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It took me about 12 years to reach my million-word mark. The challenge now is to continue to challenge myself.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about word

Our little writer's colony existed for about three years and it would take nearly that long to share the stories we accumulated.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about writers

I am at this moment thirty-seven years old. Since aged twelve I have been free the sum total of nine and a half months.

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about old, olderness, moment

I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott

I did take ballet - since I was 8 years old.

Quote by Paula Abdul about old, olderness

Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet...

Quote by Richard Bach about evolution, civilization, intelligence, gifts, love

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Quote by Richard Bach about contentment

I've had a desire to coach for years. This was something I felt I should do.

Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.

Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The rivalry between the Lakers and Celtics endured for about eight years, and the interest grew each year.

Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar about interest

We were together for 10 years, which is as long as the Beatles were around. It's a long time for a rock band to be around.

Quote by Sebastian Bach about rocks, time

Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.

Quote by Randy Bachman about night, age, olderness, people

I knew that I would always be a second-rate Guess Who because I didn't have all of the elements and machinery working on my own, which took (The Guess Who) about eight or nine years to get going.

Quote by Randy Bachman

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Quote by Francis Bacon about olderness, old, age, man

I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down.

Quote by Floyd Abrams about problems, contentment

It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.

Quote by Floyd Abrams about press, law, public, rightness

After so many years it's embarrassing to admit that I don't honestly know how much I want to be directed.

Quote by Kevin Bacon

I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about haven, people

These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they...

Quote by Ansel Adams about opinion, old, olderness, people

Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment.

Quote by Pearl Bailey about moment, life, people