#twelve

Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that. ↗

— Joan Didion

#always #around #been #before #big

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#children #down #first #lives #months

There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#equal #hours #human #only #six

I've been a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNICEF and the UNICEF family for more than twelve years. ↗

— Danny Glover

#been #family #goodwill #i #more

Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull. ↗

— Vance Havner

#dull #eleven #end #many #services

If you can get a twelve year-old kid to go listen to Thelonius Monk, what more do you want? Do you want a big pile of cash, too? That's a home run for me. ↗

— Jimmy Chamberlin

#cash #get #go #home #home run

I got into the studio when I was thirteen. At the age of twelve I was doing public performances. ↗

— Chingy

#doing #got #i #into #performances

There's some things you just have to live with. Like twelve cars camping outside your house, and when you wake up in the morning, they're going to follow you wherever you go. It helps that I live in Valencia. It eliminates some. But they're still here. ↗

— Taylor Lautner

#cars #eliminates #follow #go #going

My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years. ↗

— Alison Lohman

#bakery #dad #french #mom #owned

I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research. ↗

— David McCullough

#academic #been #could #find #go