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“This is a dreadful thing to say, but I have wondered in my darker hours that, if everything were legal, wouldn't it be kind of a Darwinian solution to a lot of problems? Who are the bikies that you see who are cruisin' around with no helmet or with a hat turned around like that yoyo in Cheap Trick? They're dummies, and if they splatter their brains all over the sidewalk, they're not going to be collecting food stamps.”

Ifs Kind Problem Hours Brain Solutions Tricks Hats Be Kind Stamps Collecting Sidewalk Helmet Dummy Food Stamps

Book:Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King

Source: Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King

“There's no greater feeling than people coming up to me and going, "Man, my father was dying, and we went to see Rush Hour, and it was the greatest night we had in years together. We sat in that theater and we laughed for two hours without stopping. That was just a great memory that I had before my father died."”

People Men Years Two Feelings Together Night Father Hours Memories Greater Dying Died Theater Sat Laughed Stopping Father Died My Father Died Great Memories Rush Hour Years Together

Author:Brett Ratner

“I'm a curious guy. I can't turn away from an investigative story, when it comes to the forensic analysis. I've done 33 dives, to the titanic wreck site. I've spent over 50 hours piloting robotic vehicles at that wreck trying to piece together what happened during the disaster. How the ship broke up, comparing the historical record with the forensic record. Documentaries are kind of my new life. I love documentary filmmaking.”

“All my cuts are always about three hours, at the start, mainly because any scene in the movie that's 90 seconds, I probably shot a five-minute version of. If you just extrapolate that through the whole movie, I have a very long version of every scene, usually because, if there's one funny joke, I'll shoot five because I don't know if the one I like is going to work. I'll get back-ups because my biggest fear is to be in previews, testing the movie, and a joke doesn't work, but I have no way to fix it because I have no other line.”

Ifs Knows Way Long Whole Three Hours Lines Five Cutting Minutes Scene Jokes Shots Versions Get Back Seconds Testing Going To Work Five Minutes Biggest Fear Funny Jokes Preview

Author:Judd Apatow

“I usually kind of can't wait until my records leak. Back in the day, you could give people tapes, but you can't do that anymore, because it would be available to everyone on the planet within an hour.”

People Giving Kind Would Be Waiting Hours Records Planets Available Tape Leaks Back In The Day

Author:John Darnielle

“Editing is very satisfying process. You spend hours working on something and then you get to watch it. It's immediately satisfying where everything else is just kind of waiting and waiting and waiting.”

Kind Waiting Process Hours Watches Satisfying Editing

Author:Shane Carruth

“I'm out doing my deal, I'm turning people on. What's wrong with taking people away from their everyday mundane situation and having a good, fun night for an hour and a half at a rock'n'roll scene?”

People Night Fun Hours Deals Half Situation Rocks Scene Everyday Rock N Roll Mundane Good Fun Fun Night

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“Every day after school, for three hours a day, I would sell those pralines on the street corner. I was just eight years old. I'd bring the money home to my parents and say, "This is just the beginning."”

Years Home School Three Parent Hours Streets Sells Corners Eight After School Street Corners

Author:Richard Simmons

“When you have a passion for something the hours, days, months and years that it takes to complete the project becomes secondary because you're working on something that you love.”

Years Passion Hours Months Projects

Author:One9

“I'm just looking for authentic engagement of some kind, and usually, after an hour or more, you get that. Some people talk at you. Some people just want to answer questions, but a lot of times, all of a sudden you drift away, and you don't remember you're on the mic, and you're in something real.”

People Want Kind Real Remember Hours Answers Engagement Remember You Remembers You Mics Something Real

Author:Marc Maron

“If you let someone talk for an hour, you're gonna have a pretty good idea of who they are, and I think that's more rewarding than me sitting there going, "That's complete bullshit about health care."”

Ifs Thinking Ideas Care Hours Sitting Health Care Good Ideas Bullshit

Author:Marc Maron

“When I go up, especially if I'm paying for a small helicopter and pilot, I'm on. I've got an hour and a half and the clock is ticking and it's costly and I enter into a super-heightened state of mind.”

