Clock Quotes - Page 38

• Work ethic is one of the biggest things my father taught me. That man worked like every day, every day, 9 to 5, well 9 to 9 in his case, but he would treat it as if it was a 9 to 5 job. He would clock in. He would put in his hours. That is how you can write those you know incredibly long books that unfortunately there is not much market for anymore, but that is also how you can explore an idea on a deeper level than we get in our media surface these days. It's tough.

  John Buffalo Mailer

  Father, Book, Writing

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I think there was something started under my father that I appreciate that it's time to end, and I like the symmetry of me being the person who actually turns the clock back so that we can have a Prime Minister's Office and, indeed, a democracy, that actually respects what voters say and is open and transparent. Because, not only does it matter to gain people's trust, but it matters for quality public policy and governance, and that's why we're committed to open and transparent government.

  Justin Trudeau

  Father, Thinking, Appreciate

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I love bells, clocks, watches - and I recall that at first photographic implements were related to techniques of cabinetmaking and the machinery of precision: cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing.

  Charlotte Cotton

  Love Is

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There's a lot to be said for being in a room with a casting agent or a director. There are things you can't really replicate when you're self-taping and there's the bonus of having someone to direct you, which is extremely helpful. The benefit of self-taping is, I suppose, being on your own clock. It's certainly more relaxing to self-tape than to audition with someone in the flesh but I don't know if it's necessarily better.

  Elizabeth Debicki

  Helpful, Direct

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are always deadlines I have to meet. I don't let myself get too close to the deadlines, so it's not like I'm just sweating bullets or anything if the clock is ticking. I never let myself get in that situation.

  Scott Adams

  Clock Is Ticking, Bullets, Clock Ticking

  "'Dilbert' creator on working at home, getting his voice back". www.cnn.com. November 7, 2007.

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• I have had to pay a price for leaving Islam and for speaking out. I have to pay for round-the-clock security because of the death threats against me.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Leaving, Islam, Pay

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2011). “Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.

  Fiona Apple

  Morning, Lying, House

  "A New Album - and Life - for Fiona Apple" by Liza Ghorbani, www.elle.com. June 7, 2012.

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• Directing is physically exciting because there's a ticking clock, you're working with people, it's very social, it's very enjoyable.

  Alan Ball

  Clock Is Ticking, People, Social

  "Six Feet Under creator Alan Ball talks about the end of the HBO series". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. April 25, 2005.

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• I rode horseback three miles each way to get to high school, and in bad weather it was a problem sometimes to make my eight o'clock class on time. Like others, I often missed school to help on the farm, especially in the fall, until after harvest, and in the spring, during planting season.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Spring, Fall, School

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• And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that course. Not my fault. They taught it at 8 o'clock in the morning. And there is absolutely nothing you can learn out of one bloodshot eye.

  Lewis Black

  Funny, Morning, Humor

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• Steven Spielberg seems to have wanted to be a director from 13. He put his dog in a certain position and made him eat at four o'clock. He liked to direct it. But, to me, directing is tedious. Especially if you're acting in it. And I'm inherently lazy.

  Albert Brooks

  Dog, Lazy, Acting

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• I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas.

  Dan Brown

  Morning, Writing, Seven Days

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• I need to know how the clock is made after you tell me what time it is. I want to know all the details so I can understand how it works.

  Sandra Bullock

  Details, Needs, Want

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• One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, Why am I out this time of night? I was miserable, and it came to me: I'm falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with.

  June Carter Cash

  I Love You, Falling In Love, Morning

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• I need to recharge creatively, and get off the clock of having to be somewhere just because, and having to keep juggling all these things.

  Kenny Chesney

  Needs, Juggling

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• History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.

  John Henrik Clarke

  People, History, Political

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The caricature of what George Osborne is doing on the fiscal side is absurd. If you read some of the commentary, particularly from the left, you would think he was turning the clock back to the 1930s.

  Nick Clegg

  Thinking, Sides, Absurd

  "Nick Clegg takes thorny path out of the Rose Garden". Interview with Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2012.

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• When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody's right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.

  William J. Clinton

  Real, Broken, World

  Bill Clinton's speech to the Democratic National Convention, www.washingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• I spent a lot of time staring at the clock in school, so I have that kind of personality.

  Diablo Cody

  School, Personality, Kind

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• I hear that 5 o'clock whistle in my mind like Fred Flintstone and I have to stop. I'm also not much of a morning writer. I have a sweet spot from about 11am to 4pm. But I really work during that time.

  Diablo Cody

  Sweet, Morning, Mind

  "Diablo Cody Talks YOUNG ADULT, the EVIL DEAD Remake, SWEET VALLEY HIGH, Her Directorial Debut, and a Lot More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 16, 2011.

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• I usually hang around the room listening to a bit of last night's show. If there's one available, I go to the steam room every day for my voice. I spend half an hour there and then I eat, because I can't eat later than four o'clock. Then I go for a soundcheck. That's my day.

  Phil Collins

  Night, Voice, Listening

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• There's already a marriage clock, a career clock, a biological clock. Sometimes being a woman feels like standing in the lobby of a hotel, looking at the dials depicting every time zone in the world behind the front desk - except they all apply to you, and all at once.

  Sloane Crosley

  Careers, Time Zones, World

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• I'm bad on Valentine's Day, but even worse on Christmas. I go shopping at nine o'clock on December 24th every year. Nobody else is there. I'm in Toys'R'Us all by myself. I get there five minutes before closing.

  Jamie Foxx

  Christmas, Valentine, Years

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• I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.

  Jerry Garcia

  Years, People, Trying

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• It's a wise man who understands that every day is a new beginning, because boy, how many mistakes do you make in a day? I don't know about you, but I make plenty. You can't turn the clock back, so you have to look ahead.

  Mel Gibson

  Wise, Mistake, New Beginnings

  "Mel Gibson Tells Some Brutal Truths About The Amazing 'Apocalypto'". Interview with Kurt Loder, www.mtv.com. December 14, 2006.

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