I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing.
My major influence was my ten years older sister.
I hate having my picture taken. Ten years ago, I stopped having a good side.
Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.
After ten years of word processing, I can't even do hand writing anymore.
Yes, I think I have the best swing on the Tour. Why have scores comedown in the last ten years? Partly because they are imitating me.
Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to play drums. I wish I could say that for about ten thousand other drummers.
I simplify the spices. I'm the same way as everybody else: if I look at a recipe and there's ten spices in it, I'm going to have to think long and hard about when I'm going to be able to make that... so I try to simplify the spices to three or four.
I really liked 'Starter For Ten' because I grew up watching 1980s teen films like 'St. Elmo's Fire' and 'The Breakfast Club' and I've always wanted to play the underdog lead hero in a 1980s-inspired film.
The magnificent army that fought in Desert Storm is a great army, and it still is a magnificent army today. But it was one we designed for the Cold War, and the Cold War has been over for ten years now.
Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you're probably aware, about one in ten of our space shots doesn't quite make it out of the earth's gravitational field.
If you develop rules, never have more than ten.
I did not discover literature of any kind until I was about eleven, or ten.
That's another thing about today's stars that makes me glad that I'm not doing it any more. The stars come with ten people all around them. I don't know how you ever make any personal contact with them.
Everyone should have ten megabits and then the web will be a wonderful thing.
But you can travel on for ten thousand miles, and still stay where you are.
Some days I would be there at ten in the morning and wouldn't leave till ten at night, and the others would waltz in for a couple of hours and then leave, because I was doing that painting thing. And they were happy to see that being done.
To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it's ten.
No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart.
I go through a thousand songs to find ten for a new record.
I look at what I've gone through in my career and I really shouldn't be talking to you now. I should be dead ten times over.
Somewhere along the line, I realized that I liked telling stories, and I decided that I would try writing. Ten years later, I finally got a book published. It was hard. I had no skills. I knew nothing about the business of getting published. So I had to keep working at it.
Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone.
I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me.
In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.
Ten years ago I said, you know, my goal is to be able to get food on the table. What I'm trying to say by that is trying to create a vibrant, capable and effective middle class. The quicker and stronger that we can be able to do this, the easier it is for political reform to move forward.
I get between nine and ten hours of sleep. Go to bed at 8:30 and get up at 6:00 or 6:30 if I oversleep.
Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There's still time, but not a lot, to turn things around.
I don't look at a man who's expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.
I don't think I've had to change anything, really, apart from being more serious and focussed on my drive. One thing I've realised is that you get out what you put in and because of that my work rate has increased ten fold.
A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.
