Timing Quotes - Page 8

• Well in two months, it'd be sunbathing time. That made me smile. I enjoyed lying in the sun in a little bikini, timing myself carefully so I didn't burn. I loved the smell of coconut oil. And I don't want to hear any lectures about how bad tanning is for you. That's my vice. Everybody gets one.

  Charlaine Harris

  Lying, Two, Oil

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.1177, Penguin

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• Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing.

  Scott Adams

  Song, Hip Hop, Age

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• This is not to say I don’t feel my own grief, which can hit powerfully at unexpected times. It’s just that the telling does not automatically bring on my own upset, as people assume. I deal more with their reaction than they do with mine, and so you have to choose your timing.

  Deb Caletti

  Grief, People, Upset

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• Timing is a sensitive thing.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Sensitive

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• So much in life came down to timing.

  Kate Morton

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• One wants to move through life with elegance and grace, blossoming infrequently but with exquisite taste, and perfect timing, like a rare bloom, a zebra orchid... One wants... But one so seldom gets what one wants, does one?

  Tony Kushner

  Zebras, Moving, Orchids

  Tony Kushner (2013). “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition”, p.31, Theatre Communications Group

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• Jack Benny, Fred Allen. Their jokes were wonderful. It takes skill to be funny. The timing of Jack Benny was so fine. It is a form of genius for which we should be grateful.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Grateful, Skills, Genius

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• Hatter!" She would have hugged him if she hadn't thought he'd be bothered by the dislay of affection. Pterry good timing." Dodge smiled. "A litte sooner and you would've been perfect.

  Frank Beddor

  Perfect, Dodge, Affection

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• I love the idea of 'the one' but I actually believe that there isn't a Miss Right. There are 12,000 Miss Rights out there and it's all timing.

  Matthew Perry

  Believe, Rights, Ideas

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• I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Trying, Bars, Stories

  "Fright club" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. May 07, 2005.

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• As usual, my timing is bizarrely good.

  Jamie Oliver

  Usual

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

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• I am a believer in nutrient timing and supplementation, through 8Zone. I love eggs, apples, wild fish, leafy greens, brown rice, pasta, oatmeal, home grown Washington Potatoes, and cooking with coconut and olive oils.

  Apolo Ohno

  Home, Eggs, Oil

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• Early on, they were timing my contract with an egg timer.

  Conan O'Brien

  Eggs, Contracts, Timer

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• I have a solo deal with Columbia Records. So it's about, do I want to release an album, when can we do it, what kind of album should it be, how should it be released and marketed and what's the right timing? Do I have time to do it? It's all about questions.

  Cory Monteith

  Albums, Records, Want

  "Cory Monteith: 'I Don’t Want My Dating Life to Be Tabloid Fodder'". Interview with Shawna Malcom, parade.com. June 23, 2011.

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• You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.

  George McGovern

  Real, Politics, Way

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

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• In the case of Five-O, I believe it was a combination of many ingredients - timing, chemistry, Hawaii.

  James MacArthur

  Believe, Hawaii, Ingredients

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• Music deals with time and timing. It's so magical, but when you get into it, every little sound and every little space between the sounds, it's critical, so critical. And if it's not there, it not only feels wrong, but it ruins things.

  David Lynch

  Space, Sound, Littles

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• It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

  Barbara Kruger

  Hard Work, Practice, Mind

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• Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.

  Larry Hagman

  Hard Work, Rehearsal, Comedy

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• Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance.

  Robert Fripp

  Everyday, Musician, Performances

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• No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.

  Patty Duke

  Good Luck, Requirements, Matter

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• I love Benny Hill. He one of my favourites of all time. Like, the way Benny did it, he was just amazing. Just seeing how he put songs together and comedy and the timing and the sketches. He was way ahead of his time.

  Snoop Dogg

  Song, Together, Way

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

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• I've always wanted to work with Blair, and finally the timing was right. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. I think he's a hugely underrated actor in Hollywood.

  Tyler Perry

  Thinking, Hollywood, Actors

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• The best moments can't be preconceived. I've spent a lot of time in editing rooms, and a scene can be technically perfect, with perfect delivery and facial expression and timing, and you remember all your lines, and it is dead.

  Brad Pitt

  Editing, Expression, Perfect

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• The first step to change,... is accepting your reality right now. Honoring your process. Compassionate self-awareness leads to change; harsh self-criticism only holds the pattern in place, creating a stubborn and defensive Basic Self. Be gentle with yourself as you would with a child. Be gentle but firm. Give yourself the space to grow. But remember that the timing is in god's hands, not yours. page~147

  Dan Millman

  Children, Reality, Creating

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