Minutes Quotes - Page 40

• The point of making records for me isn't to hear 300 songs in 50 minutes; it's to hear the 50-minute piece of music.

  Girl Talk

  Song, Pieces, Records

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. October 6, 2008.

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• Sometimes the show needs that kick in the ass so being able to sing a Nirvana song kind of takes it there. I've grown up putting on extravagant shows with Girl Talk so when I'm playing I like to go nuts. After 30 minutes of pointing and clicking it's nice to scream into a microphone for three minutes.

  Girl Talk

  Girl, Song, Nice

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 30, 2006.

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• I'm going to keep talking about what I think is interesting for my entire career. If you want to hear about how women do a lot of shoe shopping or how being married sucks, go see the guy who does jokes about that. But if you come to see my live show, there's going to be 20 minutes on religion for the rest of my life, probably. If that makes me a caricature, so be it.

  David Cross

  Thinking, Talking, Careers

  "David Cross Disses Album Reviews, Notorious B.I.G, Dane Cook, Religion". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. May 21, 2010.

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• I'm always a little leery about doing shows where I'm not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes. After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.

  Al Yankovic

  People, Decision, Missing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Readable text and authority so that readers know how to spend - no matter how much information there is, I have the same number of minutes in my day, and I need to look to sources that I trust.

  David Gelernter

  Numbers, Needs, Looks

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I don't think there's that many great 90-minute comedies.

  Judd Apatow

  Thinking, Comedy

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 21, 2012.

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• The ones [comedies] that I always liked, whether it's Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, or Fast Times of Ridgemont High, they were all about two hours, or a little bit over two hours. With that extra 15 or 20 minutes, you can get to real character and you're not just stuck in plot.

  Judd Apatow

  Real, Character, Two

  "Director Nicholas Stoller and Producer Judd Apatow Talk THE FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT" by Christina Radish, collider.com. April 21, 2012.

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• Every time I'm in editing, there's always a moment where you think, "Maybe this should be six or seven minutes shorter, but I'm losing character and story that I think is important." When I like things, I'm not in a rush for them to end.

  Judd Apatow

  Character, Thinking, Editing

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 21, 2012.

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• Working with Jean-Claude is a lot of fun. Because he's a great actor who also happens to be a fighter. That combination doesn't usually come together anymore. Usually, you have to fight the stunt double and then act against the actor. In his case, you are fighting with a real guy. It takes a minute to get used to that. Because it doesn't happen any more.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Fun, Real, Fighting

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I feel like I always had an ear. I have the ability and the gift to hear a song and really play it in a matter of five to 10 minutes and make my own version out of it. So it's always been easy playing by ear.

  Jeremih

  Song, Play, Ears

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I don't want to be a flash in the pan. I want to be around for a very long time. I want to be like a Sheryl Crow or a Melissa Etheridge or even a Madonna with how her career has lasted so long and she is still respected in the music business. That's really what I am aiming for. I'm not really looking for 15 minutes of fame.

  Cheyenne Kimball

  Careers, Long, Crow

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• One of the best compliments I ever got was "You know what I like about you? You're smart enough to be scared. So many guys come on cocky, they don't want to go over their stuff, they don't want to do a pre-interview. You're always smart enough to be worried till the last minute."

  Scott Raab

  Smart, Cocky, Guy

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.

  Alan Greenspan

  Political, Groups, Social

  "Senator Kerry speaks, &c." by Jay Nordlinger, www.nationalreview.com. November 01, 2006.

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• We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st.

  Carl Sagan

  Lasts, Calendars, December

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Documentary (1990 Update). Episode 1: "The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean", 1990.

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• Everything in life, I have come to conclude, is about 15 minutes too long. Except for summer - summer never begins early enough and always ends too soon.

  Peter Gzowski

  Summer, Time, Long

  Peter Gzowski (2001). “A Peter Gzowski Reader”, McClelland & Stewart Ltd

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• One day he [Wagner] was batting against a young pitcher who had just come into the league. The catcher was a kid, too . The pitcher threw Honus a curve ball, and he swung at it and missed and fell down. Looked helpless as a robin. I was kind of surprised, but the guy sitting next to me poked me in the ribs and said, 'Watch this next one.' Those kids figured they had the old man's weakness, you see, and served him up the same dish - as he knew they would. Well, Honus hit a line drive so hard the fence in left field went back and forth for five minutes.

  Burleigh Grimes

  Kids, Men, Curves

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• We had an electronic head and arm for Threepio, and I manipulated the mechanism with a joystick. But it wasn't working. The propman said, 'Give me fifteen minutes.' We all went to get coffee, and when we came back, Threepio's head turned perfectly and his arm moved naturally. I looked up and realized that the prop man had a fishing pole with a fine nylon string attached to Threepio's arm. He had rigged another string around the head, which Chewbacca was holding. As Chewie moved his hands, Threepio's head turned!

  Irvin Kershner

  Coffee, Men, Hands

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• In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.

  Maira Kalman

  Smart, Profound, Insightful

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• If I had five minutes to live, I don't think I'd be bothered singing a song. I'd be dead, so it won't really matter. I'd have a glass of wine and a cigarette.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Song, Wine, Thinking

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• I say to my team all the time that this is how I grew up: Always thinking that, at any minute, I could be unemployed. You have to scramble. You have to work hard and get ahead of things.

  Ursula Burns

  Team, Hard Work, Thinking

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• We reckon hours and minutes to be dollars and cents.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Dollars, Hours, Cents

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1840). “The Clockmaker: Or, The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville ...”, p.17

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• Time Like a petal in the wind Flows softly by As old lives are taken New ones begin A continual chain Which lasts throughout eternity Every life but a minute in time But each of equal importance

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Time, Taken

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• Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Children, Seven

  "Animal Dreams". Book by Barbara Kingsolver, 1990.

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• I have a terrible problem with procrastination. A friend told me, "Well, you should go to therapy." And I thought about it, but then I said, "Wait a minute. Why should I pay a stranger to listen to me talk when I can get strangers to pay to listen to me talk?" And that's when I got the idea of touring.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Procrastination, Ideas, Waiting

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Here and Now". Comedy, Documentary, June 25, 2003.

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• From the minute we're born, boys and girls stare at each other, trying to figure out if they like what they see. Like parade lines, passing each other for mutual inspection. You march, you look. You march, you look. If you're interested, you stop and talk, and if it doesn't work out, you just get back in the parade. You keep marching, and you keep looking.

  Paul Reiser

  Girl, Boys, Work Out

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