Ifs Mind States Hours Half Clock State Of Mind Pilots Helicopters Clock Is Ticking

Author:Michael Light

“There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.”

Way Giving Care Values Hours Simple Economic Amount Taxes Sick Paid Gender Flexible Gender Equality Economic Value Sick Leave

Author:Gloria Steinem

“A feature film is an expansion of budget, stress, story, hours, time, workload, everything.”

Stories Film Hours Stress Budgets Features Expansion Workload

Author:Taika Waititi

“I can listen to the same song back-to-back for two to three hours straight. I'm not psycho; I swear. There are some songs I won't listen to any more because they are songs that helped me get to emotional places. Even if I hear it, I'll have to walk out of the room or turn it down. It sounds so strange but those things affect me in a certain way.”

Ifs Way I Can Two Certain Song Turns Three Sound Hours Walks Rooms Emotional Strange Swear Psycho

Author:Rami Malek

“Most Americans stopped looking at what was happening through a variety of coping mechanisms - starting with women entering paid work and then everyone working longer hours and using their homes for raising equity and generating more money through debt. The typical household basically staved off the day of reckoning.”

Home Hours Happenings Paid Starting Debt Variety Mechanism Household More Money Typical Entering Equity Coping Reckoning Coping Mechanisms

Author:Robert Reich

“You face challenges and you have to make choices. You're weighing the necessary responsibility toward reality and authenticity and of course the need to create a compressed drama over two hours.”

Needs Two Reality Faces Choices Courses Hours Challenges Responsibility Drama Authenticity Weighing

Author:Paul Greengrass

“Staying in shape does not come easily, especially as you get older and you don't have as much time or energy to exercise. I used to be naturally skinny in high school and college. I was in cheerleading, ran track, and did gymnastics, so I had a built-in five-hour workout every day. Lately, I've been doing Pilates on the Megaformer, which is like Pilates on steroids.”

Doe School Used Energy Hours Five College Exercise Shapes High School Built Track Used To Be Ran Staying Workout Skinny Gymnastics Pilates Steroid Cheerleading

Author:Eva Longoria

“There's nothing really original. Alien was a B-movie. Five directors passed on it before me. Because I was into Heavy Metal, I read it, and thought, "Wow, I want to do this." I was on a plane to Hollywood in 22 hours. It was a B-movie and was elevated to an A-plus movie by sheer good taste.”

Want Hours Five Taste Directors Hollywood Originals Heavy Aliens Planes Plus Wow Metals Sheer Good Taste Heavy Metal

Author:Ridley Scott

“To create the reality of space with this sense of suspension: nothing's happening, it's endless; we're traveling at 28,000 kilometers an hour but nothing's happening. Nothing! And you have to do that! There are all these rules you have to follow, I've never known anything like it.”

Reality Hours Space Known Happenings Endless Suspension

Author:Danny Boyle

“When I lost my faith in people I put my trust in things To avoid the disappointment Trusting people brings... I tried to do it all myself then Surrounded by my stuff All I found were limitations I could not rise above There are gadgets and contraptions Immaculate machines There's a program you can download now That will even dream your dreams It'll even dream you dreams For a monthly fee Clear up your complexion You get a hundred hours free Possessions cannot save you.”

“With crazy [working] hours, it's not easy to find balance. However, the one silver lining is that you really find out who your friends are and who's really interested in you for you, because the schedule is challenging for any relationship.”

Easy Hours Challenges Crazy Balance Silver Schedules Who Your Friends Are

Author:Jenna Lee

“Always half an hour a day where it's just me and my yoga mat.”

Hours Half Yoga Yoga Mats

Author:Karen Walker

“When it is going well, it is the best job [writing] in the world. For those few hours, you are god, in control of everything. However, for me, the great joy of writing is that it has allowed me to travel the world in search of stories.”

World Writing Wells Stories Jobs Joy Hours Best Job Travel The World Great Joy

Author:Michael Scott

“There's something about approaching 50 that's very liberating. Political struggle has always been a 24-hour-a-day job for me. I felt I could never take time out for myself. Now I feel I owe it to myself to develop in ways I've been putting off all my life.”

