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“One survey that I saw that was published I think in Variety or Electronic Media within the last three weeks says that now the average hour of radio in the United States has 18 minutes of commercials.”

Thinking States Lasts Three Hours United United States Saws Week Minutes Media Average Radio Variety Surveys Electronic Media

Author:Robert Waterman McChesney

“I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens.”

People Thinking Needs Mind Littles Two Helping Kids School Three Hours Teaching Chairs Village Little Kid Athens Niger

Author:Christine Lagarde

“I'm used to adapting my novels for feature film - it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred pages into two hours of dramatic action.”

Two Action Film Used Three Hours Challenges Novel Four Cutting Pages Hundred Features Dramatic Adapting

Author:Tom Perrotta

“It's funny, because when you're younger you're in a rush to be 18 or 21 or whatever. But then you hit 30. And now, the days go by like hours. You think, 40, man, this could be the halfway point. It could be the three-quarters point, you know? Who knows?”

Thinking Knows Men Three Hours Quarters Halfway

Author:Mark Wahlberg

“To be honest, because there's loud music in my ears probably three hours a day, between sound check and the show, I listen to podcasts more than I listen to music on the road.”

Shows Three Sound Hours Honest Ears Checks Being Honest Loud Listening To Music Loud Music

Author:St. Vincent

“I procrastinate in spades. In my defence, I also try to have all other distractions solved before I can concentrate on writing. My small theory is that to write for three hours, you need to feel like you have three days. To write for three days, you need to feel like you've got three weeks, and so on.”

Needs Feels Writing Trying I Can Three Hours Week Theory Like You Distraction Defence Procrastinating Spades

Author:Markus Zusak

“I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me.”

Knows Persons Three Hours Ten Kill Me

Author:Lars von Trier

“You have to stand every day three or four hours of visitors. Nine-tenths of them want something they ought not to have. If you keep dead-still they will run down in three or four minutes. If you even cough or smile they will start up all over again.”

Ifs Want Stills Running Three Hours Four Minutes Ought Nine Want Something Visitors

Book:The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century

Source: The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century

“I trained for less than three-quarters of an hour, maybe five days a week - I didn't have time to do more. But it was all about quality, not quantity - so I didn't waste time jogging, ever.”

Three Hours Quality Five Week Waste Quarters Wasting Time Quantity Jogging Quality Not Quantity

Author:Roger Bannister

“You don't look at it as the size of the role. Quantity is not the point. You can be as thorough in 30 seconds as you can in three hours.”

Looks Three Hours Roles Size Seconds Quantity Thorough

Author:William Hurt

“The benefits of becoming fluent in a foreign tongue are as underestimated as the difficulty is overestimated. Thousands of theoretical linguists will disagree, but I know from research and personal experimentation with more than a dozen languages that (1) adults can learn languages much faster than children when constant 9-5 work is removed and that (2) it is possible to become conversationally fluent in any language in six months or less. At four hours per day, six months can be whittled down to less than three months.”

“It takes between three and six hours to make each snowball, depending on snow quality. Wet snow is quick to work with but also quick to thaw, which can lead to a tense journey to the cold store.”

Artist Three Hours Quality Journey Cold Six Stores Snow Wet Tense Snowball

Book:Midsummer Snowballs

Source: Midsummer Snowballs

“My picture, Fifth Avenue, Winter is the result of a three hours' stand during a fierce snow-storm on February 22nd 1893, awaiting the proper moment. My patience was duly rewarded. Of course, the result contained an element of chance, as I might have stood there for hours without succeeding in getting the desired pictures.”

Moments Might Three Courses Hours Chance Results Succeed Elements Winter Storm Snow Fierce Fifth Avenues February Fifth Avenue Snow Storms

Book:Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

Source: Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

“Making my English better is a hard job, a slow job. But it's getting better. Three years ago it would have taken me a half hour to say this sentence.”

Years Hard Jobs Three Hours Half Taken Years Ago Sentences Get Better Three Years Half Hours

Author:Goran Visnjic

“I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests.”

