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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.

Quote by Jane Austen about beauty, life

I completely lost interest in comics. I sold my...

I completely lost interest in comics. I sold my collection. I didn't go back to them for fifteen years - until after Wonder Boys.

Quote by Michael Chabon about miracle, interest

I was a big comics reader when I was a kid, from about...

I was a big comics reader when I was a kid, from about six to fifteen. I collected them, I read them, I even created my own characters in comics.

Quote by Michael Chabon

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million...

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.

Quote by Bette Davis about man

I started at fifteen, so they called me the Lolita of the...

I started at fifteen, so they called me the Lolita of the '70s.

Quote by Melanie Griffith

Marijuana you can give up, Iv given it up for fifteen...

Marijuana you can give up, Iv given it up for fifteen years now and it never occurs to me to smoke it anymore

Quote by Larry Hagman about smoke

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen...

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

Quote by Joe Orton about opinion, envy, body

The argument we always used to use was that keeping records in the catalog was good for people that were coming new to the music, but I think that was talking over a ten year or fifteen year time span.

Quote by Evan Parker about opinion, talking, use, music, good, good luck, time, people

Well, I was born in Kansas, raised in Minnesota and spent...

Well, I was born in Kansas, raised in Minnesota and spent a good part of my early life, up until I was about fifteen or sixteen, in Kansas.

Quote by Gordon Parks about birh, good, good luck, life

And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.

Quote by Walter Pater about age, art, magic, olderness

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.

Quote by Walter Pater about old, religion

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for...

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

Quote by Robert Charles Benchley about talent, writing, time

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