#teen years

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later. ↗

— David Sedaris

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I heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930 and he told me that it would take me fifteen years just to learn the pedals, the pedals of the organ and I got mad. ↗

— Jimmy Smith

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Thirteen years I took on this last book. ↗

— Gay Talese

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I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown. ↗

— Diane Cilento

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I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things. ↗

— Dane Cook

#did #explore #i #need #other

I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number. ↗

— Robert Indiana

#been #before #different #each #fascinated

I've been on the road for fifteen years and I had no intent to stop. ↗

— Bon Scott

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There's so much excitement around the Phish tours, and if it stopped feeling that way, it would ruin everything we've done for seventeen years. ↗

— Trey Anastasio

#done #everything #excitement #feeling #much

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. ↗

— Jane Austen

#almost #beauty #been #cradle #delight

I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in love with when I was fourteen years old, but I think that music used to be really more a part of the culture when people went out dancing in a different way than they do now. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#came #could #culture #dancing #different