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“Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?”

People Littles Two War Kids Three Bits Parent Memories Poor Wife Thousand Little Bit Died Soldier Zero Entitled Poor People Ground Zero

Author:Carl Paladino

“I've had two or three injuries when with England and it's been a bit bizarre.”

Two Three Bits England Injury Bizarre

Author:Jamie Redknapp

“One or two of my friends set longevity records for people who had AIDS. What they did, incredibly hard though it was, was to practice meditation, positive thinking and they worked out physically quite a bit.”

People Thinking Two Hard Bits Practice Records Meditation Positive Thinking Health Buddhism My Friends Aids Longevity Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“My mom had an audition for a commercial when I was about two and a half, and I ran in crying and interrupted her. They thought I was cute so they offered me a commercial role. My mom was skeptical and a bit nervous about the child actor thing, but I was extremely bossy and convinced them I wanted to try it.”

Trying Children Two Wanted Actors Bits Half Roles Cry Mom My Mom Convinced Nervous Ran Cute Auditions Skeptical Interrupted Bossy Child Actors

Author:Mae Whitman

“If I get two lines in the script, I somehow turn it into 20. I've got a bit of a bad habit of doing that, of just embellishing my little moment.”

Ifs Littles Two Moments Turns Bits Lines Habit Scripts Bad Habits Little Moments

Author:Rebel Wilson

“There are two sides to being pigeonholed. There's, 'Oh, no, I'm going to be Chandler for the rest of my life,' but there's also the fact that getting to play Chandler opened up doors to me. It's now my job to find things that shake it up a little bit.”

Littles Two Play Facts Jobs Bits Sides Doors Little Bit Shakes Two Sides Shake It Up

Author:Matthew Perry

“Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend two and a bit hours cooking bolognaise, remembering a whole major work by David Hare and speaking it at the correct moment between chopping carrots and stirring the onions in front of an audience - the normal human response is 'Please, can I go to the airport?'”

“By diligence and patience, the mouse bit in two the cable.”

Two Bits Patience Mice Cables Diligence Poor Richard

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects.”

I Can Two Film Bits Effects Harmony Patterns Drawing Exposing

Author:Norman McLaren

“With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn't it? There will be painting again, absolutely!”

Two War Together Film Bits Painting Photography Shots Photographer Photograph Iraq Newspapers Experts Chemicals Editing Iraq War Crumbling

Author:David Hockney

“My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band and was a bit nerdy.”

World Two School Bits Community Band Girlfriend Ballet My Girlfriend Saxophone Nerdy Two Sisters Marching Band

Author:Jennifer Garner

“I have done all the work I usually do and a little bit more, so hopefully that will produce results in at least one of the last two Tests.”

Littles Two Done Lasts Bits Results Produce Little Bit Tests Hopefully

Author:Adam Gilchrist

“I'm not a long movie person. I have a very short attention span. If you give me a 90-minute movie, that's perfect. When it gets to be two hours, that's a little bit too long for me.”

Ifs Giving Littles Persons Long Two Bits Hours Perfect Attention Minutes Little Bit Give Me Attention Span Short Attention Spans

Author:Courteney Cox

“The ones [comedies] that I always liked, whether it's Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, or Fast Times of Ridgemont High, they were all about two hours, or a little bit over two hours. With that extra 15 or 20 minutes, you can get to real character and you're not just stuck in plot.”

Littles Two Real Character Bits Term Hours Comedy Minutes Little Bit News Stuck Extras Plot Endearment Real Character Terms Of Endearment Fast Times

Author:Judd Apatow

“"I smell fennel," Launcelot said. "That reminds me, I should tell you I have discovered a specific for maims. You take salt, good-quality river mud, and bee urine, and slather it on the maim and hold it there for two days. Works like a charm. Gathering the bee urine is a bit of a bore."”

Should Said Two Bits Quality Rivers Smell Charm Salt Bees Bores Mud Gathering Two Days Good Quality

Author:Donald Barthelme

“I realized it might be possible to do such a thing, run for money, trot for wages on piece work at a bob a puff rising bit by bit to a guinea a gasp and retiring through old age at thirty-two because of lace-curtain lungs, a football heart, and legs like varicose beanstalks.”

