Hours Quotes - Page 4

• Guys, particularly in the West, go to the gym and train for hours and hours to pick up something that is heavier than them. Why would you want to do that?

  Robert Carlyle

  Guy, Want, West

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

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• I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.

  Robert Caro

  Writing, Long, Afternoon

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• You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half.

  Robert Crippen

  Orbit, Half, World

  "STS-1 25th Anniversary Interview with Bob Crippen". Interview with George Diller, www.nasa.gov. April 12, 2006.

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• Does anyone really believe it is possible to make even the most basic ends meet on $5.15 an hour?

  Russ Carnahan

  Believe, Doe, Ends

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• I have an almost seven year old... I think it's essential to be consistent with kids. And truthful, without scaring them. I could go on for hours on this one.

  Stephen Collins

  Kids, Thinking, Years

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• By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.

  Steven Chu

  Moving, Numbers, Design

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• I wake up at about 9 a.m., and have a few hours of school or time to relax. Then, I have practice at 2:30 p.m. with my team.

  Gabby Douglas

  Team, School, Practice

  "Get to know U.S. Gymnast, Gabby Douglas!". Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. August 3, 2012.

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• I wanted a child, and there was no way I could get pregnant under the stress of 18-hour work days and live TV. When you're somebody who's used to making a decision about what they want to do and getting it and achieving it, when your body fails you, it's a whole other experience.

  Kara DioGuardi

  Children, Stress, Decision

  "Kara DioGuardi's 'A Helluva High Note': Quit Not Fired From 'American Idol' and More Secrets" by Kate Aurthur, www.thedailybeast.com. April 25, 2011.

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• For small community banks and credit unions, like those in Central and Northern Wisconsin, the hundreds of new rules will require an estimated 2,260,631 labor hours just for compliance. Those are hours that your local bank or credit union will spend dealing with some Washington bureaucrat instead of focusing on the needs of customers like you.

  Sean Duffy

  Community, Needs, Credit

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• I love the first hour of a horror movie, the fear and anticipation. Then, when it gets bloody, I lose interest.

  Sean Durkin

  Firsts, Anticipation, Horror

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

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• There tends to be this hierarchy of film and television, and theater is somewhere else in its own milieu. However, as actors, yes, we love to do theater because it's our story. Nobody can edit it, the curtain goes up, and it's ours for two hours or three, or whatever. And we tell it.

  Tim DeKay

  Somewhere Else, Two, Film And Television

  "A Roundtable With Tim DeKay, Carla Gugino, and Gabriel Macht". Interview with Mark Peikert, www.backstage.com. June 27, 2012.

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• I always think it's important to choose your initial theme very carefully because you're going to be married to it for a long time. You might have to generate an hour's worth of music from a very short, little piece of theme.

  Anne Dudley

  Thinking, Long, Important

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• It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.

  Anthony Doerr

  Teaching, Reading, Writing

  "Off the Page: Anthony Doerr". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. October 14, 2004.

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• This sweet, blessed, God-inspired place called America is a champion that has absorbed some blows. But while we bend, we don't break. This is no dark hour; this is the dawn before we remember who we are.

  Artur Davis

  Sweet, Blessed, Dark

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• I don't live that much with the character. I find it hard enough having to spend so many hours with the character during the day.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Character, Enough, Hard

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

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• I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.

  Charles S. Dutton

  Couple, Writing, Hbo

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• One of the simplest ways to get an idea of one trillion dollars is to consider the amount in terms of the passage of time. One million seconds is equal to roughly eleven days and twelve hours, and one billion seconds is thirty-two years. One trillion seconds equals thirty-two thousand years.

  Geoff Davis

  Years, Ideas, Two

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• For me to rehearse with a children's orchestra a Mahler symphony was to really work. We had three or four weeks of rehearsal with the orchestra, every day eight or nine hours, putting the First together. I had been conducting Tchaikovsky a lot and Beethoven, but Mahler was different.

  Gustavo Dudamel

  Children, Eight, Tchaikovsky

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• Most people would rather sit on a plane for two hours than spend two days on a train, but there's nothing comparable to taking a relaxing rail journey with your family or good friends.

  John Paul DeJoria

  Good Friend, Journey, Two

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• I've played too many tennis hours.

  Lindsay Davenport

  Tennis

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• No matter how tired I am, I can only sleep for four hours at a time.

  Micky Dolenz

  Tired, Sleep, Four

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• The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there.

  Anne Enright

  Writing, Long, Way

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• I am planning my one woman show. It will be a showcase of my life. It starts at the beginning and ends where I am today. It will have every single inch of my life - as much as you can get into an hour. I will be touring everywhere.

  Britt Ekland

  Today, Beginnings And Ends, Planning

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• Every town in America had at least one, two, or maybe three radio stations that played rock 24 hours a day. In England, we had a rock specialist on for two hours a week.

  Joe Elliott

  America, Rocks, Two

  "Joe Elliott of Def Leppard". Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2011.

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• I met people when we lived down in Raleigh who'd ask where I grew up, and I'd say about two hours west of Asheville, and they'd say they didn't know there was any North Carolina two hours west of Asheville. It was in many ways an isolated place.

  Charles Frazier

  Two, People, North Carolina

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