Week Quotes - Page 16

• Some weeks, I'm super-duper busy, so I can only fit cardio in here and there, a lot of stuff happens in the afternoon, so I can get up and have a workout, which makes me feel awesome for the rest of my day. There's just something sexy about feeling strong. And every night I'm onstage, I get another workout.

  Carrie Underwood

  Sexy, Strong, Workout

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• If you go on vacation for one week, you'll come back to two weeks of work. If you go on vacation for two weeks, you'll come back to four weeks of work. If you go on vacation for three weeks, people seem to figure it out for themselves.

  Paul Orfalea

  Vacation, Two, People

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• It's amazing, but I guess that happens when you become overly famous. Every week now, I get more famous.

  Serena Williams

  Happens

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• The idea of a star being born is bushwa. A star is created, carefully and cold-bloodily, built up from nothing, from nobody. Age, beauty, talent, least of all talent, has nothing to do with it. We could make silk purses out of sows' ears every day of the week.

  Louis B. Mayer

  Stars, Ideas, Age

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• It's liberating to live at home during the week, but on the weekend it's like, Jesus Christ, how much History Channel can one human being watch?

  John Rzeznik

  Jesus, Home, Weekend

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• I have four daughters, with the two youngest being four years old and a year and a half. When one of my older daughters was in sixth grade, a classmate brought in their talking Winnie the Pooh doll for show and tell, so the next week my daughter one upped her classmates and brought me to school in for show and tell.

  Jim Cummings

  Daughter, School, Next Week

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• I think waking up in the middle of the night and seeing stuff in the dark and thinking it is something scary or demonic. When you first wake up and you see things and you're eyes aren't open and things aren't what they seem. That happened to me like three weeks ago!

  Daniel Jacobs

  Eye, Dark, Night

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• The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like slightly sticky plaster-dust. (Housecleaners in that country earned unusually good wages.) If you lived in that country, you had to de-scale your kettle of its encrustation of magic at least once a week, because if you didn't, you might find yourself pouring hissing snakes or pond slime into your teapot instead of water.

  Robin McKinley

  Country, Dust, Land

  Robin Mckinley (2002). “Spindle's End”, p.11, Penguin

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• I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.

  Bear Grylls

  Names, Bears, My Sister

  "Leading questions: Bear Grylls, chief Scout". Interview with Jane Dudman, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2011.

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• I'm playing somebody who is a recovering drug addict who got out of prison. It takes place in 2 weeks-the 1st 2 weeks I'm out of prison.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Drug, Prison, Recovering

  "Maggie Gyllenhaal for 'Criminal'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. September 9, 2004.

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• I'm pretty good at indulging myself. I'm about to go travel for a week. I like to get massaged, go into steam rooms. I take care of myself.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Care, Rooms, Steam

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• [The movies] glamorize game day a little bit too much. It's such a focus. They miss a lot of the nuts and bolts, and the time that goes into the preparation each week, or each couple of days in basketball.

  Vince Kehres

  Basketball, Couple, Nuts

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I think there's something fun about television where, as an actor, when you read the script each week, it's like how the audience experiences watching the show each week.

  Matt Barr

  Fun, Thinking, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• What modern technology has done has afforded us the luxury of abbreviation and being concise with time, I think. Things that it would take you a week to do can now be done in a day, which is absolutely awesome because you can concentrate on the bigger picture.

  Justin Broadrick

  Technology, Thinking, Luxury

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think television is really incredible because of the fact that you get to sit with a character for so, and the character does something different, every week. I think that's really interesting.

  Cristin Milioti

  Character, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't think acting should be all-encompassing. So, when I'm not shooting, I'll go down to Mexico on a spear-fishing trip for a couple of weeks, or I'll go to the Coral Sea, or I'll go to Panama, or wherever.

  Tanc Sade

  Couple, Thinking, Sea

  Source: collider.com

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• I DJ very often. I'll probably do it more. I'm not available during the week because of the show but I travel most weekends to DJ. I've been doing it for about six years.

  Taryn Manning

  Weekend, Years, Six

  "Flowing with Taryn Manning". Interview with Gerry Visco, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2014.

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• The movie industry places such importance on first-week numbers-which means what to people, I don't know. It's very strange. They hope to sell tons of records the first week, and then what?

  Brendan Benson

  Mean, Numbers, People

  "The Raconteurs". Interview with Jonathan Durbin, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2008.

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• We usually break the story first. For instance, on The Monuments Men, and this one is more complicated because there's a lot of history, so before we started, we sat down with Robert Edsel, the author of the book, for about a week, and basically, he just gave us a lecture and went through everything. And then, I had a researcher, somebody who we had actually used on Argo.

  Grant Heslov

  Book, Men, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• In the old patrician world there was a custom once a week you had to eat a meal with your slaves and get to know them as people.

  Jared Harris

  People, Meals, World

  Source: collider.com

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• When I was eight or nine years old, I saw the TV version of 47 Ronin, played by Toshiro Mifune. He played Oishi. That was my first experience. I watched every week with my brother. "Who plays Oishi tonight? Who will play Kira tonight?" And we fought every week.

  Hiroyuki Sanada

  Brother, Eight, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't know if God exists and I don't care. God's will and design for this temporal and spatial vastness, if any, is so patently, deliberately impenetrable that I doubt any mortal has a grasp on it. The very inexplicability of sad events like the tsunami, like the AIDS crisis or even like the cancer death of the father of one of my daughter's 2nd-grade classmates last week are, to me, reminders to focus on our obligations to one another, not to the infinite; to honor the creator, if any, by honoring creation itself and hoping that's good enough.

  Eric Zorn

  Daughter, Father, Cancer

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• I played the British Open in 1937. It took a week to get there and a week to get home. I was the low American; finished fourth or fifth. And what it came down to was, I lost a good part of my summer, won $185, and spent $1,000 on boat fare alone.

  Byron Nelson

  Summer, Home, Boat

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• Lands' End has undergone three major changes over the past couple of decades. The first was the introduction of an 800 number, in 1978; the second was express delivery, in 1994; and the third was the introduction of a Web site, in 1995. The first two innovations cut the average transaction time-the time between the moment of ordering and the moment the goods are received-from three weeks to four days. The third innovation has cut the transaction time from four days to, well, four days.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Couple, Cutting, Past

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• I left drama school and went straight into a 10-week film for which I was paid £75 I might say, which for 1962 was one heck of a lot of money.

  John Hurt

  Drama, School, Might

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2000.

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