Way Feels Jobs Political Felt Hours Struggle Take Time Liberating Day Jobs Political Struggle

Author:Assata Shakur

“When I'm not working, I am the laziest person. I can literally lie on a couch and watch television for 15 hours.”

Persons I Can Lying Hours Watches Television Couches

Author:Jennifer Lawrence

“I don't want to rescind American directors but I think that European directors in general, because of the size of the nations in Europe are exposed to all different cultures, they can easily travel from one distinct culture to another in a matter of hours - you can drive for two weeks across the United States and you're in the same basic culture - so there is a certain breadth of understanding and sophistication that they bring to it and frankly, in some cases they are less expensive than American directors.”

“I like movies! No, I like theater too. And paintings are great, and all of that! But to me, the great sort of artistic medium I think, of our time, is film. I really feel that. I mean to me, there's nothing else out there, where I can sort of suspend disbelief for two hours.”

Thinking Feels Mean I Can Two Film Hours Painting Theater Mediums Artistic Our Time Disbelief

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“If a film is good, and I'm sort of able to sit there and absorb myself within that world. And get lost. That is a pretty powerful tool. And there's not many paintings out there, that make me want to stare at it for hours at a time, and wonder where I am!”

Ifs World Want Able Film Lost Hours Powerful Wonder Painting Tools Staring

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“Film is cool because it's an hour and a half to two hours. It's a great ride. It's typically three acts - beginning, middle and end. It's going on an adventure and by the end it's all cleaned up.”

Two Ends Film Three Hours Half Middle Adventure Beginning Middle And End Going On An Adventure

Author:Chris Pratt

“Usually I get up early every morning and from 6:00 to 10:00 I write. The rest of the time I study and prepare my work or I do other things. But four hours a day are exclusively devoted to writing.”

Writing Hours Morning Study Four Get Up Devoted Every Morning Up Early

Author:Elie Wiesel

“I really didn't have any bad hitchhiking experiences. The only bad experiences were standing by the road for 10 hours. I never thought I'd get a ride with a ministers wife or a coalminer or a Republican elected official. It was all pleasant surprises. The only drag was the waiting.”

Waiting Hours Wife Republican Standing Surprise Ministers Pleasant Officials Drag Elected Officials Hitchhiking Bad Experiences Pleasant Surprises

Author:John Waters

“I can't help moving my face - reacting - when I watch a movie, because I'm really inhabiting a character. I know this is weird, but it demonstrates what I love about cinema: it allows you to live a different life, to have a different experience, to disappear for two hours. I think it's wonderful.”

Thinking Knows I Can Two Different Character Helping Faces Moving Hours Watches Wonderful Disappear Cinema Reacting Different Experiences Different Life

Author:Emma Stone

“If your outer life is really a reflection of the quality of your inner life, then it's a brilliant move to spend at least an hour a day working on yourself.”

Ifs Moving Life Is Hours Quality Reflection Brilliant Inner Life Working On Yourself

Author:Robin Sharma

“I'm not one of those who spring up yelling, "Yippee! Another day!" I'll grumble and sulk around a couple of hours, reading newspapers and trying to pick out an idea I might do something with on the show. But I don't really start functioning until noon or later; then about two I go to the studio and the pace begins to quicken.”

Trying Two Ideas Shows Might Reading Hours Couple Spring Picks Studios Newspapers Pace Noon Yelling Another Day Reading Newspapers

Author:Johnny Carson

“The big problem in America is that everyone is spending 2-3 hours a day watching TV. If you spend that same amount of time reading, you'll be in the top 1% of whatever your field is.”

Ifs Problem Bigs America Reading Hours Fields Tvs Amount Spending Big Problems Watching Tv

Author:Jack Canfield

“I teach that people should watch less TV. I don't care what else they're doing! The average American's watching anywhere from three to six hours a day. If you watch six hours of TV a day, that's 15 years of your life!”

