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“In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.”

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Author:Wallace Shawn

“In the theater, you act more of the time. In the movies, you get to act maybe 20 or 30 minutes of the day. I love acting in movies. It's just different.”

Different Acting Minutes Theater Acting In Movies

Author:Alec Baldwin

“Memorizing a playbook is like memorizing a script. When they change the script at the last minute it's like changing a play in a game.”

Play Lasts Games Minutes Scripts Last Minute Memorizing Playbooks

Author:Michael Strahan

“For the first 10 minutes after you meet them, they have the wattage and charisma of movie stars. Then you have a coffee with them and you realize we're all the same, we're all just people. All of the actors in The Avengers are so nice. Marvel has these code names for projects and the code name for The Avengers was Group Hug. It felt very much like a group hug on set.”

People Firsts Actors Names Stars Felt Realizing Nice Groups Minutes Projects Coffee Code Hug Movie Star Charisma Avengers

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“I've got a great family and great people around me that would be able to kick me in the shins if I ever for one minute got lost up in the clouds. I've been really lucky in that sense.”

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Author:Emma Stone

“I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.”

Wanted School Careers Minutes College Degrees Theater Musical Pursue Pursued Musical Theater

Author:Nancy Allen

“I have my mother's hips. The minute I eat it, it ends up on my hips.”

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Author:Robert Herjavec

“The minute you feel secure about yourself and own the fact your dreams are honest true, other things fix themselves.”

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Author:Shantel VanSanten

“Live loath'd and long, Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites, Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears, You fools of fortune, trencher friends, time flies Cap and knee slaves, vapors, and minute jacks.”

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Book:THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.: CONTAINING, TIMON OF ATHENS. TITUS ANDRONICUS. MACBETH. C. MMARCIUS CORIOLANUS. VOLUME the EIGHTH

Source: THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.: CONTAINING, TIMON OF ATHENS. TITUS ANDRONICUS. MACBETH. C. MMARCIUS CORIOLANUS. VOLUME the EIGHTH

“A minute analysis of life at once destroys that splendor which dazzles the imagination. Whatsoever grandeur can display, or luxury enjoy, is procured by offices of which the mind shrinks from the contemplation. All the delicacies of the table may be traced back to the shambles and the dunghill; all magnificence of building was hewn from the quarry, and all the pomp of ornament dug from among the damps and darkness of the mine.”

Source: The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd

“The charm of London is that you are never glad or sorry for ten minutes together; in the country you are one or the other for weeks.”

Country Together Week Minutes Ten Sorry London Glad Variety Charm

Author:Samuel Johnson

“I have very curly hair and I straighten it every day - it takes maybe two minutes. I can't imagine anyone having a bigger challenge than I do in the kinkiness that is my crazy 'fro.'”

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Author:Ginnifer Goodwin

“This sounds geeky, but when I run, I like to listen to musicals like Les Miserables. The soundtracks are 75 minutes or longer, and I keep going until the story ends, so it feels like a good workout.”

Feels Ends Stories Running Sound Minutes Keep Going Good Work Workout Listening To Music Soundtracks Good Workout

Author:Lindy Booth

“children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes.”

Humans Children Desire Human Beings Minutes Instance Scream Kites Wronged

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that.”

Would Be Four Minutes Glory Tales Fairy Cake Fairy Tale Olympics

Author:Dorothy Hamill

“My parents split when I was 13. For a youngster, it's quite devastating. One minute you're all happy families, then everything changes.”

Parent Minutes Splits Things Change Youngsters One Minute Happy Family

Author:Vinnie Jones

“I don't accept what people say. I took something to be copied recently, to be enlarged and blown up, and they said it couldn't be done, and I went somewhere five minutes away, and they did it.”

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Author:Charles Grodin

“I didn't want that 15 minutes of fame moment like, 'Oh, she said she was gay.'”

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Author:Kirsten Vangsness

“I love how my sport reaches out to people with the music and story lines, the glory of standing up for three or four minutes of tough, arduous, gravity-defying skating and all the stuff that goes with it.”

People Stories Three Stuff Sports Lines Four Minutes Glory Tough Standing Reach Out Gravity Skating Defying

Author:Kurt Browning

“Dear Baby, I hope someday somebody wants to hold you for 20 minutes straight and that's all they do. They don't pull away. They don't look at your face. They don't try to kiss you. All they do is wrap you up in their arms and hold on tight, without an ounce of selfishness to it.”

Want Trying Looks Faces Minutes Baby Arms Kissing Dear Selfishness Someday Your Face Wraps Waitress

Author:Keri Russell

“I don't want the George Clooney lifelong bachelorhood. If I found the right person, I would commit in a minute.”

Ifs Want Persons Found Minutes Commit Lifelong Right Person Bachelorhood

Author:Hill Harper

“The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people of hope and prayer, not gloom and defeatism. God the Holy Spirit can turn the situation around in five minutes.”

People Should Stories Christian Spirit Turns Hours Prayer Situation Five Minutes Holy Dawn Holy Spirit Five Minutes Revival Renaissance Reformation Gloom Darkest Hour

Author:Os Guinness

“Acting is a cruel enough business. One minute everyones going Hey! and the next theyre going Who?. You certainly dont need people knowing your private business, especially if you want to come out with your head still attached.”

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Author:Jack Davenport

“All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we've tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they're probably right.”

Thinking Believe Children Matter Hard Parent Can Do Born Impossible Minutes Prove Annoying Prove Them Wrong Annoying Things

Author:Cathy Guisewite

“I did Polyester, and I dont regret one minute of it. It was wonderful.”

Wonderful Minutes Regret One Minute

Author:Tab Hunter

“If a big wave came at the wrong moment, it would sweep me off into forty-eight-degree water, where I might last twenty minutes. Drowning quickly might be better.”

