“I never know what I'm going to do for the Post next. Two weeks ago I had a piece on Homeland Security. This is one of my pig ongoing projects. How unprepared we are for a terrorist attack.” KnowsTwoNextPiecesWeekSecurityProjectsTerroristPostsPigsOngoingTwo WeeksHomelandTerrorist AttacksUnpreparedHomeland Security Author:Sally Quinn
“Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.” MomentsHelpingLastsInterestingPiecesWeekAdviceStyleDependsHusbandLaura Author:Sally Quinn
“I had three weeks of prep on 'Wolfman,' a ridiculously inadequate amount of time to try to bring together the fractured and scattered pieces of the production. I had taken the job mostly because I had a cash flow problem, the only time in my career I've ever let finances enter into the decision process.” TryingProblemTogetherJobsThreeProcessDecisionCareersTakenPiecesWeekAmountFlowProductionsFinanceCashOnly TimeInadequatePrepsCash Flow Author:Joe Johnston
“Caron, Even though you just got here a few months ago, We've grown so close over these last few weeks And, I can remember, When you first got here, You wrote a piece of paper in my locker... I don't know why I'm crying so much man... You wrote a piece of paper in my locker that said, "KD MVP." And that's after we had lost two or three straight. And I don't really say much in those moments, But I remember that. I go home and I think about that stuff man. When you got people behind you, You can do whatever. And I thank you man, I appreciate you.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMenFirstsSaidI CanTwoMomentsHomeLastsRememberThreeLostStuffCan DoBehindsPiecesWeekCryMonthsPaperAppreciateNbaRemember WhenBehind YouLockersMvpAppreciate You Author:Kevin Durant
“For nearly a century the psychoanalysts have been writing op-ed pieces about the workings of a country they've never traveled to, a place that, like China, has been off-limits. Suddenly, the country has opened its borders and is crawling with foreign correspondents, neurobiologists are filing ten stories a week, filled with new data. These two groups of writers, however, don't seem to read each other's work. That's because the analysts are writing about a country they call Mind and the neuroscientists are reporting from a country they call Brain.” WritingMindHas BeensTwoCountryStoriesSeemsBrainPiecesGroupsWeekCenturyTenLimitsFilledChinaDataBordersTraveledAnalystsCrawlingFiling Author:Susanna Kaysen
“To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.” WayHas BeensArtPlayGovernmentArtistNightSpeakGrowsLibertyPiecesWeekFeetProveSixCrushCensorshipIntroducingFreedom Of SpeechOne NightBannedClumsy Author:Victor Hugo
“A friend and I flew south with our children. During the week we spent together I took off my shoes, let down my hair, took apart my psyche, cleaned the pieces, and put them together again in much improved condition. I feel like a car that's just had a tune-up. Only another woman could have acted as the mechanic.” FeelsChildrenTogetherWomenPiecesWeekConditionsCarHairOur ChildrenSouthShoesTunesMechanicFlewTogether AgainLet DownAnother WomanTune Up Book:Living Out Loud Source: Living Out Loud
“I write 1,000 words a day first thing in the morning but I cannot write 240 characters to describe a piece that I spent six weeks working on with a producer.” WritingFirstsCharacterMorningPiecesWeekSixProducers Author:Daniel Alarcon
“It never seemed like that much of a mystery why shows I was acted in failed. When you're doing a show called Freaks And Geeks about young people in high school, and it's on Saturday nights at 8 and there's no promotion for it, it's not really hard to guess why no one's watching it. And when you're doing a college goofball comedy that premières three weeks after Sept. 11, it's not that hard to piece together why that's not the most important thing on the radar.” PeopleImportantHardShowsSchoolTogetherYoungNightThreeComedyPiecesMysteryWeekCollegeHigh SchoolImportant ThingsFreakSaturdayGeekPromotionSaturday NightRadarSept 11 Author:Seth Rogen
“I can write for weeks or months sometimes and edit it down to a song. I feel like it's a piece of music that will hopefully stand the test of time and hopefully capture a moment in history if I'm doing it correctly and honestly.” IfsFeelsWritingI CanSometimesMomentsSongPiecesWeekMonthsTestsHonestlyHopefullyCaptureEditsTest Of Time Author:Macklemore
“I knew that I wanted to be an illustrator since I was in kindergarten. I can remember the exact day. The art teacher usually came to our classroom once a week, but she was absent that day. Instead, our regular teacher gave us each a huge piece of paper and crayons, and we could do whatever we wanted.” ArtI CanWantedRememberTeacherPiecesWeekHugePaperClassroomAbsentKindergartenCrayonIllustratorsArt Teacher Author:Jan Brett
“I did not set out to write another novel. One day I sat down with the thought of trying my hand at a piece of nonfiction, a personal memoir of youth, but over the next several weeks, without intending it, the work began evolving into what has become 'Tomcat in Love.” WritingTryingHandsNextNovelPiecesWeekYouthOne DayMemoirEvolveSatNonfiction Author:Tim O'Brien
“I spent maybe a week all day every day working on the wall, my first legal wall because I was just so excited and it was nice to be able to chill and relax and work on the piece instead of doing it quickly and running from the cops or whatever. Then it just really grew from there. Other people saw it and appreciated the skill.” PeopleFirstsRunningAbleSawsPiecesNiceWeekWallGrewSkillsExcitedRelaxCopAppreciatedChill Author:Alec Monopoly
“Today Monopoly added a new game piece: the cat. The new piece was chosen after weeks of online voting. Is that a surprise? Whenever there's a vote for something on the Internet, the cat always wins.” TodayGamesWinningPiecesWeekInternetCatVoteSurpriseChosenVotingOnlineMonopoly Author:Craig Ferguson
“Martial sex is kinda like ordering a Civil War chess set through the mail. You get one piece every four to six weeks, you don't know what kind of shape that piece is gonna be in when you get it, but you still gotta pay the handling charges.” KnowsKindStillsWarSexPayPiecesFourWeekShapesSixChessCivil WarMailOne Piece Author:Bill Engvall
“I like making series, for a couple reasons. One, the repetition of routine is very healthy because I can get a little crazy; I want to be making things all the time. And if I publish something every week, I don't have to put every idea I have into one piece. It's more like, here's one idea: execute it, see it through, think about it, do it the best you can. And then there are going to be ten more ideas that come while you're making that, because creativity works that way.” IfsThinkingWayWantLittlesI CanIdeasReasonCreativityPiecesWeekCrazyCoupleHealthyTenSeriesRoutineRepetitionPublishBecause I CanOne Piece Author:Paul Madonna
“The thing about how that process works is that it's more about the editing and time for judging the ideas. Most pieces I publish each week have been around for months. This is a response to the beginning of the strip, when I was making them so quickly. I would just conceive a piece, finish it, and then the next day see it in the paper. That was when I was doing dailies four days a week.” Has BeensIdeasNextProcessPiecesFourWeekJudgingMonthsPaperResponseEditingNext DayPublish Author:Paul Madonna
“I set up a system for myself where I work on a lot of pieces at once. I'll switch between them and keep working on a piece until it comes together, and then I'll publish it. This way some pieces can take a year if they need to. The trick is to just make sure one is ready every week.” IfsWayNeedsYearsTogetherPiecesWeekReadyTricksPublish Author:Paul Madonna