Years Ends Three Hours Emotion Discipline Six Tests Studios Granted Awards Strict Foreigners Admission

Author:Ralph Allen

“Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.”

Writing Three Hours Six Pages Eight Satisfied Agony

Author:Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.”

Three Hours Five Built Horse Average Expected Miles Forty Stations Covered Fifteen Routes Riders Intervals Miles Apart

Book:An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill

Source: An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill

“One of the things I love about the theater is that no one can tell you to stop. Once you're onstage, it's three hours, and whether you're completely off or you're just horrendous, you've got to find a way to leave an impression. There's not that terrible thing that you get when you're making a movie, where you get in your car at the end of the day knowing that something you're not proud of was immortalized on film, and you can't fix it because they won't reshoot it.”

Way Ends Film Three Hours Knowing Car Proud Terrible Theater Impression The End Of The Day Terrible Things Things I Love

Author:Carey Mulligan

“I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece.”

Long Three Can Do Hours Pieces Radio Finished Interviews

Author:Daniel Alarcon

“Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking! ... I begin to feel, think, and be myself again. Instead of an awkward silence, broken by attempts at wit or dull common-places, mine is that undisturbed silence of the heart which alone is perfect eloquence.”

Source: Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners

“[Ognev] recalled endless, heated, purely Russian arguments, when the wranglers, spraying spittle and banging their fists on the table, fail to understand yet interrupt one another, themselves not even noticing it, contradict themselves with every phrase, change the subject, then, having argued for two or three hours, begin to laugh.”

Two Three Hours Laughing Failing Subjects Argument Tables Endless Phrases Fists Noticing Banging Wranglers

Author:Anton Chekhov

“Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on December 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack on an American love triangle. Its centerpiece is 40 minutes of redundant special effects, surrounded by a love story of stunning banality. The film has been directed without grace, vision, or originality, and although you may walk out quoting lines of dialog, it will not be because you admire them.”

“If it could save a person's life, could you find a way to save ten seconds off the boot time? If there were five million people using the Mac, and it took ten seconds extra to turn it on every day, that added up to three hundred million or so hours per year people would save, which was the equivalent of at least one hundred lifetimes saved per year.”

People Ifs Way Years Persons Turns Three Hours Millions Five Ten Hundred Lifetime Saved Extras Seconds Boots Macs

Author:Steve Jobs

“My first job was with the Burns Detective Agency. They sent me over to the East River to guard coal barges during these god-awful hours like three to six in the morning. It wasn't a very difficult job -- all I had to do was make a round every fifteen minutes -- but it turned out to be a great environment for writing. I was completely alone in a little outhouse with an electric heater and a little desk.”

Writing Firsts Littles Jobs Three Difficult Hours Morning Environment Minutes Six Rivers Rounds East Awful Agency Electric Fifteen Desks Coal Detectives Barges

Author:Sam Shepard

“All of us have just got to find that time to look after our bodies. That helps us make sure that our mind is sharp. I know that when I'm feeling great and really fit, I can get in three or four hours more of really productive work.”

Knows Mind Looks I Can Helping Feelings Body Three Hours Four Fit Productive Feeling Great Productive Work

Author:Richard Branson

“So I'd be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln/Douglas style debate with Barack Obama. I'd let him use a teleprompter. I'll just rely on knowledge. We'll do fine.”

Use Three Hours Style Fine Debate Barack Rely

Author:Newt Gingrich

“Thinking very hard about the same problem for several hours can produce a severe fatigue, close to a breakdown. I never really experienced a breakdown, but have felt "strange inside" two or three times during my life.”

Thinking Two Hard Problem Three Felt Hours Produce Strange Severe Three Times Fatigue Breakdown

Author:Stanislaw Ulam

“In the last 48 hours King Abdullah from Saudi Arabia passed away. I have a moral dilemma. The king passed away three or four days ago. Is it too soon to hit on Queen Latifah?”

Lasts Three Hours Moral Four Kings Queens Dilemma Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis Passed Away Moral Dilemma 48 Hours King Abdullah

Author:David Letterman

“First of all, the first cut of the movie was like three and a half hours and I walked away going, 'Wow, I know there's like twenty minutes that I can cut - ' when I first saw it 'But I don't know after that.' The first time I put up then in front of people I was like, 'Oh, my God, I can take that out and that out and that out.'”

People Knows Firsts I Can Three Hours Half Saws Comedy Cutting Minutes Fronts First Time Twenties Wow Half Hours

Author:Ben Stiller

“It's really not that hard. If I do a Tonight Show, it's six or seven minutes. If I do a concert, it's 90 minutes. If I do an interview, that's 15 minutes. So by the end of the day I've done three hours worth of work.”

Ifs Ends Hard Done Shows Three Hours Comedy Minutes Six Seven Interviews The End Of The Day Tonight Concerts

Author:Howie Mandel

“People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.”

Source: Jesse, a spiritual autobiography

“I am among those who firmly believe that a round of golf should not take more than three and a half hours, four at most. Anything longer than that is not a round of golf, it's life in Albania.”

Should Believe Three Hours Half Four Golf Rounds Half Hours Albania

Author:Dan Jenkins

“I don't like to be on a set and wait three hours, just to make some lighting adjustments. I like to shoot. That's what I want to do. I'd rather shoot something dumb than wait.”

Want Three Waiting Hours Dumb Adjustment Lighting

Author:Quentin Dupieux

“My wife has told me since that I was hungover every mornng until about two in the afternoon, and from five until midnight I was drunk out of my mind. So she says there was this period of about three hours when she could talk to me like a rational human being.”

Mind Humans Two Three Hours Human Beings Five Wife Periods My Wife Rational Drunk Afternoon Midnight Talk To Me Of My Mind

Author:Stephen King

“I'll tell you what's funny about it [NSA wiretapping]: They tell us we got to cut the budget; we have to have budget rollback. We're going to cut the budget on air traffic control, and every once in a while your plane is going to be delayed for three hours. But we do have the money laying around to hire people to read your emails and listen to your phone conversations. That just doesn't make any friggin' sense at all.”

People Three Hours Cutting Air Conversation Phones Planes Budgets Traffic Email Nsa Delayed Air Traffic Control Traffic Control

Author:Michael Shannon

“Books are surviving in this intense, fragmented, hyper-accelerated present, and my sense and hope is that things will slow down again and people will want more time for a contemplative life. There is no way people can keep up this pace. No one is happy. Two or three hours to read should not be an unattainable thing, although I hope we get to that stage without needing a corporate sponsored app to hold our hand. The utopian in me has my fingers crossed that we haven't quite figured out the digital future just yet. After all, the one thing we know about people: they always surprise.”

“Press junkets are incredibly annoying. You sit in a chair for three to six hours and have different journalists shuttle in for three minutes at a time, asking cheesy movie questions to get a quick sound bite - and that's their only objective. You can't really move or eat. You're just stuck there. It's pressure, constant pressure.”

Different Moving Three Sound Hours Minutes Six Pressure Asking Presses Constant Stuck Objectives Journalist Chairs Bites Annoying Cheesy Sound Bites

Author:Annabella Sciorra

“I jogged for three miles once. It was the worst three hours of my life.”

Three Hours Worst Miles

Book:Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature

Source: Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature

“The U.S. has more guns per capita and supplies more guns to the world than any other country. What would be a fistfight without guns turns into dead bodies with them. Families with guns in the house are more likely to shoot themselves accidentally than to shoot any intruder. Women abused by their partners have a five-fold increased risk of being killed when their partner owns a gun. Every three hours, at least one child is wounded or killed by gunfire.”

