Two Years Quotes - Page 27

• You'd look out and there'd be little babies watching the show, and boys and girls. They loved the cowboys, and they loved Annie. There were young people seeing the show for the first time. I stayed for two years because I enjoyed it so much.

  Bernadette Peters

  Girl, Baby, Boys

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

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• I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mother, Years, Two

  "Terry Pratchett: 'I'm open to joy. But I'm also more cynical'" by Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2010.

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• And so I was very grateful that I didn't do the British stiff upper lip, but I went straight to a therapist. And she was wonderful and helpful, and I went for about two years.

  Lynn Redgrave

  Grateful, Years, Two

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• I went to an all-boys Catholic school, and not only were we not allowed to wear pajamas, we had to wear dress shirts, dress pants, a tie, dress shoes... they stopped making us wear blazers, like, two years before I started there, so pajamas... you wouldn't even get in the front door wearing pajamas at my school.

  John C. Reilly

  School, Boys, Shoes

  "John C. Reilly and Jacob Wysocki Interview TERRI". Interview with Heather Warburton, collider.com. June 30, 2011.

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• I remember being upset because I was finally legal to drink in Canada, and I decided to throw that all away and move to America, where I had to wait another two years. I came here to do improv and to try to join the Groundlings.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Moving, Years, Two

  Interview with Sandra Bullock, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 26, 2009.

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• I think there are some in the Democratic Party - not all - but I think there are some people in the Democratic Party that think that the immigration issue is more valuable to them unsolved. That it gives them something to talk about, that they can go back to Hispanic communities and make unrealistic promises every two years and win votes.

  Marco Rubio

  Party, Winning, Thinking

  "Some Democrats see immigration inaction as expedient, Rubio says" by Gregory Wallace, politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com. May 23, 2012.

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• I traveled the state of Florida for two years campaigning. I have never met a job creator who told me that they were waiting for the next tax increase before they started growing their business. I've never met a single job creator who's ever said to me I can't wait until government raises taxes again so I can go out and create a job.

  Marco Rubio

  Jobs, Florida, Government

  "Sen. Rubio: 'We Don't Need New Taxes, We Need New Taxpayers'". www.realclearpolitics.com. July 7, 2011.

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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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• And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to journalism. I didn't graduate with honors, but I did graduate on time and with some doing.

  Bob Schieffer

  Writing, Years, Two

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• My son, Jett, is two, and when I was pregnant my nose got bigger, so I got a new one. Everything was bigger for a while after having Jet, but I knew I needed to be able to walk up my stairs without being winded. It took me two years to lose 60 lbs - lots of walking, bike-riding, kick-boxing and performing.

  Jill Scott

  Son, Years, Two

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• It's odd the things that people remember. Parents will arrange a birthday party, certain it will stick in your mind forever. You'll have a nice time, then two years later you'll be like, 'There was a pony there? Really? And a clown with one leg?'

  David Sedaris

  Birthday, Nice, Party

  "Ask the Author Live: David Sedaris". Interview, www.newyorker.com. August 14, 2009.

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• A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Witty, Laughter

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• If you go to a bad movie, it's two hours. If you're in a bad movie, it's two years.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Movie, Years, Two

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• The only proper suit-and-tie job I've had in my life was the two years in the late 1980s when I ran a small corporate publishing company. I even had a Ford Sierra!

  Will Self

  Jobs, Years, Two

  "My Other Life: Will Self". www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2009.

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• After the last two years of springtime gas price spikes, nearly everyone in Southeast Wisconsin understands that something is wrong with our gasoline regulation and supply system.

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  Years, Two, Gasoline

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• I actually got more attention from one episode of 'The Sopranos' than I did from two years of 'The L Word.'

  Sarah Shahi

  Years, Two, Attention

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• I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.

  Zadie Smith

  Writing, Thinking, Years

  "In Essays, Author Zadie Smith Reveals Her Process". Interview with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. November 11, 2009.

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• And so we went away to play, and we'd come back to Liverpool. And while we were doing this - 'cuz we did it for two years. And then we'd go to Germany, and that's where I met the Beatles.

  Ringo Starr

  Years, Play, Two

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• The doctor said, 'He can't last a week.' And I did. And they said, 'There's no way this kid's going to last a month.' And I did. And so they said, 'Two years. He's not going to make it.' Two years. 'Five years. He can't do that.' I lived to be five years. 'He's never going to hit double digits.' And here I am, a new teenager.

  Mattie Stepanek

  Teenager, Kids, Doctors

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• I'm a huge fan of Canadian rock-and-roll. When I was growing up, Rush came out with a record called Hemispheres, and I must have listened to that record for two years straight. Even when I was asleep I had it on. So, yeah, whenever I hear a Rush tune, the first thing I think of is Toronto.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Growing Up, Thinking, Rocks

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• A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.

  William Howard Taft

  Years, Two, May

  William Howard Taft, David Henry Burton (2009). “William Howard Taft: Essential Writings and Addresses”, p.126, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• What I do remember is visualization of the sound of music, seeing bodies in movement in relation to how music sounded, because my mother practiced at the keyboard a lot and I also went to her lessons. As a two year old, three year old I remember seeing things in movement.

  Twyla Tharp

  Mother, Years, Two Year Olds

  "A Conversation With Choreographer Twyla Thar". Interview with Daviv Shenk, www.theatlantic.com. February 26, 2010.

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• When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books.

  Paul Theroux

  Book, Uganda, Phones

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• I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Sports, Years, Two

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• I wish I could give you all the examples over the last two years as secretary of agriculture, where I hear people in rural America constantly being criticized, without any expression of appreciation for what they do do.

  Tom Vilsack

  Appreciation, Expression, Years

  "Vilsack: 'I took it as a slam on rural America'". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. March 8, 2011.

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