“I'm not very prolific. I'm not good at sitting down as an artist and saying 'Okay, I need to put in my four hours today.'” NeedsTodayArtistHoursFourSittingOkaySitting Down Author:Martha Wainwright
“In high school, my sister went out with the captain of the chess team. My parents loved him... They figured that any guy that took hours to make a move was okay with them.” SchoolMovingGuyParentHoursTeamHigh SchoolOkayChessMy SisterCaptainsMake A Move Author:Brian Kiley
“There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you're okay.” IfsYearsBookEasyHoursOkayBeachGood BookClams Author:Mary Oliver
“Actually I want to scare away method actors because it's a pain. It's like, 'Come on, what are you doing? It's not real. What are you doing? Oh, you're really brooding. Okay, good. Go to your trailer. I'll see you in an hour.'” WantRealPainActorsHoursOkayMethodScareTrailersBrooding Author:Natalie Portman
“I got a sense of the amazingness of ordinary life, and I became aware of the marvel that we're around to begin with. I visited a lot of extreme communities, like the Amish, Hasidic Jews, and serpent-handlers. And I was proud, because I think I'm the first person to ever out-Bible-talk a Jehovah's Witness. After four hours, he said, "Okay, I have to go."” ThinkingFirstsPersonsSaidCommunityHoursFourProudOrdinaryOkayJewExtremesWitnessFirst PersonOrdinary LifeSerpentJehovahAmish Author:A. J. Jacobs
“When I first saw Destiny's Child, I was in the fifth grade, and it made me want to sing and make music and there would be these freestyles on the radio for what seemed like hours, it was just so cool to me. So all of these influences and these styles started to blend together. Eventually, that evolved into me finding the indie scene in Houston. When I was 19, I joined a rock band, and that's when I began to say, "Okay, this is something that I could take seriously."” WantFirstsChildrenMadeWould BeTogetherHoursDestinySawsInfluenceRocksStyleSceneBandFindingsOkayRadioGradesFifthHoustonRock BandsFreestyleFifth Grade Author:Lizzo
“An hour before I got cast in [Victorious] they called and asked if it'd be okay for them to do ANYTHING they wanted with my hair, even a blue mohawk or a bald head and I eagerly said yes!” IfsSaidWantedHoursHairOkayBlueCastsMohawks Author:Ariana Grande
“It's really just a freedom that we have with Amazon to push ourselves creatively. It allowed me to say, you know, okay this is going to be a little half-hour film here to start the season.” KnowsLittlesFilmHoursHalfOkaySeasonsAmazonHalf Hours Author:Jill Soloway
“One of the biggest things for me was driving two hours to the location everyday, and then having to lug out two carts of equipment alone, and I always had to consider - I was shooting on a beach - I'm like, "Okay, bring out the props first that no one will steal," because I have to leave it unattended for a couple minutes while I grab my second cart of things.” FirstsTwoHoursMinutesCoupleOkayEverydayDrivingStealingBeachShootingLocationEquipmentPropsCarts Author:Kirsten Lepore
“There are some bands for whom that works very well and it's no disrespect to them because I'm sure there's something honest and natural about it, but for us I feel like it would be dishonest and kinda disrespectful to that artwork to do that. To be like: "Okay, we're going to go back and only play these songs, even though we have an hour to an hour and a half set and we gotta play more songs, but we'll skimp you on your extra half hour." That's just silly to me.” FeelsWellsPlayWould BeSongHoursNaturalHalfHonestBandOkaySillyExtrasDisrespectArtworkHalf HoursDisrespectful Author:Patrick Stump
“I was one of those skeptics that thought that yoga was for kooks. Now I'm on a very strict regimen. You know, I work out. That's another thing I've learned relaxin', sleep, yoga. I didn't know that that's as crucial as going hard, as workin' hard, as exercising hard. I never knew. I thought that, "Okay, I gotta be at the gym like five hours everyday going balls to the wall." And what my yoga instructor, what my trainer, what they're trying to teach me is that, "No, it's sleep." That's important. That's just as important as workin' out.” KnowsTryingImportantHardHoursSleepTeachFiveWallExerciseYogaOkayBallsEverydayWork OutI've LearnedGymCrucialStrictSkepticTrainersInstructorsThings I've LearnedGo HardBalls To The Wall Author:Questlove
“The goal for me is, I build the record that I put out as one individual song. Even though it's broken up into tracks, to me it's like one hour-long piece of music. In assembling the whole thing, I'm really thinking, okay, it's gonna end here, it's gonna start here, and I kind of have the idea of the journey.” ThinkingKindLongIdeasEndsWholeSongIndividualGoalHoursRecordsPiecesJourneyBrokenOkayTrackOne HourBroken UpAssembling Author:Girl Talk
“If you try to go for a big two-hour nap, you get groggy. You wanna just nap, like close your eyes a little bit and then just fall asleep for a little bit and then get up. Then be like, "okay, I'm up."” IfsTryingLittlesTwoBigsEyeFallBitsHoursLittle BitOkayGet UpNaps Author:Scott Eastwood
“I saw Cara Delevingne like five, six times. And I was never talking about the film [Valerian]. And then at the end, I say okay, let's do some test. She says yeah, yeah, good. So I took her in the room, and I test her for like six hours non-stop. Exercise, exercise, exercise for six hours. It was actually funny. And then I knew at the end of the six hours.” EndsFilmHoursRoomsTalkingFiveSawsExerciseSixTestsOkayYeahNon Stop Author:Luc Besson
