“I'm as much my own master as anyone can be, without being the master of others. I can write anywhere - all I need is a couple of hours of solitude and a computer, and I can write a chapter. Since my work is portable, I can live anywhere I like.” NeedsWritingI CanHoursMy OwnMastersCoupleSolitudeComputerChapters Author:Stuart Woods
“I only listen to my own music when I'm playing an hour-and-half set each night. I don't put it on recreationally.” NightHoursMy OwnHalf Author:St. Vincent
“If I start talking about my own hopes, it'll take hours. The biggest hope is that there's not any more discrimination between men and women. That women could have equal rights. It's very painful when you see in your family that a brother can do anything he wants, but at the same age, you can't.” IfsMenWantAgeCan DoHoursMy OwnTalkingRightsBrotherEqualMen And WomenPainfulDiscriminationOur FamilyEqual Rights Author:Malina Suliman
“I like to start my day off every morning, take the first half hour and just search my own heart, see if I'm on the right course, try to be honest with myself - am I doing this for the right reasons?” IfsTryingFirstsHeartReasonCoursesHoursMy OwnHalfMorningHonestBeing HonestEvery MorningHalf HoursDays Off Author:Joel Osteen
“I have the deepest regret about 9/11. Sept. 11, 2001, was one of the most difficult days I've ever had. I was in Lima, Peru, and had to fly back eight hours not knowing what happened in my own country, knowing thousands of my fellow citizens had died.” CountryDifficultHoursMy OwnKnowingHappenedRegretCitizensDiedFellowsEightNot KnowingPeruSept 11Difficult Days Author:Colin Powell
“It is only when we speak what is right that we stand a chance at night of being blown to bits in our homes. Can we call this a free country, when I am afraid to go to sleep in my own home in Mississippi?... I might not live two hours after I get back home, but I want to be a part of setting the Negro free in Mississippi.” WantTwoCountryHomeMightNightSpeakBitsHoursChanceMy OwnSleepSettingSettingsGet BackGoing To SleepBack HomeMississippiFree Country Author:Fannie Lou Hamer
“People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.” PeopleWorldHumansStillsDoneHelpingShowsJobsThreeFoundSpeakSportsHoursMy OwnCitiesMorningEventsMajorsRelationJazzLeavingAthleteRadioCampaignsFlyingPlanesTapeContinentsClientsPublic RelationsSporting Events Book:Jesse, a spiritual autobiography Source: Jesse, a spiritual autobiography
“If you let anything infringe on your writing time, it will. And you won't get the writing done. Taking one day off can cost me five days of getting back in the mood. Going out to lunch can cost me anywhere from five hours to three days. And for me it's not worth it. For my own sense of well-being I have to finish my work before I can play.” IfsWritingWellsI CanDonePlayThreeHoursMy OwnFiveOne DayCostMoodWell BeingLunchGoing OutWorth ItDays OffNot Worth It Author:Danielle Steel
“Dachau has been my own lifelong point of no return. Between the moment when I walked through the gate of that prison, with its infamous motto, 'Arbeit Macht Frei,' and when I walked out at the end of a day that had no ordinary scale of hours, I was changed, and how I looked at the human condition, the world we live in, changed ... Years of war had taught me a great deal, but war was nothing like Dachau. Compared to Dachau, war was clean.” WorldYearsHumansHas BeensWarEndsMomentsHoursMy OwnDealsConditionsChangedTaughtReturnOrdinaryPrisonCleanScalesWar Of The WorldsGatesWorld War IiHolocaustHuman ConditionWorld War IMottoLifelongInfamousDachau Author:Martha Gellhorn
“For my own films, I would like to see 'Bullet in the Head' remastered. The original cut was actually almost three hours.” FilmThreeHoursMy OwnCuttingOriginalsBullets Author:John Woo
“My mother always accused me of being in love with the sound of my own voice. When we went on road trips, she'd be like, 'Stop singing. Be quiet, you're talking just to hear yourself speak.' It was probably true. I like to ramble on, which is probably why I'm well suited to interviews. You know, there's no other forum where you're literally supposed to sit down and just talk for hours about yourself. I love it.” KnowsWellsMotherSpeakSoundVoiceHoursMy OwnTalkingQuietSingingDown AndInterviewsAbout YourselfAccusedBeing In LoveForumsRoad Trip Author:Ben Affleck
“I suddenly began to realize that to become an entrepreneur in the marijuana business would make me fairly well off. And I also liked the lifestyle, my own working hours.” WellsRealizingHoursMy OwnEntrepreneurLifestyleMarijuana Author:George Jung
“I write every morning. Two hours. Then I take a break and become my own secretary for a few hours. If I am "hot" I write in the afternoon and at night too.” IfsWritingTwoNightHoursMy OwnBreakMorningHotAfternoonEvery MorningSecretary Author:John Fante
“I'm so sick of my own music that I don't know if I can edit another video, which involves hundreds of hours of listening to your own song again and again and again. It becomes so grating after a while.” IfsKnowsI CanSongHoursMy OwnListeningSickVideoAgain And AgainEditsSo Sick Author:Grimes