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“The UK is always ahead of their time in music, and America always follows them five years later.”

“I sometimes follow people who attract my curiosity in the street for five, ten minutes.”

People Sometimes Five Streets Minutes Ten Curiosity

“I did the drawing and writing - for five years. I made a lot of short films the whole while and I made a promise to myself in front of the mirror that I would stop drawing when I signed my first contract for a feature film.”

Writing Years Firsts Made Whole Film Five Fronts Promise Mirrors Drawing Features Five Years Contracts Short Films

Author:Patrice Leconte

“When I was thirteen, I had a nervous breakdown, and I was put into this grown-up mental hospital with all these 50-, 60-year-old men and women. This big, Victorian mental house. There were like five boys in there, all my age, looked after by this woman who was 22 or 23. And it was like "Empire of the Sun" meets "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"-type of arrangement where you've got this young boy overcoming and becoming heroic in the face of this awful place.”

“I went to film school when I was 17, and of course when you are very young you think that there is nothing else in the world except film. At some point I started getting hungry to see something else. For five years I didn't make any films, I was traveling around the world, writing for newspapers, working in theater, working in opera, I thought I would never return to film.”

Thinking World Writing Years School Film Young Courses Five Return Theater Newspapers Hungry Around The World Five Years Opera Film School

Author:Pirjo Honkasalo

“I always try to be careful when an actor who is like 70 walks onto my set at work, I don't want them to get called in five hours early or block shoot something. I think you need to treat them with respect and dignity.”

Thinking Want Needs Trying Actors Hours Walks Five Dignity Treats Careful Block Be Careful Dignity And Respect

Author:Robin Tunney

“While I was doing the residency in Paris, I found out that I was chosen as one of the five winners of the Focus Features Africa First Program. All this happened less than a year after I made my first two short films.”

Years Firsts Made Two Film Found Five Focus Happened Program Chosen Winner Features Paris Short Films Residency

Author:Chika Anadu

“Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.”

Next Five Minutes Excellence Aspiration Five Minutes

Author:Tom Peters

“It's insane to be a writer and not be a reader. When I'm writing I'm more likely to be reading four or five books at once, just in bits and pieces rather than subjecting myself to a really brilliant book and thinking, "Well what's the point of me writing anything?" I'm more likely to read a book through when I take a break from writing.”

Thinking Writing Wells Book Reading Bits Break Five Pieces Four Reader Brilliant Insane Bits And Pieces

Author:Markus Zusak

“It's impossible to write about the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath without taking note of twenty-five years of paranoia which has collected around that event.”

Writing Years Five Impossible Events Twenties Notes Five Years Paranoia Twenty Five Assassination Aftermath Kennedy Assassination

Book:Conversations with Don DeLillo

Source: Conversations with Don DeLillo

“I think positive stress is actually a good thing. It's sort of the stretch goal "Wow, let me see how much faster I can run" or "Let me see how many more ideas I can generate in five minutes."”

Thinking I Can Ideas Running Goal Five Minutes Let Me Stress Good Things Faster Wow Five Minutes Think Positive

Author:David Allen

“Life, the moment. Where the magic is. That's what really keeps me motivated, alive, hungry. I'm still as excited and motivated now as I was twenty-five years ago, and that's because I really live for those moments. And that's where the art comes from, that's where the music is born, that's where it all appears. I love it.”

Years Art Stills Moments Born Five Alive Magic Music Is Years Ago Twenties Excited Hungry Five Years Motivated Twenty Five

Author:Lenny Kravitz

“I'm so happy. I am able to see the world just by making music, just by doing the thing that I loved doing when I was five years old.”

World Years Able Five Five Years Five Year Olds

Author:Lenny Kravitz

“You can't write a book if you've never read a book. And if you've read five books and you try to write a book, your book will mainly encompass the themes and the context of the five books you've read. Now, the more books you read, the more you can bring to a book when you decide to write one. So the more rap I learned, the more I was able to bring to rap when I decided to rap. But this was all subconscious.”

Ifs Writing Trying Book Able Five Decided Rap Theme Subconscious

Author:Bun B

“I am very up front about about my inability to pronounce things correctly. I said real-uh-tor instead of realtor until about five years ago. I just admit I have no idea how to say Theyskens! Don't be intimidated. Just be honest!”

Years Said Ideas Real Five Honest Fronts Years Ago Being Honest No Idea Five Years Inability Intimidated Realtors

Author:Gillian Jacobs

“I play ten, twelve weeks out of the year, five times a week, and I really still love to do it. But that's not what I'm interested in doing now. Even though I love it.”

Years Stills Play Five Week Ten Twelve

Author:Pat Benatar

“There's something worse than not making a movie. It's doing it for the wrong reasons. Then you end up putting three, four, five years of your life into it and you come out with a thing that you're not proud of.”

Years Ends Reason Three Five Four Proud Five Years Wrong Reasons

Author:Guillermo del Toro

“The planning is everything. Deciding which dishes you're going to prepare can turn into the make-or-break decision five days later, when you actually serve the meal.”

Turns Decision Break Five Planning Meals Dishes Make Or Break

Author:Ina Garten

“That's what you join a band for, is to make music. Not to sit around and have five years off. We're not getting any younger.”

Years Five Band Five Years

Author:Liam Gallagher

“Even with clothing naked animals, there were people who wanted to send in money. A woman in Santa Barbara, California, sent a $40,000 check. I fondled it for about five minutes and then sent it back. I told her I couldn't accept money from strangers.”

People Wanted Animal Accepting Five Minutes Stranger Checks Naked California Clothings Five Minutes Santa Barbara Santa Barbara

Author:Alan Abel

“I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much. I think of Cocoon and Driving Miss Daisy. But they always seem to be fairly successful, so it's a bit baffling as to why everybody has to be treated as if they were five-years-old.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Has Beens Made Seems Film Bits Successful Five Missing Driving Treated Five Years Elderly Daisies Five Year Olds Cocoons

Author:Maggie Smith

“The guys that write Once Upon a Time were major writers on Lost, and we had lunch when I started on OUAT and the first thing I said to them was, "I spent five years on Lost, you have to tell me, was my character good or bad?" They looked at me and said, "We have no idea." That's why you have to make your own backstory. I decided Widmore was the evilest of the evil, but in the end, not even the writers knew.”

Writing Years Firsts Said Ideas Ends Character Guy Evil Lost Five Majors Decided No Idea Five Years Lunch Once Upon A Time Lost You

Author:Alan Dale

“It was fantastic to be able to have my kids on set. Dash, my eldest son, who’s not quite five, was into knights and his godmother had given him a plastic Marks & Spencer knights’ outfit and [first assistant director] Tommy Gormley said that he could stand to protect me during the scene where Clive [Owen] is talking about the immensity of sitting on the throne. I’m actually looking through an archway at my son standing in his knights’ costume protecting me!”

“To be honest the work that a producer does is work that I've done for most of my working life. It's work that I started to do, for example, when I worked with Sally Potter on Orlando. We developed it together over five years.”

Years Doe Done Together Five Honest Example Producers Being Honest Five Years Potters Working Life Orlando

Author:Tilda Swinton

“I remember exiting the birth canal and suddenly I was in a film. But you are never really in charge of that. The movie came out about five or six months ago in America. It was Miramax in the States and Disney here [fakes falling asleep]. What happened. I love working for Disney, not Walt specifically because he couldn't be more dead, but the company is fantastic.”

States America Remember Film Fall Company Five Happened Months Birth Six Fantastic Fake Six Months Walt Canals Falling Asleep

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“I keep my kids out of the whole business entirely. Allegra and Lucas are five and six and I'm not interested in them doing any acting at all. I don't want my kids in show business. I keep them as far away from my work as possible.”

Want Whole Shows Kids Acting Five Six Far Away Not Interested Show Business

Author:John Leguizamo

“Well first of all I was nine weeks pregnant at the time and no one knew it. So it was - it had a whole other meaning for me not just because I had to let the dress out, you know, every few days before the actual day. But, you know, because that was the, you know, more important than anything else that was going on in my life. But in terms of actually winning I think I had been nominated four or five times before then. And every one of my co-stars had won up until that point.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Wells Important Whole Winning Stars Term Five Four Week Dresses Nine Pregnant

Author:Debra Messing

“In doing zazen it is desirable to have a quiet room. You should be temperate in eating and drinking, forsaking all delusive relationships. Setting everything aside, think of neither good nor evil, right nor wrong. Thus having stopped the various functions of your mind, five up even the idea of becoming a Buddha.”

Thinking Should Mind Ideas Evil Rooms Five Becoming Quiet Eating Function Drinking Various Setting Settings Desirable Eating And Drinking Quiet Room

Author:Dogen

“It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.”

Ifs Long Two Three Asks Difficult Hours Prayer Five Minutes Exercise Knees Protest Five Minutes

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“Only from the perspective of such a utopia is it possible to use the concepts of pessimism and optimism with full justification: an optimist is someone who thinks that on planet number five the history of mankind will be less bloody. A pessimist is one who thinks otherwise.”

Thinking Use Numbers Five Mankind Planets Perspective Concepts Optimism Pessimism Justification Bloody Optimist Utopia Pessimist

Author:Milan Kundera

“Human beings, because we're so clever, have removed every single one of those population limiting factors... So nothing controls our increase in numbers except our own wish. Since I first started making television programs, the population of the world has increased three times. That's an extraordinary notion. Can it increase four times? Can it increase five times? The Earth is a finite size. So a point will eventually come when we run out of food, when we run out of space and when we will have destroyed most of the natural world. So ought we to do something about it before that happens?”

“We have now well established the fact in our own nation that one can do more work in six days, even in five, than in seven. A run-down person is an unproductive person.”

Wells Persons Facts Running Nations Can Do Five Six Seven Unproductive

Book:God's Psychiatry: Healing for the Troubled Heart and Spirit

Source: God's Psychiatry: Healing for the Troubled Heart and Spirit

“Simple rules for saving money: To save half, when you are fired by an eager impulse to contribute to a charity, wait and count to forty. To save three quarters, count sixty. To save all, count sixty-five.”

