Week Quotes - Page 26

• During the last century a seven-year-old boy, Harry Service, was lost from his family's home in Manitoba and lived for two weeks with a badger in its underground den. When he was found he said that the badger had brought him food several times.

  Sally Carrighar

  Home, Boys, Years

  Sally Carrighar (1965). “Wild Heritage”

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• At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn't collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.

  Lou Holtz

  Average, Balance, Twenties

  Lou Holtz (2009). “Wins, Losses, and Lessons: An Autobiography”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• The Universe is responding purely to the desire that you have right now, and if the desires that you have right now are pure and unencumbered by all of your excuses about why you're not where you want to be, your vibration would be pure and the Universe would yield to you easily and it would not take years or weeks or days. It would be instant manifestation.

  Esther Hicks

  Yield, Years, Desire

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• I bought me a spy-glass some weeks since. I buy but a few things, and those not till long after I begin to want them, so that when I do get them I am prepared to make a perfect use of them and extract their whole sweet.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sweet, Glasses, Long

  Henry David Thoreau, Steve Grant (2005). “Daily Observations: Thoreau on the Days of the Year”, p.29, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• Television is a great job for a writer in the way that movies used to be, way before my time. Back when writers in Hollywood were on staff or under contract at any given studio and you'd write movie scripts and then the movies would get made within a few weeks, such that you could be a working writer in the movie business back in the '30s and '40s and '50s and have a hand in writing five or six movies a year that actually got produced. The only thing remotely like that in the 21st century here in Hollywood is working in the TV business.

  Vince Gilligan

  Jobs, Writing, Hands

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm trapped inside of me and I don't go out at all. I go to bed at eight o'clock at night. I never go out during the week. I'm in psychotherapy four days a week, pretty heavy commitment to it.

  Howard Stern

  Commitment, Night, Eight

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• But most weeks I've gone through 12 books, maybe even 15 some weeks, depending on the length. So I go through my long form, and then my day begins. I usually try to do most of my writing earlier in the day because I sort of lump out later on.

  Maria Popova

  Book, Writing, Long

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• You want success on different levels. I wouldn't be honest if I said I don't look over there in the pop world and say, "Man, that's attractive" - Adele selling 100,000 albums a week. A week.

  Anthony Hamilton

  Men, Different, Albums

  "R&B artist Anthony Hamilton". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 14, 2012.

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• It will never be the case that people won't eat meat. I think it could conceivably be the case one day that people eat very small amounts of it. That it's a special thing, rather than reach for it because it's cheap or reach for it because it's convenient, that it becomes something festive or something celebratory, once a week, and that could actually be achieved on small farms if we really changed our habits.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Thinking, People, One Day

  "Extremely Dead and Incredibly Gross". Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. November 25, 2009.

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• I see a pretty bright line between analysis and opinion. And so, to that end, my goal on Friday nights is to try to assemble the smartest reporters who are available to me that week who have been involved in covering the news.

  Gwen Ifill

  Friday, Night, Goal

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• You got to have dedicated people, a lot of dedicated folk. There's only so much one person can do. We really have to find people in our community that can give an hour a week. I was recruited because I started gangbanging at 12. I understand the structure; I understand the people inside.

  Malik Yusef

  People, Giving, Community

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• To keep doing this job [draw political cartoons] week after week, I think you have to want to change the world, while understanding that you can't. You have to hold both of those contradictory ideas simultaneously.

  Tom Tomorrow

  Jobs, Thinking, Ideas

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• When I closed in "King Lear" I went into a period of depression for about three weeks, and every actor I've talked to who's ever played a major, major Shakespeare role has done this.

  Frank Langella

  Kings, Three, Roles

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I rarely exercise at all, except I have some hand weights that I'll lift idly while I'm watching TV. I did do some push-ups last week and somehow hurt my shoulder.

  Nick Antosca

  Hurt, Exercise, Hands

  Interview with Shane Jones, logger.believermag.com. September 16, 2013.

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• You have to have a big vision and take very small steps to get there. You have to be humble as you execute but visionary and gigantic in terms of your aspiration. In the internet industry it's not about grand innovation, it's about a lot of little innovations: every day, every week, every month, making something a little bit better.

  Jason Calacanis

  Humble, Innovation, Vision

  "Calacanis calls time on the internet 'me-toos'". Interview with Zoe Margolis, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2008.

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• This week the Obama administration warned China to remove its secret agents from the U.S. Then in the middle of Obama's announcement a plant behind him got up and walked away.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Secret, Agents, Administration

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• When I left home at sixteen I bought a small rug. It was my roll-up world. Whatever room, whatever temporary place I had, I unrolled the rug. It was a map of myself. Invisible to others, but held in the rug, were all the places I had stayed - for a few weeks, for a few months. On the first night anywhere new I liked to lie in bed and look at the rug to remind myself that I had what I needed even though what I had was so little. Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won’t help you.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, Home, Night

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• You should always change at least three times a day during Fashion Week.

  Selita Ebanks

  Fashion, Three, Should

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• Sometimes just the tiniest allocation of time spent with a friend, imprints on your mind and gives you something to smile about for the rest of the week, month, or your life!

  Marcia Lynn McClure

  Giving, Mind, Months

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• I was inspired by a question that kept repeating itself in my mind: Could I really change my life? I'd spent so many days, weeks, months, and years thinking about doing things with my life, and now I wanted to know, if I committed to a goal and woke up every single day working hard at it, could I change my life?

  LIZ

  Thinking, Years, Goal

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• Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had nothing to say that could possibly qualify. So I wrote a romance instead.

  Jasmine Cresswell

  Writing, Romance, Great American

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• It's not easy to play your best for 40 weeks. It happens every year, I don't play well in Rome or Hamburg -- I don't know why -- but then I play well after that.

  Carlos Moya

  Rome, Years, Play

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• When you start working on a series, it's almost too much work. It's like a movie a week.

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Too Much, Working It, Series

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

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• I actually had a movie green lit at Disney the same week 'Burlesque' was green lit - a movie for Disney called 'Mash-Up', about a high school marching band.

  Steve Antin

  School, Mash Up, Band

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

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• One week, you can have a real heavy romance 'Chuck' episode, and the next week it can be some kind of murdery mystery. It's not like doing a procedural.

  Robert Duncan McNeill

  Real, Next Week, Romance

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