Hours Quotes - Page 16

• I don't listen to anybody's full record anymore and when I did, I don't think I listened to the whole record. I'm sorry, and I don't care who it is, if it's the Beatles, I can't listen to an hour and a half of anybody straight so I guess that's just my personal preference.

  Tommy Lee

  Sorry, Thinking, Records

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• About once a year, I do these long-distance relays with some friends of mine, and it takes about 27 or 28 hours to complete it.

  Anson Mount

  Distance, Years, Long

  "Q&A – Anson Mount (Cullen Bohannon)". AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com. December 2012.

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• I work a lot in the summers. My family goes to Maine, where we have a little house. My wife's a writer, too, and we can write for six hours a day and then play with the kids.

  Ben Marcus

  Summer, Writing, Kids

  "Ben Marcus: 'Writing has to earn people's interest'". Interview with Killian Fox, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2012.

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• I really like playing other people. There is no other feeling like it, to have a different voice come out of you and to have a different life for a couple of hours. I like being myself. But maybe it's like you ride a bike every day and someone says, 'For two hours tonight do you want to ride this Harley?' You'd be like, 'OK yeah!

  Cristin Milioti

  Couple, Two, Voice

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• I have spent too long training myself to speak with an American accent, it's ingrained. I spend 16 hours a day on set speaking with an American accent. Now, when I try to speak with an Aussie accent, I just sound like a caricature of myself.

  Poppy Montgomery

  Long, Training, Trying

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• I like to call it nighttime brain: the way your mind seems to function on a different frequency than it does during daylight hours - which can be good or bad but also can lead to unexpected epiphanies or experiences that wouldn't be the same at any other time of day.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Brain, Mind, Doe

  "Magic Moments in Life" by Erin Morgenstern, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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• It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.

  Gavin MacLeod

  Should Have, People, Priorities

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• In L.A., I don't really want to go out because traffic sucks so bad. I'm sorry, I'm not going to spend five hours a day in my car, so you have to choose where you live very carefully.

  Holly Madison

  Sorry, Car, Where You Live

  "Holly Madison talks family, career and casting decisions as she ends ‘Peepshow’ run". Interview with John Katsilometes, lasvegassun.com. October 23, 2012.

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• Normally I sleep for 9, 10 hours a night.

  Andy Murray

  Sleep, Night

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

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• When I go to the movies, one of my strongest desires is to be shown something new. I want to go to new places, meet new people, have new experiences. When I see Hollywood formulas mindlessly repeated, a little something dies inside of me: I have lost two hours to boors who insist on telling me stories I have heard before.

  Roger Ebert

  New Experiences, Two, People

  Roger Ebert (2009). “Roger Ebert's Four Star Reviews--1967-2007”, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Is there anything more useless than a crouton? I sometimes wake up in the small hours with a start and realise that what's roused me is an overpowering urge to visit violence on its originator.

  Will Self

  Wake Up, Useless, Violence

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• The human species is often amazingly inventive and industrious but at the same time profoundly lazy. It's very clear that we humans don't like to work. This aversion to work is so extreme - and our ingenuity so acute - that we're eager to devote countless hours designing and building devices that might shave a few minutes off our workday

  Charles Petzold

  Design, Lazy, Aversion

  Charles Petzold (2000). “Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software”, p.299, Microsoft Press

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• I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me.

  Lars von Trier

  Three, Kill Me, Persons

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• I'd like to think life has improved since 1850, despite the long hours we all seem to spend slaving over hot computers, but the psychological journeys remain the same - the search for love, identity, a meaningful place in the world.

  Meg Rosoff

  Meaningful, Thinking, Journey

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• Rewards can deliver a short-term boost—just as a jolt of caffeine can keep you cranking for a few more hours. But the effect wears off—and, worse, can reduce a person’s longer-term motivation to continue the project.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Motivation, Rewards, Projects

  Daniel H. Pink (2010). “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”, p.8, Canongate Books

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• If I sleep for more than half an hour, I get horrible dreams in which I'm firing a gun and helicopters are coming down.

  Emmanuel Jal

  Dream, Sleep, Gun

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• Some men can love forever, some for six years, some for six months, and others for six hours.

  Michael Bassey

  Men, Years, Forever

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• It’s a job. It’s not a hobby. You don’t write the way you build a model airplane. You have to sit down and work, to schedule your time and stick to it. Even if it’s just for an hour or so each day, you have to get a babysitter and make the time. If you’re going to make writing succeed you have to approach it as a job.

  Rosellen Brown

  Jobs, Writing, Airplane

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• You have to stand every day three or four hours of visitors. Nine-tenths of them want something they ought not to have. If you keep dead-still they will run down in three or four minutes. If you even cough or smile they will start up all over again.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Running, Want Something, Three

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century”, Images from the Past Incorporated

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• What really shocks me, what I can honestly sit back and ponder for hours in a lot of cases is just, 'Why would you film yourself doing that? Who put you up to that? What are you getting out of that?

  Ray William Johnson

  Film, Cases, Shock

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I get between nine and ten hours of sleep. Go to bed at 8:30 and get up at 6:00 or 6:30 if I oversleep.

  Philip Johnson

  Sleep, Bed, Nine

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• It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted the pale new growth on an evergreen, the sheen of the limestone on Fifth Avenue, the colour of our kids’ eyes, the way the melody in a symphony rises and falls and disappears and rises again. It is so easy to exist instead of live. Unless you know there is a clock ticking.

  Anna Quindlen

  Fall, Kids, Eye

  Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

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• In your cells right now, an enzyme is making a copy of your dna in less than two hours, right in the nucleus.

  Hugh Martin

  Dna, Cells, Two

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• Each spine was an encapsulated memory, each book represented hours, days of pleasure, of immersion into words.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Memories, Book, Pleasure

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• I know the rewards of focusing on innovation and outcomes as opposed to hours. I've been fortunate to work with brilliant entrepreneurs who didn't have years of experience and yet they changed the world.

  Maynard Webb

  Years, Entrepreneur, Innovation

  "Meritocracy: Overcoming the Fear Factor" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2010.

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