People Ifs Should Years Care Three Hours Watches Teach Tvs Six Average Don't Care I Don't Care

Author:Jack Canfield

“Having the privilege of sitting down and having 3 hour long uninterrupted conversations with hundreds of brilliant people is an awesome perspective enhancer.”

People Long Hours Perspective Conversation Sitting Down And Privilege Brilliant Sitting Down

Author:Joe Rogan

“I'm terrible with my workout regime and following it strictly. I'm terrible with a healthy diet and following it strictly. I'm terrible on the weekends about getting up at reasonable hours and all of those things. But, when it comes to my work and the discipline it takes to get to work on time - I hate unprofessionalism.”

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Author:Katherine Heigl

“Being bipolar and an addict and an alcoholic I have to keep myself very busy. I don't sleep. I am lucky if I get three hours of sleep a night, and so I get up, and my head is full of slamming doors.”

Ifs Night Three Hours Sleep Doors Lucky Busy Get Up Addict Alcoholics Bipolar Slamming Doors

Author:David Feherty

“If you tried to make a show for every person's particular interest, it'd be impossible because everyone is going to consume it the way they want to. All you can do is try to do an hour that makes sense for all.”

Ifs Way Want Trying Persons Shows Interest Can Do Hours Impossible Particular Make Sense

Author:Scott Van Pelt

“I suddenly began to realize that to become an entrepreneur in the marijuana business would make me fairly well off. And I also liked the lifestyle, my own working hours.”

Wells Realizing Hours My Own Entrepreneur Lifestyle Marijuana

Author:George Jung

“The artist thing is just natural. If that comes out, the music, the songs, I need some actual time which I dedicate to it. But I don't have to sit down eight hours a day in order to get out what I need to create. That is just always bubbeling inside and than evetually it just comes out.”

Ifs Needs Artist Song Order Hours Natural Eight

Author:Sage Francis

“I go to the gym every morning for a couple of hours, then I come to work, whatever is on the plate for the day, I do it. I don't ask many questions, I go where I am told to.”

Asks Hours Morning Couple Gym Plates Every Morning

Author:Marc Jacobs

“Traffic counting was very boring and cold to sit out on the streets of New Haven in five pairs of pants - well, that's an exaggeration; it was three pairs of pants - in November for hours and hours clicking buttons counting which cars go left, right, and forward.”

Wells Three Left Hours Five Streets Car Havens Cold Boring Pairs Pants Buttons Traffic Counting November Exaggeration

Author:John Hodgman

“Do not be despondent when fighting against the incorporeal enemy, but even in the midst of your afflictions and oppression praise the Lord, Who has found you worthy to suffer for Him, by struggling against the subtlety of the serpent, and to be wounded for Him at every hour; for had you not lived piously, and endeavored to become united to God, the enemy would not have attacked and tormented you.”

Christian Suffering Fighting Found Hours United Lord Enemy Struggle Praise Worthy Oppression Midst Wounded Affliction Subtlety Serpent Found You Despondent Praise The Lord

Author:John of Kronstadt

“Affliction shows the power of Christ's blood, when it gives peace in an hour of trouble, when it can make happy in sickness, poverty, persecution and death. Do not be surprised if you suffer, but glorify God.”

Ifs Giving Shows Christian Suffering Christ Hours Poverty Trouble Blood Sickness Affliction Persecution Glorify Make Happy

Book:The Life and Remains, Letters, Lectures, and Poems of the Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne

Source: The Life and Remains, Letters, Lectures, and Poems of the Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne

“Do you know what a great gift it is that God gave us the right to speak to Him every hour and moment, wherever we are? He always listens to us. This is the greatest honor we have. For this reason we must love God.”

Knows Reason Moments Christian Speak Hours Honor God Love Orthodox Do You Know Great Gifts

Author:Porphyrios (Bairaktaris) of Kafsokalivia

“If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness.”

Ifs Hours Half Poet Gains Richness Spun

Book:The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words

Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words

“One hour spent in spinning should be an hour of self-development for the spinner.”

Should Self Hours Development Self Development Spinning One Hour Spinner

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

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