“I think I fully commit myself to any role to the extent to which I can. In other words there's some roles that maybe it's just not there, in other words on the page. You know, I mean your job is you need to play the governor and that's what you do. I mean I'm not going to stay up all night if I'm playing a functional role. And I've played a couple of functional roles. And so I'm not going to do anything other, look he's a functional guy. He says hey mister, you forgot your hat.” IfsThinkingKnowsNeedsLooksMeanI CanPlayJobsNightGuyRolesCouplePagesCommitHeyHatsGovernorsAll NightUp All Night Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“To write three series a year you only need to commit to writing 10 pages per day, or editing 50 pages of text per day. Plus, writing is my job, and I need to write to eat, so I'm highly motivated to get up and get to work!” NeedsWritingYearsJobsThreePagesSeriesCommitGet UpPlusMotivatedEditing Author:Victoria Laurie
“Religion can no longer rest its claims on a dogmatic supernaturalism, because any dogma that is irreconcilable with tested knowledge must be rejected... One sentence ... sums up the dark and deadly pages of Chistian history: "If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities."” IfsBelieveDarkAtheismPagesClaimsPositive AtheismSentencesCommitDogmaRejectedAbsurdityTestedAtrocitiesDogmaticOne Sentence Author:Herbert J. Muller
“If you're 50 years old or younger, give every book about 50 pages before you decide to commit yourself to reading it, or give it up. If you're over 50, which is when time gets shorter, subtract your age from 100 - the result is the number of pages you should read before deciding whether or not to quit. If you're 100 or over you get to judge the book by its cover, despite the dangers in doing so.” IfsGivingShouldYearsBookAgeReadingResultsNumbersDangerJudgingPagesQuittingCommitDespiteOver YouOver 50 Author:Nancy Pearl
“This Vladimir Brusiloff to whom I have referred was the famous Russian novelist. . . . Vladimir specialized in gray studies of hopeless misery, where nothing happened till page three hundred and eighty, when the moujik decided to commit suicide. . . . Cuthbert was an optimist at heart, and it seemed to him that, at the rate at which the inhabitants of that interesting country were murdering one another, the supply of Russian novelists must eventually give out.” GivingHeartCountryThreeInterestingStudyHappenedPagesHundredDecidedSuicideMiseryRateCommitNovelistsHopelessGrayOptimistEighty Author:P. G. Wodehouse
“I began composing the next poem, the one that was to be written next. Not the last poem of those I had read, but the poem written in the head of someone who may never have existed but who had certainly written another poem nonetheless, and just never had the chance to commit it to ink and the page.” MayLastsNextChanceWrittenPagesCommitInkComposing Author:Steve Erickson
“Your mother all but accused me of something that is, among my kind, the highest crime a man can commit. There is no trial, only punishment, because it is considered better to let an innocent man die than let a guilty one live." (Page 79.)” MenKindMotherDiesCrimeHighestPagesPunishmentTrialsCommitInnocentGuiltyAccusedInnocent Man Book:Hawksong Source: Hawksong