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“I want to satisfy the listener, exactly. I want to entertain the audience. I want the people to leave the show with the feeling I used to leave shows with when I was young, and I couldn't get over it for another three or four days after it. I just kept reliving the set in my mind.”

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Author:Bradford Cox

“I absolutely love television. What's so great about TV is that I can tell 20 stories in a year. If I was working at a feature studio, I'd tell 1% of someone else's story, over the course of four years.”

Ifs Years I Can Stories Courses Four Television Tvs Studios Features Four Years

Author:Alex Hirsch

“I like working consistently. I like working for four months at a time, which is why cable was so attractive. You work for four months, and then you get to do something else, whether it's doing a movie or just being at home with your husband and eventually having a family.”

Home Four Months Husband Attractive Consistently Just Being Cables Your Husband

Author:Jordana Brewster

“I used to be able to sit in a chair and for four hours straight in a very focused meditative way be in my own world without ay interruption. And now it's like your brain is getting so trained to check your phone, and there is like a dopamine release every time you get a text whether it's a good or a bad one. I'm really worried about what it's doing to our minds.”

World Way Mind Able Used Hours My Own Brain Four Like You Phones Focused Checks Used To Be Release Worried Chairs Interruptions Dopamine My Own World

Author:Brit Marling

“The problem is sitting in the birthplace of Islam, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, where this interpretation of Islam has gone out into the world over the last four decades, creating militancy groups from Indonesia, to now, San Bernardino, California, vicious attack. We have to take back the faith. And we have to take it back with the principles of peace, social justice, and human rights, women's rights, and secularize governance.”

“I have unemployed my girlfriend. She had a job working for a cardiologist and now she can hang out, put her feet up, buy all the things she wants, have a nice breakfast with you and me in the Four Seasons. Any fights in families like mine come from everyone worrying about money. I'm taking all those worries away. That makes me feel happy, makes me really proud of what I do.”

Want Feels Jobs Fighting Worry Four Nice Feet Mines Proud Seasons Girlfriend Hanging Out Breakfast My Girlfriend Unemployed Four Seasons Cardiologist Worrying About Money

Author:Conor McGregor

“The visualization of my films is always very important to me and I work very closely with my cinematographers. I've never had the same cinematographer twice now that I think about it. I don't know why that is. Everyone is always busy. They do three or four films a year. It's vital to me.”

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Author:Scott Hicks

“When I want to tackle a story or a subject, I always ask myself three questions: Is it important to talk about that? Will it interest other people than just me? Can I live with that for three or four years because that's how long it takes to do the project, to write the script, and to direct it, and then to do this.”

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Author:Philippe Falardeau

“I don't think the film is going to work for everybody, period. It wasn't meant to be done for everybody. I didn't four quadrant this movie, like Hollywood did. I knew it was a very specific audience that was there. We're also taking a shot in the dark.”

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Author:Joseph M. Kahn

“Going to America increased the build up on me, especially as the war was going on there. In a way we'd turned out to be a Trojan horse. The 'Fab Four' moved right to the top and then sang about drugs and sex and then I got into more and more heavy stuff and that's when they started dropping us.”

Way War America Sex Stuff Four Drug Horse Moved Heavy Dropping Trojans Trojan Horse

Author:John Lennon

“I chose the American ones, more or less the last five years of the silent era, because those are the ones that aged the best in the way they tell the story. One, it's about human beings with context. It's a very classical story with feelings, with laughter, melodrama and it really works, the good ones - Murnau's American movies, John Ford's Four Sons, King Vidor's The Crowd, or the (Josef) von Sternberg movies. You can watch it now and it still works. I mean they are really, really good pieces so this is where I tried to work.”

Way Years Humans Mean Stills Stories Feelings Lasts Human Beings Watches Five Pieces Four Son Kings Laughter Silent Crowds Eras Five Years Melodrama American Movie Last Five Years

Author:Michel Hazanavicius

“Now The Beatles are four separate people, we don't have the impact we had when we were together.”

