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I had the easiest publishing experience in the entire world. I sent out fifteen courier letters to agents, got five no replies, nine rejections and one I want to see it. A month later I had an agent. Another month later I had a three book deal with Little Brown.
Stephenie Meyer / Writer
Book
Fifteen
Letters
Nine
Publishing
Rejection
Three
Agent
Month
Easiest
Entire World
Rejections
Sent
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There were nineteen years between my grandparents, and I was in a relationship for five years from the age of fifteen to twenty with a man who was thirteen years older than me who remains one of the loves of my life, and he passed away when I was twenty years old.
Kate Winslet / Actress
Fifteen
Nineteen
Remains
Thirteen
Loves
Passed
Twenty
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Sometimes I'm asked if I do research for my stories. The answer is yes and no. No, in the sense that I seldom plow through books at the library to gather material. Yes, in the sense that the first fifteen years of my life turned out to be one big research project.
Jerry Spinelli / Writer
Fifteen
Life My Life Research
Gather
Plow
Seldom
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A lack of resources may slow you down, but don't let it make you throw away a big idea. Give God five years, ten years, fifteen years, twenty years, twenty-five years, thirty years, forty years, or more. Give God all the time He needs to bring the resources to you!
Robert H. Schuller / Televangelist
Fifteen
Forty
Resources
Ten
Thirty
Time God May
Big Idea
God Time May
Forty Years
Slow
Ten Years
Throw
Twenty
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I've seen 'True Detective' end-to-end at least three times; I'll probably see it again. It is a work of dark brilliance. But if the phone goes fifteen minutes from the end of that last episode, I'll likely turn it off and go make coffee when I'm done with the call.
Richard K. Morgan / Author
Brilliance
Coffee
Fifteen
Detective
Episode
Fifteen Minutes
True Detective
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The first fifteen minutes of your day should be spent planning your day. Set specific goals as to what you will accomplish. These clear goals will give you focal points on which you can govern your actions and provide your with a template you can live your day from.
Robin Sharma / Lawyer
Clear Goals
Fifteen
Giving
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Has anyone actually asked the customer if they want to have something available directly after the show? You hear that three bags are going to be released tomorrow in five shops, so you produce 15 bags. How many customers are you going to satisfy with that? Fifteen!
Marco Bizzarri /
Available
Bags
Fifteen
Shops
Customer
Directly
Released
Satisfy
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When you become a world champion and you defend your title for five or six years, and you have fifteen defences of your title, and you round up most of the other belts - and you feel you're the best of your generation at the time - nobody can take that away from you.
Naseem Hamed / Professional Boxer
Belts
Fifteen
Six
Time Best World
Best Time World
Defend
Best Time Champion
Round
Generation
Title
World Champion
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It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these spaces were designed for sprawling installations, large paintings, and the Relational Aesthetics work of the past fifteen years.
Jerry Saltz / Art Critic
Art
New York
Aesthetic
Enormous
Fifteen
Immaculate
Past
Art Work Great
Box
Dated
Designed
Work Art Great
Oppressive
Spaces
Sprawling
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I was only fifteen when I finished my high-school studies, always having held first rank in my class. The fatigue of growth and study compelled me to take almost a year's rest in the country. I then returned to my father in Warsaw, hoping to teach in the free schools.
Marie Curie / Physicist
Class
Compelled
Fatigue
Fifteen
Finished
Growth
Teach
Warsaw
Rest
Father Me Free
Held
Hoping
Rank
Returned
Schools
Studies
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Spotify appeared nine years after Napster, the pioneering file-sharing service, which unleashed piracy on the record business and began the cataclysm that caused worldwide revenues to decline from a peak of twenty-seven billion dollars in 1999 to fifteen billion in 2013.
John Seabrook / Journalist
Decline
Dollars
Fifteen
Napster
Nine
Pioneering
Spotify
Unleashed
Caused
Appeared
Began
Billion
Billion Dollars
Record
Peak
Record Business
Revenues
Service
Worldwide
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I don't have a creepy uncle, but I certainly have many, many uncles. My mom has twelve brothers and sisters, and my dad has two sisters and three brothers. Their maturity level is still hovering around fifteen when they all get together, but they're not necessarily creepy.
