Seconds Quotes - Page 33

• I'm nervous ahead of every gig. I feel like running away three seconds before I'm due on stage. But I'm all right as soon as I get the mic in my hand.

  Ringo Starr

  Running, Hands, Three

  "Ringo Starr says he still gets stage fright" by Martin Fricker, www.mirror.co.uk. July 9, 2011.

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• It's a gamble you take, the risk of alienating an audience. But there's a theory - sometimes it's better to confuse them for five minutes than let them get ahead of you for 10 seconds.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Risk, Sometimes, Minutes

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• In Bangladesh a prostitute normally wouldn't even undress for a man. He pays, she pulls up her sari, and he's done in 20 seconds.

  Michael Glawogger

  Men, Done, Sari

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Everyone loves the idea of internet fast enough that HD movies download in seconds, but if only the telecoms or their partners get to use the high speeds, it's not the internet: It's glorified cable.

  Damian Kulash

  Ideas, Use, Internet

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When you are interviewing someone, you have a chance to follow up, to press, to dig in. In a debate there's 30 seconds for the other guy, too. And the goal is to get them to engage with each other, not to engage you necessarily.

  Gwen Ifill

  Goal, Guy, Chance

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Israel is a long way from facing a threat to its very existence. We are too strong, both economically and militarily, for that. If anything threatens Israel, it is this form of paranoid thought that makes us think: "Oh God, they're going to kill us in two seconds! What should we do?"

  Yair Lapid

  Strong, Thinking, Israel

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• Gravity disappears again, and we rise up off the floor like spooks from a grave. It's like the Rapture in here every thirty seconds.

  Mary Roach

  Disappear, Thirty, Graves

  Mary Roach (2011). “Packing for Mars”, p.58, Oneworld Publications

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• I wasn't a spy. I'd have been spotted in five seconds. Yes, I was in intelligence, but that covered a multitude of things.

  Christopher Lee

  Spy, Multitudes, Covered

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• Consider the oddity of those drug commercials on television. Fifteen seconds of the purported therapeutic effort, followed by about 45 seconds of a rapidly muttered list of horrific possible side effects. When the ad is over, I can't remember a thing about what the pill is supposed to do, except perhaps cause nausea, liver damage, projectile vomiting, a nasty rash, a four-hour erection, and sudden death. Sudden death is my favorite because there is something comical about it being a side effect. What exactly is the main effect in that case? Relief from abdominal bloating?

  Charles Krauthammer

  Exactly Is, Oddities, Effort

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• The first ads for medical marijuana have started airing on television in California. The ads are quite expensive. It costs a lot of money to buy 30 seconds during 'Spongebob Squarepants.'

  Craig Ferguson

  Marijuana, California, Firsts

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• Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has to be delivered in a matter of seconds on the stage.

  Terry Pratchett

  Character, Voice, Pages

  Terry Pratchett (2014). “A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction”, p.107, Random House

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• Entertainment has seduced us into believing that we have a chance to live the life they live in the movies. Even the people in the movies don't live that life. It doesn't take 135 minutes to make a life, it takes almost a century. Everything doesn't depend on what happens in the next ninety seconds. Ever.

  Seth Godin

  Believe, Live Life, People

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• Six Seconds should be Rick Mofina's breakout thriller. It moves like a tornado.

  James Patterson

  Moving, Tornadoes, Six

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• ••When I walk across my living room from my chimney to my window, it takes me 10 seconds, but for a bird it takes one second, and for oxygen zero seconds!

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Zero, Oxygen, Bird

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• What we did is we went on those parabolic flights, which people like to call the vomit comet. Basically, the plane throws you up into the air and catches you. And for about 30 seconds, you feel like there's no gravity. So what we did was we did a series of eight of those in a row. And every time we landed, we stayed perfectly still for the five minutes in between while the plane is setting up so that we could just continue the routine where we had left off. So the final video you see is all one take. And we seem to be weightless the entire time.

  Damian Kulash

  Eight, Air, People

  "OK Go Drops New Zero-Gravity Video". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. February 14, 2016.

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• How can [actors] learn their lines and be honest in front of 30 people and all the lights? It makes me cry sometimes. I can't understand how they can be joking with me 30 seconds before, and 40 seconds later they're giving me all this incredible feeling.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Light, People, Giving

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• People want everything quick and now. We live in the age of social media and hyper digital. Tweets are published in less than a second, Safari pages load in less than three seconds.

  Aeriel Miranda

  Media, People, Age

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• It's easy to say that reducing a song to 90 seconds on "American Idol" strips off so many things, and how it's the 21st century and music doesn't mean the same things to people and that it's so disposable.

  Alan Light

  Song, Mean, Idols

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was going to tweet every three seconds about every thought that went through my mind, and I did that for a few days. It was really fun, and funny to me.

  Phil Elvrum

  Fun, Mind, Three

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Because anybody can find their fan base through the Internet, it opens opportunities up for talented people along with people like Rebecca Black. It makes you more choosy and also more receptive to absorb anything for 15 seconds - let alone 15 minutes - to decide what you think about it.

  Alan Palomo

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I like to go in the corner, in the quiet, 'cause I got to hear my thoughts. If I hear the beat for, like, five seconds, I basically got the tempo, and I don't need to hear it no more. I just focus and write.

  Dreezy

  Writing, Focus, Causes

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• People are going to be way more patient listening to what I have to say now. I don't have five seconds to get their attention, I have five minutes. That's a huge window.

  Zachary Cole Smith

  People, Listening, Attention

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• No matter who the character is and how big their role, that each person in the story is a human being and deserves respect. Even if they're in the story for ten seconds, I didn't want you to just see them as this entity passing through that's serving all of the other people.

  Clive Owen

  Character, People, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• When seconds count, the cops are just minutes away.

  Clint Smith

  Gun, Cop, Minutes

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• Sometimes, the decisions have to be taken in minutes, even seconds, and there would be no time to make the right decision. We understood that this could have ended in catastrophe.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Taken, Decision, Would Be

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. November 12, 2003.

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