“If you've got no responsibility and don't have to generate a certain amount of cash each month, and can live on a shoestring, and are ambitious enough, then you might have a chance. You can be dedicated but that is no guarantee that you'll make it. I rely on a hunch, a little luck, and some cunning.” IfsLittlesEnoughMightCertainChanceResponsibilityMonthsAmountLuckRelyGuaranteesDedicatedCashAmbitiousCunningGuarantees ThatHunchesEach Month Book:The private experience, Elliott Erwitt Source: The private experience, Elliott Erwitt
“When you are a screwed up person, you have a responsibility to keep your normal friends from getting walked on. 'Cos, how bad could you screw that up ? And don't say, Well, you could cause someone six months of physical therapy. 'Cos, hey, lots of times, those exercise take places in pools and nylon tents with little plastic balls. Fun places like that. And, she gets to park up really close for a while. Ha ha, oh, I'm the bad guy.” WellsLittlesPersonsGuyFunCausesResponsibilityMonthsExerciseNormalSixBallsHeyTherapyParksPoolPlasticScrewsSix MonthsBad GuysTentsScrewed UpPhysical TherapyNylon Author:Christopher Titus
“My pacifism came after I joined the army and was shipped over to Korea. There was a little one-room orphanage there called Song-do. There were 180 babies in there, and they were GI babies. The U.S. government would not acknowledge this, and the Korean government had nothing to do with them. They were living on a 100-pound bag of rice a month. Some of those kids, when they were old enough, would go out and shine shoes. They would show up at the gate of our compound to shine shoes, and you'd swear they were looking for their fathers.” LittlesEnoughShowsGovernmentKidsSongFatherRoomsBabyMonthsArmyShiningShoesAcknowledgeBagsPoundsGatesSwearKoreaRiceLiving OnKoreanCompoundsPacifismOrphanageGis Author:Utah Phillips
“Obviously yeah, but our first album took us five years to put together, to get signed and to put it out, we had a lot of time to think about what we were doing. Black Sunday was like a whirl wind, we had to rush back to the studio after touring, but the last album we had a little longer, what like eight months?” ThinkingYearsFirstsLittlesTogetherLastsBlackFiveWindMonthsYeahAlbumsStudiosEightFive YearsSundayTouringTime To Think Author:B-Real
“A lot of guys get slammed pretty hard. I do think there's a tendency with women performers to just sort of write them off. The "Flavor of the Month" kind of thing. Or as a novelty, because I do think women in bands are still considered a novelty, or a little confection.” ThinkingWritingKindLittlesStillsHardGuyMonthsBandTendenciesPerformersFlavorNoveltyFlavor Of The Month Author:Nina Gordon
“My cousin Joey played the drums. We used to go to his house, I liked beating on his drums. I beat the hell out of 'em, you know? Finally in 1961, I don't know, I guess I was about 15, I got serious about it. My parents bought me a little drum set and I was playing for about 6 months when I started doing gigs.” KnowsLittlesUsedHouseParentHellSeriousMonthsBeatsEmsCousinGigsMy CousinJoey Author:Carmine Appice
“I modeled for a little while in college. I was desperate to travel, and I got scouted, and they wanted me to go to Paris and London for six months. And I discovered that I hated it. I didn't like the expectation to be pretty all the time.” LittlesWantedCollegeMonthsSixExpectationsLondonHatedParisDesperateSix Months Author:Mackenzie Davis
“A lot of patients you know if you haven't seen them for 6 months or a year, you won't remember what medicines they're on or what kind of problems they have. And you know I'd feel much better if I know a little bit about the patient before I walk in the room, so I won't be too surprised.” IfsKnowsFeelsYearsKindLittlesProblemRememberBitsWalksRoomsHavensMonthsLittle BitMedicinePatient Author:William Davis
“I feel lucky to receive such critical attention and praise when you're in a show that's going to last a month, it's just easier when audiences are more receptive. I've done two new shows this year, so I'm always excited to work on something a little older, traditional and structured.” FeelsYearsLittlesTwoDoneShowsLastsAttentionAudienceMonthsEasierLuckyPraiseExcitedCriticalTraditionalReceptive Author:Zoe Kazan
“I only do children's films now! I think when you go to LA some people feel you've defected a little bit and that's not really the case. Ideally, I would love to work here and to work in America. That's in an ideal world. In fact, I came back to Britain recently to do an ITV1 drama that will be out in April for a couple of months! But I'm flying back to LA to do a pilot season. So, to work in both places is great.” PeopleThinkingWorldFeelsChildrenLittlesFactsAmericaFilmBitsCasesMonthsCoupleDramaLittle BitIdealsSeasonsFlyingBritainPilotsAprilIdeal World Author:Ashley Jensen
“We started when we're around 13 writing it - maybe 14. I'm a little older than Evan Goldberg is, like, only like six months. But like, I would say, like, the general structure of the movie, like, the series of events is very similar to what it was when we first wrote it.” WritingFirstsLittlesEventsMonthsSixStructureSeriesSix Months Author:Seth Rogen
“I said 'Whoa, little hottie, I'm not DeLorean, Gambino or Gotti. I don't deal coke, And furthermore you're making me broke. I'll put you in a rehab and I won't tell your folks.' And what do you know, In 18 months she came home, And I let her back in... And now she's sniffing again.” KnowsLittlesSaidHomeDealsMonthsFolksHip HopRapBrokeDo You KnowCokeRehabSniffing Author:Daryl Barnes
“[The consumer] shown new styles in the moment, but she's not going to get them for another six months - and I think that's very confusing for her. She feels she's seen it all by the time it comes around. She's also a little bored. She's really into [snaps her fingers], "Wear-now-buy-now."” ThinkingFeelsLittlesMomentsStyleMonthsSixFingersConsumersBoredConfusingSix MonthsSnaps Author:Donna Karan
“I love to watch my daughter. At twenty-two months, that little soul is developing at a rate I will never understand. She's kind of taught me that growth and expansion are a person's natural state and inclination.” KindLittlesPersonsTwoSoulStatesGrowthNaturalWatchesTaughtMonthsDaughterTwentiesRateDevelopingMy DaughterExpansionInclinationTwo MonthsTwenty Two Author:Daniel Gillies
“Now I'm in a situation where I have to plan very far ahead because there are people who are selling ads, so I have to really know what I'm going to do months in advance. If something's taking me a little bit longer to research, that's not okay. I can't take longer. I have to just get it done.” PeopleIfsKnowsLittlesI CanDoneBitsSituationPlansMonthsLittle BitResearchOkaySellingAdsGet It DoneNot Okay Author:Karina Longworth
“I enjoy the physicality a little more, with Vinnie Paz [in Bleed for This] that was the most prep I've ever had to do for a film, that was a legit like 7 months of diet and working out. And then I was able to do like an accent, I was able to change myself physically, I was able to do a lot of the things that I'd always looked at actors and admired when they did that. So I was excited to do that.” LittlesAbleFilmActorsEnjoyMonthsWork OutExcitedDietsAccentsPhysicalityPrepsLegit Author:Miles Teller
“They [the Travelers] know everything about the year that they're coming into. But you can know everything and still be tripped up by the little stuff that you didn't notice. And one character's Facebook page is made up of lies. It's an interesting comment on what's been going on the last few months. We cannot rely anymore on Facebook or Twitter or Instagram. People are making up their own truths.” PeopleKnowsYearsLittlesMadeStillsCharacterLastsLyingStuffInterestingMonthsPagesRelyCommentTravelerInstagramMaking UpFacebook Page Author:Eric McCormack
“That Mujib [Rahiman] had been arrested I found out at eight in the morning, when I left. How did I take it? I was glad he was alive and I thought they might have maltreated him a little. Then I thought that his arrest might help to reach a compromise. They wouldn't keep him in prison more than a month or two, and in the meantime we'd be able to bring back law and order.” LittlesTwoHelpingMightAbleLawOrderFoundLeftMorningAliveMonthsPrisonEightGladCompromiseArrestedLaw And Order Author:Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
“I cannot tell you on a day to day basis that there's a return on investment. I can tell you if you stick with it, absolutely in a few months things will start to change. It starts to change slowly. Things start to get a little easier. As the momentum builds it becomes bigger and bigger.” IfsLittlesI CanMonthsReturnEasierBasesBiggerSticksInvestmentDay To DayMomentumReturn On Investment Author:Simon Sinek
“I was born and raised in St. Louis, and this little town, eight blocks away, place no one ever heard of, a black man there commands the attention of the world for months? That ain't my world.” MenWorldLittlesBlackBornAttentionHeardMonthsTownsRaisedEightCommandBlockBorn And RaisedLittle Towns Author:Dick Gregory
“I truly do live my life a day at a time. When I talk to people trying to get through anything, it's a day at a time. If people stop to think, "It's going to be potentially three years and 10 months for the new president to come in," that's a very long time and that can have major effects on somebody's psyche. But if you take this thing a day at a time, and break it down a little differently, and do what you can do today, it will make it easier for people to move forward, and it makes it easier for me to move forward.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingYearsLittlesLongTodayMovingThreePresidentCan DoBreakEffectsMonthsEasierMajorsLong TimeMoving ForwardThree YearsLiving My Life Author:Marty Walsh
“One thing I do is (and I realize this might sound nuts), every month or so, I try to take like an Etch-a-sketch [so to speak], and I clear my faith. I go to zero, clear the deck. And I start adding things back to my faith, one at a time. What would be the first thing I'd add back? Jesus. It sounds a little bit like a Sunday school answer, but that's what I do. Then what's the next thing? And I'd say, well, loving people. And then the next.” PeopleTryingFirstsWellsLittlesMightWould BeSchoolNextJesusSpeakBitsSoundRealizingAnswersClearOne ThingMonthsLittle BitAddSundayZeroNutsDeckSunday SchoolEtch A Sketch Author:Bob Goff
“It's not the '80s any more. We're not all riding around in limousines and snorting coke off of hookers' tits. We still have to keep working and touring. We're definitely still very much a working band. If we stopped doing this tomorrow, we'd have a little bit of cash to last us a couple of months, and then we'd have to go and get other jobs.” IfsLittlesStillsJobsLastsBitsMonthsCoupleTomorrowBandLittle BitCashRiding80sTouringCokeLimousines Author:Jim James
“I don't write every day, but if I go more than a couple of months without writing, I begin to get a little nervous. I usually have bursts of poems. Five or six come together and then I slack off and want to do something else.” IfsWantWritingLittlesTogetherFiveMonthsCoupleSixNervous Author:Elaine Equi