Having been a journalist for thirty-nine years, I've developed a pretty thick skin.
I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
When you've got eight or nine or ten cables running around with someone trying to operate them, it's too much.
What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.
I'm sure there is a group of people that assume Nine Inch Nails is just noise and chaos - or whatever it might be dismissed as, and sometimes is.
I remember writing these terrible poems when I was, like, nine and discovered alliteration.
My father worked at the Naval Ordnance Lab, and they had a nine-hole course on the property. You paid a quarter.
Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought.
I've always liked the heavier stuff. I've always loved Tool and System of a Down, Korn and Nine Inch Nails.
I'm more lost when I'm not on tour. I'm in a bit of a muddle at nine o'clock - 'Where's the stage?' On tour, there are people directing and supervising you.
I happen to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old.
I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to publish my book.
You know you poor when you eatin' breakfast food late. You fryin' toast? At nine o'clock at night? With bacon? You're broke.
Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.
Nine out of every 10 large corporations and government agencies have been attacked by computer intruders.
I've come to see the mosh pit as an apt description of American society - and of my childhood home. I was number nine of ten creative, mostly loud kids competing for airspace.
Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.
Actually ninety-nine percent of my acting has nothing to do sci-fi or fantasy, I consider it a good part of my acting, and enjoy the roles I play.
We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition.
I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life.