Martha Macisaac / Television Actress
Brothers And Sisters
Creepy
Fifteen
Get Together
Hovering
Maturity
Twelve
Brothers
Sisters
Dad Mom Together
Uncle
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Fifteen minutes later, a meeting was called. "Okay, look." Deb's face was dead serious. "I know I just joined this project, and I don't want to offend anyone. But I'm going to be honest. I think you've been going about this all wrong." "I'm offended," Dave told her flatly.
Sarah Dessen / Writer
Fifteen
Looks
Thinking
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Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.
Buffalo Bill / Hunter
Average
Expected
Fifteen
Horse
Intervals
Miles
Stations
Three
Apart
Beginning
Close
Cover
Exchange
Forty-Five
Horses
Hour
Ride
Route
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Sometimes, though only in my most unguarded moments, I can still think of Annette Winters as my first love. At fifteen, she was tall, slender, very dark: an intelligent, sly girl possessed of what I think of now, though I didn't think of then, as a kind of debatable beauty.
John Burnside / Writer
Beauty
Dark
Fifteen
First Love
Intelligent
Moments
Possessed
Slender
Sly
Debatable
Though
Winters
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Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state; nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top - C-level jobs, board seats - tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent.
Sheryl Sandberg / Businesswoman
Jobs
Boards
Corporate
Fifteen
Nine
Parliament
People
Seats
Sixteen
Thirteen
World
Women World People
Women Are
Board
Cent
Heads
Per
Sector
Tops
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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.
James Thurber / Cartoonist
Deserve
Example
Fifteen
Numbers
Thinking
Twelve
Years
Ages
For Example
Puts
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I'm going to turn fifteen tomorrow," i said, warming to the idea. "It's high time. I can't remember when i turned fourteen." (said by Max) If you get to be fifteen, then i get to be fifteen!" Iggy sounded indignant. i looked at Fang. "Wanna be fifteen?" His smile melted me. "Yeah.
James Patterson / Author
Fifteen
Ideas
Max
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I remember my father playing a cassette for me when I was fifteen - Amjad Ali's 'Durga.' He said, 'This is from our part of the world. You must listen to it.' And I continued rewinding it and listening to it from early evening until midnight. By the end of it, I was nearly in tears.
Adnan Sami /
Evening
Fifteen
Midnight
Remember
Said
Tears
World Me Remember
Ali
Nearly
Cassette
Early
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The reason I ran in 2006 was to make my district one of the fifteen that at the time it would have taken to switch the control of the House and stop the Bush agenda. The second priority I had was to provide health care for everybody. And the third was to do public financing of campaigns.
John Yarmuth / U.s. Representative
Campaigns
Fifteen
Financing
Health Care
Ran
Agenda
Time Health Care
Bush
District
Health Time Care
Priority
Switch
Third
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If you’re fifteen or so, today, I suspect that you inhabit a sort of endless digital Now, a state of atemporality enabled by our increasingly efficient communal prosthetic memory. I also suspect that you don’t know it, because, as anthropologists tell us, one cannot know one’s own culture.
William Gibson / Novelist
Culture
Fifteen
Memories
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From an early age, I knew I would become a scientist. It may have been my brother Sam's doing. He interested me in the laws of falling bodies when I was ten and helped my father equip a basement chemistry lab for me when I was fifteen. I became skilled in the synthesis of selenium halides.
Sheldon Lee Glashow / Physicist
Chemistry
Fifteen
Synthesis
Basement
Bodies
Early Age
Equip
Falling
Age Father Me
Lab
Sam
Skilled
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For me, I need to fully immerse myself in a script to the point where I'm literally locking myself away for weeks at a time and I just write it. So I can write twelve to fifteen hours in a day, with breaks in between, obviously, but I need to just sort of live within the world of the script.
Terence Winter / Writer
Fifteen
Twelve
Time Myself Where
Time Myself World
Breaks
Fully
Immerse
Locking
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It was really beautiful. The mayors of Glovertown and Gambo introduced me, and then I talked to the crowd. In fifteen minutes, we raised more than $700 in a town with less than 3,000 people. It was a fantastic feeling and a day I will never forget because I hope it is a start of things to come.
