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“I write five, six days a week. The thing is capturing the voice. I feel like I've been perfecting one voice - in different iterations, sure, but the Russian-ness has always been the undercurrent.”

Feels Writing Different Voice Five Week Six

Author:Gary Shteyngart

“"Back in the day when I started - it's like I walked five miles to school in the snow barefooted" - there were three channels.I don't know what I would do.”

Knows School Three Five Miles Snow Back In The Day

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“To create guilt, all that you need is a very simple thing: start calling mistakes, errors - sins. They are simply mistakes, human. Now, if somebody commits a mistake in mathematics - two plus two, and he concludes it makes five - you don`t say he has committed a sin. He is unalert, he is not paying attention to what he is doing. He is unprepared, he has not done his homework. He is certainly committing a mistake, but a mistake is not a sin. It can be corrected. A mistake does not make him feel guilty. At the most it makes him feel foolish.”

Ifs Needs Feels Humans Doe Two Done Sin Simple Attention Mistake Five Calling Mathematics Guilt Errors Committed Foolish Commit Guilty Pay Attention Plus Homework Simple Things Unprepared

Author:Rajneesh

“When you're writing a song and there are five people invested in it, it's easy for one person to say, 'Oh, this song is about this and that', and everyone has to hear the idea and see if they can do better.”

People Ifs Writing Persons Ideas Song Easy Can Do Five

Author:Jason Mraz

“But you have to trust your instincts. Because you're not going to try it 20 different ways during rehearsal. You'll try it two or three different ways, maybe, but then you've got five other scenes you're shooting that day. You've got to keep going.”

Way Trying Two Different Three Five Scene Instinct Shooting Different Ways Keep Going Rehearsal Trust Your Instincts

Author:Kevin Kline

“The seven white notes on the piano - each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes. If you calculate it, there are 21 groups of five notes in any group of seven notes. And although there are 12 sections, this piece actually uses nine of those groups because some of the sections repeat earlier ones. So that's the formula. It's very simple as a way of generating something. It's my inner minimalist.”

Ifs Way Use Simple White Five Pieces Groups Notes Seven Nine Piano Repeats Formulas Sections Minimalist

Author:Brian Eno

“I've found that there isn't any correlation whatsoever between the hours put in and the quality of what comes out. Most of the Beatles' songs probably originated in about five minutes.”

Song Found Hours Quality Five Minutes Five Minutes Correlation

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“I prefer to work in the morning. I get up now at five in the morning. In the morning is when I feel freshest.”

Feels Morning Five Get Up

Author:Erica Jong

“A person with no children says, "Well I just love children," and you say "Why?" and they say, "Because a child is so truthful, that's what I love about 'em - they tell the truth." That's a lie, I've got five of 'em. The only time they tell the truth is if they're having pain.”

Ifs Wells Children Persons Humor Funny Pain Lying Five Truth Is Telling The Truth Ems Truthful Only Time Children Love

Author:Bill Cosby

“My mother comes in my room and says, "Just look at this mess! This is a pig sty!" Now, I've already been in the room five hours, and she wants me to LOOK at it.”

Want Looks Humor Funny Mother Hours Rooms Five Mess Want Me Pigs He Wants Me

Author:Bill Cosby

“I'm a - I'm a, um, a godmother which is just, that's fun to be a godmother, she is so precious, she's the light of my life, she's two... or five or something, and she's, uh... I don't know, I've never seen her - the pictures are precious, she just seems so, y'know... She lives clear across town, I don't have that kind of time, but, um... Well, I send money and stuff, it's not like I don't have a connection...”

Knows Wells Kind Two Humor Light Seems Funny Fun Stuff Clear Five Connections Towns Godmother Light Of My Life

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“When I was a kid I got no respect. The time I was kidnapped, and the kidnappers sent my parents a note they said, "We want five thousand dollars or you'll see your kid again."”

Want Said Humor Kids Funny Parent Five Thousand Dollars Notes They Said No Respect Kidnapped

Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“A man walks into doctor's office. "What seems to be the problem?" asks the doc. "It's ... um ... well ... I have five penises." replies the man. "Blimey!" says the doctor, "How do your trousers fit?" "Like a glove."”

Men Wells Problem Humor Seems Funny Asks Walks Five He Man Fit Office Doctors Gloves Trousers

Author:Tommy Cooper

“I thought, If I'm an ancestor and grandmother when I'm twenty-five, I should go peacefully to the real time when I'm an ancestor and a grandmother.”

Ifs Should Real Five Twenties Grandmother Ancestor Twenty Five

Author:Agnes Varda

“I really believe in setting goals, no matter what it is: whether it's losing five pounds or making the world championship team.”

World Believe Matter Goal Five Team Losing No Matter What Setting Settings Pounds Championship Setting Goals Championship Team

Author:Dara Torres

“I don't like being in one place too long. Five days just about does it for me because I have a very low threshold for boredom.”

Long Doe Five Lows Boredom Threshold

Author:Jackie Collins

“Two Drink Mike enjoys dancing and knows a magic trick. Whereas, No Drink Mike enjoys biographies, and has serious opinions on wildlife. And Five Drink Mike... dances with wildlife.”

Knows Two Humor Funny Enjoy Opinion Five Magic Serious Drink Dancing Tricks Biographies Mike Wildlife Magic Tricks

Author:Mike Birbiglia

“A single mediocre hire in the first five will often in fact kill a startup.”

Firsts Facts Five Team Mediocre

Author:Sam Altman

“If you compromise in the first five, ten hires it might kill the company.”

Ifs Firsts Might Company Five Team Ten Compromise

Author:Sam Altman

“I do think it is important to look at the writing as a job though and to commit to it like you'd have to commit to a regular nine-to-five.”

Thinking Writing Looks Important Jobs Five Like You Nine Commit

Author:Christopher Paul Curtis

“Doctors frequently get it wrong. One out of five patients today is in the hospital because incorrect treatment by a physician put him or her there.”

Today Five Doctors Patient Treatment Hospitals Physicians

Author:Andrew Saul

“Stay away from Europe, stay away from Japan, Australia. If you go to the Western world, you're gonna pay more money. You can spend five months in Bali for what you'd spend in one month in Europe.”

Ifs World Pay Five Months Europe Western Japan Australia More Money Western World Bali

Author:Rita Gelman

“I think all cinematographers, at least most of them, would love to do everything on location because you cannot cheat on location. It's there, it's part of the story usually. You have to deal with the elements. You have the sunshine, you have rain, you have fog - it really makes you work harder to try to match things during the day to make it look like it was shot within five minutes, movie time.”

Thinking Trying Looks Stories Deals Five Minutes Hard Work Elements Shots Rain Harder Sunshine Cheat Location Fog Five Minutes Work Harder Cinematographers

Author:Vilmos Zsigmond

“We are all drawn to problems and solving problems. Joy doesn't demand our time. So we have to mark that time on our schedules. That's the only way you are going to get it. Five minutes, three times a day in your schedule. That's doable.”

Way Problem Joy Three Five Minutes Demand Mark Our Time Problem Solving Schedules Three Times Five Minutes

Author:Bonnie St. John

“I was about seven years old. In my mother's garage I used to create plays and star in them and charge the neighborhood kids five cents to see them. It was a lot of fun.”

Years Play Kids Used Mother Fun Stars Five Seven Neighborhood Cents Seven Years Garage

Author:Franny Armstrong

“I eat all of the time... at least five little meals a day.”

Littles Five Meals

Author:Marilu Henner

“The Governor would serve a five-year term and be ineligible for reelection.”

Years Political Politics Term Five Five Years Governors Term Limits Reelection

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Statesmen exhibit five key commitments: 1) A commitment to principles above politics; 2) An ability to compromise without abandoning principle; 3) A commitment to truth over spin; 4) A commitment to courage over cowardice; and 5) A commitment, or willingness, to give up power.”

Giving Political Politics Term Ability Principles Five Keys Giving Up Commitment Compromise Willingness Cowardice Statesmen Exhibits Term Limits

Author:Tom Coburn

“Five years from now, I don't know how I'll think.”

Thinking Knows Inspirational Years Know How Five Five Years

Author:Larry Ellison

“When I was four or five years old, I heard a lot of stories about the Holocaust because both my parents were survivors. I'm sure that was very important in my life. My father snuck out from under the floorboards to make love to my mother. I can't imagine why they kept me.”

Years I Can Important Stories Mother Father Parent Five Four Imagine Heard Five Years Survivor Holocaust Making Love Five Year Olds

Author:Christian Boltanski

“I've written five books, a book every three years. I'm fairly lazy and it doesn't take that much...people who are not lazy are Isaac Asimov.”

People Years Book Three Five Written Lazy Three Years Isaac

Author:Ethan Canin

“Progressing to where you can play a big role in football is nothing you can achieve in just two years. It will at least take five, six, well more likely seven years. A once-in-a-life-time success does not help you, constant quality is what you have to go for.”

Years Wells Doe Two Play Helping Bigs Quality Roles Five Progress Achieve Football Six Constant Seven Two Years Seven Years Life Time

Author:Berti Vogts

“My father played in high school. My uncles played. From age five or six, I remember watching all the games. And I remember saying to my mom and dad even then that I was going to play in the NFL, and buy them a house and a car.”

Play Age School Remember Father Games House Five Car Mom Dad Six High School My Mom Nfl Uncles Mom And Dad

Author:Thomas Jones

“I started at a 'learn to swim' scheme when I was about five-years-old. I did it to learn water safety, but it was fun and I loved the water. I went to a club, moved up through the ranks and got better and better before taking part in my first national championships.”

Years Firsts Fun Water Five Safety Moved Clubs Five Years Swim Schemes Championship Five Year Olds National Championships Water Safety

Author:Liam Tancock

“At the age of five or six I just used to kick the ball with both feet. I wasn't very good to start with but I practised and practised. Once I finally got it, it was an unbelievable sensation. It was then that I realised that if you work at something, it pays off.”

Ifs Age Used Pay Five Feet Six Balls Very Good Kicks Sensations Unbelievable Realised

Author:Filo Tiatia

“Everybody reacts differently. For me defeat lingers around for different time periods. I can dwell on some for five minutes or sometimes I can still be thinking about it a week later. It all comes down to experience. You need to reflect on your mistakes and move on. Luckily you always get the opportunity to turn things around in your next performance.”

Thinking Needs Stills I Can Different Sometimes Moving Turns Next Opportunity Mistake Five Week Minutes Periods Performances Defeat Five Minutes Different Times Time Periods

Author:Filo Tiatia

“Each team has a net liner, a goalie, and five attackers. We have two defenders on the ice and three forwards. Our forwards are left winger, centre man and a right winger. We work as units of five. In ice hockey you go out and you go as hard as you can for 35 to 45 seconds, then we change.”

Men Two Hard Three Left Five Team Ice Hockey Seconds Units Centre Right Wing Defenders Left Wing Ice Hockey Goalies

Author:Gerad Adams

“At the other end of the scale I was there with a whole lot of young British athletes so I was getting to see them take their first steps on the international ladder. I'd like to think maybe in five years time I'll look back and I'll forget all about the lost luggage and I'll forget about the horrible hotel, but I'll remember these wonderful athletes stepping onto the track for the first time.”

“All of a sudden, if I can't go cycling, I have to do something else for five hours - I can't do anything for five hours! It just means sitting at home trying to work out something to do. It's just not me, it doesn't feel right.”

Ifs Feels Trying Mean I Can Home Hours Five Sitting Work Out Cycling Feels Right

Author:Magnus Backstedt

“I have told somebody in court that 'I understand yours is the most important case in the world, and I'm trying to treat it as the most important case in the world, but five minutes from now I'm going to be dealing with the next person's most important case in the world.' For every litigant, theirs is the most important case.”

World Trying Persons Important Next Cases Five Minutes Treats Court Five Minutes

Author:Steven Pacey

“It was a long road [trying to get pregnant a secong time]. I would go to the doctor in Beverly Hills every day at five in the morning to get tested to see if I was ovulating. I was trying everything: I did acupuncture and got a nutritionist to eat healthier, thinking that was an issue.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Morning Issues Five Doctors Hills Tested Beverly Hills Nutritionist Acupuncture Trying Everything

Author:Kim Kardashian

“I have two sons now. And just being on the road all the time - I was on the road for about five years straight, and at some point, something clicks inside your head and you think, "Man, I've got to figure out what's going on inside myself," as far as my personal faith.”

Thinking Men Years Two Five Figures Son Five Years Just Being Clicks

Author:Mason Jennings

“Normally if I go to one of these things I'm in and out in five minutes, but at Pride of Britain I stay to the end. It's a fantastic show. But it's incredibly hard on the night when you meet all the kids and hear their stories. They do get to you.”

Ifs Ends Hard Stories Shows Kids Night Five Minutes Pride Fantastic Britain Five Minutes

Author:Simon Cowell

“I am known for what I'm do. But I'm not a five-year-old Hong Konger, I'm not a kid demonstrating in the streets.”

Years Kids Known Five Streets Five Years Five Year Olds Demonstrating

Author:Christopher Doyle

“I want to support young girls who are in their 20s now and tell them: You're not just imagining things. It's tough. Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.”

Want Young Guy Girl Support Five Tough Imagining Things

Author:Bjork

“Insider can be more ludicrous. How did I ever end up [as one]? Carsick [Waters's book on hitchhiking] was on the New York Times best-seller list for five weeks. [One of the characters was] a singing asshole that does a duet with Connie Francis! Times have changed. That's mainstream, in a weird way.”

Way Doe Book Ends Character Water Five Week New York Changed Singing Lists Mainstream New York Times Sellers Insiders Best Sellers Hitchhiking Times Have Changed Duets

Author:John Waters

“I live just outside of Salt Lake City in a place called Emigration Canyon. It's on the Mormon trail. So I feel deeply connected, not only because of my Mormon roots, which are five or six generations, but because of where we live. There isn't a day that goes by that I'm not mindful of the spiritual sovereignty that was sought by my people in coming to Utah.”

People Feels Spiritual Cities Five Generations Six Roots Connected Lakes Salt Sovereignty Trails Canyons Utah Emigration Salt Lake City

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“For every role you get, there are five roles that you don't.”

Roles Five

Author:Asa Butterfield

“I have lived in one house in Baltimore for nearly forty-five years. It has changed in that time, as I have - but somehow it still remains the same. No conceivable decorator's masterpiece could give me the same ease. It is as much a part of me as my two hands. If I had to leave it I'd be as certainly crippled as if I lost a leg.”

Ifs Giving Years Stills Two Hands House Lost Five Changed Give Me Remains Legs Ease Five Years Forty Masterpiece Crippled Baltimore Two Hands Decorators

Author:H. L. Mencken

“You do have all five sense when you're in a room together. You communicate and understand each other in a much deeper way. It is a different form of communication from writing or being on the web.”

Way Writing Different Together Form Rooms Five Communication Communicate Deeper

Author:Gloria Steinem

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