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“I never ever, ever say anything against my husband to anyone except my husband. Everyone gets in fights, and I think the natural propensity for women is, 'Oh I want to talk to someone.' But the minute you take what bothers you outside the bond between you and your husband, you let someone else into the relationship and that causes a wedge.”

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Author:Jen Lancaster

“If war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional life and death. There's not a handy one-minute way of talking to your kid about war.”

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Author:Richard Louv

“On TV, stories and events are finalized in 30 or 60 minutes, or neatly tied up after a season or two. The best stories are the ones that force us to come to our own conclusions and to explain why we believe in our conclusions.”

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Author:Lurlene McDaniel

“I was lucky enough to get to perform on stage in front of 20 million people on TV, and 150 thousand in concerts. For 15 minutes I got to be a rock star, the 15 minutes is great! It turns into Spinal Tap after 20 minutes.”

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Author:Mark Mothersbaugh

“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.”

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Author:Robert Waterman McChesney

“If I'm playing in the morning, I'll get some carbs early: porridge with chopped banana. If I'm playing in the afternoon, I'll start with less carbs and have some eggs and fruit for breakfast, then a light lunch about 90 minutes before I play, so I don't feel sluggish or full.”

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Author:Rory McIlroy

“Because love encompasses everything, nothing is unimportant, including tonight's dinner menu. Think about it for a minute. If you were pure love, the loving parent of all life, how would you want people to eat?”

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Book:Love Yourself Thin: The Revolutionary Spiritual Approach to Weight Loss

Source: Love Yourself Thin: The Revolutionary Spiritual Approach to Weight Loss

“I hate to go to movies or watch a TV show and know the ending within 15 minutes.”

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Author:Amaury Nolasco

“If you force yourself to smile, within a couple minutes, you feel happy.”

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Author:Dean Norris

“As awesome as it is to be with a big act and get three catered meals a day and get a dressing room with an actual shower in it, it's hard sometimes as a new artist to come across in 25 minutes. You get 25 minutes to hopefully impress these people. I think the longer set is more suitable for us and gives us an opportunity to connect better.”

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Author:David Nail

“I walk an 11-minute mile without huffing and puffing.”

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Author:Jessye Norman

“Those golden minutes before you are completely awake, when your mind is just drifting, you have no censorship; you are ready to develop any kind of idea. That's when I come up with the best and worst ideas. That is the privilege of being a writer - that you can stay in bed for an hour in the morning and it's work time.”

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Author:Jo Nesbo

“I went to the University/Resident Theatre Association auditions. Deans come and watch you in this theater. You have three minutes, and you have to do two contrasting monologues - at that time, this is 2003 - one classical and one contemporary.”

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Author:Kunal Nayyar

“My favorite period is when we lived in the land of the three-minute song. The Motown thing - I thought they were genius in knowing that's as much as a listener can take.”

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Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“I pretty much live about 10 minutes from my office. I have two kids, and I have about 8 projects that I'm working on, so I basically just get up and go to work, and go home every night and play with my kids, so I don't really know.”

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Author:Bob Odenkirk

“There was a lot of light and a lot of rumbling and vibration, especially the first minute or minute-and-a-half. And then after about two minutes, when the solid rocket boosters separated, the ride got a lot smoother.”

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Author:Ellen Ochoa

“My general rule is that if everyone knew how to cook fresh produce from their local area, and Monday to Thursday within 20 minutes, you know, there's millions of recipes out there to be had.”

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Author:Jamie Oliver

“When I run in the morning, my body spends the first 20 minutes trying to figure out what's happening to it.”

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Author:Danny Pudi

“My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.”

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Author:Aaron Levie

“You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.”

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Author:Gary Larson

“I take my dog, Fideo, out for a hike in Runyon Canyon three times a week. It's about 45 minutes round-trip with a variation of super steep hills and flat areas. He's always running ahead, which helps me push myself, especially up the hills.”

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Author:Ana Ortiz

“Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war.”

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Author:William Eldridge Odom

“Our points of reference in America aren't steeped in literature; they're steeped in that five minutes between commercials.”

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Author:Clarke Peters

“Some people say the reason I am not married is that I don't understand small business and the toughest small business in the world is a family. But when you are happy and feel every minute of your life, what is the reason to get married?”

