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Years Quotes
"If they'll have me and the show does well, I could do this another two or three years."
40
"Twelve years on sets watching directors, I've taken a bit from everybody and rejected a lot."
40
"We went through ten years of the Limp Bizkit thing, and I didn't know what to do."
39
"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."
38
"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."
38
"I must have done everything I had. You go through years where you go through everything you've ever written."
37
"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."
37
"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."
37
"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."
37
"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."
37
"Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured."
36
"I've wanted to do it for years, but every attempt at it has turned into another tune. We have actually taken a different approach, we're doing a lot of sampling - we're even sampling bits of Flash!"
36
"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."
36
"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."
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 haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years."
36
"I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years."
36
"Barry is an incredible singer. He's even gotten better through the years."
35
"I quit after my seven-year contract with Universal was up. I quit for 33 years."
35
"I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree."
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."
35
"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."
35
"At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology."
35
"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."
35
"We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own."
35
"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."
35
"There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years."
35
"Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves."
34
"There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar."
34
"Warp was important to Thom about two years ago when he was looking for different sounds."
34
"We were all ruled by the studio system. I signed a contract for seven years."
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've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same."
33
"I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years."
33
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