Hours Quotes - Page 8

• You know what I would really like to do? I'd like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it.

  Sharon Gless

  Drama, Half, Comedy

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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 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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• My father always said, 'If you love what you do, you won't mind slogging through it for several hours a day.

  Alexandra Guarnaschelli

  Father, Mind, Said

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• Broadcasters have a responsibility to serve the public interest and protect Americans from objectionable content, particularly during the hours when children are likely to be watching.

  Bart Gordon

  Children, Responsibility, Protect

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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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• You know, I read the papers and I watch the news a lot. I watch 'Dateline' and '48 Hours'. And I think we have a tendency to become terrified of one another, thinking that there is a serial killer that is on either side of you.

  Johnny Galecki

  Thinking, Serial Killer, Killers

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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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• Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy.

  Lynn Abbey

  Creating, Half, Stories

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• At school, there was an annual school disco and I'd be standing in my bedroom wondering what to wear for hours on end. Eventually I'd arrive at a decision that was just the most ridiculous costume you could have ever devised - I think it was probably knitted Christmas jumpers on top of buttoned-up white shirts.

  Guy Berryman

  School, Thinking, White

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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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• One of the things I like about performing on the stage is that it is a kind of meditative experience. Time does stand still. You have no concept or feeling of the passing of two or three hours' time. It's all kind of one present moment, which is a kind of a description of meditation.

  Michael Emerson

  Two, Meditation, Feelings

  "Actor Michael Emerson". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 16, 2012.

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• Growing up in England, you're sort of spoiled, in a way. You sort of take it for granted that within a half-hour's drive, you could be walking around a stately home from the 1700s. It's not very hard to do - in California, you've got to take a flight!

  Rupert Friend

  Growing Up, Home, California

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

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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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• 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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• I want to be a writer. I do not want to spend 40 hours a week handling e-mails, formatting covers, finding editors, etc.

  Amanda Hocking

  Editors, Want, Mail

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• The more anxious, isolated and time-deprived we are, the more likely we are to turn to paid personal services. To finance these extra services, we work longer hours. This leaves less time to spend with family, friends and neighbors; we become less likely to call on them for help, and they on us.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Helping, Finance, Neighbor

  "The Outsourced Life" by Arlie Russell Hochschild, www.nytimes.com. May 5, 2012.

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• When I have the time at home, I'll practice three or four hours a day. I have to. And I'm a late starter; I started at age 17 and at age 51 I'm still learning.

  Bruce Hornsby

  Home, Practice, Age

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• I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Teaching, Writing, Everyday

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• There's a rumor that there may be an attempt at organizing a possible script for a series on my life, which, when you look at my police record, you'd have to have more than one hour to tell the story.

  Merle Haggard

  Police, Rumor, Looks

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• I do a one-hour workout called Drenched, a cardio-boxing fitness routine, Monday through Friday. There are usually between twenty-five and fifty people there - everyone from stay-at-home moms and professional martial artists to teenagers and seniors. They play great dance music. When I can, I take two classes back-to-back.

  Carrie Ann Inaba

  Senior, Mom, Friday

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• My favorite day was Monday, September the 25th, 2006. New Orleans, Louisiana, site of the Superdome. I watched our people who had suffered so grievously through Hurricane Katrina fill a stadium hours before a game and stay hours after the game.

  Michael Irvin

  Monday, Games, New Orleans

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