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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
Walter Salles

Before, Maybe, Films

I've been in this business for a long time at my age, I've just turned 30, and I feel like my wife's career is going incredibly well, my kids are happy and healthy in schools, we've both been able to buy a house for our parents, respectively, in the places they live.
Ryan Phillippe

Age, Time, Business

I look young. I heard this said so often that it became irritating. I once worked as a babysitter for a woman who, the first time we met, said she didn't want somebody in high school. I was 22. Later, I realised that in certain places being female and looking 'young' meant it was more difficult to be taken seriously, so I turned to make-up.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Time, School, Woman

I realized that I was African when I came to the United States. Whenever Africa came up in my college classes, everyone turned to me. It didn't matter whether the subject was Namibia or Egypt; I was expected to know, to explain.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Everyone, Matter, College

Network heads don't seemed to be turned off by the men who get older.
Sharon Gless

Men, Off, Older

I went over to shoot for six days. It turned out to be ten days, very nicely so. A little money.
Gavin MacLeod

Money, Days, Six

I loved music, and in my ninth year at MIT, I decided to buy a hi-fi set. I figured that all I needed to do was look at the specifications. So I bought what looked like the best one, turned it on, and turned it off in five minutes, the sound was so poor.
Amar Bose

Music, Best, Poor

Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick.
Johnny Rivers

Sick, Everybody, Disaster

I never turned down a movie because they wouldn't give me enough money.
Jason Patric

Money, Down, Give

I had always turned it down-to me, smoking pot was absolutely the worst thing in the world. I thought of it as an addiction, and all my friends who smoked it, I felt they really needed help.
Tommy Rettig

Help, Thought, Friends

But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.
Joseph Rotblat

Death, Science, Technology

When I turned 15, I left school having failed to make the minimum grade. With little direction I enlisted at the local culinary school. Here the academic demands were less rigorous.
Rene Redzepi

School, Here, Less

In New Mexico, I inherited the largest structural deficit in state history, and our legislature is controlled by Democrats. We don't always agree, but we came together in a bipartisan manner and turned that deficit into a surplus. And we did it without raising taxes.
Susana Martinez

History, Together, State

My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.
Donal Logue

Mom, Young, She

I began imagining scenes in public which some drunk would come up to me and slap me in the face. Nothing like that ever happened, but I often wonder if I would have turned the other cheek.
Max von Sydow

Drunk, Nothing, Often

When we were talking about this, an idea for this master vigilante, it was an urban guerilla. One of my ideas was that he would be a member of the police force who turned on the government.
David Lloyd

Government, Idea, Ideas

The Holocaust committed by the Nazis turned this country, where most of the European Jews used to live and where their culture used to flourish, into a massive grave. This is why initiatives to revive Jewish culture in Poland is so important.
Marek Belka

Live, Important, Country

The years go so fast. I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and I just turned twenty-one.
Nastassja Kinski

End, Mean, Year

I have turned down a lot of garbage lately.
Burt Lancaster

Down, Garbage, Lately

Suddenly, the screens were dominated by American entertainment to the extent of something like 95 percent. As a result, audiences turned away from the kinds of films that we used to make.
Andrzej Wajda

Away, American, Used

I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time, it seemed the thing I really wanted to do, production design, just wasn't available in the U.K., so I turned to music.
Eric Burdon

Music, Time, Art

I really wanted to be a musician, but it turned out I had no sense of time.
Tom Perrotta

Time, Sense, Wanted

People in England were coming up to me, saying, My mother and father turned me on to your music. This happened to me 20 years ago. When I was 40 they were saying that.
Roy Ayers

Music, Mother, Father

I wouldn't have thought of myself as a person who could guide anybody and then it turned out that I can.
Meg Ryan

Person, Thought, Anybody

I started lying about my age when I was 18 to be older. When I turned 21, I started lying that I was 18. It's a weakness in me.
Rosie Perez

Age, Older, Started

The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur.
William Bartram

Nature, May, Different

The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing.
Russell Banks

Down, Else, Road

I've always turned my anger inwards towards self-destruction.
Mackenzie Phillips

Anger, Inwards, Towards

And we turned off and 30 miles south they're standing in the middle of our road blocking our way, stopped the car, got out, took us through the path in the woods, where the craft was on the ground.
Betty Hill

Car, Through, Path

What turned me on then, and turns me on even today - and when the time comes from me to retire from management I think I'd still be interested in it - is that everything that happens in the world affects the price of securities.
Sanford I. Weill

Time, Today, Happens

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