World Children Country Body Would Be Turns Three House Hours Five Risk Gun Partners Other Countries Wounded Folds Supplies Intruders

Author:Gloria Steinem

“...the story of a man who saw three fellows laying bricks at a new building: He approached the first and asked, What are you doing? Clearly irritated, the first man responded, What the heck do you think I'm doing? I'm laying these darn bricks! He then walked over to the second bricklayer and asked the same question. The second fellow responded, Oh, I'm making a living. He approached the third bricklayer with the same question, What are you doing? The third looked up, smiled and said, I'm building a cathedral. At the end of the day, who feels better about how he's spent his last eight hours?”

Thinking Men Feels Firsts Said Ends Stories Lasts Three Hours Saws Building Thirds Fellows Eight The End Of The Day Feel Better Bricks Cathedrals Irritated Making A Living Bricklayers

Author:Bill Vaughan

“I repeat the wake-up, the workout, the quick shower, the breakfast of three hard-boiled egg whites and a cup of coffee, the hour to make my morning calls and deal with correspondence, the two hours of stretching and working out ideas by myself in the studio ... That's my day, every day. A dancer's life is all about repetition.”

Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

“If you let anything infringe on your writing time, it will. And you won't get the writing done. Taking one day off can cost me five days of getting back in the mood. Going out to lunch can cost me anywhere from five hours to three days. And for me it's not worth it. For my own sense of well-being I have to finish my work before I can play.”

Ifs Writing Wells I Can Done Play Three Hours My Own Five One Day Cost Mood Well Being Lunch Going Out Worth It Days Off Not Worth It

Author:Danielle Steel

“When Clapper raised his hand and lied to the American public, was anyone tried? Were any charges brought? Within 24 hours of going public, I had three charges against me.”

Hands Three Hours Raised Lied Nsa

Author:Edward Snowden

“In the morning, I wake up at about 6 a.m. and I run for about 45 minutes, then more sprinting. Then I go back home, I eat and I sleep. When I wake up, I train - I do about three hours in the gym...”

Home Running Three Hours Sleep Morning Minutes Wake Up Train Gym Back Home

Author:Manny Pacquiao

“There are three things I commit to on a daily basis: Exercising for an hour a day, tops. Never skipping meals. And accepting the size and shape I was born with.”

Three Born Hours Accepting Exercise Shapes Bases Size Commit Meals Three Things

Author:Paula Abdul

“If you take 12 waters from the coconut - not the ones you buy in the store, although that's good - but the fresh coconuts, the little brown ones with the three eyes, if you take 12 of those within 24 hours, your blood will go back to the way it was when you were born.”

Ifs Way Littles Eye Three Water Born Hours Blood Stores Brown Coconuts

Author:Dick Gregory

“It sounds shameful, but on my best days I write only about three or four hours.”

Writing Three Sound Hours Four Shameful

Author:Anne Bernays

“I'm told I was acting in school plays when I was a tiny little boy at the age of three, so they must have seen something then. And even when I was practicing piano eight hours a day, I was still doing school plays.”

Littles Stills Play Age School Three Hours Acting Boys Eight Tiny Piano Little Boys School Plays

Author:Christian McKay

“Here is a simple recipe to begin with. Get up every morning with the set intention of writing and go to your desk and sit there for three hours, whether you accomplish anything or not. Before long you will find that you are writing madly, not waiting for inspiration.”

Writing Long Inspiration Three Waiting Hours Simple Morning Intention Accomplish Get Up Every Morning Desks Recipes

Author:Gertrude Atherton

“My rage is gone, And I am struck with sorrow. Take him up. Help, three o' th' chiefest soldiers; I'll be one. Beat thou the drum, that it speaks mournfully, Trail your steel spikes. Though in this city he Hath widowed and unchilded many a one, Which to this hour bewail the injury, Yet he shall have a noble memory. Assist.”

Book Helping Three Speak Hours Memories Cities Gone Sorrow Beats Soldier Noble Rage Injury Steel Trails Widowed

Book:The Works of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Recently Discovered Portfolio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations ; with a History of the Stage, a Life of the Poet, and an Introduction to Each Play

Source: The Works of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Recently Discovered Portfolio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations ; with a History of the Stage, a Life of the Poet, and an Introduction to Each Play