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When I started off many years ago, I made a determination that there were certain roles I didn't want to play.

To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.

I learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice.

Forgive the person who badly hurt you long ago and also the stranger who stepped on your toe in the grocery store.

My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school.

I read that Hollywood wanted to film Fences years ago with a white director, but [August] Wilson refused. He thought that the director needed to have lived the culture of black Americans.

20 years ago, when Bob Bly starting teaching copywriting, the field was deeply shrouded in mystery. Now, thanks to Bob, learning copywriting, though still a tricky proposition, is much easier.

A film like Genevieve to my contemporaries is not a film made years ago, but last week or last year. They see me as I was then, not as I am now.

I was a waitress years ago when I was first trying to become an actress, waiting tables in New York City.

Sold my soul long ago, nothing left to choose. I will follow Satan. Dancing in the dark.

I would probably advise myself 10 years ago not to take life too seriously and to just try to be happy.

My schedule has slowed a little. I've cut back on some of my assignments. But I still have the enthusiasm for the sports world that I had 38 years ago.

I remember things that happened sixty years ago, but if you ask me where I left my car keys five minutes ago, that's sometimes a problem.

I never see my movies. When they're on television, I click them away. Hollywood created an image, and I long ago reconciled myself with it. I was the French cliche.

Two hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man's social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of his life; he inherited it from his ancestors and it never changed.

The things men come to eat when they are alone are, I suppose, not much stranger than the men themselves.... A writer years ago told me of living for five months on hen mash.

A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new reading.

Fifty years ago my Mother stood on this stage accepting this award; She was fortunate enough to have my Dad with her. Fifty years later, I'm fortunate enough to have my Dad with me. I love you, Dad.

We made a big mistake 300 years ago when we separated technology and humanism. It's time to put the two back together.

Presenting feels like it did 50 years ago, but the pay's a lot better.

We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.

I went to Mongolia many years ago and it was so incredible.

Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.

Lessons taught but never learned, all around us anger burns. Guide the future by the past. Long ago the mould was cast.

I'm friends with Hank Azaria. We were on a show together 800 years ago, and we laugh every single time.

We no longer believe, as we did 250 years ago, that the mentally ill are animals, but we are not yet ready to grant that they are fully human either.

I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Pressure of opinion a hundred years ago brought about the emancipation of the slaves'.

Gauss replied, when asked how soon he expected to reach certain mathematical conclusions, that he had them long ago, all he was worrying about was how to reach them!

Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.

When astrology was conceived, all of the celestial bodies were in different places. So if you're a Sagittarius now, I guess you would have been a Capricorn 2,000 years ago.

I lost the accent years ago, but I'm still very proud to be Scottish, and I love wearing a kilt.

I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.

Tell me the tales that to me were so dear, Long, long ago, long, long ago.

But where is what I started for so long ago? And why is it yet unfound?

Winter's notion of poetry is tragedy. It knows nothing of comedy. Its laughter was frozen on its lips long ago.

About fifty million years ago...geological evidence indicates CO2 levels were several thousand ppm, much higher than now. And life flourished abundantly.

Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.

Long hair is a security blanket for me. I cut it short a few years ago and I really never want to do that again. When I do cut it, I cut it myself.

I think I'm in better shape now than I was 10 years ago, but it takes a bigger toll - I get back pain!

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

Ten years ago, desalination was the crazy aunt in the attic. That's changed. It is now entering the mainstream and being taken seriously.

My career has been a slow burn, so waiting to do the Edinburgh Festival was a smart move. If I'd spent a month there 10-15 years ago, there's no way anyone was gonna remember me.

To preach of peace and brotherhood, oh what might be the cost? A man he did it long ago, and they hung him on a cross.

It's quite funny that, 20 years ago, one would have thought putting out a fragrance would [negatively] affect your musical credibility. Now it may enhance it.

Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery.

Fifteen hundred years ago, Constantine, who murdered his own wife and children, started the Christian religion.

Where are the songs I used to know, Where are the notes I used to sing? I have forgotten everything I used to know so long ago. ("The Key-Note")

I learned years ago that love could be temporary and still be love.

The saddest country I went to was Romania, years ago, during Ceausescu's rule.