I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that’s not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter. The conductor would just rip into me, and it lasted for years.
I had always wanted a steady job in this business, a show that lasted.
I was surprised that everyone calls it ‘morning sickness,’ because it lasted all day. For me, it was even worse at night. During my first two pregnancies, I felt so nauseous all day that I could only eat plain toast and bland foods – no proteins.
The money was good while it lasted. The best part was clearly that it changed my view of what’s possible, as far as thinking how you can have an impact on a national level.
I don’t know if it’s my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.
My first real job lasted for three years. It ended the day I was unceremoniously fired.
Cervantes married in 1584, when he was thirty-seven and Catalina was nineteen. The marriage lasted thirty years, but Cervantes may have spent only about half of them with his wife.
Things die for a reason, and in Bungle’s case, it was a lot of reasons. It was great while it lasted but not something I’d go crawling back to.
When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today.
On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted but a short time. I remained on deck constantly, forcing myself to exercise.
In 2005, I played Count Fosco in ‘The Woman In White’ on Broadway. It was a disaster. I was physically run down and terribly homesick and I just knew I had to leave. I lasted three months before the producers released me.
I would not have lasted a minute, literally a minute, on this Earth without God and angels by my side, because I was born. And right as I was born, I went into a respiratory arrest. So, big things that keep me going are friends and family, God. And another thing is looking forward to what’s going to happen tomorrow.
My walk on the moon lasted three days. My walk with God will last forever.
What’s amazing is how rock n’ roll lasted. It started losing its commercial power in the late 1990s. But think of swing, which we think of as this big music before rock n’ roll. It only lasted five years in total. So, rock going 50 years is amazing, because young people want new things.
If the Indy Racing League didn’t have the Indianapolis 500, do you think it would have lasted more than six months? No chance.
Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis became very severe, lasted essentially from 1929 to 1933.
My parents’ love for each other lasted throughout their whole life. They didn’t give up… They accepted each other totally unconditionally.
As a result, I had to get my own playground which was my band Colours. This band lasted for about eight years and then the air was out of it and it was time to finish.
I know the one time I tried therapy, I did after a month or two, and I only lasted a few months, because I started to worry about being entertaining. I kept driving there once a week for an hour and I’m thinking ‘What am I going to talk about today?’
I was an umpire at little league softball games. I only lasted a few games because I wasn’t one hundred percent clear on all the rules.
Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.
I stayed a year in the sixth form and there was talk of Cambridge, but I wanted to go to drama school. At 17 and three months I went to the Old Vic School in London. This most remarkable and brilliant drama school lasted only six years because the Old Vic Theatre hadn’t the money to go on funding it.
