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It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom. ↗

— Michael Lewis

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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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It takes 10 million failures to find the right stuff. ↗

— George Lindsey

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It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld. ↗

— Don Marquis

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I know that in my past I was young and irresponsible - but that's what growing up is. You learn from your mistakes. ↗

— Lindsay Lohan

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The most useful form of time travel would be to go back a year or two and rectify the mistakes we made. ↗

— Matt Lucas

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Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes"; They will say, "Women don't have what it takes". ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

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With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself. ↗

— Seth MacFarlane

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In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

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