Hours Quotes - Page 9

• I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.

  Ann Patchett

  Writing, Sleep, Two

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• One hate crime is committed approximately every hour of every day in this country.

  Anna Paquin

  Country, Hate, Crime

  "Anna Paquin announces she's bisexual for equality psa". www.mtv.com. April 01, 2010.

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• Little pains In a due hour employ'd great profit yields.

  John Phillips

  Pain, Yield, Littles

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• I feel like movies, if there's any kind of budget whatsoever, there's so much sitting, and I really like to work. Otherwise my blood sugar just drops, you know, six hours sitting in a camper.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Blood, Sitting, Sugar

  "Mary-Louise Parker Discusses The End Of Weeds". Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. August 3, 2012.

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• A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy. A movie combines all those forms and forces you to pay attention for two hours with a group of people.

  Paula Patton

  Photography, Two, People

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

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• I'm used to adapting my novels for feature film - it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred pages into two hours of dramatic action.

  Tom Perrotta

  Cutting, Two, Challenges

  ""The Exchange: Tom Perrotta" by Sarah Larson". www.newyorker.com. September 21, 2011.

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• Audiences are so much more sophisticated than they've ever been. They expect a lot more. I don't think because it's an hour of your Thursday night rather than an hour and a half of your weekend that you should be gypped at all in quality.

  Maggie Q

  Weekend, Night, Thinking

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

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• When I'm writing, which is 8-9 months out of the year, I'm in a concerted writing pace, where I work 5 days a week for at least a few hours a day, maybe a little bit more. But I won't work for more than 2 hours at a time. I'll work for a couple hours and take a break.

  Amy Ray

  Couple, Writing, Years

  "Lung Of Love : A Conversation With Amy Ray". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 24, 2012.

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• Before I did 'Rush Hour,' I was a big fan of Jackie Chan movies and I had seen all of them.

  Brett Ratner

  Fans, Rush Hour, Bigs

  "Brett Ratner Exclusive Interview Kites: the Remix – Plus He Talks Tower Heist, Chaos, Rush Hour 4, 3d, More". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. May 12, 2010.

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• If every other store in town is paying workers $9 an hour, one offering $8 will find it hard to hire anyone - perhaps not when unemployment is high, but certainly in normal times. Robust competition is a powerful force helping to ensure that workers are paid what they contribute to their employers' bottom lines.

  Christina Romer

  Powerful, Offering, Competition

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• I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Thinking, Limits, Speed

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• We've rewritten entire scenes and had them animated twelve hours before the show goes on the air. It's not fun.

  Matt Stone

  Fun, Air, Twelve

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

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• I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Speak

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• Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.

  Aaron Tveit

  Hours In The Day, Acting, Passionate

  "Broadway Favorite Aaron Tveit Tackles the Small Screen With ‘Graceland’". Interview with Suzy Evans, www.backstage.com. June 27, 2013.

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• Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.

  Aaron Tveit

  Two, Half, Lines

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• I've developed my passion for cars that drive themselves from being stuck in traffic for many, many, many hours of my life. I don't know what it adds up to, but I feel like I've lost a year or two just in traffic. That's big to me. That's a lot of time, a lot of money that I just lose on the road.

  Sebastian Thrun

  Passion, Years, Two

  "Cars That Drive Themselves". Interview with Jason Spingarn-Koff and Joe Seamans, www.pbs.org. March 28, 2006.

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• When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.

  Daley Thompson

  Inspirational, Funny, Men

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• You can rest a lot in an hour or have a whole day and not do it properly. One way I get a quality recharge is to connect with nature. To experience something that's bigger than me.

  Lili Taylor

  Quality, Way, Bigger

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• I do work very hard. I have been very colored by that education. I spent six days a week, seven hours a day training. That will always be the foundation of my work.

  Alicia Vikander

  Training, Six, Foundation

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• I mean, when I started out I was billing per hour, like a shrink because you would sit with somebody and work. But most of it, if it's for a live show it's usually a buy-out. A flat fee.

  Bruce Vilanch

  Mean, Fees, Flats

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• I used to be a pre-industrial writer: thousands of words in a spurt and then a few days off. But as I get older, I've switched to a mode best described as 'slow and steady wins the race.' Basically, I write during the same four hours every day, after breakfast and the all-important coffee, generally in the same room and wearing the same pajamas.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Coffee, Writing, Winning

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• I'm as much my own master as anyone can be, without being the master of others. I can write anywhere - all I need is a couple of hours of solitude and a computer, and I can write a chapter. Since my work is portable, I can live anywhere I like.

  Stuart Woods

  Couple, Writing, Solitude

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• Everything officers go through in any chase anywhere in the country, but amped up 100 times! I'm right in the thick of things in a car going like 80 miles an hour, and doing 360s in the middle of the road. It was a wild ride.

  Amy Weber

  Country, Car, Middle

  "Amy Weber bikini babe". Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.

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• My dad said: 'It looks like you'll be world No.1 in a few hours and I wanted to be the first to say congratulations.

  Lee Westwood

  Dad, Congratulations, Looks

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• It's funny, because when you're younger you're in a rush to be 18 or 21 or whatever. But then you hit 30. And now, the days go by like hours. You think, 40, man, this could be the halfway point. It could be the three-quarters point, you know? Who knows?

  Mark Wahlberg

  Men, Thinking, Three

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