Nine Quotes - Page 9

• Nine to Five is actually one of my favorite movies. I watched it a thousand times when I was a child, literally a thousand times.

  Leslie Mann

  Children, My Favorite, Thousand

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• I've tried as much as possible to avoid the standard nine-to-five thing. I've tried to organize my life so that I can move around, change the rhythm and the tempo.

  Assata Shakur

  Moving, Standards, Rhythm

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

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Perfect, Months, Plans

  Source: cinema.com

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• I am pessimistic, I think that's the best way to be, because if you're always expecting the best - the best doesn't always happen. Nine times out of 10 it doesn't. I'm surprised when things go smoothly. I don't know what's wrong with being pessimistic - unless you are such a pessimist that you don't do anything.

  Karl Pilkington

  Thinking, Pessimistic, Way

  Source: www.listener.co.nz

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• God the Compassionate and the Merciful, Tolerance incarnate, allows Mammon to have his nine days' wonder.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Tolerance, Wonder

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.240, Rajpal & Sons

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• I don't sit down at nine in the morning and begin writing and then take a break for lunch and stop at four. I have no structure like that. I am at my computer constantly, more or less attached to it. I live on-line and hate being off-line and don't care how unhealthy it is.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Morning, Hate, Writing

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• What I do is interpret, not create. I may add elements and do something different. That is what is so incredible about theatre. Why do we love it that there are nine Hamletsor six King Lears over two years? We love to watch a different actor attack the same material.

  Kevin Spacey

  Kings, Years, Two

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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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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• Charity is to unburden you from your guilt, so you say, `I am doing something: I going to open a hospital, going to open a college. I give money to this charity fund, to that trust....` You feel a little happier. The world has lived in poverty, the world has lived in scarcity, ninety-nine percent of people have lived a poor life, almost starving and dying, and only one percent of people have lived with richness, with money - they have always felt guilty. To help them, the religions developed the idea of charity. It is to rid them of their guilt.

  Rajneesh

  College, Ideas, Ninety Nine

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• My mother married again after my father's death - another Royal Air Force officer, and a very different kind of man. We went to Australia when I was eight or nine. We lived there for a couple of years, and then came back and lived in North Wales for the whole of my teenage years... I learned how to write poems quite a lot. I just had a good time reading and reading and reading. So that's where I did most of my growing up.

  Philip Pullman

  Mother, Growing Up, Couple

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November 2012.

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• The seven white notes on the piano - each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes. If you calculate it, there are 21 groups of five notes in any group of seven notes. And although there are 12 sections, this piece actually uses nine of those groups because some of the sections repeat earlier ones. So that's the formula. It's very simple as a way of generating something. It's my inner minimalist.

  Brian Eno

  Simple, Piano, White

  "The 77 Million Faces of Brian Eno". Interview with Andrew Marantz, www.motherjones.com. November 12, 2012.

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• I learned to fire guns at the age of nine or so, but luckily was not out killing people. We zigzagged the streets to escape those trying to kill us. I guess it would have been a matter of time till I turned around with a gun myself, to go after those coming for us. But I was fortunate. The grenade incident was about an explosion which destroyed a section of my school, from a grenade that me and my cousin detonated by accident. We both lived to tell about it.

  K'naan

  Cousin, School, Gun

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I have on the one hand a hatred and on the other a yearning for Vienna. I left when I was nine years old because I was Jewish. And even before 1938, the anti-Semitism in Austria was probably deeper than it was in Germany or in other European countries.

  Eric Kandel

  Country, Hands, Years

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Cats have nine lives. Makes them ideal for experimentation.

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Humor, Cat

  "Jimmy Carr's 40 most memorable jokes: One-liners and videos galore to mark comic's 40th birthday" by Rob Leigh, www.mirror.co.uk. September 14, 2012.

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• The things that I'm talking about not knowing, they're not mysteries of the universe; it's just stuff I thought I would know by the time I was thirty-nine.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Humor, Knowing

  "Jeff Foxworthy: Totally Committed", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• I never complain that I'm tired, because I know as soon as I get a good nine hours' sleep, I'm cool.

  Jessie J

  Tired, Sleep, Complaining

  "The Very Colorful Jessie J". Interview with Lauren Brown, www.glamour.com. April 10, 2012.

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• Hello?... No I'm sorry no Shaquita here. Well what number did you dial?.. No it's a nine not a seven... Well try it if it doest work call me back we'll figure this thing out.

  Katt Williams

  Funny, Sorry, Humor

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• I do think it is important to look at the writing as a job though and to commit to it like you'd have to commit to a regular nine-to-five.

  Christopher Paul Curtis

  Jobs, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• In America everyone plays bang ball, eight ball, nine ball, that kind of stupid crap, but in Canada and Europe they play snooker which is a much more skillful game and I enjoy that. I play pool now with friends, if we go to a bar we will play, but I am nowhere near as good as I once was.

  Daniel Negreanu

  Stupid, Eight, Europe

  Source: pokerworks.com

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• I have been doing this since I was nine years old. So whatever the role is, I am going to do the best I can do. The only thing I am concerned with is stepping on the stage in front of that camera and giving the best performance I know I can give, day in and day out as an actor.

  Darius McCrary

  Years, Giving, Roles

  "The Darius McCrary Interview- The Young and the Restless". Interview with Michael Fairman, michaelfairmansoaps.com. December 22, 2009.

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• I don't think I really knew how fit I was when I was a kid. I rode with my dad quite long distances and I've been racing since the age of nine, so we did a lot of sport growing up. My earliest memories of my dad are watching him race, so it was inevitable when we were old enough that my brother and I would get on bikes.

  Victoria Pendleton

  Sports, Brother, Growing Up

  Hertfordshire Life Interview, www.hertfordshirelife.co.uk. January 2015.

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• Most people's personalities and roles are locked by the time they're nine or 10. I think there's something to that.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Thinking, People, Personality

  "Don Hertzfeldt’s Animated Short “It’s Such A Beautiful Day” Screens At IFC". Interview with Kathleen Massara, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 26, 2012.

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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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• 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, Earning

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• Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.

  Arthur Young

  Men, Garden, Rocks

  Arthur Young (1792). “Travels during the years 1787, 1788, and 1789: undertaken more particularly with a view of ascertaining the cultivation, wealth, resources, and national prosperity of the kingdom of France”, p.37

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