“When I'm writing, which is 8-9 months out of the year, I'm in a concerted writing pace, where I work 5 days a week for at least a few hours a day, maybe a little bit more. But I won't work for more than 2 hours at a time. I'll work for a couple hours and take a break.” WritingYearsLittlesBitsHoursBreakWeekMonthsCoupleLittle BitPace Author:Amy Ray
“Terrible, it was terrible. Even today and it's been several months now you just bring it up and I tear up a little bit, terribly. You know when you're that close that long and got along as well as we did, we seldom had any serious arguments. We might have - might discuss which movie we wanted to see and what play we wanted to go to, where we ought to go for a vacation but that usually didn't last very long because we were much of the same mind all the time.” KnowsLoveMindWellsLittlesLongPlayMightTodayWantedLastsBitsLove YouTearsSeriousMonthsOughtTerribleLittle BitArgumentVacationTime Love Author:Walter Cronkite
“The flat tax I got on my first meeting with Margaret Thatcher, who I admired very much and who was a great admirer of Milton Friedman. I met her first when I had been prime minister I think for some months and so on, and when I told her what I am planning to do, she looked at me with these big eyes and said: "You are one brave young man." And then a little bit introduced me on the realities of the Western world on which I was not very well informed. But I didn't stop.” ThinkingMenWorldFirstsWellsLittlesSaidBigsRealityEyeYoungBitsMonthsMetsTaxesLittle BitBraveMeetingsWesternPlanningMinistersYoung ManFlatsPrimePrime MinisterWestern WorldAdmirerMiltonBig EyesFlat Tax Author:Mart Laar
“To the hard-working people who set a little bit aside each month, to provide for their children, or to fund their own retirement, I say: you should be rewarded not punished.” PeopleShouldChildrenLittlesHardBitsHard WorkMonthsLittle BitFundRetirementEach Month Author:William Hague
“Most of the time is with the family. Most of the time, is all the time. When we work it's a very intensive chunk of time. We work for 12 hours a day, 14 hours a day is common. And we'll do that for a few months and then we get to relax a little bit.” LittlesBitsHoursCommonMonthsLittle BitRelaxWorking ItChunks Author:Brad Pitt
“Quite often on a movie like Total Recall you have this training period of two or three months where, like on the first 'Underworld' I was doing gymnastics and trampolining and all this stuff which I don't do in the movie necessarily, but mentally it helps. You come home and you go: 'Well, I've done all that. I must be an action star now!' So it helps you focus a little bit and gets you fit.” FirstsWellsLittlesTwoDoneHelpingHomeActionThreeStarsStuffBitsFocusMonthsPeriodsFitLittle BitTrainingComing HomeRecallsGymnasticsThree MonthsUnderworldTotal Recall Author:Colin Farrell
“I don't like to risk my life, so I prepare sometimes for months or sometimes for years. But sometimes after a walk, I look what I have done, and I have a little bit of fear coming to me, just looking at pictures.” YearsLooksLittlesSometimesDoneBitsWalksRiskMonthsLittle Bit Author:Philippe Petit
“When I did Sean Penn’s movie, I think I was living in, like, a $500-a-month room, and someone called me up or bumped into me and asked me if I’d come up to work for a day. That sort of got me going a little bit. But it wasn’t until Sin City [2005] that I kind of got back into the game.” IfsThinkingKindLittlesGamesBitsSinRoomsCitiesMonthsLittle BitCome UpSeanSin City Author:Mickey Rourke
“You have to have a big vision and take very small steps to get there. You have to be humble as you execute but visionary and gigantic in terms of your aspiration. In the internet industry it's not about grand innovation, it's about a lot of little innovations: every day, every week, every month, making something a little bit better.” LittlesBigsBitsTermVisionStepsWeekMonthsIndustryInternetLittle BitInnovationHumbleAspirationVisionariesBe HumbleSmall Steps Author:Jason Calacanis
“Lego was our fourth film, because we did two Cloudys, so yeah there's a little bit of shorthand that's involved and then you can anticipate things- because for me it's like, I get a script for a movie and I go, "Wow that's a pretty good script", then you sign on and a couple months later they show you the first cut and you're like, "Whoa, how did that happen?"” FirstsLittlesTwoShowsHappensFilmBitsCuttingMonthsCoupleInvolvedLittle BitYeahScriptsWowFourthAnticipateShorthandLegos Author:Mark Mothersbaugh
“Hillary Clinton is getting a little bit of controversy because she has the most expensive hometown office rent - over $500,000 a year. She's in a one-year lease in the office, as opposed to her marriage, which is on a month-to-month.” YearsLittlesBitsMonthsOfficeLittle BitClintonExpensiveControversyHometownLeaseOver 50 Author:Jay Leno
“A lot of patients you know if you haven't seen them for 6 months or a year, you won't remember what medicines they're on or what kind of problems they have. And you know I'd feel much better if I know a little bit about the patient before I walk in the room, so I won't be too surprised.” IfsKnowsFeelsYearsKindLittlesProblemRememberBitsWalksRoomsHavensMonthsLittle BitMedicinePatient Author:William Davis
“I only do children's films now! I think when you go to LA some people feel you've defected a little bit and that's not really the case. Ideally, I would love to work here and to work in America. That's in an ideal world. In fact, I came back to Britain recently to do an ITV1 drama that will be out in April for a couple of months! But I'm flying back to LA to do a pilot season. So, to work in both places is great.” PeopleThinkingWorldFeelsChildrenLittlesFactsAmericaFilmBitsCasesMonthsCoupleDramaLittle BitIdealsSeasonsFlyingBritainPilotsAprilIdeal World Author:Ashley Jensen
“Now I'm in a situation where I have to plan very far ahead because there are people who are selling ads, so I have to really know what I'm going to do months in advance. If something's taking me a little bit longer to research, that's not okay. I can't take longer. I have to just get it done.” PeopleIfsKnowsLittlesI CanDoneBitsSituationPlansMonthsLittle BitResearchOkaySellingAdsGet It DoneNot Okay Author:Karina Longworth
“One thing I do is (and I realize this might sound nuts), every month or so, I try to take like an Etch-a-sketch [so to speak], and I clear my faith. I go to zero, clear the deck. And I start adding things back to my faith, one at a time. What would be the first thing I'd add back? Jesus. It sounds a little bit like a Sunday school answer, but that's what I do. Then what's the next thing? And I'd say, well, loving people. And then the next.” PeopleTryingFirstsWellsLittlesMightWould BeSchoolNextJesusSpeakBitsSoundRealizingAnswersClearOne ThingMonthsLittle BitAddSundayZeroNutsDeckSunday SchoolEtch A Sketch Author:Bob Goff
“It's not the '80s any more. We're not all riding around in limousines and snorting coke off of hookers' tits. We still have to keep working and touring. We're definitely still very much a working band. If we stopped doing this tomorrow, we'd have a little bit of cash to last us a couple of months, and then we'd have to go and get other jobs.” IfsLittlesStillsJobsLastsBitsMonthsCoupleTomorrowBandLittle BitCashRiding80sTouringCokeLimousines Author:Jim James