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Years Quotes
"There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago."
14
"This is my third ABC show over the last four years, so we were afraid that nobody would find it. ABC was really struggling and so we just weren't very confident that it would find an audience."
14
"I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years."
14
"There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years."
14
"It took me 36 years to be able to be by myself and like it."
14
"Twelve years on sets watching directors, I've taken a bit from everybody and rejected a lot."
14
"I'm not anti-American. I've lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years."
13
"I quit after my seven-year contract with Universal was up. I quit for 33 years."
13
"Garry Trudeau put me in the Doonesbury strip many years ago. So I've been a cartoon once."
13
"I met Jeb Bush in 1971 in my hometown in Mexico. We dated for three years back and forth. Then, after three years, he proposed to me."
13
"The only thing that's really riled me up in the last ten years has been the White Stripes. That's the one band that's gotten me competitive, and that's good."
13
"There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth."
13
"I can always remember the dances, even from shows I did 40 years ago."
13
"I live in New York simply because I don't know any better. I moved there when the show went off the air a couple of years after that."
13
"It took me 10 years to realize that I don't know 'em, 10 years to realize that it's possible to learn them, then another 10 years to learn how to do things."
13
"It takes 300 years, it seems, for the great bands to get their due."
13
"I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or four years and survived. We brought it back to the streets again."
13
"So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other."
13
"For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string."
13
"Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way."
13
"To have everything written for you... It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers."
13
"Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it."
13
"Sabrina ran for seven years with a different director every week."
13
"I don't think this show would have come to me 10 years ago. It continues to be this wonderful miracle."
13
"If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far."
13
"We've had cloning in the South for years. It's called cousins."
13
"I have no plan to retire anytime soon, although remember I am 50 years old!"
13
"Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves."
12
"I played as a 17-year-old with Walter Smith, who must have been about 32. So I've known Walter for 21 years."
12
"Arsenal are a great team. But we lifted the trophy eight times in 11 years."
12
"I was just thrilled to get the gig to begin with. Ten years later to still have it is not only thrilling but also somewhat of a puzzlement."
12
"There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar."
12
"I am thrilled to have been able to put together this new album. I listened to everything I had recorded in the 24 years with Elektra, and then just took all the ones I am mad about."
12
"Best two rock voices I've heard in a last few years both have been from grunge bands: it's Eddie Vedder and the other one is Chris Cornell from Soundgarden."
12
"I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it."
12
"In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years."
11
"Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured."
11
"I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years."
11
"It's hard to watch something you've done many years ago."
11
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