Minutes Quotes - Page 23

• It's interesting going between small parts and then bigger roles where you carry the film. If the writing is good, and if the people involved have integrity, then you'll do it, even if it's only five minutes on screen.

  Brendan Gleeson

  Integrity, Writing, People

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

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• The minute I ever start thinking about what a character would do is the minute I bring my ego into play. It's the minute I'm putting a judgment on something.

  Heather Matarazzo

  Character, Thinking, Play

  "Heather Matarazzo: ‘Welcome to the Dollhouse’ changed my life". pagesix.com. March 22, 2011.

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• There's no question that the minute I got elected, the storm clouds on the horizon were getting nearly directly overhead.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Clouds, Political

  Press Conference, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. May 11, 2001.

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• Listen up. Let me tell you something. A man ain’t a goddamn ax. Chopping, hacking, busting every goddamn minute of the day. Things get to him. Things he can’t chop down because they’re inside.

  Toni Morrison

  Men, Hacking, Beloved

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• All the books that were being published by African-American guys were saying 'screw whitey', or some variation of that. Not the scholars but the pop books. And the other thing they said was, 'You have to confront the oppressor.' I understand that. But you don't have to look at the world through his eyes. I'm not a stereotype; I'm not somebody else's version of who I am. And so when people said at that time black is beautiful – yeah? Of course. Who said it wasn't? So I was trying to say, in The Bluest Eye, wait a minute. Guys. There was a time when black wasn't beautiful. And you hurt.

  Toni Morrison

  Beautiful, Hurt, Book

  "Toni Morrison: 'I want to feel what I feel. Even if it's not happiness'". Interview With Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.

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• First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.

  Kristin Hunter

  Inspirational, Men, Two

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• A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.

  Francis Picabia

  Work, Gadgets, Lasts

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• I've never been more in love with anyone nearly half my age than I am today. I'd get married in a minute if I weren't still married to somebody else.

  Rod Stewart

  Birthday, Age, Half

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• In your 50s, time becomes precious and must not be wasted. Every minute is an excellent opportunity for a good nap. Happy 50th birthday!

  Bill Cosby

  Birthday, Opportunity, Naps

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• Now one does not think during creative work: any more than one thinks when driving a car. One has a background of years — learning — unlearning— success — failure — dreaming — thinking — experience — back it goes — farther back than one's ancestors: all this, — then the moment of creation, the focussing of all into the moment. So I can make — "without thought" — fifteen carefully-considered negatives one every fifteen minutes, — given material with as many possibilities.

  Edward Weston

  Dream, Eye, Thinking

  "Daybooks".

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• My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the subject for very long. These days I am much more comfortable with the fifteen minute relationship, than I am with a life long relationship.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Long, Childhood, Portraits

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• Ten minutes? That's the women. It's not for the men; not for the real game, mate.

  Lleyton Hewitt

  Real, Men, Games

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• The minute you think you know everything about tennis is the minute your game starts going down the tubes.

  Jimmy Connors

  Thinking, Games, Tennis

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• Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Work, Trying, Waste

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1871). “Atlantic Essays”, p.84

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• We live by revelations, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The minute we begin to think we know all the answers, we forget all the questions and we become like the pharisee who listed all his considerable virtues, and thanked God that he was not like other men.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Christian, Mean, Artist

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• One minute I'm robbing a dope house. Next minute I'm the youngest heavyweight champion of the world. I'm only 20, 19, with a lot of money. Who am I? What am I? I don't even know who I am. I'm just a dumb child who's being abused and robbed by lawyers. I'm just a dumb pugnacious fool. I'm just a fool who thinks he's someone. Then you tell me I should be responsible.

  Mike Tyson

  Children, Dope, Thinking

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• The factory workers say that it's impossible to do anything right. If you arrive five minutes early you are a saboteur; if you arrive five minutes late you are betraying socialism; if you arrive on time they say, Where did you get the watch?

  Len Deighton

  Watches, Saboteurs, Impossible

  Len Deighton (1964). “Funeral In Berlin”

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• For a quick lap at the Nrburgring, you've probably experienced more in seven minutes...than most people have experienced in all their life in the way of fear, in the way of tension, in the way of animosity towards machinery and to a racetrack.

  Jackie Stewart

  People, Lap, Way

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• We're looking forward to the tournament. We still believe that if we play with effort, we can beat anyone. We just can't have those 2-3-minute lapses.

  Rajon Rondo

  Believe, Play, Effort

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• Our awareness of time affects how we think and act. This is illustrated by the story about the clock in a restaurant window. It "had stopped a few minutes past noon. One day a friend asked the owner if he knew the clock was not running. 'Yes,' replied the restaurant man, 'but you would be surprised to know how many people look at that clock, think they are hungry, and come in to get something to eat."' If only there were some kind of divine timepiece that would arouse a spiritual hunger in people!

  James E. Faust

  Running, Spiritual, Past

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• You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And now they're coming for your Social Security money. They want your f**kin' retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street.

  George Carlin

  Running, Retirement, Jobs

  "Life Is Worth Losing". Documentary, Comedy, 2005.

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• Whether we athletes liked it or not, the 4-minute mile had become rather like an Everest: a challenge to the human spirit, it was a barrier that seemed to defy all attempts to break it, an irksome reminder that men's striving might be in vain.

  Roger Bannister

  Running, Athlete, Men

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• I once played a sheriff who thought he could do the job without a gun. I was dead in twenty-seven minutes of a thirty minute show.

  Ronald Reagan

  Peace, Jobs, War

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• An election goes on every minute of the business day across the counters of hundreds of thousands of stores and shops where the customers state their preferences and determine which company and which product shall be the leader today and which shall lead tomorrow.

  Bruce Barton

  Leadership, Business, Goes On

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• If I'm watching my son play soccer, that's what I'm doing. If I'm going to a school concert, that's what I'm doing. I turn the phone off. I actively tune into whatever I'm doing. I walk every evening with one of my sons and for that half an hour, 45 minutes, that's what I'm doing.

  Gail Kelly

  Soccer, Business, Women

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