Last Year Quotes - Page 8

• I tried to pick Nykyrian’s pocket last year. (Jana) And you let him live? (Kiara) I have an age requirement before I kill someone. (Nykyrian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Years, Age, Pockets

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• When they [visitors to his studio:] learn about the six-week daily-strip deadline and the 12-week Sunday-page deadline, a visitor almost never fails to remark: "Gee, you could work real hard, couldn't you, and get several months ahead and then take the time off?" Being, as I said, a slow learner, it took me until last year to realize what an odd statement that really is. You don't work all of your life to do something so you don't have to do it.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Real, Sunday, Years

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• Ash paused as he entered the house to find the three women lined up and... singing to... dear gods, anything but this. "Fergilicious." All he needed was for Simi to be here and off-key with them since it was her favorite song and he'd spent the better part of the last year cursing whoever was dumb enough to introduce that song to a hormonal teenaged demon. Worst part? Simi wanted him to call her Similicious.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Song, Keys, Years

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.545, Macmillan

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• It's not easy being so frightened of everything. And when I think of how much I've improved in the last year, I wonder when I'll ever get finished with making changes and be really grown up.

  Paula Danziger

  Thinking, Years, Lasts

  Paula Danziger (2006). “There's a Bat in Bunk Five”, p.25, Penguin

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• Last year nothing happened The year before nothing happened And the year before that nothing happened.

  Osamu Dazai

  Years, Lasts, Happened

  Osamu Dazai (1968). “The Setting Sun”, p.37, New Directions Publishing

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• I don't understand how people can stand next to you one year,and next year, they cannot. They're going crazy, screaming. They can't take it that you're there. But last year I was in the same club,walking around,lonely like a motherfucker. Couldn't get a date or a dance. I was too skinny, too something, and now, "He's just adorable. He's just, oh!

  Tupac Shakur

  Lonely, Crazy, Years

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• Last year, when he had been staying with the Pevensies, he had managed to hear them all talking of Narnia and he loved teasing them about it. He thought of course that they were making it all up; and as he was far too stupid to make anything up himself, he did not approve of that.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Stupid, Talking

  C. S. Lewis (2010). “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader”, p.10, HarperCollins UK

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• Now I found it in writing sentences. You can write that sentence in a way that you would have written it last year. Or you can write it in the way of the exquisite nuance that is sriting in your mind now. But that takes a lot of ... waiting for the right word to come.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Writing, Years

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• No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.

  H. G. Wells

  Men, Years, Water

  H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.593, Delphi Classics

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• I had the experience last year of directing my first feature while I had a 1-year-old son and while I was also pregnant, so I am now well aware of the difficulties women who are rearing children face when they're also trying to make headway in mainstream of film.

  Diablo Cody

  Children, Son, Years

  "Diablo Cody on the Challenge of Directing While Raising a Toddler, and Women in Film (Q&A)". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 30, 2013.

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• I've spent the last year and a half going through a very public separation, hiding in hotel lobbies.

  Phil Collins

  Years, Hotel Lobby, Half

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• I call it fan fatigue. I went to see Bob Dylan last year, who I think is absolutely incredible, but he suffers from his audience.

  Roger Daltrey

  Thinking, Years, Suffering

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• In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as service in the regular army, although to be perfectly honest, I was unable to fulfill my entire obligation because I was taking acting classes and they said I could skip my last year.

  Larry David

  Army, Years, Class

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• Last year, I was on Threat Matrix. We were on Thursday against Friends and Survivor; so this year it's fun to know people are watching, and to know that all of your hard work is not sort of wasted.

  James Denton

  Fun, Hard Work, Years

  "James Denton: Desperate Plumber". Interview with Dan Kapelovitz, kapelovitz.com. February 2005.

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• I loved it, it's such fun. I like that people are seeing it and then talking about it. Like when I took my son and his friends to see Napoleon Dynamite last year, we spent the next six weeks trying to explain it.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Fun, Son, Talking

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• Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting - a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That's the exception to the rule.

  Minnie Driver

  Years, Exception To The Rule, Dating

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• The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

  John Foster Dulles

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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• I love 'The Office.' I'm in the premiere, and I'm maybe gonna shoot another episode this season, but I've been there since the very beginning, so when I found out this is the last year - I am a good Asian kid who was an A student - I wish I could be there to the end to see things through.

  Mindy Kaling

  Kids, Years, Office

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• Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We have lost a size of land equivalent to the entire state of Rhode Island.

  Bobby Jindal

  Rhode Island, Islands, Years

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• We gave up having a TV last year. I am out of the loop. Life is way better than TV. I recommend it to anyone who has forgotten they have one.

  Jasmine Guy

  Years, Way, Lasts

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• Gadgets are usually the last thing I think about, and if there's something new, I'll get to the store for the final shipment of the first generation when it's on sale. So I have last year's stuff.

  William Gibson

  Thinking, Years, Stuff

  Interview with Amy Cavanaugh, www.avclub.com. October 14, 2011.

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• But so far I have the feeling that the chances are there to repeat last year's season.

  Roger Federer

  Years, Feelings, Lasts

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• Initially, I know that I handled it worse than she did and I think partly because I've always been... every bit of adversity I've faced up until the last year and a half is adversity I brought upon myself - or the opposing teams have given me.

  Brett Favre

  Sports, Team, Adversity

  "Sunday Conversation: Brett Favre". Interview with Suzy Kolber, www.espn.com. November 24, 2004.

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• God, he deals you blows that at sometimes you think you can't handle and in the last year there have been things that we thought we couldn't handle but we've dealt with it up until this point.

  Brett Favre

  Sports, Blow, Thinking

  "Sunday Conversation: Brett Favre". Interview with Suzy Kolber, www.espn.com. November 24, 2004.

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• I was afraid of being a failure, of not having the best time or of being chicken. But every year I get older I think, What was I fearing last year?' You forget. And then you move on.

  Sandra Bullock

  Failure, Moving, Thinking

  "Sandra Bullock: My mother raised me not to depend on a man for anything". Interview with Garth Pearce, www.express.co.uk. October 12, 2013.

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