30 Years Quotes

I don't know where it's come from, but after many years of many different products, I feel like I can speak as an authority on a lot of them.

Years later we were watching 90210 [with my sister].

You never forget the discovery years. First kisses. The first time you try certain foods.

It took me sixteen years to write.

I met my wife when we were 15 years old. I knew within 15 minutes of meeting her, that's who I wanted to marry.

I turned a lot of people off over the past few years, but I know I can still turn out good music and turn everything all around, i've lost some of my best qualities. For that, I am sorry.

I know a lot of mainstream hip-hop people, have been listening to things like Aphex Twin for years. When somebody first played me some of that album, I was just like, "Woah!"

When I first started making music, for about the first 10 years, I was always the young kid. Everyone referred to me as such in any band.

I think many years ago I got on a bus in L.A. and drove around to see the stars' homes, but that's the extent of my direct experience in Hollywood.

I have a 12-year-old daughter, and all the time people will say, 'Oh, she's young!" and you'd be so surprised what you can learn from that 12-year-old if you just opened up your mind.

After many of years of getting cast in sweet, angelic roles, I'm finally getting to play closer to my real life as a horrible person.

I've been making music since I was damn near born. For me to be a producer and be on my sixteenth year making music is a blessing.

If I was roped into a seven-year TV contract I'd probably hang myself.

When you hear about people in the '50s getting married at 20, you're like, What were they thinking? My grandparents were together for over 50 years.

If entertainment years were dog years, man, Id be like Gandhi. Id be like 250 years old.

If you had told me at the beginning of the year that I was going to be a shoo-in for the Cy Young, I would have been absolutely ecstatic and amazed.

The songs started as a soundscapes, and then came the words and music; each song took at least a year to make.

We'll probably live 20 more years than our grandparents did. The question is, what are you going to do with those extra 20 years?

I was out in L.A. and I had gone to film school and I was out here for a couple of years. For a lot of years, I was bartending and having a good time.

I continued blogging, but between illness and deadlines, did not manage to blog nearly as much as last year. I'm hoping to do better in 2016.

I spent the year behind on deadlines and everything else. It's only now in December that I feel even slightly caught up. 2016 has to be better.

To have slaved so many years for nothing!

The greatest reverence is due to a child! If you are contemplating a disgraceful act, despise not your child's tender years.

He had total love in his eyes when he performed. He was the total androgenous beauty. I would practice Elvis in front of the mirror when I was twelve or thirteen years old.

When you are a filmmaker, you need to be rooted, because committing yourself to producing or directing a film is a good three-year process.

In the 30 years of my career, I have explored all possible mediums, except radio.

I'm about to graduate senior year and I don't know what I'm going to do. I don't want to lose the momentum with what I'm doing now as an actress.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

Age-appropriate makeup? Who are you people? What makeup is age-appropriate for a seven-year-old?

I still feel like five years old every time I step on the court. It's my sanctuary...I want to maintain the fun at all times.

I'm a mix of a 14-year-old high schooler and a 60-year-old guy. It can never fall into the 30s or the 40s. It has to be 100 percent 60 or 100 percent 14, no in between.

Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.

In the first 27 years of my life, I never had written a single non-technical word. I went to engineering college and went to business school. I never knew I could write fiction of any form.

Of course I had a piece of luck I couldn't have imagine for myself in a million years: I got an agent. That sped up the process. I'd say it's a good idea, getting an agent.

I just think about what I am doing on my side of the net, which requires focus. Even after all the years I've been playing, I still get butterflies before each match.

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

You got guys now declaring they're ready to play pro ball in their second or third year of high school. It's crazy! They're missing so much.

Reporters used to ask me the same inane questions year-in and year-out, city-to-city, and it would drive me crazy.

Only years of practice will teach you the mysteries and bold certainty of a real gardener, who treads at random, yet tramples on nothing.

I watch many, many, many independent films every year that you see once in a film festival and they're never heard of ever again. Many of them are very, very good.

There were all these rumors about me... so I went indoors. No one saw me for years. And since I wasnt around, people believed what they wanted.

I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered his own people, used weapons of mass destruction against them and flouted the world for so many years.

Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep. I would rather die at twenty-two, knowing the truth, then live in a cage of lies for a hundred years.

I was a twenty-two-year-old single white female alone in a strange country where my sister had been killed.

I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore.

It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.

I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to publish my book.

In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of consciousness a few times a year.

My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.

Now sometimes I don't know if I feel well. Because I've been in my body for years.