“I think I could describe the perfect quarterback. Take a little piece of everybody. Take John Elway's arm, Dan Marino's release, maybe Troy Aikman's drop-back, Brett Favre's scrambling ability, Joe Montana's two-minute poise and, naturally, my speed.” ThinkingLittlesTwoAbilityPerfectPiecesMinutesArmsSpeedReleaseQuarterbackMontanaPoise Author:Peyton Manning
“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.” WritingLongBookEndsProcessFivePiecesWrittenMinutesStageChangedEightRoutineWriting A BookDepartureFormatOne LinerHboDrastic Author:George Carlin
“For many people, Mrs. Brown has come from the middle of nowhere. But Mrs. Brown was first written for radio. I wrote it for a radio series in 1992. It was a five-minute piece for radio, and it's been absolutely astonishing.” PeopleFirstsFivePiecesWrittenMiddleMinutesSeriesRadioBrownFive MinutesAstonishingMiddle Of NowhereMr Brown Author:Brendan O'Carroll
“The point of making records for me isn't to hear 300 songs in 50 minutes; it's to hear the 50-minute piece of music.” SongRecordsPiecesMinutes Author:Girl Talk
“When I was a boy, I choked on a piece of candy outside the kitchen window for a few minutes while watching my parents making dinner. I thought I was going to die, but I didn't want to scare them. Our existence was so separate, a dying and a doing well, an outside and an inside. Trey Moody's poems hover in that cold, wet, refrigerator-lit place between the dying and the doing well, the outside and the inside. His poems are the thoughts of the person you love who is always standing behind you, slowly and silently suffocating. But they're not afraid to say hello, and please, and I'm scared.” WantWellsPersonsDiesParentBehindsExistenceBoysPiecesMinutesDyingColdPleaseStandingWindowScaredDinnerKitchenScareNot AfraidWetHelloCandyLitBehind YouRefrigeratorsMoodySuffocating Author:Zachary Schomburg
“Liverpool can play for only five minutes and win the game, that is the way they are. They pump the ball into the box and with good set-piece delivery they keep you under pressure.” WayPlayGamesWinningFivePiecesMinutesFootballBallsPressureBoxesManagersSoccerFive MinutesChairmanDeliveryLiverpoolPumpsUnder Pressure Author:Alex Ferguson
“I heard Joby Talbot's Hovercraft piece for orchestra and felt its immediate physical impact - visceral, unsettling, hungry and direct. These short five minutes became our keystone to unlocking a strangely seductive score that tensions the aggressive force of the White Stripes with the enigmatic beauty of Talbot's own compositions.” ForceFeltWhiteFivePiecesHeardMinutesDirectImpactHungryTensionScoreAggressiveCompositionOrchestraFive MinutesSeductiveStripesVisceralKeystonesEnigmaticUnlockingWhite StripesHovercrafts Author:Wayne McGregor
“Actual creativeness is a matter of moments. One has to piece together the minute grains to make a lump. And it is so easy to miss the momentary flashes, it is like sluicing in placer mining. He who lets the flakes float by has nothing to show for his trouble.” MatterMomentsShowsTogetherEasyPiecesTroubleMinutesMissingGrainFlashFloatsLumpsMomentaryMiningCreativenessFlakes Author:Eric Hoffer
“If somebody writes a review of a dry cleaner, that piece of content is not wildly viral. It's not like a viral video that can spread across the world in a matter of minutes, so as a result, each market is almost an island unto itself.” IfsWorldWritingMatterResultsPiecesMinutesSpreadVideoIslandsDryReviewsCleanersViralDry CleanersViral Videos Author:Jeremy Stoppelman
“In the creative process, my ego has always been a huge tyrant ... a dictator and kind of rude and very misleading, because sometimes when I'm doing something, I say, "This is great! This is fantastic! Very genius!" And 20 minutes later, I feel like a dead jellyfish. "You are a stupid a**hole. This is a piece of sh*t. Nobody will care about it."” FeelsKindSometimesCareProcessCreativePiecesMinutesStupidHugeGeniusEgoHolesFantasticTyrantsCreative ProcessDictatorRudeMisleadJellyfish Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“I fell in love with the classical crossover genre when I was on AGT. I found out that I could use the microphone to establish a deeper intimacy with the audience. I did not portray an opera character; I was my true self. I would sing a four-to-five minute piece for the audience and then I could talk to them and say "Hi" to them! I would not need to act out scenes where my character was dying from tuberculosis or killing somebody else on stage, I could have a nice conversation with them.” NeedsSelfCharacterUseFoundAudienceFivePiecesFourNiceMinutesStageDyingSceneConversationKillingDeeperIntimacyGenreOperaTrue SelfFive MinutesMicrophonesTuberculosisCrossover Author:Barbara Padilla
“I've always believed that the range or depth of emotion can be great, whether you're play a three-minute piece, or a half-hour work.” PlayThreeHoursEmotionHalfPiecesMinutesDepthRangeAlways BelieveHalf Hours Author:Anne Akiko Meyers
