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Years Quotes


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


"So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us."


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


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


"It took me 36 years to be able to be by myself and like it."


"Polar bears did very well in the warmer times. They didn't die out at all; they didn't die out in the last 10,000 years, nor during the previous interglacial, nor the one before that. So, they're just used as a deceitful heartthrob; you know, to pluck your heartstrings because the polar bears might die out."


"We went through ten years of the Limp Bizkit thing, and I didn't know what to do."


"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 can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last ten years."


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


"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 studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree."


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


"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."


"I prefer to remember the happy things over 10 years, the things that went well. Let me see, what did go well?"


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


"In later years, I craved foods that were almost always fattening."


"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."


"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."


"For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport."


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


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


"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."


"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."


"Traffic is one of the most powerful films to come out in recent years. It blew me away."


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


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


"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."


"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."


"We've had cloning in the South for years. It's called cousins."


"And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable."


"Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive."


"There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar."


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


"I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor."


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