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«I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monk»
«I write every day, on some days 10 or eleven hours, but sometimes only three hours, it depends if I got enough ideas.»
Author: Joanne Kathleen Rowling (Writer) | Keywords: eleven
«Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.»
«How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.»
Author: Spike Milligan (Actor, Humorist) | Keywords: army, eleven, foot
«I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.»
«And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.»
«And thou shalt make curtains of goats' hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: covering, eleven
«Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: eleven, Jehoiakim
«My eleven year old daughter mopes around the house all day waiting for her breasts to grow.»
«He is a man of thirty-five, but looks fifty. He is bald, has varicose veins and wears spectacles, or would wear them if his only pair were not chronically lost. If things are normal with him, he will be suffering from malnutrition, but if he has recently had a lucky streak, he will be suffering from a hangover. At present it is half past eleven in the morning, and according to his schedule he should have started work two hours ago; but even if he had made any serious effort to start he would have been frustrated by the almost continuous ringing of the telephone bell, the yells of the baby, the rattle of an electric drill out in the street, and the heavy boots of his creditors clumping up the stairs. The most recent interruption was the arrival of the second post, which brought him two circulars and an income tax demand printed in red. Needless to say this person is a writer.»

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