Heart Two Might Running Age Bits Pieces Football Legs I Realized Old Age Thirty Rising Retiring Bob Wages Curtains Lungs Lace Puff Guinea

Book:New and Collected Stories

Source: New and Collected Stories

“From '41 to '51I was my folk's contrary son;I bit my father's hand right throughAnd broke my mother's heart in two.”

Heart Two Hands Mother Father Bits Son Folks Contrary Broke

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Fiction -- at least for me -- requires long, relatively uninterrupted time stretches in which to bring it to fruition. I've never been a two-hour-in-the-morning writer, who could put in another six hours on Sunday afternoon. For me, a novel requires weeks of living in a largely mental and wholly internal landscape. Everything else has to be relegated to the odd hour here, the bit of time there. Sadly, however, uninterrupted time blocks are not what life doles out today to any of us with regularity.”

Long Two Today Bits Hours Fiction Morning Novel Week Six Block Landscape Odd Internals Sunday Afternoon Regularity Fruition Sunday Afternoons

Book:Conversations with Samuel R. Delany

Source: Conversations with Samuel R. Delany

“There's that lovely thing for the first month or two of writing a new book: OK, I don't know what that character's going to do, but we'll find out later. After about three or four months you come to that bit where you've got to put some plot in before it's too late, and you have to go back and start inserting plot, and, ooh, I've left out the literature, OK, lets put some in.”

Knows Writing Firsts Two Book Character Three Literature Left Bits Four Months Late Lovely Too Late Plot Left Out New Books Lovely Things Before It's Too Late

Author:Terry Pratchett

“It is only when we speak what is right that we stand a chance at night of being blown to bits in our homes. Can we call this a free country, when I am afraid to go to sleep in my own home in Mississippi?... I might not live two hours after I get back home, but I want to be a part of setting the Negro free in Mississippi.”

Want Two Country Home Might Night Speak Bits Hours Chance My Own Sleep Setting Settings Get Back Going To Sleep Back Home Mississippi Free Country

Author:Fannie Lou Hamer

“Major cities are divided into two parts; the bits that are in the guidebook and the bits that aren't. If you don't take a guidebook, you'll see a different city.”

Ifs Two Different Bits Cities Majors Divided

Author:Guy Browning

“I think a book that is over 400 pages should be split in two. I don't know that there's anything that interesting that can go on for 700 pages. I think that is a little bit indulgent.”

Thinking Knows Should Littles Two Book Bits Interesting Goes On Little Bit Pages Splits

Author:Chris Abani

“Mitt Romney, two-time Republican presidential hopeful, boxed former heavyweight champion of the world Evander Holyfield for charity. It was a horrible moment when Romney bit off Holyfield's other ear.”

World Two Moments Bits Republican Ears Charity Horrible Former Presidential Champion Hopeful Romney Heavyweights

Author:David Letterman

“If I get two strikes, I'll go to a pitch maybe that will help induce that a little bit.”

Ifs Littles Two Helping Bits Sports Little Bit Strikes

Author:Roger Clemens

“Well, maybe there are one or two things about the double jeopardy concept that are overlooked. I could be charged with violating my probation. I could be charged for illegal possession of a firearm or violating his civil rights if I did kill him. But when you're making a movie, there's only so much that you can do. I know that some people, while thoroughly enjoying it, have said, It's a little bit implausible. But it's such great fun.”

People Ifs Knows Wells Littles Said Two Fun Bits Enjoy Can Do Rights Little Bit Concepts Possession Civil Rights Two Things Illegal Firearms Overlooked Jeopardy Probation

Author:Ashley Judd

“Kate Winslet also happens to be one of my close friends who I goof off with like crazy. It was a reunion of two people who, I guess, are a little bit older, a tiny bit wiser but ultimately were the same as they were when they were 21.”

People Littles Two Happens Bits Crazy Little Bit Tiny Wiser Kate Reunion Close Friends Goofs

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“Sandwich every bit of criticism between two heavy layers of praise.”