“[Writing] is almost like those boats that sit really low in the water; they look kind of ugly. And then you get one of them up to 80 miles an hour and the hull comes up, and it's a beautiful thing. I'm okay with that for myself.” WritingLooksKindBeautifulWaterHoursLowsOkayCome UpUglyMilesBoatBeautiful ThingsHull Author:George Saunders
“What modeling taught me at a young age was how to say "no," which is something girls - we're not always good at saying "no." We want to be nice, and then we forget to look out for ourselves. There have been moments when I was on a modeling job, and it was the most fantastic thing in the world. And there have been moments where I've realized, "Okay, I'm ten years old, and I've spent the past six hours outside in the rain." It taught me how to be specific about what kinds of projects I wanted to do, and what kind of work I wanted to do.” WorldKindMomentsAgePastGirlHoursForgetNiceRainOkayFantasticBeing NiceModeling Author:Yara Shahidi
“When I have an exhibition, I usually arrange it so that if people want to, they can spend two hours there. That way, people who like it don't feel cheated when they go. I want them to walk into the exhibition space and look low and at other levels and angles. The same with emotions. I want them to be emotionally manipulated, to come out feeling something. I want them to laugh, smile, feel sad. Even if they feel angry, that's okay.” PeopleFeelingsHoursEmotionLaughingOkayCheated Author:Tracey Emin
“Exercise is very important, first of all if you think about it, especially in a long flight like a six month space flight and on the ISS. If you didn't exercise and used the analogy on earth, it would be like laying in bed. So, just imagine laying in bed for several months, and even just trying to get up and walk, you probably wouldn't be able to. But if you got up and you exercised two hours a day, you'd probably be okay, and that's the same in space.” ThinkingTryingLongImportantEarthHoursImagineExerciseOkayFlight Author:Leroy Chiao
“I had no problem working for 15 hours straight when I was producing someone else, but I couldn't do it with my own songs. It took that moment of pointing the camera at myself to realize that it was okay to get lost in making my own music. I think before that I was scared of pushing myself to the point of staring into the abyss.” ThinkingMomentsProblemSongRealizingHoursOkayScaredStaringAbyssNo ProblemPointing Author:Rostam Batmanglij
“I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an hour away from my first gig, I still didn't have a name, so I thought 'Okay, I'll be Florence Robot/Isa Machine', before realising that name was so long it'd drive me mad.” FirstsLongMadeStillsNamesHoursMy FriendsOkayMachinesMadRealisingRobotsGigsFlorence Author:Florence Welch
“I gestured my frustration. “I don’t know. She’s much better already. She wasn’t talking half an hour ago. Look at her now.” We all turned, finding Ceri sobbing quietly and drinking her tea in small reverent sips as the pixy girls hovered over her. Three were plating her long, fair hair and another was singing to her. Okay,” I said as we turned back. “Bad example.” KnowsLooksLongSaidGirlThreeHoursHalfTalkingExampleHairFindingsSingingFairsOkayDrinkingTeaFrustrationSobbing Author:Kim Harrison
“The Beatles, they had it all figured out, okay? "I Want to Hold Your Hand." The first single. It's effing brilliant, right?... That's what everybody wants, Nicky. They don't want a twenty-four-hour hump sesh, they don't want to be married to you for a hundred years. They just want to hold your hand.” WantYearsFirstsHandsHoursFourMarriedHundredOkayTwentiesBrilliantBeing Married Author:Rachel Cohn
“I didn’t know baboons could drive recreational vehicles, but Khufu did okay. When I woke up around dawn, he was navigating through the early morning rush hour in Houston, baring his fangs and barking a lot, and none of the other drivers seemed to notice anything out of the ordinary.” KnowsHoursMorningOrdinaryOkayDawnDriversVehicleFangsHoustonEarly MorningBaboonsRush HourKhufu Book:The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles Book 1): The Red Pyramid Source: The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles Book 1): The Red Pyramid
“Would a minute have mattered? No, probably not, although his young son appeared to have a very accurate internal clock. Possibly even 2 minutes would be okay. Three minutes, even. You could go to five minutes, perhaps. But that was just it. If you could go for five minutes, then you'd go to ten, then half an hour, a couple of hours...and not see your son all evening. So that was that. Six o'clock, prompt. Every day. Read to young Sam. No excuses. He'd promised himself that. No excuses. No excuses at all. Once you had a good excuse, you opened the door to bad excuses.” IfsWould BeYoungThreeHoursHalfFiveDoorsMinutesSonCoupleTenSixOkayExcuseEveningClockInternalsAccurateFive MinutesNo ExcusesPromptsYour SonExcuse YouYoung Sons Author:Terry Pratchett
“You're scaring me," Jack's voice finally cut through, and I opened my eyes, barely able to see him. "okay, good, yes, breathe. Breathing helps one stay alive,I've found.What on earth is so bad about a stupid school saying no?" "My life"-I gasped-"is over.It's over. Everything." He frowned dubiously. "Who would want to go to a place called Georgetown, anyhow? Ridiculous. Now,I could understand your devastation if it had a distinguished name like, say, Jacktown, but as it is,you're overreacting. Why do you want to go to more school? I went once for a few hours and nearly lost my mind.” IfsWantMindHelpingEyeAbleSchoolEarthFoundNamesLostVoiceHoursCuttingAliveStupidOkayBreatheRidiculousBreathingOver ItDistinguishedSaying NoStaying AliveDevastationLost My MindGeorgetown Author:Kiersten White