Nine Months Quotes - Page 5

• It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that's 160 days.

  Alan Furst

  Book, Writing, Two

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• I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, 'I'm writing plays, I should learn about acting and what it is.' So I went to the HB Studio in New York, and I was there for about nine months.

  Wallace Shawn

  New York, Writing, Play

  "Wallace Shawn juggles acting jobs and play writing". Interview with Dany Margolies, www.reuters.com. February 1, 2011.

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• Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other - beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival - a knowledge that is subliminal, subversive, preverbal: the knowledge flowing between two alike bodies, one of which has spent nine months inside the other.

  Adrienne Rich

  Daughter, Mother, Two

  Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

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• Canada's climate is nine months winter and three months late in the fall.

  Evan Esar

  Fall, Winter, Climate

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• I'm a lot more selective with work these days. My perfect plan is to do one movie every nine months. It would have to be a project that I found inspiring. It would also have to include other actors and a director I am inspired to work with.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Perfect, Nine, Months

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Am I willing to go to Mars? Yes, but I'm not willing to spend nine months getting there, then wait 18 more months until the planets align to come home.

  Gene Cernan

  Home, Waiting, Mars

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• It's nine months before the election and Bush's poll numbers have fallen to the exact level that his father's poll numbers were nine months before he lost to Bill Clinton. Today front runner John Kerry said he's not superstitious, but just to be on the safe side, he's going to start f---ing everything that moves.

  Bill Maher

  Father, Moving, Numbers

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• Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.

  Victoria Moran

  Baby, Giving Up, Alcohol

  "Veg and the City: The Life Changing Effects of a Raw Food Diet" by Victoria Moran, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 18, 2010.

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• There is a dreamlike quality to the 1936 Basque government, the fulfillment of a historic longing that was to be crushed only nine months later in carnage the scale of which had never before been seen on earth.

  Mark Kurlansky

  Government, Quality, Earth

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• When you're younger you just want to go out and make your mark in the world and doing that, quite often, the people that you love the most and the people you should be closest to suffer from estrangement. I'd be gone nine months a year, so how do you know anyone? When you come home you are a stranger.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Home, Years, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The naive notion that a mother naturally acquires the complex skills of childrearing simply because she has given birth now seemsas absurd to me as enrolling in a nine-month class in composition and imagining that at the end of the course you are now prepared to begin writing War and Peace.

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, War, Writing

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• When I got my statement in January, I was worth $2.2 billion. Then I got another statement in August that said I was worth $3.2 billion. So I figure it's only nine months' earnings, who cares?

  Ted Turner

  August, Care, Nine

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• I count 'Underworld 4' as my training period for 'Total Recall.' I do think it was hard because I didn't realize how tired I was. It is quite a lot to sustain that kind of physical work over nine months altogether and by the end of it, I definitely felt like I had aged quite a bit in that year.

  Colin Farrell

  Tired, Thinking, Years

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• I have SO many books I didn't sell. Some my agent rejected outright, others made it all the way to my editor to be turned away. Not everything is a winner, which is tough when you've devoted eight or nine months of your life to something.

  Sarah Dessen

  Book, Editors, Eight

  Interview with Claire Zulkey, www.wbez.org. January 13, 2012.

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• My perfect plan is to do one movie every nine months.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Perfect, Nine, Months

  Source: cinema.com

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• ...we hope to stop the transmission in six to nine months

  Margaret Chan

  Ebola, Nine, Months

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• It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating

  Sara Paretsky

  Writing, Months, Pages

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• Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the world and hope that some day they'll send back money.

  Edna Buchanan

  Children, Book, Writing

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• I think we're in the beginning of a bull market. When a bull market begins, nine months later the economy turns around.

  Sumner Redstone

  Thinking, Bulls, Nine

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• I had a period of unemployment for about nine months after my first big break, and it's the greatest lesson I ever could have learned, never to believe you're home and dry.

  Natalie Dormer

  Believe, Home, Unemployment

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• I am going to be on 'True Blood.' It was really exciting. I had a great time shooting it. I spent the last nine months shooting this season and it was very secretive, very sexy, a lot of blood and fangs.

  Scott Foley

  Sexy, Blood, Shooting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I got a nice nine-month vacation living on the beach collecting sand dollars, and I really got to reflect and realize that in entertainment, you can definitely go too far.

  Spencer Pratt

  Beach, Nice, Vacation

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• Up until the time Turner Broadcasting bought Hanna-Barbera, it was essentially an independent studio whose planning cycle had to be nine months. You got a pickup in January, and you put it on the air in September. That's been the cycle.

  Fred Seibert

  Independent, Air, Nine

  "Q&A with Hanna-Barbera president Fred Seibert". Interview with Phil Gallo and Richard Setlowe, variety.com. March 23, 1994.

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• When I was banned for nine months I had an opportunity to focus on something else and I needed to focus on something else. It's who I am. I admire Miles Davis and Chet Baker a lot and I like this instrument, so I tried and I learned and practised for two months. But I stopped after that.

  Eric Cantona

  Opportunity, Who I Am, Two

  "Looking For Eric - Eric Cantona interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I tell the young kids, you have eight or nine months of the year to play basketball and the rest of the year you can relax. So, you've got to be ready. It doesn't last forever.

  Ray Allen

  Basketball, Kids, Eight

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