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• I've only been gone a week," I reminded him. Well, a week's a long time. It's seven days. Which is one hundred and sixty-eight hours. Which is ten thousand, eighty minutes. Which is six hundred thousand, for hundred seconds.

  Meg Cabot

  Eight, Long, Gone

  Meg Cabot (2011). “Vanished: When Lightning Strikes & Code Name Cassandra”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• Our life is made up of time; our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is measured by years. We grab a few quick minutes in our busy day to have a coffee break. We rush back to our desks, we watch the clock, we live by appointments. And yet your time eventually runs out and you wonder in your heart of hearts if those seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years and decades were being spent the best way they possibly could. In other words, if you could change anything, would you?

  Cecelia Ahern

  Life, Running, Coffee

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• As I raced out of the office, I could hear Emily rapid-fire dialing four-digit extensions and all but screaming, 'She's on her way-- tell everyone.' It took me only three seconds to wind through the hallways and pass through the fashion department, but I had already heard panicked cries of 'Emily said she's on her way in' and 'Miranda's coming!' and a particularly blood curdling cry of 'She's baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!

  Lauren Weisberger

  Fashion, Fire, Blood

  Lauren Weisberger (2003). “The Devil Wears Prada”, p.99, Broadway Books

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• That was it. That was really it. She knew that she had told herself that that was it only seconds earlier, but this was now the final real ulimate it.

  Douglas Adams

  Real, Finals

  Douglas Adams (2014). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• I..." He struggled to answer. "When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain in the livingroom was open just a crack... I could see outside. I watched, only for a few seconds." He had not seen the outside world for twenty-two months. There was no anger or reproach. It was Papa who spoke. How did it look?" Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment. "There were stars," he said. "They burned by eyes.

  Markus Zusak

  Stars, Eye, Two

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• In the first few seconds an aching sadness wrenched his heart, but it soon gave way to a feeling of sweet disquiet, the excitement of gypsy wanderlust

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Sweet, Heart, Sadness

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• No. We breathe. We pulse. We regenerate. Our hearts beat. Our minds create. Our souls ingest. 37 seconds, well used, is a lifetime.

  Suzanne Weyn

  Heart, Waiting, Soul

  "Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium". www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• We almost made it to thirty seconds without an insult. I think we set a new record.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  God, Thinking, Records

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Acheron”, p.336, Hachette UK

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• He was silent for thirty seconds, maybe a minute. I uncrossed my legs under the table and wondered if this was the right moment to leave. It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the right point in a conversation to say goodbye.

  Haruki Murakami

  Goodbye, Judging, Trying

  "Hunting Knife" by Haruki Murakami, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 2003.

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• Yes, there's one thing I do want. I want to be aware of the minutes and the seconds, and to make each one count.

  Jacqueline Susann

  Want, Minutes, One Thing

  Jacqueline Susann (2016). “Valley of the Dolls: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.53, Tiger L.L.C.

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• What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water: art that grows out of modes of perception and making whose skill and doggedness make you think and feel; art that isn’t merely sensational, that doesn’t get its message across in ten seconds, that isn’t falsely iconic, that hooks onto something deep-running in our natures. In a word, art that is the very opposite of mass media.

  Robert Hughes

  Running, Art, Thinking

  "A bastion against cultural obscenity". www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2004.

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• I never look at a high point in my career. Everyone thinks about the Spinks fight, but that fight only lasted 91 seconds, so it's hard to say it defined my career.

  Mike Tyson

  Fighting, Thinking, Careers

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• 1 billion people are permanently and seriously malnourished. Every five seconds, a child dies.

  Jean Ziegler

  Children, People, Billions

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• All my cuts are always about three hours, at the start, mainly because any scene in the movie that's 90 seconds, I probably shot a five-minute version of. If you just extrapolate that through the whole movie, I have a very long version of every scene, usually because, if there's one funny joke, I'll shoot five because I don't know if the one I like is going to work. I'll get back-ups because my biggest fear is to be in previews, testing the movie, and a joke doesn't work, but I have no way to fix it because I have no other line.

  Judd Apatow

  Cutting, Long, Three

  "Judd Apatow Talks This Is 40, Screening His Films for Cameron Crowe and James L. Brooks, Deleted Scenes, Anchorman 2, Girls, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 18, 2012.

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• You get the most 3D effect when it starts about three to four seconds, that's when it starts feeling 3D. And then what you do, quick shots are always flat.

  Michael Bay

  Feelings, Three, Four

  Interview with Peter Sciretta, www.slashfilm.com. June 17, 2014.

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• There are some movies that I remember a couple of seconds and I want to carry those couple of seconds in my heart forever, or wherever it is, and that's worth it.

  Peter Stormare

  Couple, Heart, Forever

  Source: collider.com

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• For a few seconds Oskar saw through Eli's eyes. And what he saw was...himself. Only much better, more handsome, stronger than what he thought of himself. Seen with love." (Let the Right One In)

  John Ajvide Lindqvist

  Eye, Stronger, Handsome

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• Reading is a heady thing. You can be into the action of someone's thoughts and take a whole trip down someone's ruminations while seconds tick by in the world that they're in, but you can't really do that in film. Some films can, but not too much.

  Alan Tudyk

  Reading, Rumination, World

  Source: collider.com

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• We live in a world, it's very hard for Americans to understand that every 20 seconds a kid dies, a kid under the age of five, right, dies somewhere on the Earth because of lack of access to clean water and sanitation. Every 20 seconds that happens on our planet. It's just very hard for us to relate to.

  Matt Damon

  Kids, Water, Age

  "Actor-screenwriter-producer Matt Damon, Part 1". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. December 11, 2012.

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• Never fly straight and level for more than 30 seconds in the combat area.

  Adolph Malan

  Levels, Aviation, Combat

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• Fire short bursts of 1 to 2 seconds and only when your sights are definitely 'ON.'

  Adolph Malan

  Fire, Sight, Aviation

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• Right now you are in a completely different reality than you were 10 seconds ago.

  Bentinho

  Reality, Different, Right Now

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• It was so like old times that Henry found himself smiling down at Olek and Mance, playing to her, capable of ignoring the rest. It did seem for those seconds that the earth had at last been pacified by music.

  Thomas Keneally

  Peace, Earth, Lasts

  Thomas Keneally (1982). “Schindler's list”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• I saw a commercial for an above-ground pool, it was 30 seconds long. Because that's the maximum amount of time you can picture yourself having fun in an above-ground pool. If it was 31 seconds, the actor would say "The water is only up to here? What do I do now? Throw the ball back to Jimmy? Or put some goggles on and look at his feet?"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Feet

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• I like those blow-up beds. "This becomes a full size bed in three minutes!" Well, a mattress kicks your ass. Zero seconds. "Yeah, but you can store this thing." You can store a bed, too - in the bedroom.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Zero, Humor

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