Two Bits Leadership Teacher Teaching Criticism Praise Layers Sandwiches Criticism And Praise

Author:Mary Kay Ash

“I wrote and directed a movie called Two-Bit Waltz.”

Two Bits Waltz Two Bit

Author:Clara Mamet

“Filming in India was one big adventure. For 'The Cheetah Girls', we were in Mumbai for two weeks, then Rajasthan for six weeks. Every day after shooting, I would hop into a rickshaw and start exploring the city. I even learned a bit of Hindi. It's such an amazing place to visit.”

Two Bigs Girl Bits Cities Week Adventure Six India Shooting Hops Exploring Two Weeks Hindi Mumbai Cheetahs Amazing Places Rickshaw

Author:Michael Steger

“Advice ... is a habit-forming drug. You give a dear friend a bit of advice today, and next week you find yourself advising two or three friends, and the week after, a dozen, and the week following, crowds!”

Giving Two Today Three Next Bits Week Advice Habit Drug Dear Crowds Following Finding Yourself Dozen Next Week Dear Friend Following The Crowd Three Friends

Book:The Rest of My Life

Source: The Rest of My Life

“There are only a few bits of absolute knowledge in the world, people can learn only one or two fundamental facts about each other, the rest is decoration and prejudice.”

People World Two Facts Bits Knowledge Prejudice Absolutes Fundamentals Decoration

Book:Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings

Source: Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings

“Somehow I felt that if Fox Talbot had had more time and more drawing talent, he would have filled in the interval between his two drawings and made a complete panorama. Now, 163 years later, I was able to use his great invention to elaborate on his youthful dream of capturing and fixing the fleeting image. In doing so, I may also have added another little bit to the soul of this extraordinary place.”

Source: Permutations on the picturesque

“If you just don't have any idea what you want to do, the worst thing you can do is go to law school. If you can go to college, maybe it's fine to have four years of fun and learn a little bit, that's okay, but if you have to go two hundred thousand dollars in debt, that's not something I would recommend.”

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Author:Tucker Max

“Driving around with a receding hairline and two kids in a Prius feels a bit boring for me.”

Feels Two Kids Bits Boring Driving Prius

Author:Greg Fitzsimmons

“During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me - after I read them some poems by writers in Iraq - 'You know, we never thought about there being children in Iraq before.' And I thought, 'Well those poems did their job, because now they'll think about everything a little bit differently.'”

Thinking Knows Wells Children Littles Two War Jobs Remember Girl Bits Little Bit Thirds Iraq Grades Gulf War Third Grade

Author:Naomi Shihab Nye

“My friend Kathy is the only person who'll be halfway honest with me. 'Did you ever see a cowboy film, where someone has been caught by the Indians and tied between two wild stallions, each pulling in opposite directions?' she asked.I nodded mutely.'That's a bit what giving birth is like.”

Giving Persons Has Beens Two Film Bits Honest Birth My Friends Opposites Caught Tied Pulling Cowboy Halfway Giving Birth Stallions

Book:Under the Duvet: Shoes, Reviews, Having the Blues, Builders, Babies, Families and Other Calamities

Source: Under the Duvet: Shoes, Reviews, Having the Blues, Builders, Babies, Families and Other Calamities

“Reagan "has conducted an arms race on earth," boomed Mondale. A race generally implies two parties. The Soviets contributed a little bit to this problem, if Mondale had not noticed.”

Ifs Littles Two Problem Earth Bits Party Race Arms Little Bit American Politics Arms Race

Author:Hugh Sidey

“I've been moving a little to the music while I worked ...and then I realize I am actually dancing. It feels wonderful, though I can feel how stiff my muscles are, how rigidly I've been holding myself...Mostly I've been moving cautiously, numbly, steeled because I know, at any moment, I may be ambushed by overwhelming grief. You never know when it's coming, the word or gesture or bit of memory that dissolved you entirely...It happens every day at first, then not for a day or two, then there's a week when grief washes in every morning, every afternoon.”

