Minutes Quotes - Page 28

• I mean, I can tell within the first two minutes if I'm into someone or not. I can always tell if I get butterflies.

  Kristin Cavallari

  Butterfly, Mean, Two

  "Kristin Cavallari: ‘I Want To Be Seen As A Serious Actress’". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. July 14, 2009.

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• I grew up 60 minutes way from Richmond, in Charlottesville, Virginia and, as a child, I was obsessed with the Civil War. I used to do re-enactments and all that stuff.

  Billy Campbell

  Children, War, Virginia

  "Billy Campbell Talks KILLING LINCOLN, Taking on the Iconic Figure, Putting on the Hat and Reenacting the Assassination, Plus Season 3 of AMC’s THE KILLING". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 14, 2013.

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• Some of the best auditions I've ever had have been when my agent called and said, 'They want you 20 minutes ago, in an office in Century City, to see you for something.' I'm not sitting there thinking for a week and a half, before I'm supposed to go in front of a network president to do something. That just gives you time to be nervous.

  Billy Campbell

  Thinking, Cities, Giving

  "Billy Campbell Talks KILLING LINCOLN, Taking on the Iconic Figure, Putting on the Hat and Reenacting the Assassination, Plus Season 3 of AMC’s THE KILLING". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 14, 2013.

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• I've been experimenting more and more with LN2, liquid nitrogen. I've used it in battle on 'Iron Chef America,' but have also made some great ice creams at home for my family. Since it freezes basically on contact, you can have ice cream ready in mere minutes.

  Cat Cora

  Home, Ice Cream, Iron

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• I got last-minute rush seats to Baz Luhrmann's 'Boheme,' and my favorite singer, Ekaterina Solovyeva, was playing Mimi that day. My face got burned off when she sang the aria 'Donde Lieta Usci.' The woman was technically sobbing and singing opera at the same time. I don't know how you do that.

  Nina Arianda

  Singing, Opera, Singers

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• It's frustrating at times when you think you've earned a chance to play on the field and you're over there sitting on the bench. That's not the kind of player I am. I'm the kind of player who wants to be out there on the field and needs to contribute every minute of every game.

  Freddy Adu

  Player, Thinking, Games

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• You see thousands of films you forget the minute you come out of the cinema, don't you? Because they don't mean anything. It's the tough ones like 'Breaking the Waves' and 'Nil By Mouth' that stay with you, that you never forget. I'd like to leave a few of those behind if possible.

  Olivia Colman

  Mean, Cinema, Mouths

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• Keep in mind that there are computers, that do touch things up. Like when I got a hold of the poster for 'Gold Diggers,' I said: 'Hey, wait a minute! Those aren't my teeth!

  Anna Chlumsky

  Waiting, Mind, Gold

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• You know, back in the 1950s and '60s, when J. Edgar Hoover was making the FBI the respected organization it used to be, oftentimes they would find a fugitive and basically have his house surrounded, and then put out a press release saying he was on the top 10 most wanted list. And 10 minutes later, he'd be arrested.

  Howie Carr

  Organization, House, Top 10

  "The Last Word" with Lawrence O'Donnell, www.nbcnews.com. June 23, 2011.

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• On January 10, 1963, I was sworn in as a lawyer, so next January 10 I will have practiced law for 40 years, and I've loved every minute of it.

  Johnnie Cochran

  Years, Law, Next

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• After I started getting criticism for doing 'Big Brother,' someone told me that Hugh Downs used to host 'Concentration' and Mike Wallace used to do 'The Big Surprise.' I thought, Huh, maybe that door isn't sealed shut if I want to do '60 Minutes' one day.

  Julie Chen

  Brother, Doors, Criticism

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• You have to run 75 to 100 miles a week if you expect to break the four-minute mile.

  Kenneth H. Cooper

  Running, Four, Week

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• One of the most important things that I did to turn my life around was to realize and to accept that from this minute, that's all we have. Everything that happened behind us we cannot change so you might as well look to the future.

  Nick Carter

  Important, Looks, Might

  "Backstreet Boys' Nick Carter Opens Up About 65 Pound Weight Loss" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. April 20, 2011.

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• I'd like the reader to decide if he is willing to pay minute sums for content. I'd like the economics of web to be controlled between authors and readers, not advertiser.

  Robert Cailliau

  Pay, Economics, Reader

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• The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute.

  Robert Capa

  Horse, War, Hands

  Robert Capa (2015). “Slightly Out Of Focus”, p.161, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going. If you write a bad sentence on the computer, then it's very tempting to go back and fidget with it and spend another 20 minutes trying to make it into a good sentence.

  Jonathan Dee

  Nice, Writing, Trying

  "Jonathan Dee's Art Of Apology". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 4, 2013.

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• I was always scared in the amateurs, but the minute I got in the ring it was like another person took over. I become more vicious. In there I love to hurt people. Outside I can't hurt a bug.

  Nonito Donaire

  Hurt, People, Bugs

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• You're out there on a high wire without a net, and that's the way actors operate. They have to be fearless about how they work and they have to create a life for the audience in 90 minutes and make them believe.

  Charles Durning

  Believe, Fearless, Wire

  "PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Charles Durning". Playbill On-Line Interview, www.playbill.com. February 22, 2000.

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• The best songs I write in 20 minutes.

  Evan Dando

  Song, Writing

  "I can't completely let go of drugs - and I don't want to" by Mat Snow, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2006.

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• You see a lot of these movies that are really just 90-minute video games. The effects are incredible. I get it: There's an art to that, terrific. I'm not interested in it, but there's an art to that I suppose.

  Jeff Daniels

  Art, Games, Video

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. November 09, 2010.

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• Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.

  Daniel Ek

  Song, News, Matter

  "Spotify's Daniel Ek: 'We want artists to be able to afford to create the music they want to create'". Interview with Stuart Dredge, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2012.

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• One minute you're a developing athlete trying to get to the top, then the next minute you do well and win a medal somewhere, and then it's all foisted on you. You never know when it's going to happen. You don't think about the media side of things when you're a young athlete trying to do well.

  Jessica Ennis

  Athlete, Thinking, Winning

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• I want to make an extremely strong appeal to those who abstained. Vote. It takes five minutes and then it's for five years.

  Laurent Fabius

  Strong, Years, Want

  "Chirac allies storm ahead in poll". cnn.com. June 10, 2002.

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• The China game was the best because it took the effort of everyone on the team to survive 120 minutes.

  Lorrie Fair

  Team, Games, Effort

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• If I'd just been interested in record sales, I would have taken one of the deals I was offered after 'Soapstar Superstar,' made a quick covers album and probably had some success for five minutes. I decided that wasn't for me.

  Richard Fleeshman

  Taken, Albums, Records

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