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"Therefore psychologically we must keep all the theories in our heads, and every theoretical physicist who is any good knows six or seven different theoretical representations for exactly the same physics."
"'She's Gotta Have It' was shot in twelve days and two six-day weeks."
"Usually, the biggest hang-up is the script. You could have a script done in six months that you love, or it could be like The Fantastic Four it's been almost 10 years."
"Sometimes six and six make a dozen, and sometimes they make a mess"
"He chanced a glance at her. She was not tearful; that was one of the many wonderful things about Ginny, she was rarely weepy. He had sometimes thought that having six brothers must have toughened her up."
"He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time."
"I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound."
"The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling."
"Not like I need an excuse to enjoy a Moscow mule, but this tray and six-mug set, handmade in Mexico with hammered recycled copper, makes cocktail hour extra special."
"I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician."
"If Christianity had asserted itself in Germany, six million Jews would have lived."
"Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform."
"I bet most of the crowd does not know that there are six moons in the solar system bigger than Pluto."
"I screamed until my voice dried up in my throat. We all did. All of us in Ward Six, all of us forgotten, left to rot."
"You live eighty years, and at best you get about six minutes of pure magic."
"Three helping one another, beare the burthen of sixe. [Three helping one another, bear the burden of six.]"
"It [moviemaking] is not really done on a yearly basis. It's about how the material, and when the material comes in. If you develop your material and the script comes in great and you can attach a director and a cast and go off and make it, then I could make, I don't know, six [movies] a year. Or I could make one. It really depends."
"For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labour of my hands, and I found, that by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living."
"Thirty-six satisfactory exposures on a roll means a photographer is not trying anything new"
"Honesty is often the best policy, but sometimes the appearance of it is worth six of it."
