Week Quotes - Page 33

• China's economy became more complex. By now there is a large number of small- and medium-sized companies that work quite differently from big, state-owned enterprises. They don't follow any long-term business plan and don't rent office space for years to come. They start out and need an office right away, for a week, a month or half a year, and they want to be among other entrepreneurs like themselves.

  Zhang Xin

  Office Space, Years, Numbers

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Sometimes I'm writing for magazines on assignment, but the university has to be patient with me. I mean, during the ten-week periods that I have a class, I'm there every Thursday night or whatever it is, but sometimes that's all I'm there, because I'm somewhere else the rest of the time.

  Pam Houston

  Writing, Mean, Night

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I sat next to Robert Duvall at the lawyers' table for six weeks, and it's still probably the best six weeks of my life.

  Peter Jacobson

  Tables, Next, Six

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I couldn't stop to be upset or depressed about anything when I was at Tiger Stadium with Billy Crystal shooting for three weeks. I was going to enjoy every second - even though apparently I didn't.

  Peter Jacobson

  Upset, Three, Shooting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I lived in New York, and I was the guy who was flying home almost every week, so there was a physical exhaustion and an emotional exhaustion for me, and a need to be home more.

  Peter Jacobson

  New York, Home, Emotional

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• That's why I have to be a fiction writer, because I can't remember what just happened or where I went last week or what movie I just watched with my husband. I'm better off just making things up.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Husband, Fiction, Lasts

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The second thing that happened is, DNA analysis is much more sophisticated. All you have to do now is spit in a test tube and you find out all kind of things in six weeks - where they are from in Africa or Europe. You can prove or disprove the fundamental African-American myth that you descended from a Cherokee great, great grandmother.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Grandmother, Dna, Europe

  "Black Ancestry Matters on ‘Finding Your Roots’". Interview with ALEXANDRA PHANOR-FAURY, www.ebony.com. January 26, 2016.

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• I usually work seven days a week and rarely take vacations, which is both lame and unsustainable. I don't mind the idea of writing seven days a week, I suppose. Getting some work done early in the morning. But ideally I would love to take one day a week off.

  Brad Listi

  Morning, Writing, Vacation

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I want to be heavily tied to a city that I write for every week, that knows my stuff and I can interact with.

  Joel Stein

  Writing, Cities, Want

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I really did for a few weeks think, I'm in pain because the world needs me to save it. Which is so ridiculous and egotistical.

  Heidi Julavits

  Pain, Thinking, Needs

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Heidi Julavits". Interview with Angela Stubbs, therumpus.net. October 14, 2012.

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• I would make a comic for Rolling Stone every two weeks, because they're biweekly. And then I would make weekly comics for my weekly papers. It was on two parallel tracks. And then they all got collected in a book.

  David Rees

  Book, Two, Track

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm interested in the structure of art and how it works. And the content is also interesting, but I don't want to keep the same structure and just plug in new content every week.

  David Rees

  Art, Interesting, Want

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I would host a show where I take famous people out into the woods every week to find Bigfoot. I would do that. And you know what? We would find him in like a week.

  Rob Huebel

  People, Woods, Host

  "Rob Huebel on meeting Paul McCartney and how he knows Bigfoot exists". "11 Questions" with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. January 29, 2016.

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• One of the first TV shows that I did was this prank show. And we did a prank where we took a Michael Jackson impersonator and I played his publisher.I was just really good at my job.We were just about to go onto the field to throw out the first pitch just two weeks after 9\11. It was a huge security breach, and we made a lot of cops look really dumb. Producers of the show thought it would be really funny and I didn't think about it because I was a young dumb comedian. So I got arrested and went to jail in the Bronx, and now I can never go back to Yankee Stadium.

  Rob Huebel

  Jobs, Thinking, Jail

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The fans [of Vampire diaries] that we have now are the people who will watch it any day of the week. So, my first instinct was a little bit of an ego tap, but the second I processed it, I was fine. The only weird thing will be maybe not having as many people live tweeting because they're actually out doing something more interesting on Friday night. I'm not going to sit at home, reading Twitter on Friday night.

  Caroline Dries

  Friday, Reading, Home

  Source: collider.com

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• Why even live? If that's your goal, if you're just clamoring your way to the top, I mean, why even have a life? Somebody was telling me the other day about the lives of investment bankers who work ninety hours a week and how it affects their patterns of consumption.

  Larkin Grimm

  Mean, Goal, Bankers

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When I was working at Omega, I took this Zen retreat, where you're quiet, you don't say anything for a week, and this guy there said, "You're going to be enlightened at the end of this week, that's my goal." I was the engineer, so I was recording everything at it was happening, but I was also participating, because I felt like it. So at the end of it, I did understand what enlightenment was, one-hundred percent.

  Larkin Grimm

  Goal, Guy, Say Anything

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm a huge fan of horror. I can't handle all the blood and gore, but that's what The Following was meant to be. It was meant to be a genre show, a little movie, a little scary genre film every week. That was our goal. That's what Kevin Bacon and I wanted to do.

  Kevin D. Williamson

  Blood, Goal, Scary

  Source: collider.com

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• The short version is that I started an internet diary a long, long time ago (six years!) because I was bored with my job. I figured I would write a few funny things a few times a week until I had enough material to do stand-up. After two or three weeks, I emailed it to some friends. They emailed it to other friends, and more people started reading. Eventually, I realized that stand-up was scary and it would be much easier to just keep writing this stuff at work.

  Jason Mulgrew

  Jobs, Reading, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I glean a few times a week, and it's all about the subject line. I look for the lyrical, "Billowy Red Scarf Girl" or the funny, "Hipster Chick Who Passed Gas," the unintentionally funny, "Looking for the Hot Girl in Pink Dress," ones that immediately suggest images, "Furry Arms Under a Yellow Umbrella," or the plain odd, "Seeking Girl Who Bit Me Twice..." I don't think I've ever abandoned one... the images usually arrive fully formed in my head as soon as I read the message, and I decide whether to draw it or not.

  Sophie Blackall

  Girl, Hipster, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Someone wrote to me asking me to illustrate a missed connection that "hasn't happened yet." This guy has seen the same girl waiting at a bus stop on his morning commute for weeks, and has been trying to find a way to approach her. He thought it would be fun to put up a Missed Connections poster [of my painting] on the corner where she waits and see what happens. It is kind of an intriguing idea but there's something a bit too manipulative about it for my liking. It's a fine line between being creative and stalking!

  Sophie Blackall

  Girl, Morning, Fun

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I tend to work most often from the method of ignoring any ritualistic writing for long periods of time, and then I'll spend three straight weeks writing for 12 hours a day and just going through the motions with my worldly business because the compulsion to write descends upon me like a kind of madness. I don't mean to be dramatic, but it feels that way when it strikes.

  Kevin Keck

  Writing, Mean, Long

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm probably a monster-of-the-week guy, and that comes back down to my old favorite show, which as a kid was always Scooby-Doo.

  Rhys Darby

  Kids, Guy, Monsters

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I keep a notebook of the things I need to get done in a day, week, month along with my overarching goals. Whenever I have a couple moments on set or on a plane, I work on ticking off my to-do list.

  Karlie Kloss

  Notebook, Couple, Goal

  "So This Is Karlie Kloss's Secret to Hyper Productivity". Interview with Kristina Rodulfo, www.elle.com. February 1, 2016.

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• Every two to three weeks, I was changing around my room. My room was made out of nothing, basically - a magazine, a little radio, a little bed - and I had the sensibility to put things together and match things in a certain way so that they were very special.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Two, Together, Special

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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