Seven Quotes - Page 7

• Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

  George Orwell

  Birthday, Trust, Eight

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• After drama school I did a seven-month tour of Europe performing in 'Romeo and Juliet.' I played Romeo.

  Clive Owen

  Drama, School, Europe

  "Clive Owen: I would do anything for my family". Interview, sg.news.yahoo.com. July 2, 2012.

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• My favorite actress of all times is Bette Davis in Dark Victory. I have seen it six or seven times, and I still cry.

  Bettie Page

  Dark, Victory, Actresses

  FaceBook post by Bettie Page from Feb 18, 2014

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• I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.

  Gordon Parks

  Cameras, Dollars, Fifty

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• I guess I write four or five hours a day, but I do it seven days a week. It's very disciplined, yes, but it's joy for me.

  James Patterson

  Writing, Joy, Four

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• I think e-books are terrific in their own right. I love being able to get on a plane and basically carry around seven books and it weigh 10 ounces.

  James Patterson

  Book, Thinking, Able

  "Surviving Summer Camp In James Patterson's 'Middle School'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. June 22, 2013.

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• The Seven Cities of Gold always fascinated me. Southwestern U.S. history especially fascinates me. The whole spur of the Spanish exploration of the Southwestern U.S. was the search for these mythical Seven Cities of Gold.

  Neil Peart

  Cities, Gold, Spurs

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• There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven.

  Tom Robbins

  Stories, Existence, Stills

  "Novelist Tom Robbins Plays Not My Job". Interview with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. June 5, 2010.

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• Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.

  Julia Roberts

  Dad, Years, Play

  "Waiting for the Smile". Interview with Sam Kashner and Jessica Diehl, www.vanityfair.com. April, 2012.

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• What could make my life better? Oh, if I could only find that magic bottle that lets you never have to sleep. I have so much stuff I wanna do, but... That six or seven hours you have to be in bed with your eyes closed. What a waste!

  Robert Rodriguez

  Sleep, Eye, Magic

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• During my seven-year contract with RKO, there were seven different studio presidents, from David O. Selznick to Charles W. Koerner. You literally had to check the name on the door so as not to call the new boss by the former boss's name.

  Ginger Rogers

  Doors, Years, Names

  Ginger Rogers (1991). “Gineger My Story”

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• Let's make a statement to the airlines just to get their attention. We'll pick a week next year and we'll all agree not to go anywhere for seven days.

  Andy Rooney

  Years, Next Year, Seven Days

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• My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed hungry so their children wouldn’t. My father lost his mother when he was nine. He left school and went to work for the next 70 years. They emigrated to America with little more than the hope of a better life.

  Marco Rubio

  Girl, Mother, Children

  Marco Rubio's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 30, 2012.

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• Seven hundred and sixteen billion dollars, funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed, all to pay for a new entitlement we didn't even ask for. The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we're going to stop it.

  Paul Ryan

  Obamacare, Grandparent, President

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them.

  Paul Ryan

  Morning, Work, Thinking

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• In Pennsylvania, 38 percent of Pennsylvania seniors chose to get their Medicare from a plan called Medicare Advantage. It's their choice. Forty-seven percent of them are going to lose it under 'Obamacare' according to Medicare by 2017.

  Paul Ryan

  Senior, Obamacare, Choices

  "Ryan: Happy to cling to guns, religion" by Juana Summers, www.politico.com. August 21, 2012.

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• My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school.

  Gus Van Sant

  Couple, School, Kids

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• I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck. But my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

  Steven Wright

  Inspirational, Life, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Horse, Humor

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• On engagement, we're already seeing that mobile users are more likely to be daily active users than desktop users. They're more likely to use Facebook six or seven days of the week.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Six, Seven Days, Use

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.

  Alber Elbaz

  Moving, Creating, Desire

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• I worked for a while as a teaching assistant while I was struggling. I really enjoyed it, working with kids with special needs, autism. It takes a hell of a lot of concentration, and you've got to focus on the child properly for seven hours a day.

  Joseph Mawle

  Children, Struggle, Teaching

  "Joseph Mawle: 'I've played some despicable characters'". Interview with Ursula Kenny, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2011.

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• Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men, doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Kings, Lying, Dark

  The Fellowship of the Ring epigraph (1954)

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• If you are very lucky, you're allowed to be in certain places during just the right season of your life: by the sea for the summer when you're seven or eight and full of the absolute need to swim until dark and exhaustion close their hands together, cupping you in between.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Summer, Dark, Eight

  Jonathan Carroll (2004). “Sleeping in Flame”, p.20, Macmillan

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• There ain't many troubles that a man caint fix With seven hundred dollars and a thirty ought six.

  Jeff Cooper

  Men, Dollars, Six

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