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“Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage. I've always written in the long format, five, eight, 10-minute pieces rather than one-liners, so since writing books, the process hasn't changed much. A piece in my live routine can end up as part of one of my HBO specials, and it can also end up in one of the books.”

Writing Long Book Ends Process Five Pieces Written Minutes Stage Changed Eight Routine Writing A Book Departure Format One Liner Hbo Drastic

Author:George Carlin

“To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy.”

Reality Memories Attention Minutes Paint Fancy

Book:The works of the English poets, from Chaucer to Cowper

Source: The works of the English poets, from Chaucer to Cowper

“Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to whom one should ascribe no more importance than so many things in nature which charm us but which we do not explain to ourselves.”

World Should Artist Minutes Elements Importance Charm

Author:Pablo Picasso

“The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again, pronounce a text, Cry hem; and reading what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene!”

Wells Reading Minutes Cry Scene Preaching Fifteen Skip Hem

Book:The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life ; Six Engravings on Steel

Source: The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life ; Six Engravings on Steel

“To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.”

Philosophy Minutes Circumstances Philosopher Trifling

Book:The Citizen of the World; Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the East

Source: The Citizen of the World; Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the East

“Let the bucket of memory down into the well, bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one stirring, no plans. Just being there.”

Wells Memories Plans Minutes Just Being Being There Stirring Buckets Just Being There

Book:Ask Me: 100 Essential Poems of William Stafford

Source: Ask Me: 100 Essential Poems of William Stafford

“The minute a man is convinced he is interesting, he isn't.”

Men Wisdom Interesting Minutes Convinced

Author:Stephen Leacock

“You've got to be on the ball from the minute you step out into that spotlight. You gotta know exactly what you're doing every second on that stage, otherwise the act goes right into the bathroom. It's all over. Good night.”

Knows Night Steps Minutes Stage Balls Bathroom Spotlight Good Night Every Second

Author:Frank Sinatra

“I am a fast dresser, 30 minutes max with hair and makeup. I don't have a uniform, but I like to be comfortable.”

Minutes Hair Comfortable Makeup Uniforms Max Dressers Hair And Makeup

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“What's magical about [bears] is that they just spend one-hundred percent of every minute of every hour of every day being a bear. And a tree-frog spends all of its time being a tree-frog. We spend all our time trying to be somebody else.”

Trying Hours Tree Minutes Bears Percent Hundred Our Time Frogs

Author:Stephen Fry

“If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes.”

Ifs Five Minutes Complaining Five Minutes

Author:Jim Rohn

“The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.”

Want Power Minutes Exquisite Be Here Now

Author:Ram Dass

“A mockingbird... was heard to blend the songs of 32 different kinds of birds into a 10 minute performance, a virtuoso display that served no practical purpose, falling, therefore, into the realm of pure art.”

Kind Art Different Purpose Song Fall Heard Minutes Pure Bird Performances Practicals Realms Different Kinds Display Imitation Mockingbird Virtuoso

Author:Tom Robbins

“The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.”

Want Years Artist Time Minutes

Book:The writings of a savage

Source: The writings of a savage

“Most people coming out of war feel lost and resentful. What had been a minute-to-minute confrontation with yourself, your struggle with what courage you have against discomfort, at the least, and death at the other end, ties you to the people you have known in the war and makes for a time others seem alien and frivolous.”

People Feels War Ends Seems Lost Known Struggle Minutes Aliens Ties Coming Out Discomfort Confrontation Frivolous Resentful

Author:Lillian Hellman

“You'll understand, I'm sure that I'm chasing the merest sliver of color. It's my own fault. I want to grasp the intangible. It's terrible how the light runs out. Color, any color, lasts a second, sometimes 3 or 4 minutes at most.”

Want Sometimes Light Running Lasts My Own Minutes Color Terrible Faults Chasing Intangible

Author:Claude Monet

“Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they are gone.”

Acting Gone Minutes Painting Ten Bathroom Tissues Painting A Picture

Author:Shelley Winters

“The most important habit is solitude, quiet time. People who enter their day by taking 45 minutes or an hour for themselves - meditation, prayer, inspirational reading, taking a walk - before they go for it in the real world do best.”

People World Important Real Reading Hours Prayer Walks Meditation Minutes Habit Solitude Quiet Real World Quiet Time Inspirational Prayer Inspirational Reading

Author:Ken Blanchard

“I must begin, not with hypothesis, but with specific instances, no matter how minute.”

