Minutes Quotes - Page 30

• The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Numbers, Maps

  "Seth Godin on What it Takes to be a Linchpin". Interview with Steve Cunningham, mashable.com. February 14, 2014.

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• Things are forgotten and then perhaps picked up again, if we're lucky, it lasts... if not, then it's in the lap of the gods. The important thing was to do some work that I liked and hopefully that some others might also like, whether for a minute, a week, a month, a year.

  Tom Glazer

  Years, Important, Lap

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• I don't want to be in a movie with 20 minutes of dialogue and then stand around while the robots start explosions.

  Henry Hopper

  Robots, Want, Explosions

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• I would go into a place that was quiet and isolated and think about how my character would feel in the situation, considering who he was and what he had been through. I would think about that even up to 30 minutes. And when I felt the character was in my body and I had left, I could walk onto set or into rehearsal.

  Thomas Horn

  Character, Thinking, Body

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• Reviewers and critics can be overly cynical. If something the least bit sentimental comes up, they'll often start flying off the handle. But I'm like, 'Wait a minute, you've had those times in your life. Everybody has.

  Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

  Cynical, Waiting, Flying

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• In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Art, New York, School

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• Let's say music is needed for only 43 seconds of film. You have to score it so it is an entity, so it won't bother anyone when it ends so quickly. Or if a song runs 2 minutes and 45 seconds, but the titles run a minute longer, you have to arrange that song so it doesn't get repetitious.

  Marvin Hamlisch

  Running, Song, Titles

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• Before Katrina, it was a longstanding tradition in our country for political officials to wait until the last minute to warn, to take action, to evacuate. No more. With Irene, you had mass evacuations - mandatory ones - issued days ahead of time. That was the right thing to do.

  Russel Honore

  Country, Waiting, Political

  "A general talks storm lessons since Katrina". Interview with Ashley Fantz, www.cnn.com. August 29, 2011.

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• I'm in road-coma at the moment. But it's OK. I think you subliminally become a junkie of being on the road. As much as you think you're burnt out, the minute you get off you go stir crazy and you just wanna go right back.

  Shannon Hoon

  Crazy, Thinking, Moments

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• I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes.

  David Ives

  Song, Perfect, Three

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• I was interviewed for a Grammy television show, and they asked me about Nashville, and I talked for three minutes and when I finished, I was teared up. The whole room was crying. Nashville has given me a home, where I never had a home before.

  Janis Ian

  Home, Nashville, Three

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• I spend a lot of time in L.A., and I think it would probably be easier if I lived there work wise, but there's no city like London, there is so much going on. I can jump on the Tube and be anywhere in 20 minutes, and all my friends and family are here and I'm not prepared to give that up.

  Jeremy Irvine

  Wise, Thinking, Cities

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• Is a woman raped every three minutes or every six minutes? It is far too much, whatever it is.

  Patricia Ireland

  Three, Too Much, Six

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• The problem is, when you come back in you're sweating, so I wait until the very last minute before putting on my shirt so that it's not covered in sweat.

  Paul Ince

  Sweat, Waiting, Lasts

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• In video you are starting with nothing but a black screen. There's no game there. With pinball you at least start with that basic concept, but not with video. The challenge of going from no game to something today is only different because you have to create something so damn fun people will pay $1.00 every two minutes to play it.

  Eugene Jarvis

  Fun, Games, Play

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• Even a song on the radio that completely lacks substance is there for a reason. Sometimes, people need a break from cold reality; the song that you really don't have to put that much thought power into can be just as entertaining as something that might take you on a three- or four-minute cruise through the depth of reality.

  Jamey Johnson

  Song, Reality, People

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• Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute.

  Keith Jarrett

  Musician, Chance, Drastic

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• I realized that improvisers should probably always have time off. But musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute - unless something drastic occurs.

  Keith Jarrett

  Musician, Chance, Should

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• When you are on tour in the UK it takes a few hours to get anywhere. A lot of the time you can have a beer, close your eyes for two minutes, and then you are there. In the U.S. it is much more like a road trip as all the cities are so spread apart.

  Kelly Jones

  Eye, Beer, Cities

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• It never occurred to me that I needed to say that I was gay. I simply am. Anyone who knows me or who's been around me ten minutes knows it too.

  Michael Jeter

  Gay, Needed, Know Me

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• I could sit right here and have a 15-minute conversation with somebody and change their whole life.

  Young Jeezy

  Conversation, Whole Life, Whole

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• Antarctica is a very alien environment, and you can't survive here more than minutes if you're not equipped properly and doing the right thing all the time.

  Jon Krakauer

  Aliens, Environment, Antarctica

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• 'Frasier' was a classy gig. I didn't for one minute think it was less prestigious or artistic than doing a play.

  John Mahoney

  Thinking, Play, Gigs

  Interview with Novid Parsi, www.timeout.com. April 1, 2008.

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• It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction. ...And as a result the average man once more confronts the problem that faced the Minute Man.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Average, Liberty

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• Every movie that I do, if you analyze the stories, you can notice that in each story, that within the movie after the first 15 minutes, it could fall apart. Or every 10 minutes it has the chance that you lose the thread. On the other hand, if you succeed in putting them together, then the movie looks spontaneous and more like cinema.

  Emir Kusturica

  Fall, Hands, Together

  "Momentum and Emotion, Emir Kusturica’s 'Black Cat, White Cat'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. September 09, 1999.

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