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Years Quotes
"They were kind of like little Stephen King stories... but these go back many hundreds of years."
36
"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."
36
"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."
36
"I've been around the block a lot and I've had a merry trail for 55 years."
36
"Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way."
36
"I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has."
36
"We went through ten years of the Limp Bizkit thing, and I didn't know what to do."
36
"I quit after my seven-year contract with Universal was up. I quit for 33 years."
35
"The Beatles were something everyone had in common; this was thirty years ago, there was Dr. Who and everybody knew who the Daleks were and there was The Beatles and everybody knew who George Harrison was."
35
"It was probably when I met Jeff Hamilton, the drummer I've been working with for the last 20 years. He's the one who brought Ray Brown to hear me sing at a restaurant in my hometown."
35
"Once again, stock markets have been threatened with extinction for almost 75 years, and I have found that stock markets are harder to kill than roaches."
35
"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."
35
"I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years."
35
"Yes, there was a sort of underground cult following, which came from nowhere, and grew, and grew. It was quite surprising to us all, because all of us had spent probably the previous five to ten years without it. So it was quite overwhelming. Overwhelming and humbling."
34
"At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology."
34
"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."
34
"I've been telling anybody who would listen that I wanted to do a series for the last 10 years. But I wouldn't do it if I was just another cop pushing bad guys up against the wall."
34
"There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years."
34
"I must have done everything I had. You go through years where you go through everything you've ever written."
33
"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."
33
"I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years."
33
"I don't think this show would have come to me 10 years ago. It continues to be this wonderful miracle."
33
"I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree."
32
"We went to Big Sur about three years ago and hung out at the Esalen Institute."
32
"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."
32
"There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar."
32
"So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on."
32
"Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured."
31
"Joe's been my drummer for 14 years, and we've been buddies for six years."
31
"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."
31
"I write about it in the book and, you know, explain that. But that was the technicality that actually got my sentence reduced - that Alan Dershowitz used to have my sentence - it came down eventually to eight years."
31
"I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last ten years."
31
"I think for a couple of years I was believing that I was doing it all on my own and I wasn't."
31
"In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years."
30
"I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years."
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