30 Years Quotes

Everyone has an identity crisis when they are 16 or 17 years old.

There were about ten years of trying, failing, trying again, suffering rejection, etc. My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote.

Your life at this exact moment is a direct result of choices you made once upon a time. Thirty minutes or 30 year ago.

I am a huge believer in the flu vaccine. I have had it every year and have never had the flu.

I was so thrilled that I was having a girl, because I just am so girly myself, but I think the teenage years are going to be very interesting.

I'd been running for years: there was nothing scarier, to me, than to just be still with someone. And yet, there on that dark road, going home, I was.

Goodbye, kind year, we walk no more together. But here in quiet happiness we part.

I've spent twenty-eight years doing what everyone around me expected me to do...being what everyone around me has expected me to be. And it's horrid to be someone else's vision of yourself.

Un momento con una donna capricciosa vale undici anni di vita noiosa. A single moment with a fiery female is worth eleven years of a boring life.

I think I've become a much better singer and a much better player. Years and years of playing a couple of hours every day will do that.

A lot of times, when you start a show at a young age, you get stuck. You get six years of high school, but I didn't have that.

All of 'em, any of 'em that have been in front of me over all these years.

I do tend to take time off. A year and a half ago I went to film school, and before that I had taken years off at a time to be involved politically or this or that.

I'd rather live laughing for one year than live without laughing for one hundred.

I am 39 years old, and I still wake up every morning really excited I don't have to go to school.

I'm a working mom. I've been working since I was 14 years old.

My goals are to continue acting and also to produce some independent films in the next few years. Music is a passion of mine, so I also want to continue along that path, creating with my friends.

I was asked to do a reading of 'G.B.F.' and I loved the script. I thought it was one of the most amazing things I'd read, but it took a year to get a green light for production.

As a matter of fact, there is no trace of ill-health in Me. I am always healthy. Not only today, till 96 years I will be like this.

The first step in realization is to always think of God. Then after some years you will realize that you are one with God.

Life is endless, not punctuated by nights, days, months and years - for all are one, in the eternal stream.

A man spends the first year of his life learning that he ends at his own skin, and the rest of his life learning that he doesn't.

Congress did not pass last year's 2006 budget proposals. The 2007 budget proposals are very similar, and once again unfairly target agriculture. I expect Congress to reject them again.

I've always wanted to work with Cameron Crowe. I've auditioned for him several times for various projects over the last ten years, and I've always admired the way he worked with me.

I've been doing independent films for 10 years, but one out of five didn't see the light of day.

I had several different bosses during the early years of 'Dilbert.' They were all pretty sure I was mocking someone else.

My parents were married 53 years, good and bad. Can I do that? Probably not. But I really hope I can.

My hope is next year Terry and I can work out a contract. I have no problem with the Minnesota Twins.

In terms of a "career," I never have long-term plans, and certainly don't want to spend several years, say, writing a "long" novel.

Nobody gets into a band and thinks they're going to have a 30-year career.

When people make a horror movie, it's a few months. This is years of horror, that these guys have to play out. It just hit me and I was like, "Wow, that's heavy."

It would take a lifetime to read all the webcomics published in one year.

The reality is the park has been badly maintained for years.

We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years.

Fidel Castro takes up so much space in the Cuban mind. It's hard for us to imagine as Americans - isn't it? - how much of everyday conversation he's dominated for 50 years.

I was a swimmer growing up. I was a miler - like long, long distance. So I was in the water for four or five hours a day. That's not the way you want to spend your teenage years.

I went to the University of Toronto for a year, and I'm always trying to get across what university is really like.

You have phantom income each year. No money is being put in your pocket, but you have to take some money out of your pocket to pay Uncle Sam because the tax is paid based on accretion.

I'm not sober. I haven't done drugs in 3 1/2 years, so I call myself clean.

you just took on five million years of evolution again

The appointment [in Harvard] gave me economic safety, writerly support, and intellectual self-respectplus eight months to myself every year.

I always prefer to work intensively on something and then move on to something else. I prefer not to get stuck in something that takes five or six years of my life.

We have a situation where we have a lawmaker here in California who says that if you spank the child, you spank them, you're going to go to jail for a year or you're going to pay a $1,000 fine.

I've been able to read people my entire life, because I've interviewed people now for 20-some-odd years. So you can read people that way.

I don't see myself as a different guy than I was ten years ago. I don't have aspirations to be. It's really about where you're putting your energies. That's changing a lot.

Now people with HIV are no longer dying, but living many years - we are around longer to potentially affect others.

I went to college for about a year in California.

What is the sound of an eighty-nine-year-old heart breaking?

I suppose that each of us may have a great moment in our life, a month, a week a year, when we are most fully what we are meant to be

I don't have a schedule, but I can write for hours non-stop. If I'm drafting a book, I try and do a chapter a day. I dislike first drafts. Revision is a lot more fun, but it takes years.