#seventeen

I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic. ↗

— Eric Bogosian

#best #could #doing #i #idealistic

My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years. ↗

— Adrien Brody

#fifteen #half #me #overnight #overnight success

I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off. ↗

— Jim Dale

#applause #because #boy #burst #clap

I feel great. I feel younger. And I don't feel anything at all. I don't know who knows, but right now I'm, how, how many years have I, fifty five, something like that. Forty three years old. And I feel like seventeen, like twenty five years ago. ↗

— Olga Korbut

#anything #feel #fifty #five #forty

I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home. ↗

— Hakeem Olajuwon

#country #home #i #now #second

I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy. ↗

— Shirley Temple

#embassy #hour #i #members #personally

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious. ↗

— Max Lerner

#serious #seventeen #you

Many things happened in my life, and I thought that they changed me… but in the end, nothing has changed since I was seventeen.. If I could keep today’s happiness… I wouldn’t worry about tomorrow.  ↗

— Ai Yazawa

#seventeen #change