Matter Minutes Instance Hypothesis

Author:Paul Klee

“If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art... the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it is not the eye, it is the mind which the painter of genius desires to address.”

Ifs Mind Art Would Be Eye Desire Minutes Genius Succeed Painter Deception Addresses Deceiving

Book:The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

“Our studies will be forever, in a very great degree, under the direction of chance; like travelers, we must take what we can get, and when we can get it - whether it is or is not administered to us in the most commodious manner, in the most proper place, or at the exact minute when we would wish to have it.”

Wish Chance Forever Study Minutes Degrees Traveler

Book:Sir Joshua Reynolds's Discourses

Source: Sir Joshua Reynolds's Discourses

“Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. People like that, if they could, would work with the same minute attention on the back of their canvas.”

People Ifs Art Attention Consciousness Minutes Cold Perfection Criticism Majority Boring Painter Canvas Exactitude

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“Wait a minute! I'm not interested in agriculture. I want the military stuff. During a briefing military stuff in which officials began telling him about missile silos.”

Want Stuff Waiting Minutes Military Officials Not Interested Agriculture Missiles Briefing

Author:Sean William Scott

“We all have time to write. We have time to write the minute we are willing to write badly, to chase a dead end, to scribble a few words, to write for the hell of it instead of for the perfect and polished result.”

Writing Ends Time Perfect Results Hell Minutes Willing Polished Few Words Dead Ends Scribbles

Book:The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life

Source: The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life

“If the director wishes to print it, then you have a series of choices, maybe millions of choices within that minute-and-a-half, or 80 seconds, or 2 minutes or however long or short the take is, you have all those choices committed to celluloid. I find that absolutely thrilling.”

Ifs Long Choices Wish Half Millions Minutes Directors Series Committed Print Seconds Thrilling Celluloid

Author:Ben Kingsley

“Our planet consists largely of lumps of fall-out from a star-sized hydrogen bomb. Within our bodies, no less than three million atoms rendered unstable in that event still erupt every minute, releasing a tiny fraction of the energy stored from that fierce fire of long ago.”

Long Stills Body Fall Three Energy Stars Millions Fire Minutes Events Planets Tiny Bombs Atoms Fierce Long Ago Our Planet Fractions Unstable Lumps Hydrogen Hydrogen Bomb

Author:James Lovelock

“I was blessed enough to meet Pope John Paul when I was about 19 or 20 years old in the Vatican; I had that privilege, .. My mother took me to visit him and I remember distinctly his incredible charisma and personal charm and his warmth and compassion. You felt it immediately the minute you met him, and that spirit I came away with, having met the man, is something that I've been constantly working on to infuse the character with, so that we can have his spirit and his love and his compassion, because that's really the essence of the man.”

Men Years Enough Character Remember Spirit Mother Felt Compassion Minutes He Man Mets Essence Blessed Incredibles Privilege Charm Warmth Pope His Love Charisma John Paul Pope John Paul

Author:Cary Elwes

“Time is really for those who really need it. I mean, I deal with it. A lot of people are slaves to the second, minute hand. I can't do that!”

People Needs Mean I Can Hands Reality Deals Minutes Slave

Author:Ben Harper

“My wife says when I go out to the refrigerator, I do three minutes (entertaining) when the light goes on!”

Light Three Wife Minutes Goes On My Wife Entertaining Refrigerators

Author:Davy Jones

“Hours of preparation for something that is excecuted, with extreme precision, in a few minutes. Just as with a judo throw.”

Hours Minutes Extremes Preparation Precision Judo

Author:Yves Klein

“Minute and elaborately finished pictures never strongly impress the mind, and are but mere curiosities to gratify persons insensible to higher excellencies.”

Mind Persons Minutes Higher Mere Curiosity Simplicity Finished Impress Insensible

Book:Hints on Light and Shadow, Composition, Etc: As Applicable to Landscape Painting

Source: Hints on Light and Shadow, Composition, Etc: As Applicable to Landscape Painting

“I don't believe for a minute anybody allowed people to suffer because they are African Americans.”

People Believe Suffering Left President Race Minutes Bases Don't Believe African American Absent

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.”

Feels Kids Half Minutes Fame Band Sorry Disposable

Author:Zakk Wylde

“Saturday was 90 minutes when people would judge whether we were the real deal”

People Real Deals Minutes Judging Saturday

Author:Claudio Reyna

“When I used to do the action scenes, I would have to play it rough. If you hit an actress accidentally, she would usually take it on the chin and say, `Don't do that again.' But with the guys, they would put ice on it, take a 20-minute break and ask for x-rays. It was unbelievable.”