Terry Fox / Athlete
Fantastic
Fifteen
Mayors
Minutes
Never Forget
Raised
Hope Beautiful Me
Fifteen Minutes
Introduced
Talked
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The women's movement burst forth when I was fifteen. That was when I began to believe that life might semi-work out after all. The cavalry had arrived. Women were starting to say that you got to tell the truth now, that you had to tell the truth if you were going to heal and have an authentic life.
Anne Lamott / Novelist
Believe
Cavalry
Fifteen
Heal
Movement
Starting
Work Out
Life Truth Women
Authentic
Began
Burst
Forth
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When you read reviews on Yelp, you get a good sense of what's going to happen when you walk in the door of that business. The challenge is that there are fifteen million businesses in the U.S., and its very hard to communicate with all of them about how Yelp works, and why it works the way it does.
Jeremy Stoppelman / Executive
Communicate
Fifteen
Good Sense
Reviews
Businesses
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As we began working toward the finale of 'Lost,' I knew there was no possible ending that was going to be universally loved, and I accepted that. We ended the story the way we wanted it to end, and we stand by it. On my Twitter feed, I still get ten to fifteen positive comments for every negative one.
Carlton Cuse / Screenwriter
Accepted
Fifteen
Finale
Comments
Feed
Ended
Universally
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I stopped watching horror movies after I watched 'Candyman' when I was - I don't know, fifteen or something. I remember my sister rented it, 'Candyman,' and it really, really scared me. And so it was only after I found myself in a horror film that I really went back and kind of rediscovered the genre.
Fiona Dourif /
Sister
Fifteen
Film
Genre
Horror
Horror Film
Remember
Scared
Movies Myself Me
Watched
Rediscovered
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My parents were reluctant to let me start auditioning until I was at least a little bit emotionally stable - I'm still working on that! And so I started when I was fifteen, and it was the best thing that could have happened to me in terms of being able to focus my crazy teenage energy into something good.
Zoey Deutch / Film Actress
Fifteen
Reluctant
Stable
Teenage
Best Good Start
Auditioning
Emotionally
Something Good
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Italy is a tough country to be a comedian in - I can't invent stuff like this. Nearly eighty crooks in Parliament - that's about one crook in twelve. It's worse than Scampia, the most dangerous Naples slum, which is infested by the Camorra, the Neapolitan mafia. There, the criminals are only one in fifteen!
Beppe Grillo /
Comedian
Eighty
Fifteen
Naples
Parliament
Twelve
Crook
Invent
Italy
Slum
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Viewers don't see more of anchors because we shoot only once a week and it's aired across three months; so, you always feel that a certain person is only anchoring. I've been acting for fifteen years and hosting for seven years, but I haven't done a soap, so a lot of people tend to think I'm not acting anymore.
Karan Wahi /
Certain
Fifteen
Months
Seven
Soap
Three
Viewers
Week
Done Always People
Across
Anchoring
Anymore
People Feel Always
Shoot
Hosting
Once A Week
Tend
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My first architectural project I did, I must have been fifteen, was for neighbors across the street, a couple of school teachers, and I designed a house for them. I didn't know anything about Le Corbusier or anything like that, but it ended up being a very cubistic kind of house. I always wanted to be an architect.
Emilio Ambasz / Architect
Architect
Fifteen
School Teachers
Teachers
Designed
Ended
Neighbors
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The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than it's ever been. Whereas ten, fifteen years ago it was very easy to find lots of bad wine, it's kind of hard now. The technology, the science - it's like, are you kidding? We're in the golden years of wine!
Gary Vaynerchuk / Author
Quality
Science
Technology
Changed
Easy
Fifteen
Golden
Greater
Ten
Wine
Years
Years Ago
Science Technology World
Lots
Techniques
Whereas
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Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.
Gary Vaynerchuk / Author
Crush
Educational
Enormous
Falling In Love
Fifteen
Obnoxious
Response
Wow
Love Time Me
Cent
Per
Review
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Time can be dissected easily: an hour can be cut up in many ways. Fifteen minutes on this memo, a five-minute walk to another meeting, 30 minutes at that meeting and then 10 minutes debriefing. Oh, and maybe a quick phone call on the walk to that meeting. The busy are expert at dissection: that's how they make it all fit.