Ifs Moments Bigs Might Lasts Water Minutes Degrees Twenties Wave Eight Forty Drowning Forty Eight

Book:Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas

Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas

“An hour of anxiety cannot change my circumstances, but a minute of prayer can alter everything.”

Hours Prayer Minutes Circumstances Anxiety Stress

Author:Elbridge Bryant

“Great events are the hour-hands of time, while small events mark the minutes.”

Hands Time Hours Minutes Events Mark Great Events Small Events

Author:Andrew Michael Ramsay

“This does not come naturally. I have to work out 60 to 90 minutes at least five days a week and stick to a high- fiber, low-calorie eating plan.”

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Author:Molly Sims

“When I can, I do 25 minutes of calisthenics every day.”

I Can Minutes Calisthenics

Author:Willard Scott

“I was like, wait a minute. When I hear my sisters' names, I want to have a joyful feeling in my heart about it.”

Want Heart Feelings Names Waiting Minutes My Heart My Sister Joyful

Author:Alfre Woodard

“I ask you not to judge me for my weakness. The only way I can endure is to be in a place where I will never see you, never be haunted by the possibility of seeing you with him. I need to be somewhere where sheer necessity forces you from my thoughts minute by minute, hour by hour, I cannot do that here.”

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Author:Joanna Noelle Levesque

“You know what we can be like: see a guy and think he's cute one minute, the next minute our brains have us married with kids, the following minute we see him having an extramarital affair. By the time someone says, 'I'd like you to meet Cecil,' we shout, 'You're late again with the child support!'”

Thinking Knows Children Kids Guy Next Brain Support Minutes Like You Late Married Affair Following Cute One Minute

Author:Cynthia Heimel

“I've loved every minute of every hour I've spent doing theatre.”

Hours Minutes Theatre

Author:Laurie Metcalf

“When you love something, every day goes by in 10 minutes.”

Author:Vera Wang

“Peppers, garlic, hazelnuts and brazil nuts make my mouth, tongue and eyes swell and itch within minutes of eating them.”

Eye Minutes Eating Mouths Tongue Nuts Brazil Peppers Garlic Hazelnuts

Author:Andrea McLean

“I believe that when the going gets tough, you should just hit pause. Assimilate what is happening for 10 minutes. Your thoughts will be much clearer.”

Should Believe I Believe Minutes Happenings Tough Pauses Going Gets Tough

Author:Shreya Ghoshal

“Perk, from the minute you got here... I hated you before you got here... But the moment you got here, man, you just changed my whole perception of you. Just one of the best teammates I ever had. I just thank you so much. The late night calls after tough games, you texting me, telling me I'm the MVP. That means a lot to me, man. Thank you.”

Men Mean Whole Moments Night Games Minutes Changed Late Perception Tough Hated Just One Teammate Humbling Texting Perks Best Team Late Night Mvp Tough Games

Author:Kevin Durant

“In their censures of luxury the fathers are extremely minute and circumstantial; and among the various articles which excite their pious indignation, we may enumerate false hair, garments of any colour except white, instruments of music, vases of gold or silver, downy pillows, white bread, foreign wines, public salutations, the use of warm baths, and the practice of shaving the beard, which, according to Tertullian, is a lie against our own faces, and am impious attempt to improve the works of the Creator.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“In these long-standing conflicts, I find that most cases it gets resolved in about twenty minutes after each side can tell me the needs of the other.”

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Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“Close your eyes and simply "feel" the spot your finger is touching. Then, after a couple of minutes, let your hands down. Continue to hold your attention on the spot just as you did when your finger was there.”

Feels Hands Eye Attention Meditation Minutes Buddhism Couple Fingers Spots Touching Chakra Meditation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We just forced them into tough shots that whole overtime. It was a classic five minutes that we needed.”

Whole Five Minutes Needed Shots Tough Classic Five Minutes Nba Finals

Author:Stephen Curry

“We seek your blessings and we seek your support. On one side there is the Shahzada and on the other side there is a tea seller. There is Namdaar and there is a Kamdaar. But we assure that after assuming responsibility we will not rest for a minute. All the time will be for the people.”

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Author:Narendra Modi

“Arterial-plaque specials that save minutes now can cost years, later on.”

Years Minutes Cost

Book:Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating

Source: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating

“In Medford, I awaked the Captain of the Minute Men; & after that, I alarmed almost every house, till I got to Lexington.”

Men House Minutes Captains Lexington

Author:Paul Revere

“If you put me in South Park, that audience is going to fall asleep in five minutes.”

Ifs Fall Audience Five Minutes South Parks Five Minutes

Author:Stephan Pastis

“I'm particularly fond of boned chicken breasts with a little garlic under the flesh and cooked in a casserole for 40 minutes with a jar of olives, some cherry tomatoes and a spoonful of olive oil.”

Littles Minutes Oil Flesh Breasts Chickens Jars Cherries Tomatoes Olives Garlic Olive Oil Casseroles

Author:Maeve Binchy

“When I do an hour-and-a-half show, if I don't improvise 20 minutes worth of new material each night, I feel I've let myself down.”

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Author:Buddy Hackett

“I don't mean to be overly sensitive or anything like that, but you just have to take a minute in every day, and just reflect on where you are, and just realise what you've got, because you just never know where the next huge change in your life is going to come from.”

Knows Mean Life Is Next Minutes Huge Sensitive Where You Are Realising Huge Changes

Author:Corey Taylor

“That's how fossil hunting is: It takes over, like a hunger, and nothing else matters but what you find. And even when you find it, you still start looking again the next minute, because there might be something even better waiting.”

Stills Matter Might Next Waiting Minutes Hunger Hunting Fossils

Book:Remarkable Creatures: A Novel

Source: Remarkable Creatures: A Novel