to the tobacco lobby and refused to act.
When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years.
What I've learnt about artists over the years is, artists are usually the opposite to their music.
I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
It seems to me that the years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically .
I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous.
I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
I started styling people when I was just eight years old, without even knowing what a stylist was.
I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great.
To pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy.
For many years, I used to pray as an act of power, but that was before I had 100% faith in myself.
Through the years I've never stopped doing things, thinking about things, and I still think young.
You can have small moments of happiness in life. You certainly can’t expect years and years of it.
Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.
If I knew that 3D was going to be such a big deal, I would have gotten that boob job 10 years ago.
I think that in the last four or five years I've constantly struggled with the balance in my life.
A lot of people aren't aware of the years and years of humiliation and horrible shows I've played.
I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.
Brooklyn for twenty years, Ive learned that there is always someone better than you at what you do.
She supposed that all those years of loving a person who was dishonest had taught her a few things.
Wish all the Farmers would move to town one year, that's the only way I know to clear the thing up.
I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.
Martha Stewart was found guilty on all charges. You know what that means, stripes are in this year.
Lord knows, everyday is not a success, every year is not a success. You have to celebrate the good.
I am coming back to New York after five years, and it seems that psychics are taking over the city.
The corporate outings were fun, but after doing them for 25 years, they got to be a little old hat.
The year after I graduated from high school, they came to shoot Mr. and Mrs. Bridge in Kansas City.
Nobody really knows anybody completely, even if they've been married to 'em for 53 years, you know?
The years went by, and Mary Alice and I grew up, Slower than we wanted to, faster than we realized.
One of my New Year's resolutions is to say 'yes!' Yes to love, yes to life, yes to staying in more!
It's pretty difficult to promote something the week after Christmas and the week before New Year's.
If I can look at a 6-year-old and learn from him, that's life. That's God for me, that's inspiring.