Sendhil Mullainathan / Professor
Busy
Fifteen
Dissected
Phone
Fifteen Minutes
Five-Minute
Meeting
Phone Call
Quick
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Dickens was born in 1812 and died in 1870, having produced fifteen novels, many of which can confidently be called great, as well as having accomplished outstanding work in activities into which his insatiable need to expend his vast energies - to achieve, to prevail - carried him: journalism, editing, acting, social reform.
Robert Gottlieb / Writer
Accomplished
Dickens
Editing
Fifteen
Insatiable
Journalism
Outstanding
Reform
Activities
Carried
Confidently
Vast
Energies
Expend
Prevail
Produced
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A lot of these reality-TV shows people go on, they come off, and nothing happens. You never hear from them again. Fifteen seconds of fame is not the name of the game. No matter how big you break, or how many people you break in front of, you still have to slowly build a fan base to have anything loyal and lasting from people.
Lindsey Stirling / Violinist
Fifteen
Lasting
Loyal
Seconds
Base
Fan Base
Slowly
How Many People
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I first read 'The Scarlet Letter' when I was fifteen. In it, I found a familiar vision of religious intolerance to the one around me. I grew up in the 1980s, when televangelists, with their fluffed up hair and their tears, self-righteously denounced all kinds of sinners, reserving a special, full-throated enthusiasm for gay people.
David Ebershoff / Writer
Enthusiasm
Familiar
Fifteen
Intolerance
Scarlet
Tears
Letter
Sinners
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Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.
James Hillman / Psychologist
Education
Capitalism
Categories
Different
Fifteen
Fragility
Infrastructure
Loss
States
United States
Admit
Afraid
Backward
Empire
Exceptionally
Fact
In Fact
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I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems with my voice, ever. I've had a sore throat here and there, had a cold and sung through it, but that day it just went while I was onstage in Paris during a radio show. It was literally like someone had pulled a curtain over it.
Adele / Singer-Songwriter
Cold
Fifteen
Over It
Paris
Singing
Sixteen
Throat
Voice
Curtain
Literally
Onstage
Properly
Pulled
Sore
Sung
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My dad and mom divorced when I was around ten, and I didn't live with him after that, though he was close by and we saw each other weekly. I wasn't really aware that he was a writer; I didn't start reading his writing until I was about fifteen. It occurred to me then that my dad was kind of special; he's still one of my favorite writers.
Andre Dubus Iii /
Divorced
Fifteen
Mom Dad Me
Dad Mom Me
Occurred
Weekly
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My book 'The Exciting Adventures of Boo' was first published when I was fifteen. It is a children's book with ten different stories. In each story, the main character Boo learns a lesson - one of the ten most important lessons I learned as a kid. I also donated all the money from my books I personally sold to my local ASPCA Animal Shelter.
Manika / Singer
Animal
Character
Different
Exciting
Fifteen
Shelter
Stories
Ten
Adventures
Also
Boo
Donated
Each
Learned
Learns
Lesson
Local
Main
Main Character
Personally
Published
Sold
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I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
Taylor Jenkins Reid /
Bloggers
Fifteen
Manage
Meetings
Chase
Hopes
Leads
Maintain
Payments
Tv And Film
Vibrant
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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. Sometimes we are too close to the scene, to see clearly. We "know" ourselves so well that we cannot see how we are perceived by others. Our opinion of ourselves is only "one" opinion and it may not be the truth.
Mark Twain / Author
Fifteen
Inspirational Life
May
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Where people work longest and with least leisure, they buy the fewest goods. No towns were so poor as those of England where the people, from children up, worked fifteen and sixteen hours a day. They were poor because these overworked people soon wore out -- they became less and less valuable as workers. Therefore, they earned less and less and could buy less and less.
Henry Ford / Industrialist
Children
Fifteen
People
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Why is it that Serge Lange's Linear Algebra, published by no less a Verlag than Springer, ostentatiously displays the sale of a few thousand copies over a period of fifteen years, while the same title by Seymour Lipschutz in the The Schaum's Outlines will be considered a failure unless it brings in a steady annual income from the sale of a few hundred thousand copies in twenty-six languages?
Gian-Carlo Rota / Mathematician
Science
Fifteen
Years
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