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I grew up abroad, and when I first passed through London in the 1970s, it seemed a drab and provincial place.
I've done a few American accents. I've maybe passed a test. But I don't know if it makes things easier or not.
The fat lady hasn't sung yet. We'll wait until we get a look at what is in the motion passed on third reading.
I had a dream to be an attorney. I don't know if I ever would've passed the bar or not, but that was my dream.
My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100.
My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that border.
If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.
I got caught up in doing records for other artists. I just stayed behind the scenes, and time just kinda passed.
Whenever I passed by a Chinese restaurant in a car, I'd joke to my friends, 'Oh yeah, my uncle owns that place.'
Against Bermane Stiverne, they said he was going to be the toughest test, but I passed that with flying colours.
Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?
I was born in 1968, just eighteen months after my sister Chrisse and just one year after Dad passed the bar exam.
Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.
The first time I passed as a woman in public was on leave in the U.S. from my deployment to Iraq in February 2010.
I love those books and movies where someone turns because they're blackmailed or they're passed over for promotion.
I don't know if I'd ever want to show my college life in the films I make. I think I've passed that stage long ago.
Critical in this process of wisdom being passed down is that you also need to take it in; you need to listen to it.
I've passed up opportunities. I've avoided the spotlight. I've never been to Academy Awards, didn't relate to them.
The crowd is a pretty good indicator when it's good, because it's kind of a universal energy that gets passed around.
Before Dad passed, we talked so much about the Goldust character, what it grew into, and how much he was proud of it.
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
I am dismayed to realize that much of the advice I used to parcel out to aspiring writers has passed its sell-by date.
I grew up with horror. My dad loves movies, and he passed a lot of them on to me. There's something so fun about them.
In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly.
We got Defense of Marriage Act as a federal law from President Bill Clinton. And it was passed with bipartisan support.
It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.
When I turned 16 and got my license, the Chevy Blazer was passed down from my sister, so it was very much a starter car.
I want to see the farm piece passed, but the nearly a trillion dollars in SNAP spending for food stamps is way too much.
Last year, I co-sponsored the Highlands Conservation Act and in a bipartisan effort we passed the bill through Congress.
My love of reading and the English language is something given to me by my parents, and I've passed it on to my children.
As the years passed, and I was nine, 10, 11 years old, it became obvious I was going to start up a business of some sort.
We're not even supposed to have a break in August if we have not passed the appropriations bills. It's in the House rules.
Even the most left-wing politicians worship wealth creation - as the political-action-committee collection plate is passed.
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
For a nanosecond in the pre-Internet pre-digital age, I was a hot young actor, in the sense of popular, and then it passed.
My pops passed when I was little. I didn't have a dad around to tell me certain things. I didn't have my biological mother.
When Dad passed away, grandpa took on that mantle of teaching me how to tackle at football or taking me and mum to cricket.
Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.
We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary.
The teachings of Tibetan Buddhism have been passed down for a long time now. They have that system pretty well figured out.
I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully.
When my brother passed away... I made a decision that I might die soon, and if I die, I want people to know who I really am.
I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No, it was the poetry.
Roy Acuff was a big hero for me, and I was so sad when he passed. It's hard as you get older to lose your friends and family.
I'm an outgoing person. Once my parents passed away, it was just my daughter and myself. So, really, my friends are my family.
I never truly got to know my grandfather before he passed away, but he inspires me to search more deeply to understand myself.
I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.
The places I've been, or passed through, or seen at a distance, have had as much an impact on my life as the people I've known.
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.