Ifs Play Action Used Guy Asks Break Minutes Scene Actresses Ice Rough Rays Unbelievable Chins

Author:Jessica Alba

“Typing is an essential skill, but it can be painful. Some children just don't know where the letters are. Typing a three-page story, when they have to spend minutes hunting for every letter, can take forever. Yet we tend to assume that children can type, partly because quite a lot of us know where quite a lot of the letters are, so we assume that children do, too.”

Knows Children Stories Three Forever Minutes Type Skills Essentials Pages Letters Assuming Painful Hunting Typing

Author:Susan Mitchell

“Profits are related to customer retention. Customer retention is related to employee retention. Employee retention may or may not be related to benefits, but benefits could be part of the package that causes people to stay and -- by the way -- engage in discretionary effort. .. If you go into any organization that's customer-facing, you can tell in five minutes when the employees are feeling abused. They retaliate on the customers.”

People Ifs Way May Feelings Causes Effort Five Minutes Benefits Organization Profit Customers Related Employee Five Minutes Packages Retention

Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer

“In my head I am in one of those Buddhist caves where you see a thousand Buddha faces on the wall. In my head I am on my seventeen-year-old acid trip, when I saw my personas fall one minute after another, as if I was dying every moment.”

Ifs Years Moments Faces Fall Saws Minutes Dying Wall Thousand Buddhist Caves Acid Persona Drunkenness Seventeen One Minute Seventeen Years Old Acid Trip

Author:Francesco Clemente

“Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.”

Looks Lasts Leadership Minutes Ten Rulers Dictator

Author:Jan Masaryk

“Don't assume there is only one way. Don't assume that mistakes are a bad thing. Don't think for one minute that everyone agrees with what 'good' is.”

Thinking Way Mistake Minutes Agree Assuming One Way Bad Things One Minute

Author:Robert Genn

“Men. One minute they have their tongues down your throat and the next they're forbidding you from meeting your own father and criticizing your fashion choices.”

Men Choices Next Father Minutes Fashion Meetings Tongue Criticize Throat One Minute

Book:Killer in High Heels: High Heels Mysteries book #2

Source: Killer in High Heels: High Heels Mysteries book #2

“Even in the nineties, when it was mad and there were photographers all around the house, it never occurred to me to send someone else out to get cigarettes. It took me five minutes - went for a walk, gave a wave, went back inside.”

House Walks Five Minutes Mad Photographer Wave Cigarette Five Minutes

Author:Noel Gallagher

“What seems impossible one minute becomes, through faith, possible the next.”

Thinking Inspirational Seems Next Impossible Minutes Positive Thinking Confidence One Minute

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.”

“I've had a hell of a lot of fun and I've enjoyed every minute of it.”

Fun Hell Minutes Dying Enjoyed Last Words Famous Last Words Dying Last Words Funny Famous Last Words

Author:Errol Flynn

“If the women in the factories stopped work for twenty minutes, the Allies would lose the war.”

Ifs War Loses Minutes Twenties Allies Factories Great War

Author:Joseph Joffre

“I love words but I don't like strange ones. You don't understand them and they don't understand you. Old words is like old friends, you know 'em the minute you see 'em.”

Knows Writing Minutes Strange Ems Old Friends

Book:Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Hoover Years, 1929-1931

Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Hoover Years, 1929-1931

“The minute more than two people know a secret, it is no longer a secret.”

People Knows Love Two Women Secret Minutes Secret Love

Author:Ann Landers

“There was an interesting development in the CBS-Westmoreland trial: both sides agreed that after the trial, Andy Rooney would be allowed to talk to the jury for three minutes about little things that annoyed him during the trial.”

Littles Would Be Three Sides Interesting Minutes Development Trials Little Things Both Sides Jury Annoyed Rooney

Book:Late night with David Letterman: the book

Source: Late night with David Letterman: the book

“I like that Sarah Palin. She looks like the flight attendant who won't give you a second can of Pepsi ... She looks like the nurse who weighs you and then makes you sit alone in your underwear for 20 minutes ... She looks like a real estate agent whose picture you see on the bus stop bench ... She looks like the hygienist who makes you feel guilty about not flossing ... She looks like the relieved mom in a Tide commercial.”

Giving Feels Looks Real Minutes Mom Flight Guilty Agents Bus Nurse Tides Estates Underwear Benches Relieved Palin Pepsi Bus Stops Estate Agents Flight Attendant Flossing

Author:David Letterman