People Together Four Impact

Author:John Lennon

“Once you take away the struggle for food, clothing and shelter, work is the one four letter word that offends everyone.”

Struggle Four Letters Clothings Shelter Four Letter Words

Author:Lenny Bruce

“I devoured TV - everything from Super Friends in the morning to Dukes of Hazzard and The Love Boat and Fantasy Island at night. I watched it all. There were only four channels, so you could actually consume all of television if you were good at changing the channel.”

Ifs Night Morning Fantasy Four Television Tvs Boat Islands Dukes Love Boat Dukes Of Hazzard

Author:Justin Theroux

“The novel may be dead as a commercial form. When art forms things die as commercial forms, something happens to the practice of those arts that isn't very pleasant. It used to be that a poet like Tennyson could keep his house and his coach-and-four and his staff of six servants on the income from poetry. That doesn't happen anymore.”

May Art Happens Form Used Dies House Practice Novel Four Poet Six Coaches Things Happen Income Used To Be Servant Pleasant Staff Tennyson

Author:William Monahan

“I have no reason as a director to have films go up in versions that I don't like. My only experience of film after ten years is honestly that if a picture doesn't get second-guessed you're looking at four Oscars, and if a picture does get second-guessed, you're not. I've got an advanced degree in that lesson.”

Ifs Years Doe Reason Film Four Lessons Directors Ten Degrees Honestly Versions No Reason Oscars

Author:William Monahan

“I have a library room with four desks in it. On one of them is a spec, on one of them is a present work, on one of them is reading for a future work, on another desk is a novel I'm not doing until I'm a hundred and fifty, and things like that. But, contractually speaking, you just do one at a time when it's on and paid and live. You do your real day on one project and the rest is just literary life. Or intrusions.”

Real Reading Rooms Novel Four Projects Hundred Paid Library Fifty Desks Intrusion Specs Future Work

Author:William Monahan

“TV [series] is a six-year decision. It's not four or five weeks. If a filmmaker and I don't get along, it's four weeks of your life, so whatever.”

Ifs Years Decision Five Four Week Tvs Six Series Filmmaker Tv Series

Author:Marc Blucas

“I never listen to debates. They are dreadful things indeed. The plain truth is that I am not a fair man, and don't want to hear both sides. On all known subjects, ranging from aviation to xylophone-playing, I have fixed and invariable ideas. They have not changed since I was four or five.”

Men Want Ideas Sides Known Five Four Subjects Changed Truth Is Fairs Debate Fixed Aviation Both Sides

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Raw, naked truth exchanged between the black man and the white man is what a whole lot more of is needed in this country - to clear the air of the racial mirages, cliches, and lies that this country's very atmosphere has been filled with for four hundred years.”

Men Years Has Beens Country Whole Lying Black White Clear Four Air Needed Hundred Filled Naked Atmosphere White Man Cliche Mirages

Author:Alex Haley

“And in your new lives you'll have to live entirely for that one sensation-that of imminent truth. And you're going to have to holler for it, steal for it, beg for it-and you're never to stop asking questions about it twenty-four hours a day, the rest of your life.”

Hours Four Twenties Asking Stealing Sensations New Life Rest Of Your Life Asking Questions

Author:Douglas Coupland

“When you grow up these days, you're told you're going to have four or five different careers during your lifetime. But what they don't tell you is that you're also going to be four or five different people along the way.”

People Way Different Grows Careers Growing Up Five Four Lifetime These Days Different Peoples

Book:Miss Wyoming

Source: Miss Wyoming

“I believe good software is written by small teams of two, three, or four people interacting with each other at a very high, dense level.”

People Believe Two Three I Believe Levels Four Written Team Software Dense Interacting

Author:John Warnock

“Young man, if God gives me four years more to rule this country, I believe it will become what it ought to be-what its Divine Author intended it to be-no longer one vast plantation for breeding human beings for the purpose of lust and bondage. But it will become a new Valley of Jehoshaphat, where all the nations of the earth will assemble together under one flag, worshipping a common God, and they will celebrate the resurrection of human freedom.”

