Five Years Quotes - Page 8

• I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much. I think of Cocoon and Driving Miss Daisy. But they always seem to be fairly successful, so it's a bit baffling as to why everybody has to be treated as if they were five-years-old.

  Maggie Smith

  Successful, Thinking, Elderly

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The guys that write Once Upon a Time were major writers on Lost, and we had lunch when I started on OUAT and the first thing I said to them was, "I spent five years on Lost, you have to tell me, was my character good or bad?" They looked at me and said, "We have no idea." That's why you have to make your own backstory. I decided Widmore was the evilest of the evil, but in the end, not even the writers knew.

  Alan Dale

  Character, Writing, Years

  "Alan Dale: The Nicest Bad Guy in The Biz". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. February 6, 2013.

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• To be honest the work that a producer does is work that I've done for most of my working life. It's work that I started to do, for example, when I worked with Sally Potter on Orlando. We developed it together over five years.

  Tilda Swinton

  Years, Together, Example

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Scientists with access to data from Navy submarines traversing underneath the North polar ice cap have warned that there is now a 75 percent chance that within five years the entire ice cap will completely disappear during the summer months.

  Al Gore

  Summer, Years, Ice

  "A Generational Challenge to Repower America" by Al Gore, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 25, 2008.

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• My presidency is not over. I've got another five years coming up.

  Barack Obama

  Years, Presidency, Five

  Principal Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest's press briefing in James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Washington, D.C., www.whitehouse.gov. February 24, 2012.

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• About five years ago I saw a mockingbird make a straight vertical descent from the roof gutter of a four-story building. It was an act as careless and spontaneous as the curl of a stem or the kindling of a star.

  Annie Dillard

  Stars, Years, Curls

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.104, Canongate Books

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• Let's spend less on trying to fix the unfixable in the last five years of life and spend more supporting people so that they can stay the least disabled as they possibly can, the most independent as they possibly can, and keep them at home.

  Katy Butler

  Home, Independent, Years

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Even if Osama bin Laden is caught tomorrow, it is five years too late. To capture him now I don't think makes us any safer.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Thinking, Years, Too Late

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• I've had the same car for five years - it's a convertible Jag which I bought with my own money. It's very Austin Powers.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Years, Car, Austin

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• It's funny, everywhere I go some people ask me whether it's going to be a Latino breakthrough, some people ask me whether it's going to be a female breakthrough, and then I'm reminded that five years ago we didn't even know Barack Obama's name.

  Gwen Ifill

  Years, Names, People

  "Gwen Ifill’s Truth". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. March 29, 2009.

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• I'm blessed, because I enjoy every part of my life. I enjoy writing songs. I've been trying to write songs since I was five years old.

  Smokey Robinson

  Song, Blessed, Writing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A five-year-old Chinese girl knows more about football than I do.

  Frank Langella

  Girl, Football, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There's nothing like the bravery and the strength and the extraordinary optimism of a five-year-old child in a cancer hospital, fighting to live. It's there inside the spirit.

  Frank Langella

  Children, Cancer, Fighting

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Hamburg is getting a new symbol with its new Elbe Philharmonic concert hall. Such an architecturally impressive building is built somewhere in the world maybe once every five years, if you're lucky.

  Charles Landry

  Years, Lucky, World

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• A lot of artists make art for five years, some artists make art for ten years, a few make art for fifteen: very few do it until they die.

  Doseone

  Art, Years, Fifteen

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• You know we receive an education in the schools from books. All those books that people became educated from twenty-five years ago, are wrong now, and those that are good now, will be wrong again twenty-five years from now. So if they are wrong then, they are also wrong now, and the one who is educated from the wrong books is not educated, he is misled. All books that are written are wrong, the one who is not educated cannot write a book and the one who is educated, is really not educated but he is misled and the one who is misled cannot write a book which is correct.

  Edward Leedskalnin

  Book, School, Writing

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• I had five years of failure, really, before I had the first initial sign of success.

  James Rothman

  Years, Firsts, Initials

  "Scientists Win Nobel For Work On How Cells Communicate". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, Melissa Block, www.npr.org. October 7, 2013.

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• For the first five years of music and first five years of acting, I don't remember it because I was running to where I was going. Finally I was like, 'Man, I missed everything.' So I just stopped, and I started looking around.

  Christian Kane

  Running, Men, Years

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• In college, I stopped doing pre-med and went into theater, and then I moved to San Francisco and lived there for five years.

  Mark Waters

  College, Years, San Francisco

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• In my early thirties I was working in television as a researcher. I was really stuck for a period of five years. I got to TV when I was thirty. I hated being a music writer, and kept wondering why I couldn't be doing the exciting things that my friends were doing in television.

  Mary Harron

  Years, Television, Tvs

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.

  Al Jarreau

  Garden, Years, Piano

  "Jazz vocalist Al Jarreau". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 5, 2013.

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• I don't believe in making five-year plans. I don't want to say, "Yes, I want to have children in the next five years," because I don't know. I've always known that I'd like to be a mom, but I don't want to live by a schedule. If I [did], I wouldn't be living in the moment.

  Charlize Theron

  Mom, Children, Believe

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I decided to become an actor at five. I saw the most gorgeous woman that I had ever seen in my five years of living on television. She had on a long, red dress and her eyelashes looked like butterflies and I said, "Grandmamma, who is that?" She said, "Baby, that's Lola Falana." I said, "That's it right there. I want to be black, fabulous, and on TV."

  Niecy Nash

  Baby, Butterfly, Eyelashes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The first 10 years, I was just building just to understand what I was doing and I didn't trust my intuition to just produce. Then, in the last five years, I have really been reflecting on what I am producing and what it is doing.

  David Adjaye

  Years, Intuition, Firsts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• More than fifty-five years ago my father told me, "The Bible does not belong on the shelf but in your hand, under your eye, and in your heart."

  Martin Niemoller

  Father, Heart, Eye

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