Knows Feels Firsts May Littles I Can Two Moments Happens Moving Bits Realizing Memories Grief Morning Wonderful Week Dancing Muscles Overwhelming Afternoon Gestures Every Morning

Author:Mark Doty

“As James Surowiecki noted in a New Yorker article, given a choice between developing antibiotics that people will take every day for two weeks and antidepressants that people will take every day for ever, drug companies not surprisingly opt for the latter. Although a few antibiotics have been toughened up a bit, the pharmaceutical industry hasn't given us an entirely new antibiotic since the 1970s.”

“Like a tree, a woman can't carry the weight of two seasons simultaneously. In the violent struggle of trying, she'll miss every bit of joy each season promises to bring.”

Trying Two Joy Bits Struggle Tree Missing Promise Seasons Weight Violent

Author:Lysa TerKeurst

“I feel humor is important for those two reasons: that it is a little bit of refreshment like music, and that women have told me over the years that it is very, very important to them.”

Feels Years Littles Two Important Reason Bits Little Bit Refreshments

Author:Woody Allen

“Four turnovers. Two assists. I told him he'd have the game ball if he had taken care of the ball a little bit better.”

Ifs Littles Two Care Games Bits Taken Four Little Bit Balls Turnover

Author:Bo Ryan

“I make myself lie down every afternoon; otherwise I'll be too exhausted by the night-time. If I can't nap, I'll watch a little bit of TV and just relax for two or three hours.”

Ifs Littles I Can Two Lying Night Three Bits Hours Watches Tvs Little Bit Relax Afternoon Exhausted Naps Night Time

Author:China Machado

“I use two million Twitter followers as a tool. The reason I have Twitter is so people can get to know me as a different person other than Dwight. I just realized all of the sudden like everything thinks I'm Dwight. They think that I'm Dwight from the office and that I'm this kind of annoying, difficult, nerdy, creepy guy and they don't know Rainn Wilson - although I'm a little bit nerdy, annoying and creepy. I'm not as much as Dwight Schrute.”

“I love my situation as a spectator. The actors are only a little bit ahead of the audience. The audience discovers the episode when it's screened, but we actors only discover the episode when we get the script, two weeks ahead of shooting. Until then, we know nothing of the evolution of our characters.”

Knows Littles Two Character Actors Bits Situation Audience Week Evolution Little Bit Scripts Shooting Episodes Spectators Two Weeks

Author:Richard Sammel

“I never thought anything was strange in Puerto Rico other than the big mosquitos; because I was born there, nothing was really foreign to me. I think what I saw strange coming to L.A. was that a lot of people are a little bit two-faced. In Puerto Rico, you don't get that.”

People Thinking Littles Two Bigs Bits Born Saws Strange Little Bit Puerto Rico Rico

Author:Joyce Giraud

“I remember when I was being told about Watergate, and I thought, "Oh, America is not what I think America is." But America is what I think it is. It's just that it's two bits of it, and I don't go with the Republican bit of it. I go more with the Democratic bit.”

Thinking Two America Remember Bits Republican Democratic Remember When Watergate Two Bit

Author:Eddie Izzard

“Theatre is organic, film is not. Theatre you come every day and you work with a group of people and you're are all up for it and you all get to do the whole thing every night, be it two hours or three hours. In film you work in two or three minute bits and it's never in chronological order and then someone takes that away and makes it look like it all happened, or that you gave that performance.”

People Looks Two Whole Film Night Order Three Bits Hours Happened Groups Minutes Performances Theatre Every Night

Author:Kevin Spacey

“I've worked ever since I was a kid with a two-bit kit of magic tricks trying to improve my skills at entertaining whatever public I had - and to make myself ready, whenever the breaks came, to entertain a wider and more demanding public.”

Trying Two Kids Bits Break Magic Ready Skills Tricks Entertaining Magic Tricks Two Bit

Author:Johnny Carson

“There's two types of hecklers. If someone says something really funny it's normally them heckling as part of the show. They're trying to add onto one of your jokes. If someone says something really funny, I've never seen a comedian abuse them, you always sort of tip your hat a little bit if they nail it.”

Ifs Trying Littles Two Shows Bits Type Little Bit Jokes Abuse Add Comedian Hats Nails Hecklers Heckling

Author:Jim Jefferies

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