Half Hours Quotes - Page 9

• I don't do plays without jokes anymore. I've retired from those plays. I think it's bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.

  Bill Nighy

  Dark, Thinking, Two

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• We spend about 20 percent of our total sleep time in a dream state. For most of us, this means we dream one and a half hours each night or, on the average, spend four years of our lifetime in a dream state.

  Patricia Garfield

  Dream, Mean, Sleep

  Patricia Garfield (1995). “Creative Dreaming: Plan And Control Your Dreams To Develop Creativity Overcome Fears Solve Proble”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• My drawings have to be quick. If they don't happen in 20 minutes or a half hour, then they're no good.

  Ellsworth Kelly

  Drawing, Half, Hours

  "Ellsworth Kelly Casts His Cold Eye on Market, Peers". Interview with James Tarmy, www.charlotteobserver.com. August 16, 2012.

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• My editor and I remain very disciplined. It's just sometimes when you're making a film, you get into the cutting room and you see a scene that's slowing you down in a certain section, but if you remove that scene then, emotionally or story-wise, another scene a half-hour later won't have the same impact. You just get stuck with it.

  Alexander Payne

  Wise, Cutting, Editors

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. November 15, 2011.

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• I would say a must-do in Canada would be to go skiing at Whistler in Vancouver. You could take a chair lift for like a half hour to the top of this mountain and you ski down, it takes like so long to get to the bottom. You go past the clouds. It's absolutely incredible.

  Sebastian Bach

  Past, Clouds, Long

  "Ex-Skid Row Frontman Sebastian Bach on What's Cool in Canada". Interview with Avinash Ramsadeen, www.foxnews.com. October 12, 2011.

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