#teen years

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

— David Sedaris

#came #first #i #later #out

Most bands don't even last fourteen months let alone fourteen years. ↗

— Peter Steele

#bands #even #fourteen #last #months

The place of my birth, and residence for nearly sixteen years, in the early part of my life, became endeared to my feelings and affections; and more especially so after I had quitted it for an unknown place, and to associate with strangers. ↗

— John Britton

#after #associate #became #birth #early

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

— Diane Cilento

#being #bit #clown #got #i

I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you're bored. The boredom will show in your work. ↗

— Benjamin Bratt

#bored #boredom #career #cops #death

Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home. ↗

— Cameron Diaz

#being #believe #come #country #foreign

Some of you may know my story: How for nineteen years, I worked as a manager for a tire plant in Alabama. And some of you may have lived a similar story: After nearly two decades of hard, proud work, I found out that I was making significantly less money than the men who were doing the same work as me. ↗

— Lilly Ledbetter

#alabama #decades #doing #found #hard

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

Thirteen years after the end of the Soviet Union, the American press establishment seemed eager to turn Ukraine's protested presidential election on November 21 into a new cold war with Russia. ↗

— Stephen Cohen

#american #cold #cold war #eager #election

Maybe this is wrong, but I feel like I craft my songs carefully enough that I still find that fifteen years after having written one, it still works for me - I'm not cringing. ↗

— Ben Folds

#carefully #craft #enough #feel #fifteen