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“The energy of live theater is indescribable. You are just in the moment for an hour and a half.”

Moments Energy Hours Half Theater Indescribable Live Theater

Author:Adrianne Palicki

“Things can be funny when people are uneasy. It softens them up and stops them falling asleep on the sofa. I like those moments where people half-smile and half-wince.”

People Moments Fall Half Uneasy Sofas Falling Asleep Wince

Author:Mark Haddon

“I do see a lot of my kids, but sometimes I feel as though we have snatched moments. I turn up half way through something, or I only see her at bedtime. I'd like there to be more.”

Way Feels Sometimes Moments Kids Turns Half Bedtime Half Way

Author:Steve McFadden

“Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV's most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface it is a simple format - two people sitting across from one another having a conversation. But underneath it is often a power struggle - a battle for the psychological advantage.”

“The consciousness of being loved softens the keenest pang even at the moment of parting; yea, even the eternal farewell is robbed of half of its bitterness when uttered in accents that breathe love to the last sigh.”

Love Moments Lasts Half Consciousness Eternal Breathe Bitterness Accents Farewell Sigh Parting Being Loved

Author:Joseph Addison

“I used to think that once a writer became a man of letters, if only for a half hour, he was done for. And here I am now, at the very moment of such an odious, though respectable, danger.”

Ifs Thinking Men Done Moments Used Hours Half Danger Letters Respectable Here I Am Pretension Half Hours

Book:Quite Early One Morning

Source: Quite Early One Morning

“The machinery of destruction is complete, poised on a hair trigger, waiting for the 'button' to be 'pushed' by some misguided or deranged human being or for some faulty computer chip to send out the instruction to fire. That so much should be balanced on so fine a point--that the fruit of four and a half billion years can be undone in a careless moment--is a fact against which belief rebels.”

Source: The Fate of the Earth: And, The Abolition

“There is something about a home aquarium which sets my teeth on edge the moment I see it. Why anyone would want to live with a small container of stagnant water populated by a half-dead guppy is beyond me.”

Want Moments Home Water Half Edges Teeth Stagnant Containers Aquariums Stagnant Water

Author:S. J. Perelman

“Do you know what makes a movie work? Moments. Give the audience half a dozen moments they can remember, and they'll leave the theatre happy.”

Knows Giving Moments Remember Half Audience Theatre Movie Do You Know Dozen

Author:Rosalind Russell

“It is easy to be mindless in America, because dreaming of and living for a better tomorrow is the American way. ... The problem is, in the second half of the twentieth century, we have gotten so good at living for tomorrow that most of us spend very little time in the present.”

Way Littles Moments Problem Dream America Easy Half Century Tomorrow Live In The Moment Twentieth Century Little Time Mindless Better Tomorrow

Book:Are You the One for Me? ; Real Moments

Source: Are You the One for Me? ; Real Moments

“I've got a lot of examples about moments where I thought something would work on film and it didn't work, but I never came to that decision with the film half shot, where I was stuck on a runaway train and couldn't jump off. On those occasions where I have admitted defeat, that this is not going to work, I haven't embarked on that project and made that movie.”

Made Moments Film Decision Half Havens Example Projects Shots Train Defeat Stuck Occasions Going To Work Runaway

Author:Steven Spielberg