Three Waiting Simple Half Five Charity Saving Impulse Forty Quarters Sixty Saving Money

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“Make a list of twenty-five things you want to experience before you die. Carry it in your wallet or purse and refer to it often.”

Want Dies Five Twenties Lists Purses Twenty Five Wallets

Author:H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“One night a guy hit his head on a welding gun. He went to his knees. He was bleeding like a pig, blood was oozing out. So I stopped the line for a second and ran over to help him. The foreman turned the line on again, he almost stepped on the guy. That's the first thing they always do. They didn't even call an ambulance. The guy walked to the medic department -- that's about half a mile -- he had about five stitches put in his head. The foreman didn't say anything. He just turned the line on. You're nothing to any of them.”

Firsts Helping Night Guy Lines Half Five Blood Gun Miles Knees Ran Department Pigs Say Anything One Night Bleeding Stitches Ambulance Welding Medics

Book:Working

Source: Working

“Taking Five and Returning Four is not Giving”

Giving Five Four

Author:Frederic Bastiat

“Scientists with access to data from Navy submarines traversing underneath the North polar ice cap have warned that there is now a 75 percent chance that within five years the entire ice cap will completely disappear during the summer months.”

Years Chance Five Months Summer Percent Scientist Disappear Access Ice Data Five Years Navy Caps Submarines

Author:Al Gore

“Canada has one great novelist (Robertson Davies), which means it has one for every twenty-five million citizens - the world's highest ratio.”

World Mean Millions Five Citizens Highest Twenties Novelists Canada Twenty Five Ratios

Author:George Will

“How long do you want to wait until you start enjoying life? When you're sixty-five you get social security.”

Want Long Social Waiting Enjoy Five Security Sixty Enjoy Life Social Security

Book:The comedy of Neil Simon

Source: The comedy of Neil Simon

“Deliberative bodies become decreasingly effective after they pass five to eight members.”

Body Five Members Eight

Author:C. Northcote Parkinson

“Working nine to five, what way to earn a living. Barely getting by... It's all taking and no giving. They use just your mind and they never give you credit. It's enough to drive you crazy if you let it!”

Ifs Way Giving Mind Enough Use Five Crazy Credit Nine Barely Getting By

Author:Dolly Parton

“What is required as we travel towards full unemployment is not new legislation but a gradual change of mental attitude, a shift in values. As our taste for idling grows, we will refuse to work for old-fashioned bosses who demand a five-day, 40-hour, nine-to-five type week, or worse.”

Values Grows Hours Attitude Five Week Type Taste Demand Refuse Nine Boss Legislation Unemployment Old Fashioned Mental Attitude Gradual Change

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“I've been asked to write my autobiography and really they only want 8 years (1962-1970), and I keep saying it would be five volumes before I even got into the band!”

Want Writing Years Would Be Five Band Volume Autobiography

Author:Ringo Starr

“Be fully present for five minutes every day.”

Five Minutes Five Minutes

Author:Geneen Roth

“My presidency is not over. I've got another five years coming up.”

Years Five Five Years Presidency

Author:Barack Obama

“To me there is no more depressing sight than a five-year-old staring at a screen, unsmiling, mouse in hand. Besides whatever dreadful things this prolonged exposure to screens is doing to their brains, computer games tend to be solitary affairs, and produce little laughter.”

Years Littles Hands Games Brain Five Produce Computer Laughter Sight Affair Screens Staring Five Years Solitary Depressing Mice Exposure Five Year Olds Computer Games

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“It takes a while to master the art of hammock-lounging. At first I could only manage five minutes or so before I thought I ought to get out and go and help a child learn how to swim or something. But after observing the Mexicans' capability for staring into space for hours on end, I decided to put in some proper practice.”

Firsts Children Art Ends Helping Hours Space Practice Five Minutes Masters Ought Decided Manage Staring Swim Capability Five Minutes Observing Hammocks Lounging Staring Into Space

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“About five years ago I saw a mockingbird make a straight vertical descent from the roof gutter of a four-story building. It was an act as careless and spontaneous as the curl of a stem or the kindling of a star.”

Years Stories Stars Five Saws Four Building Years Ago Five Years Roof Stem Spontaneous Careless Descent Curls Gutters Vertical Kindling Mockingbird

Book:The Abundance

Source: The Abundance

“I have made it a practice for several years to read the Bible through in the course of every year. I usually devote to this reading the first hour after I rise every morning. As, including the Apocrypha, it contains about fourteen hundred chapters, and as I meet with occasional interruptions, when this reading is for single days, and sometimes for weeks, or even months, suspended, my rule is to read five chapters every morning, which leaves an allowance of about one-forth of the time for such interruptions.”

Source: The Russian memoirs of John Quincy Adams: his diary from 1809-1814

“People can write jokes five minutes after a major world event happens, and have hundreds of thousands of people read them within 10 minutes. Whereas before you write a joke, you don't know if anybody is really touching on it or not, and you tell it onstage the next night. For joke writing it has changed things.”

People Ifs Knows World Writing Happens Night Next Five Minutes Events Changed Majors Jokes Touching Five Minutes World Events

Author:Nick Thune

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