“I haven't fully moved over to the iPad. At any given time, I have about four DVDs in my pocket. I'm constantly screening 'Top Chef,' 'Housewives,' and all the other shows we have in development, racing to meet a deadline. So I pretty much bring my laptop everywhere.”

Shows Given Four Havens Development Moved Pockets Racing Chef Deadline Housewife Dvds Laptops Screening Ipads

Author:Andy Cohen

“I work out at Will Space four times a week. It's a private training gym. It's owned by my trainer, Will Torres. I just came from there, actually. I turned Mark Consuelos onto Will, so he goes there too. Today we boxed. It's every kind of cross-training you can do.”

Kind Today Can Do Space Four Week Training Crosses Mark Work Out Gym Trainers Torres

Author:Andy Cohen

“I'm the king of the world, I am the greatest, I'm Muhammed Ali, I shook up the world, I am the greatest, I'm king of the world, I'm pretty, I'm pretty, I'm a baaaad man, you heard me I'm a baaad man, Archie Moore fell in four, Liston wanted me more, so since he's so great, I'm a make him fall in eight, I'm a baaad man, I'm king of the world! I'm 22 years old and ain't gotta mark on my face, I'm pretty, I easily survived six rounds with that ugly bear, because I am the greatest.”

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Author:Muhammad Ali

“My parents moved to American Samoa when I was three or four years old. My dad was principal of a high school there. It was idyllic for a kid. I had a whole island for a backyard. I lived there until I was eight years old and we moved to Santa Barbara.”

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Author:Eric Stoltz

“I try to do the right thing with money. Save a dollar here and there, clip some coupons. Buy ten gold chains instead of 20. Four summer homes instead of eight.”

Trying Home Four Ten Summer Gold Dollars Eight Chains Right Thing Here And There Clip

Author:LL Cool J

“In 1856...I preferred the success of a candidate whose election would prevent or postpone secession, to seeing the country plunged into a war the end of which no man could foretell. With a Democrat elected by the unanimous vote of the Slave States, there could be no pretext for secession for four years.... I therefore voted for James Buchanan as President.”

Men Years War Ends Country States President Four Seeing Vote Election Slave Democrat Candidates Four Years Pretext Secession

Author:Ulysses S. Grant

“You hear a lot of jokes every once in a while about 'Silent Cal Coolidge.' The joke is on the people who make the jokes. Look at his record. He cut the taxes four times. We had probably the greatest growth and prosperity that we've ever known. I have taken heed of that because if he did that by doing nothing, maybe that's the answer.”

People Ifs Looks Growth Answers Known Taken Records Four Cutting Taxes Jokes Silent Prosperity Doing Nothing Heed

Author:Ronald Reagan

“I run four times a week. And I don't count miles - I don't do that. I don't care about that. I care about how I feel, and I run according to how I feel.”

Feels Care Running Four Week Don't Care Miles I Don't Care I Care

Author:Ziggy Marley

“When it came to using elements of your personal life in your work, my mother was the master, or the mistress. There were three or four songs she wrote about my father - songs about failed love.”

Mother Song Three Father Four Masters Elements Personal Life Mistress

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“We've done an arrangement with an orchestra, but I think the best stuff tends to come when it's just the four of us.”

Thinking Done Stuff Four Arrangements Orchestra

Author:Brian May

“Good speakers usually find when they finish that there have been four versions of the speech: the one they delivered, the one they prepared, the one the newspapers say was delivered, and the one on the way home they wish they had delivered.”

Way Has Beens Home Wish Four Speech Prepared Newspapers Versions Speakers Way Home

Author:Dale Carnegie

“The best leaders operate in four dimensions: vision, reality, ethics, and courage.”

