Seven Years Quotes - Page 5

• My mother-in-law has come round to our house at Christmas seven years running. This year we're having a change. We're going to let her in.

  Les Dawson

  Christmas, Mother, Running

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You see, in America, it's quite standard for an actor to sign, at the beginning of a series, for five or seven years. The maximum any British agent will allow you to have over an actor is three years.

  Julian Fellowes

  Years, America, Three

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• I wrote newspaper articles professionally for seven years, and I love newspapers.

  Al Gore

  Years, Seven, Newspapers

  Interview with John McMurtrie, www.sfgate.com. February 17, 2013.

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• I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Book, Writing, Years

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• If it takes you seven years to write each novel, you need a patron. And I would rather have my corporate self as my patron than any arts council or bestower of grants.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Art, Writing, Self

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• So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years.

  Salma Hayek

  Years, Giving, Waiting

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• In my experience in series TV if you have a good crew and a great cast it's going to be a great group - similar to the theater where it's a bunch of people who are really talented and go to work each day and challenge each other and if you are lucky enough to get a hit then it's five or six or seven years of this kind of work.

  Denis Leary

  Years, People, Challenges

  "The End of Rescue Me, But Not Denis Leary". Interview with Nancy Doyle Palmer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2011.

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• The hardest part of anything is making a dish consistently great - you order it seven years later, if it's still on the menu, and it's still as good as what you remember.

  Mario Batali

  Order, Years, Remember

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• I saw my ex-husband in the street. I was sitting on the steps of the new library. Hello, my life, I said. We had once been married for twenty-seven years, so I felt justified. He said, What? What life? No life of mine.

  Grace Paley

  Husband, Years, Library

  Grace Paley (2014). “The Collected Stories”, p.129, Macmillan

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• And so it was settled. Sam Gamgee married Rose Cotton in the spring of 1420 (which was also famous for its weddings), and they came and lived at Bag End. And if Sam thought himself lucky, Frodo knew that he was more lucky himself; for there was not a hobbit in the Shire that was looked after with such care. When the labours or repair had all been planned and set going he took to a quiet life, writing a good deal and going through all his notes. He resigned the office of Deputy Mayor at the Free Fair that Midsummer, and dear old Will Whitfoot had another seven years of presiding at Banquets.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Spring, Writing, Years

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• Well, I spent six or seven years after high school trying to work myself up. Shipping clerk, salesman, business of one kind or another. And it's a measly manner of existence. To get on that subway on the hot mornings in summer. To devote your whole life to keeping stock, or making phone calls, or selling or buying. To suffer fifty weeks of the year for the sake of a two-week vacation, when all you really desire is to be outdoors, with your shirt off. And always to have to get ahead of the next fella. And still — that's how you build a future.

  Arthur Miller

  Summer, Morning, School

  Arthur Miller (2009). “Miller Plays: 1: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge”, p.138, A&C Black

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• There is something deeply hypocritical in a society that holds an inner-city child only eight years old "accountable" for her performance on a high-stakes standardized exam but does not hold the high officials of our government accountable for robbing her of what they gave their own kids six or seven years before.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Children, Kids, Eight

  Jonathan Kozol (2005). “The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America”, p.53, Broadway Books

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• Age-appropriate makeup? Who are you people? What makeup is age-appropriate for a seven-year-old?

  Kami Garcia

  Makeup, Years, People

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• A couple months after my heart attack, fifty-seven years after I'd given it up, I started to write again. I did it for myself alone, not for anyone else, and that was the difference. It didn't matter if I found the words, and more than that, I knew it would be impossible to find the right ones.

  Nicole Krauss

  Couple, Writing, Heart

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.9, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It has always been on the written page that the world has come into focus for me. If I can piece all these bits of memory together with the diaries and letters and the scribbled thoughts that clutter my mind and bookshelves, then maybe I can explain what happened. Maybe the worlds I have inhabited for the past seven years will assume order and logic and wholeness on paper. Maybe I can tell my story in a way that is useful to someone else.

  Nancy Horan

  Memories, Past, Order

  Nancy Horan (2007). “Loving Frank: A Novel”, p.7, Ballantine Books

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• Dimitri: "Rose, I'm seven years older than you. In ten years, that won't mean so much, but for now, it's huge. I'm an adult. You're a child.” Rose: "You didn't seem to think I was a child when you were all over me.” - Rose Hathaway & Dimitri Belikov (Vampire Academy)

  Richelle Mead

  Children, Mean, Thinking

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• Everything's possible when you're seven years old." She sighed. "But then you hit an age where you decide it's cooler not to believe in anything at all. [...] It's called being grown-up.

  Allan Frewin Jones

  Believe, Years, Age

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• That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different.

  Michael Lewis

  Years, Different, Seven

  Michael Lewis (2004). “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game”, p.190, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It's the silliness--the profligacy, and the silliness--that's so dizzying: a seven-year-old will run downstairs, kiss you hard, and then run back upstairs again, all in less than 30 seconds. It's as urgent an item on their daily agenda as eating or singing. It's like being mugged by Cupid.

  Caitlin Moran

  Running, Kissing, Years

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• I’ve been dead for seven years, that’s as warm as they get.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Years, Seven, Warm

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.42, Scholastic Inc.

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• It amazes me that we are all on Twitter and Facebook. By "we" I mean adults. We're adults, right? But emotionally we're a culture of seven-year-olds. Have you ever had that moment when are you updating your status and you realize that every status update is just a variation on a single request: "Would someone please acknowledge me?

  Marc Maron

  Mean, Years, Adults

  Marc Maron (2013). “Attempting Normal (Enhanced Edition)”, p.161, Random House Group

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• Oh! Your hand is cold." Ashley cupped her fingers against her shirt to warm them. "I've been dead for seven years," Noah said. "That's as warm as they get.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Hands, Years, Cold

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.42, Scholastic Inc.

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• Every single cell in the human body replaces itself over a period of seven years. That means there's not even the smallest part of you now that was part of you seven years ago.

  Steven Hall

  Inspirational, Spring, Mean

  Steven Hall (2005). “The Raw Shark Texts”, p.25, Canongate Books

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• It seems to me that a man who can think straight along for forty-seven years without changing a single idea ought to be kept in a cabinet as a curiosity.

  Jean Webster

  Men, Thinking, Years

  Jean Webster (2016). “Daddy Long-Legs and Dear Enemy: Illustrated”, p.70, Jester House Publishing

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• The place didn't look the same but it felt the same; sensations clutched and transformed me. I stood outside some concrete and plate-glass tower-block, picked a handful of eucalyptus leaves from a branch, crushed them in my hand, smelt, and tears came to my eyes. Sixty-seven-year-old Claudia, on a pavement awash with packaged American matrons, crying not in grief but in wonder that nothing is ever lost, that everything can be retrieved, that a lifetime is not linear but instant. That, inside the head, everything happens at once.

  Penelope Lively

  Block, Grief, Eye

  Penelope Lively (2007). “Moon Tiger”, p.58, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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