"I come from the Lynchs of Sligo. You know, I went there, but I looked in the phone book and there are nine million Lynches in Sligo."
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"One word after another. That's the only way that novels get written and, short of elves coming in the night and turning your jumbled notes into Chapter Nine, it's the only way to do it. So keep on keeping on. Write another word and then another."
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"I made this movie for $40,000, which was this little black-and-white horror film called Dementia 13, which we made in about nine days."
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"I love Britain, I lived there for nine years doing shows and things, but I don't know what a British sensibility is. I'd like to have someone tell me what an American sensibility is."
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"Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it."
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"Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes."
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"I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself."
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"Nine to Five is actually one of my favorite movies. I watched it a thousand times when I was a child, literally a thousand times."
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"My father worked at the Naval Ordnance Lab, and they had a nine-hole course on the property. You paid a quarter."
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"I went through a wood-chopping phase when I was nine or 10."
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"I was in and out of comas until I was nine and I would lose entire days and weeks. The novelty of being able to really do stuff hasn't worn off - I still feel like I'm making up for lost time."
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"By turns the nine delight to sing"
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"I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics"
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