Donald Beardslee is set for execution this week in California. His crimes were about twenty years ago, but it will be the first execution in California in quite some time.
The decision to write full time was made when I was twenty-eight years old and had just had two small plays accepted for BBC Radio.
It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem that I had been working on for twenty years.
Every time I went to the doctor when I was in my twenties, he repeated the same thing to me: don't wait too long to have children.
I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years' time.
I once had money to burn. I'd fly to Barbados for the weekend. I lived in a twenty-two-room mansion and had my pick of four luxury cars.
I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known a day of perfect peace.
My music is how I feel, and that's changed from being twenty years old to being forty-three years old.
L.A. was just an inspiring kind of place to be. It felt like going to Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. Everybody's there. Everybody's hanging around. Everybody's talking about music.
I don't think a manager should be judged by whether he wins the pennant, but by whether he gets the most out of the twenty-five men he's been given.
There were not fifteen people in the story department and twenty-five producers and stuff. And Roger had produced 1,000 movies and directed a couple of hundred, and their comments were always very, very specific.
Neidermeyer: You're all worthless and weak! Now drop and give me twenty!
[last lines] Man in Taxi: Well, I'll give him another twenty minutes, but that's it!
I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
I thought twenty was pretty scary, like, not being able to call myself a teenager anymore, and feeling like an adult - that kind of made me nervous.
The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than twenty asses laden with drugs.
Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
If they're working in a workshop somewhere, where there is, let's say, uh... only twenty people, or something like that, that's still, when they work and do a scene, that's still working in front of somebody.
I wouldn't want my daughters to date a guy like me. I was dangerous around women in my twenties. I'm terrified that they might end up with someone like me.
We have had virtually unlimited access to abortion for nearly twenty years. Yet during that same period, more and more women and children have slipped into poverty.
I sometimes rented a car and drove from event to event in Europe; a road trip was a great escape from the day-to-day anxieties of playing, and it kept me from getting too lost in the tournament fun house with its courtesy cars, caterers, locker room ...
