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Years Quotes


"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."



"I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else."



"Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates, I note a large number with whom I became acquainted and with whom I interacted during those years as they passed through Cambridge."


"Joe's been my drummer for 14 years, and we've been buddies for six 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."


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



"Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it."


"Years later I made a movie with Wayne Newton, who has Arabians."



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



"We stopped doing my clothing line about five years ago, so it isn't available anymore."


"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."



"I think for a couple of years I was believing that I was doing it all on my own and I wasn't."


"The plastic on your sandwich really doesn't have to be made to last 50 years."



"We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and they'd say, 'Who?' In later years they'd say, 'Oh', which amounts to the same thing."


"I'm a gemini, and I get so bored so easily. I mean, I have moved six times in the last eight years."


"The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark."


"I can always remember the dances, even from shows I did 40 years ago."


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



"Actually, I only left twice. I left then, and then rejoined literally two years later for Going For The One."


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



"After two years of doing one show, you do get attached to everyone."


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


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


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


"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."


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


"I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years."


"Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years."


"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."



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


"I didn't make a 147 until few years ago - I just wasn't the sort of player who went for them. But it's like buses I suppose, one comes along and then a few more follow."


"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."


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


"It's hard to watch something you've done many years ago."


"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."
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