Hours Quotes - Page 23

• This sweet, blessed, God-inspired place called America is a champion that has absorbed some blows. But while we bend, we don't break. This is no dark hour; this is the dawn before we remember who we are.

  Artur Davis

  Sweet, Blessed, Dark

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• I don't live that much with the character. I find it hard enough having to spend so many hours with the character during the day.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Character, Enough, Hard

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

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• Most people would rather sit on a plane for two hours than spend two days on a train, but there's nothing comparable to taking a relaxing rail journey with your family or good friends.

  John Paul DeJoria

  Good Friend, Journey, Two

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• I've played too many tennis hours.

  Lindsay Davenport

  Tennis

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• The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there.

  Anne Enright

  Writing, Long, Way

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• I am planning my one woman show. It will be a showcase of my life. It starts at the beginning and ends where I am today. It will have every single inch of my life - as much as you can get into an hour. I will be touring everywhere.

  Britt Ekland

  Today, Beginnings And Ends, Planning

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• I met people when we lived down in Raleigh who'd ask where I grew up, and I'd say about two hours west of Asheville, and they'd say they didn't know there was any North Carolina two hours west of Asheville. It was in many ways an isolated place.

  Charles Frazier

  Two, People, North Carolina

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• I did a show called 'Wonderland' a few years back, and I was fortunate enough to spend a full-on two weeks - I'm talking 13-15 hours a day - with the doctors and patients at Bellevue in New York. That served me well for 'Durham County.

  Michelle Forbes

  New York, Doctors, Talking

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• I think time management as a label encourages people to view each 24-hour period as a slot in which they should pack as much as possible.

  Tim Ferriss

  Thinking, Views, People

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• Often I feel that projects overwhelm us when we look at how many hours are involved until completion. But just getting started is usually not that difficult.

  Emily Giffin

  Looks, Projects, Difficult

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• And then as I got older, see, I think a lot of times with comics, your life kind of permeates your act. Whatever is happening in your life is what's going on on stage. So if you're angry in your life, then that's going to be on stage. If you're looking for the guy that's just going to make you laugh for an hour and forget about, that's me.

  Billy Gardell

  Thinking, Laughing, Guy

  "The Joy Behar Show", www.cnn.com. October 17, 2011.

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• Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite. The only true cinema verite would be what Andy Warhol did with his film about the Empire State Building - eight hours or so from one angle, and even then it's not really cinema verite, because you aren't actually there.

  Crispin Glover

  Eight, Would Be, Cinema

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

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• It's kind of the yin and yang that fascinate me. That for all the evil men do, there are also people who work obnoxiously long hours and sacrifice their personal lives because it is a calling - if they don't keep our streets safe, if they aren't there to advocate for and save beaten women and children and murder victims, who will?

  Lisa Gardner

  Children, Sacrifice, Men

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• Because the truth is, today's immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay, jobs that are just about impossible to fill.

  Luis Gutierrez

  Jobs, Hardest Job, Generations

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• I was born in Boston, but then I went down to Virginia. We spent a little time in Maryland, and then were in Virginia by the time I was seven. What struck me the most was that my mother thought that she had gone to the middle of nowhere, and we would still drive four hours for her to get her hair cut in Washington, D.C.

  Connie Britton

  Mother, Cutting, Hair

  "Connie Britton and Hayden Panettiere Talk NASHVILLE, Doing Their Own Singing, Mastering the Archetypes of Southern Women and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 1, 2012.

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• Now that I have a 16-month-old son, my weekend ritual has changed - but it's better than ever. We get up early and go for a walk on one of the hiking trails near my home in Los Angeles, then meet up with friends at a diner. There's nothing better than sipping coffee, eating scrambled eggs, and taking three hours to do it.

  Connie Britton

  Coffee, Home, Son

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

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• Sergio Leone’s “Once Upon a Time in America” is a brilliant movie. It’s about four hours long, but it’s so well done.

  Erik Estrada

  America, Long, Once Upon A Time

  "‘Chips’ Star Erik Estrada Preps For Dance Competition, Takes Our Pop Quiz". Interview with Erin Clements, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 8, 2011.

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• Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that.

  Larry Elder

  Father, Sleep, Kids

  "Radio talk show host Larry Elder". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 26, 2012.

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• The first time I landed in New York and got a cab to my hotel, I was completely struck by it: a feeling of life and chaos, 24 hours around the clock, just like in London. And whatever your problem is, it's insignificant. You're just a small part of something very big.

  America Ferrera

  New York, Feelings, London

  "This much I know: America Ferrera" by Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2011.

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• So before we end
  And then begin
  We'll drink a toast to how it's been
  A few more hours to be complete
  A few more nights on satin sheets
  A few more times that I can say,
  I've loved these days.

  Billy Joel

  Relationship, Night, Drink

  "Song: 'I've Loved These Days'". 1976.

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• Crackling Rosie make me smile. God, if it lasts for an hour that's alright, to set the world right. Find us a dream that don't ask no questions.

  Neil Diamond

  Dream, Alcohol, Drug

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• I love TV. I think I'd do a half-hour single-camera comedy.

  Lauren Graham

  Thinking, Cameras, Half

  "It's Here: Lauren Graham's Final Gilmore Girls Interview". Interview with Michael Ausiello, www.tvguide.com. May 7, 2007.

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• You know, sometimes if you work - if you do a lot of takes and you work long hours, for me, at least, there is a delirium that starts kicking in on the fifteenth hour, and that can help. Below the just thirteenth hour is where I have a concern, because everybody's so tired.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Tired, Long, Kicking

  "Zach Galifianakis Talks Working with Will Ferrell, His “Non-Sexual” Character, and Disliking Children on the Set of THE CAMPAIGN". Interview with Scott Wampler, collider.com. July 25, 2012.

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• I spend up to two hours a day on correspondence. Hearing from fans on the Internet and being able to directly respond to the fan base is exciting. You can cut out the middle man like the fan club... before a recent appearance in Tyler, Texas, I had fans reaching out on MySpace offering their lake house, Mavericks tickets. It was amazing.

  Josh Henderson

  Cutting, Men, Two

  "Ex-'Desperate Housewives' Star Josh Henderson Uses the Internet to Try to Save His Character" by Andrea Canning, abcnews.go.com. May 2, 2007.

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• I love the Bible. I read it every day. I spend 10 hours a week studying it. It has affected my life in profound ways. I am inspired when I read it.

  Adam Hamilton

  Profound, Way, Study

  "The Bible and Congressman Broun" by Adam Hamilton, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 11, 2012.

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