“The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit.” WayLittlesAbleLostDifficultMonthsHabitSixCoachesAccentsEmbarrassedSix MonthsDialectDialect Coach Author:Martin Henderson
“The habits of a lifetime when everything else had to come before writing are not easily broken, even when circumstances now often make it possible for writing to be first; habits of years - responses to others, distractibility, responsibility for daily matters - stay with you, mark you, become you. The cost of discontinuity (that pattern still imposed on women) is such a weight of things unsaid, an accumulation of material so great, that everything starts up something else in me; what should take weeks take me sometimes months to write; what should take months, takes years.” ShouldWritingYearsFirstsStillsSometimesMatterResponsibilityWeekMaterialsBrokenMonthsHabitCircumstancesCostWeightMarkLifetimeResponsePatternsTake MeAccumulationUnsaidDiscontinuity Book:Silences Source: Silences
“With writing ... you must keep in the habit. After a lapse it will take you not an hour, but a week, a month, maybe, to find your mood again - that mood in which things drop from heaven. There's no forcing it; you can't set your notions in front of you, and stare at them till they take shape; they have to come to you whether you ask them or not. ... And you have to be in the habit of that mood! Of inspiration!” WritingInspirationAsksHeavenHoursWeekFrontsMonthsHabitShapesNotionMoodStaringLapses Author:Anne Bosworth Greene
“I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.” SaidShowsPrinciplesBreakBrokenMonthsHabitSlaveCriticsSmokingNow And ThenShowing Off Book:Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography Source: Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography
“It took me five months to lose twenty pounds and it took me hours to gain it back. I mean it was magical how quickly it all happened. Going back to my poor eating habits after having really good eating habits my stomach was a little unsettled.” MeanLittlesHoursLosesPoorFiveHappenedMonthsHabitEatingGainsTwentiesPoundsStomachEating HabitsGood Eating Author:Mila Kunis
“Joe Kennedy isn't in the habit of having incompetents around. I wouldn't have lasted three months if I didn't have some ability.” IfsThreeAbilityMonthsHabitThree Months Author:Sargent Shriver
“For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.” YearsLooksTimeTurnsMonthsHabitTwentiesNew YearElevenShortcomingsNew Years EveHappy New YearNew Year's ResolutionsGood HabitsNew Year New BeginningHappy New Year EveNew Years Eve InspirationalDays Of The YearHappy New Year LoveGood YearsNew Years Day Author:Arthur Hays Sulzberger
“It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter with human beings, to account for their peculiar habit of continually stating and restating the very very obvious, as in "It's a nice day," or "You're very tall," or "So this is it, we're going to die." His first theory was that if human beings didn't keep exercising their lips, their mouths probably shriveled up. After a few months of observation he had come up with a second theory, which was this--"If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, their brains start working.” IfsFirstsHumansDiesHuman BeingsBrainNiceTheoryMonthsHabitExerciseMouthsAccountsLipsCome UpObviousObservationEncountersTallPeculiarNice Day Book:The Restaurant at the End of the Universe Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe