Years Quotes
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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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1977 was also, of course, the year that Derek Jarman made his iconoclastic film Jubilee, which was so much part of the punk movement.
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The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.
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A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.
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For me, getting older doesnt mean throwing away a favourite-coloured lipstick or a fabulous pair of boots; instead, its about harnessing all the great things I have learnt over the years about what does and doesnt suit me, and enjoying the way in which cleverly selected outfits can enhance the nice bits.
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Unfortunately, I experienced some sexual abuse. It was a known and admitted fact of life amongst us that there was this particular man, and you didn't want to be left in the dressing room with him. It took many years to come to terms with it and to forgive those incidents that I felt had deeply hurt me.
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The first and pivotal negotiations over global access to AIDS drugs began in Geneva in 1991. They lasted two years, but confidential minutes suggest they were doomed the first day.
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I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.
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As for consulting a dentist regularly, my punctuality practically amounted to a fetish. Every twelve years I would drop whatever I was doing and allow wild Caucasian ponies to drag me to a reputable orthodontist.
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I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
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In theory, I stick to how I could eat if I lived a thousand years ago. I take processed foods off the menu, and stick to things I could hunt or gather, with more fruits, vegetables, and nuts - and less meat.
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I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.
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I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
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I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves.
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For us, we are moving a company that has been around for 137 years to the next level so that we can be there for the next 137 years.
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It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it.
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I had 45 amateur fights, and I was able to win two national titles in those three years as an amateur.
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Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two different sorts of rural: the South and Appalachia.
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Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.
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Record labels have enjoyed a 100-year monopoly of selling plastic and now they're up against a different format.
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The hardest thing about writing my second album is that I had 20 years to write my first album.
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I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
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A million years went by quick.
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But I've consistently worked for 10 years.
