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I grew up with Al Jarreau. We had a band together and worked these places for three years when neither one of us knew we could make a living doing music.
George Duke
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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
Hank Aaron
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I wanted to be a stage actor but I got stuck on television. It took a couple of years to get used to.
Kevin Whately
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I wanted to work; it's not right for a princess of the royal house to be commercial, so Andrew and I decided to make the divorce official so I could go off and get a job.
Sarah Ferguson
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My daughter took Latin for three years; she still can't speak it.


Trey Gowdy
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'Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.
Jennifer Egan
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It took a long time to get to the place in my career where I could pick and choose what I wanted to do.
Holland Taylor
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Acting is something I always wanted to do and knew I could do.


Joie Lee
I do not go lightly. If I could have anything right now, it would be the ability to continue as secretary of state.
Kevin Shelley
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I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.
Tallulah Bankhead
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Throughout my teens, I just wanted to go somewhere I could wear a Donald Duck pin and no one would care.
Paul Feig
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I always knew that I wanted to work and I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actor. I knew that every choice I made would help me get to that point. So the better the choices I made, the more of a chance I would have to get to where I wanted to be.
Lea Michele
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It took us three years to even come close to catching up with the demand a little bit.


Ruth Handler
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Since I was 10 years old, I knew I wanted to sail around the world.


Laura Dekker
I wanted to be a writer, to write these stories that would make people see the world in a different way. But I ended up going to business school because I thought I could ultimately get to where I wanted to go faster that way.
Jeffrey Skoll
It took 23 years from Abraxane being conceived to us showing now with conclusiveness that it works in pancreatic cancer. We cannot afford as a society to wait another 23 years to make sure that the patients get the right care, at the right time, at the right place.
Patrick Soon-Shiong
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We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
Patricia Ireland
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My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky.
Judith Rossner
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No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin - only four years older than I am - everything, or what little I could discover about him.
John Irving
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I had a scholarship to Stanford because I won three California Speech tournaments. Before I started Stanford, I told my mother I wanted to take a bus into Hollywood and see if I could get an agent.
Stan Freberg
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