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Author:Mikhail Prokhorov

“I have olive skin, so if I'm in the sun for even 15 minutes, I turn brown.”

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Author:Audrina Patridge

“Women think that men don't talk about their feelings with guys. We do talk to friends about relationships, but it's succinct - 10 minutes, then we move on.”

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Author:Chris Pine

“I was coming back from Tel Aviv recently, and we had forty minutes of bumps. I got so scared I grabbed a paper and pen and put them in my pocket, just in case we crashed and I needed to write a letter from wherever we landed.”

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Author:Daniela Pestova

“Choose wisely, then eat in moderation. When I know I'm going to Mom's for dinner, I throw an extra 20 minutes on the cardio machine so I can be ready to eat.”

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Author:Danny Pino

“I thought maybe I'd be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I'd last about five minutes, being a farmer.”

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Author:Matthew Rhys

“You can take wonderfully talented actors, wonderfully talented writers and producers, and, uh, do a wonderful show!... but if it doesn't hit with the public in two minutes, it's bye-bye.”

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Author:Charlotte Rae

“Always be available to your kids. Because if you say, 'Give me five minutes, give me ten minutes,' it'll be 15, it'll be 20. And then when you get there, the shine will have worn off whatever it is they wanted to share with you.”

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Author:Michael J. Fox

“I know what I like and what I want, and I can sit and enjoy every 10 minutes that go by. And truly enjoy it.”

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Author:Jeremy Renner

“There are just things you can explore in a movie that you can't in 22 minutes with a laugh track.”

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Author:Josh Radnor

“As someone who's been doing a lot of classical theater recently, I loved the idea of getting to run around in Steven Alan, and not be in a corset and a wig, and not have a dialect, and get to be in a 90-minute play with no intermission, and get to do real comedy.”

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Author:Lily Rabe

“I had never done a 90-minute play with no intermission, so it is a bit like you get onto the train and you don't get off until it's over - and it's over very quickly, so don't miss a moment of it. That experience is very rare and specific so don't miss a minute, because there aren't very many minutes of it.”

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Author:Lily Rabe

“I will stay in the car until the last minute that I'm going to jump out and do a standup or jump out and do some interviews.”

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Author:Martha Raddatz

“I grew up in Dolton, just south of Chicago, about a 20-minute drive from old Comiskey Park.”

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Author:Richard Roeper

“I don't regret either of my marriages - not for a minute.”

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Author:Alana Stewart

“I am very sure that my children thrive on structure and need boundaries. I know my children need to know what time they are going to bed or how many more minutes until they are leaving for school, and so I have imposed a structure that allows them to know where they are all day long, every day in life.”

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Author:Jessica Seinfeld

“I've never been a model, I was an actress for like a minute, but I've always been a writer. That's where I'm going to stay.”

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Author:Karrine Steffans

“If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'”

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Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark paint: dark to create dark to create dark, the layering of the darkness in his work. I just race home: I want to create!”

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Author:Taiye Selasi

“We said, there's another second gone, there's another minute and another hour and another day, when, as a matter of fact the second or the minute or the hour was never gone. It was the same one all the time. It had just moved along and we had moved with it.”

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Book:City

Source: City

“When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.”

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Author:Jamie Foxx

“Remember, it's very simple to have an oven tested professionally, and it only takes about five minutes.”

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Author:Delia Smith

“I'm bad on Valentine's Day, but even worse on Christmas. I go shopping at nine o'clock on December 24th every year. Nobody else is there. I'm in Toys'R'Us all by myself. I get there five minutes before closing.”

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Author:Jamie Foxx

“The one thing that I love about the live audience is the energy level. Like, from the minute of cast introductions, it's just constant energy being traded back and forth. When you do something funny, the audience laughs; when you're being serious, you can, like, feel the tension going through the audience.”

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Author:Jonathan Sadowski

“When I dress up, I have to have a lot of help. I was in a T-shirt until a few minutes ago.”

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Author:Kristen Stewart

“All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not. In the same manner, all power, of whatever sort, is of itself desirable. A man would not submit to learn to hem a ruffle, of his wife, or his wife's maid; but if a mere wish could attain it, he would rather wish to be able to hem a ruffle.”

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Book:Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson

Source: Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson

“You can talk to one person for five minutes and be sick afterwards. You can be totally physically drained because their aura is so low. You can talk to someone else for an hour and just feel fine.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz