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• In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like teaching and computer programming.

  Iain Banks

  Jobs, Teaching, Mean

  Interview With Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2008.

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• Doing a sitcom is like doing a play - you rehearse for three or four days, and then you shoot what you rehearsed on Friday night in front of an audience. An hour-long drama is like shooting a movie. You're shooting 13-14 hour days. The endurance itself is different.

  James Belushi

  Friday, Drama, Night

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• One time I can stand fiddling in front of the mirror for an hour and another time I think: well hack, this is just the best it can get. Only if I have to go to work I really try to look fantastic.

  Jonathan Brandis

  Thinking, Mirrors, Trying

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• I trained 8 hours a day 7 seven days a week and I had 2 weeks off in a year.

  Julie Benz

  Years, Seven Days, Week

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• My apartment is the equivalent of one room in my Toronto home. Now I understand why New Yorkers are on the streets at all hours. People don't want to stay inside for fear they'll go crazy.

  Samantha Bee

  Crazy, Home, People

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

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• Pre-teens, teens and college students have unlimited access to the Internet - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Because of the repeated exposure they have to illegal Internet gambling sites, they fall victim by the thousands.

  Spencer Bachus

  Fall, College, Gambling

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• I love tour, but I don't like traveling at night or driving long hours. But I love touring. If my kids could be out there full time, I'd probably never go home.

  Travis Barker

  Home, Kids, Night

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• Almost every day I wrap up my two-hour live broadcast and I say to myself as I'm driving home, 'I wish I would've done this' or 'We really should have gone live longer with this segment.

  Wolf Blitzer

  Home, Should Have, Two

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• I never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach.

  Yancy Butler

  Beach, South Beach, South

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• I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher knew Greek and she offered to teach me on the lunch hour, so we did it in an informal way, and then I did it at university, and that was the main thing of my life.

  Anne Carson

  Teacher, School, Years

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• I tend to start at 9 o'clock in the morning and write until 3. Those are my best hours. They fit the other rhythms of the world. So I write for six hours, pretty much without any breaks.

  Justin Cronin

  Morning, Writing, World

  "Inside Justin Cronin's 'The Passage'". Interview with Christian Duchateau, www.cnn.com. May 15, 2011.

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• The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour.

  Lincoln Child

  Writing, Thinking, Funny Things

  "The Power of Two: Bonus Outtakes From WD Interview With Lincoln Child & Douglas Preston". Interview with Brian A. Klems, www.writersdigest.com. January 12, 2012.

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• In terms of work I've always had a Bad Attitude in that I won't work anywhere which requires me to work strict hours or follow a dress code. I don't know if that's an Asperger's thing or not, I think it's just being reasonable.

  Bram Cohen

  Attitude, Thinking, Dresses

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• So, once I get writing I really try and put five to eight hours a day in my room with a guitar to really try and come up with stuff that feels interesting enough to me to keep it.

  Catie Curtis

  Writing, Eight, Guitar

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• Do you need to train two hours a day? Probably not. The reason why my celebrity clients have to train two hours a day is because their endurance level is so strong. For Madonna to get results and keep results, it's like a professional athlete training - she has to push harder.

  Tracy Anderson

  Strong, Athlete, Two

  "Teeny, tiny body, anyone?". www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2009.

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• Madonna is an athlete; she has to be treated like a professional athlete. She doesn't work out for six hours a day, though, like some of the press says. She never works out for more than two hours a day, and then only when she has the time.

  Tracy Anderson

  Athlete, Two, Work Out

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• Whether you're earning $7 an hour or $700,000 a year, it's very important to protect your credit rating.

  Frank Abagnale

  Years, Important, Credit

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• I couldn't sustain myself if I skimped on food - I work 16-hour days, I need the energy, I can't afford to be stingy on what I eat.

  Freema Agyeman

  Energy, Needs, Stingy

  "Freema Agyeman: 'Life's going so well - I'm on a high'". www.mirror.co.uk. March 15, 2009.

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• My philosophy is if you're going to work 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for not a whole lot of money, why work for someone you're not gonna be loyal to?

  Stephanie Cutter

  Philosophy, Loyal, Seven Days

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• 24 hour broadcasts have to stretch limited material to fit 24 hours worth of space.

  Drew Curtis

  Space, Fit, Materials

  "Fark's Drew Curtis On How "News" Isn't News". Interview with Brian Montopoli, www.cbsnews.com. May 23, 2007.

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• It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels.

  Jon Corzine

  Years, Minimum Wage, Levels

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• I guess I am basically most comfortable when I'm alone. As a kid, I was very much a loner. I love long distance running and long distance biking. A director once pointed out that those are all very isolated exercises you do for hours at a time.

  Kevin Conroy

  Running, Distance, Kids

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• If I have a 12 or 14 hour workday, I am home the next. I cut out anything that is frivolous or doesn't need to be done.

  Marcia Cross

  Home, Cutting, Done

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• Gather all Leaves in the hour of that Planet that governs them.

  Nicholas Culpeper

  Planets

  Nicholas Culpeper, Parkins (1814). “The English Physician; Enlarged with Three Hundred and Sixty-nine Medicines Made of English Herbs: Not in Any Former Impression of Culpeper's British Herbal ... to which is Added The Family Physician ... and A Present for the Ladies”, p.350

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• I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.

  Robert Caro

  Writing, Long, Afternoon

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