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My way of working was different years ago. I used to wait until an idea came to me. Now I go half-way to meet it, though I don't know whether I find it any the quicker.

When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it.

It was far too cold. The second I got out I had this incredible headache, I'm just not used to it. The last time I saw snow was years and years ago.

I don't think there is a role that I did twenty years ago that I couldn't do better now.

I wouldn't be interested in just doing a show that's mapped out and choreographed with a set list. That would've been boring so long ago it just wouldn't be any fun.

I mean, as long as it doesn't have a bra attached, guys can take a risk and wear stylish things that went out of style 30 years ago. As things go around, they come around.

When I read philosophy or neuroscience papers about consciousness, I don't get the sense we're any closer to understanding it than we were 50 years ago.

The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course.

Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians. They met upon the third Wednesday of every month and read each other long, dull papers upon the history of English magic.

The culture now in television is that the presenter calls the financial and, increasingly, the creative shots. It is comparable to what happened in Hollywood 15 or so years ago.

I'm not so proud to think that anything is unworthy, and I don't think I was that way 10 years ago.

The best of friends fall out, and so his teeth had done some years ago.

I've long ago compromised my eight hours a night.

Ten years ago, Republicans decided it was time to reform our broken welfare system and give welfare recipients the tools they needed to escape the system and build a better life.

I'm not interested in the TV much. I quit watching the news a couple years ago and my outlook on life has gotten a whole lot better.

Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.

If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago.

Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.

Many years ago, Clement Greenberg said, 'All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.' This should be updated now to 'All profoundly ugly work looks original at first.

Long ago, Ben Graham taught me that "Price is what you pay; value is what you get." Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

The Labor roots are very strong.Paul Keating, made a comment several years ago about looking at that dragging yourself out of poverty, dragging yourself out of that situation.

There ain't no problem that some other dude didn't have 1,000 years ago.

If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.

Billions of years ago, you were a big bang, but now you're a complicated human being. And then we cut ourselves off, and don't feel that we're still the big bang. But you are.

Who would have thought something that happened that long ago could have such power?

Once upon a time, about 20 years ago, runners believed they didn't have to do anything but run

I was young not too long ago, and I know the last thing you want is someone preaching to you.

Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference.

Why are we working so hard to preserve Iraq, a fake country to begin with? Why do we care whether this fake country that was drawn on the map 100 years ago remains?

If good preaching could save the world, it would have been done long ago.

Eighteen years ago, my left knee I hurt. I've never had a knee injury in the pros.

I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.

Years ago, fairy tales all began with Once upon a time... now we know they all begin with, If I am elected.

We (women) take it for granted that we can do what we want. Not so very long ago, that was not the case.

We have always been a nation different from the Chinese. Long ago we fought wars with them.

I feel I can still do the same job as I did 10 years ago - I've just got a few more wrinkles!

There was a time in America not long ago when rock 'n' roll was called race music, and white kids who wanted to go see Chuck Berry were completely forbidden.

Although yoga is commonly portrayed as a popular fitness trend, it's actually the core of the Vedic science that developed in the Indus Valley more than 5,000 years ago.

Hard to imagine 40 years ago people could be convicted of a crime, fined, sent to prison for using the most common forms of birth control.

Nostalgias were peeled from it long ago.

If there had been a Financial Product Safety Commission in place 10 years ago, the current financial crisis would have been averted.

America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago.

What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.

We cannot adopt the way of living that was satisfactory a hundred years ago. The world in which we live has changed, and we must change with it.

O how long ago the earth would have been destroyed, if Mary had not interposed!

I started going to castings a few years ago when people didn't know who I was. People forget about [that time] because they've seen my career - the path that it's had in the last couple years.

I would have had my patent long, long ago, and it would have run out long, long ago. I would have made, maybe, $100.000, much less that the patent has brought me now.

I feel a great comfort and relief knowing that there are others who lived and died and thought and fought so long ago; I feel less tyrannized by the present day.

I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago, and of people who will see a world that I shall never know.