“Anyway, I'm digressing, but this is just kind of this 10-and-a-half-minute, ambient - you hear cicadas and birds and the wind outside and crickets as I'm swelling the piece. I could never do that on a pop record. I could, but why would I want to be agitating?” WantKindHalfRecordsPiecesMinutesWindBirdPopsCricketSwellingAmbientCicadas Author:Andrew Bird
“Nowhere has truth such a short life as in Sicily; a fact has scarcely happened five minutes before its genuine kernel has vanished, been camouflaged, embellished, disfigured, squashed, annihilated by imagination and self interest; shame, fear, generosity, malice, opportunism, charity, all the passions, good as well as evil, fling themselves onto the fact and tear it to pieces; very soon it has vanished altogether.” WellsSelfFactsPassionEvilInterestImaginationFivePiecesHappenedMinutesTearsShameCharityGenuineGenerosityFive MinutesSelf InterestMaliceShort LifeFlingKernelOpportunism Author:Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
“If that one is already a great artist, who knows how to educe from a small piece of wood the face of a king or of a queen, an ant or a camel, how great then is the mastery which can form as actuality everything which is in all potentiality? Therefore, God, who is able to produce from the most minute piece of matter the similitude of all forms which can be in this world and in infinitely many worlds, is of admirable subtlety.” IfsKnowsWorldMatterAbleFacesFormArtistKnow HowPiecesMinutesThis WorldProduceKingsWoodsQueensMasteryGreat ArtAntsAdmirableGreat ArtistSubtletyCamelsActualitySmall Pieces Author:Nicholas of Cusa
“If a piece of music is under three minutes long, it's rock. Over three minutes, it's classical.” IfsLongThreePiecesMinutesRocksMusic Is Author:Robert Ashley
“Oh, you know record companies. . . at the end of the day, it's business. If you analyse it, you're just a piece of meat. The minute you go bad, it's: 'Next!'.” IfsKnowsEndsNextCompanyRecordsPiecesMinutesMeatThe End Of The DayRecord Companies Author:Enrique Iglesias
“Shakespeare has way too many lines. My ideal theatre piece is about 40 minutes long with no interval.” WayLongLinesPiecesMinutesIdealsTheatreIntervals Author:Daniel Craig
“Classical music fulfills for me the function of narrative. I spend 90 minutes a day listening to symphonic music - Beethoven to Bartók - some chamber pieces, and that's my enrichment.” PiecesMinutesListeningFunctionNarrativeChamberClassical MusicEnrichment Author:James Ellroy
“It's funny how you can struggle with one piece and write a better one in a minute. When things come easy, it means it's good.” WritingMeanEasyStrugglePiecesMinutesOne Piece Author:Joe Satriani
“I am interested in politics but have stayed away from writing overtly political songs, or message songs, because I find it difficult to discuss politics intelligently in a 4-minute song. But I am finding there are ways to get bits and pieces of political thought across without preaching that the people have the power or we shall not be moved. Of course these sentiments have their place too - I'm not knocking Phil Ochs - but that's a different kind of music, songs to play at rallies, not to achieve a state of bliss.” PeopleWayWritingKindDifferentStatesPlayPoliticalSongCoursesBitsDifficultPiecesMinutesAchieveFindingsMessagesMovedBlissSentimentsDifferent KindsPreachingKnockingBits And PiecesDifferent Kinds Of Music Author:Dean Wareham
“There's all of the DVD extra material and all these other pieces of information that don't fit into a 90-minute experience, but it's still content and people still want to see it. It's being open to [the fact that] the business is changing and being open to how you can make money to afford you to stay in business to keep making new things. I think you just have to have an open mind and be really smart about stuff and not be so locked into the conventional way of how the process used to go.” PeopleThinkingWayWantMindStillsFactsUsedStuffProcessPiecesMinutesInformationMaterialsFitSmartMaking MoneyExtrasLockedNew ThingsConventionalOpen MindDvdsReally SmartConventional Ways Author:Alex Stapleton
“If every negotiation is conducted in public, then the minute one person says, well, what if we try this, next thing you know, the interest groups have piled all in, and the political opponents have shot it to pieces.” IfsKnowsTryingWellsPersonsPoliticalNextInterestPiecesGroupsMinutesShotsOpponentsWhat IfNegotiationInterest GroupsPolitical Opponents Author:Jonathan Rauch
“The minute you finish a piece of writing it doesn't belong to you, you don't write it any more, it belongs to you, the reader, the listener, the audience. So the less you know about whether or not this is me talking about my life or this is me talking about your life, I think the better. Then it can belong to you and it can live outside of the moment in which it was conceived.” ThinkingKnowsWritingMomentsTalkingAudiencePiecesMinutesReaderListenersThis Is Me Author:Kate Tempest