Charles Wyly was born Oct 13, 1933, in Lake Providence, La., and for a period lived with his family in a shack without electricity or plumbing.
Yeah, there was a six-year period where I was pretty much done with show business. During college and then for about two years after college.
I went through a period of pulling away from everything - acting, people - not sure if I would ever have a voice in this business.
An idyllic period of my existence was when I had a den attached to my home... a writing den, and no one had access to that unless they had their own special visa, applied for weeks in advance.
It's interesting because I haven't done a lot of period work in the past, but I always wanted to because I'm interested in history.
Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history.
The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
It will be a hard game if you think about winning a championship. We need to think about our own game at the moment and focus on getting good results especially over the Christmas period.
I like Italian movies. I was frequently there in the '60s, in Rome and the vicinity. It was a great period in life. I was very influenced by their stuff.
It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city.
There is a very difficult period in a comedian's career - it's that window of time where you're good enough to draw tickets but nobody knows you yet.
I'm not a good time-off person. I'm awful on holiday. It comes from having that period when I didn't work. That really was the worst bit.
The BBC is very good at period drama - world-famous for getting the details right.
When I was a kid, I needed to sing because it makes me feel good about myself. It makes me feel good, period.
I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures.
During periods of extreme fear or greed, you don't have the proper balance between those two to generate market efficiency and you get extremes in behavior.
Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.
You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now.
I had a period in my life in the '90s where I was definitely young, dumb, and full of even more dumb.
Times of my life, brief periods without music, have completely felt dangerously over the edge.
I love period pieces. But it's hard to get money to make costumed dramas, so we'll see.
