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Years Quotes


"Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate."


"Every two or three years I knock off for a while. That way I'm constantly the new girl in the whorehouse."


"I sing in a higher register, and you haven't heard that on the radio in years."


"It's easy to fall into the trap of believing all the hype that's written about you... Who knows? In a couple of years, you might find me in the loony bin!"


"It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it."


"I've been happily married to Chris for almost 20 years."


"I never knew that I'd still be doing this so many years later."


"We were all ruled by the studio system. I signed a contract for seven years."


"I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years."


"I've been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician."


"I didn't really discover yakuza films until about five or six years ago."


"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."


"I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever."


"Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured."


"Yes, I was forced to take piano lessons for 8 years as a child."


"Warp was important to Thom about two years ago when he was looking for different sounds."


"The five warmest years over the last century occurred in the last eight years."


"I was thrilled, because I like the big screen and I could then move on to the next thing. It was the biggest break for me. In a way, though, I wish it had been a TV series because then you are working for five years."


"Look at me, I'm getting defensive about something that happened so many years ago, somebody said. I'll have to find out who that was and if he's still alive."


"My doctor felt that the main contributing factor was so many years of malnutrition, especially during my formative years, even before I got into modeling."


"We were in a relationship for eight years, and we maybe saw each other, total, for a year."


"And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively."


"I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in."


"It looks like you're going to have to put up with us for another four years."


"It is hard to imagine 10 years is not quite long enough to learn a lesson."


"The little boy, Spencer Breslin, it was just so great to have a kid on set. He is talented, he's a pro. He's been doing this for years, I think he started when he was four or five."


"It wasn't that I ever knew I'd be at the Met for 20 years, or 30 years, or 40 years, or anything like that."


"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."


"I must have done everything I had. You go through years where you go through everything you've ever written."


"Memphis is in a very lucky position on the map. Everything just gravitated to Memphis for years."


"I have accomplished a lot, but it didn't happen overnight for me. I was 35 when I got the show, and had been working professionally for 15 years. It would be a lot weirder if I were in my early 20s and stumbled into it."


"As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer."


"The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me."


"The price I have personally paid for these extra Sisyphean years has been prohibitive."
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