Reality Leader Vision Four Ethics Dimensions Best Leader

Author:Peter Koestenbaum

“Four hundred top-decision makers listed the myriad looming threats to global security, including famine, terrorism, inequality, disease, poverty and climate change. Yet when we tried to address each diverse force, we found them all attached to one universal security risk: fresh water.”

“Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that's associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.”

People Want Giving Years Jobs Four Degrees Decided Four Years Employers Breadth

Author:Bill Gates

“I always used to travel without a passport case, and because of it I think I'm four passports in. I bought this small Tumi case to protect my new one, and it works really well, not just for protecting it but also for keeping credit cards and small stuff. I just throw it in my bag when I'm traveling, as opposed to stuffed in my pocket.”

Thinking Wells Used Stuff Cases Four Protect Credit Cards Pockets Bags Credit Card Passports Small Stuff

Author:Avicii

“That abominable and sensual act called reading the newspaper, thanks to which all the misfortunes and cataclysms in the universe over the last twenty-four hours, the battles which cost the lives of fifty-thousand men, the murders, the strikes, the bankruptcies, the fires, the poisonings, the suicides, the divorces, the cruel emotions of statesmen and actors, are transformed for us, who don't even care, into a morning treat, blending in wonderfully, in a particularly exciting and tonic way, with the recommended ingestion of a few sips of cafe au lait.”

“Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.”

“Will you trust your five senses above the four Gospels?”

Five Four Senses Five Senses

Book:The works of Thomas Adams: being the sum of his sermons, meditations, and other divine and moral discourses

Source: The works of Thomas Adams: being the sum of his sermons, meditations, and other divine and moral discourses

“I can't believe it's been four years now, and from watching that pilot, we really all looked like babies. It's unbelievable just how far everything has come. I'm happier now than I've ever been on the show and in my life. I really owe so much of my happiness to 'Glee.'”

Years Believe I Can Shows Four Baby Four Years Pilots Unbelievable Glee

Author:Lea Michele

“Babbo's menu is only four pages, but it's overwhelming - there are 20 different pastas in there, a lot of stuff. There is nothing I hate more than a useless, lazy menu with only three appetizers and four entrees.”

Different Hate Three Stuff Four Pages I Hate Useless Lazy Overwhelming Pasta Menus Appetizers Entrees

Author:Joe Bastianich

“Have you ever taken a serious political stand on anything? Yeah. Sure. For twenty-four hours once I refused to eat grapes.”

Political Politics Hours Taken Four Serious Twenties Yeah Grapes

Author:Woody Allen

“Men emerge pale from the little printing plant at four sharp, ghosts for an instant, blinking, until the outdoor light overcomes the look of constant indoor light clinging to them.”

Men Looks Littles Light Four Overcoming Constant Plant Ghost Instant Pale Printing Clinging

Book:Rabbit Angstrom: a tetralogy

Source: Rabbit Angstrom: a tetralogy

“I led such a sheltered life I didn't go out with girls until I was almost four.”

Girl Four Sheltered Lives

Author:Bob Hope

“I never wanted to churn it out. Comedians tend to work all the time. They never put it down like musicians who might make an album then take three or four years off to recharge their batteries. Comedians tend to work straight through and they get stale because of that. Even when I didn't have a lot of money I never ever did it unless I had something new to say.”

Years Might Wanted Three Four Musician Albums Comedian Something New Four Years Lots Of Money Stale Batteries

Author:Chris Rock

“Why is monotheistic faith better than polytheistic? I mean, either you believe - if you believe in, like, a magic person who can do magic things, why is it different - so different if it's Superman or the Fantastic Four?”

Ifs Believe Mean Persons Different Can Do Four Magic Fantastic If You Believe Fantastic Four

Author:Bill Maher

“I get the Playboy thing a lot. People assume I go out with bimbos. I couldn`t go out with bimbos if I tried! I scare them off! The women that like me are smart. So I go to the Playboy Mansion four or five times a year, but people think I go all the time.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Five Four Smart Assuming Like Me Scare Mansions Playboy

Author:Bill Maher

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