William Wordsworth Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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I hope I don't just sit around moping for two years.
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I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.
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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
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What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.
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I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
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Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.
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I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.
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In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.
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We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.
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Are you a Democrat because you're a union member? Then why, after eight years of Bill Clinton, does some Chinese guy in Guangdong province have your job?
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The years teach much which the days never know.
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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
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I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.
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People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.
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Did you ever see a one eyed woman cry? You know the saddest thing about the woman, the tears don't come out just one eye.
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Mother cow is as useful dead as when she is alive.
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Intent and service-that is my motto.
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Provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke.
