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“If the director wishes to print it, then you have a series of choices, maybe millions of choices within that minute-and-a-half, or 80 seconds, or 2 minutes or however long or short the take is, you have all those choices committed to celluloid. I find that absolutely thrilling.”

Ifs Long Choices Wish Half Millions Minutes Directors Series Committed Print Seconds Thrilling Celluloid

Author:Ben Kingsley

“You don't look at it as the size of the role. Quantity is not the point. You can be as thorough in 30 seconds as you can in three hours.”

Looks Three Hours Roles Size Seconds Quantity Thorough

Author:William Hurt

“I had an Aston Martin phone worth ?15,000 given to me as a present. I dropped it in a gin and tonic about 15 seconds after opening it.”

Given Phones Opening Seconds Gin Gin And Tonic Aston Martin

Author:Simon Jordan

“On either side in Time, there's nothing similar to Now, only memories or imaginings . The place you were ten seconds ago has vanished, and what is the place ten seconds ahead? There is nothing there. It's very odd.”

Time Sides Memories Ten Odd Seconds

Author:Arthur J. Deikman

“Nods from the Gilded pointers - Nods from the Seconds slim - Decades of Arrogance between The Dial life - And Him -”

Life Decades Arrogance Seconds Slim Gilded Pointers

Book:Dickinson

Source: Dickinson

“Well, I would - if they realized that we - again if - if we led them back to that stalemate only because our retaliatory power, our seconds, or strike at them after our first strike, would be so destructive they they couldn't afford it, that would hold them off.”

Ifs Firsts Wells Would Be Humorous Strikes Destructive Seconds Stalemate

Author:Ronald Reagan

“The sun will rise tomorrow, even if you get knocked out in 30 seconds.”

Ifs Sun Tomorrow Mma Seconds

Author:Greg Jackson

“Fans think they want to see more than the 10 to 20 seconds of Itchy and Scratchy that we put on the show, but my feeling is less is more. Once you've skinned and flayed a cat, ripped his head off, made him drink acid and tied his tongue to the moon, there really isn't that much to say.”

Thinking Want Made Shows Feelings Fans Drink Moon Cat Tongue Seconds Tied Acid Ripped Less Is More Itchy

Author:Matt Groening

“Harvey Publications hired me as a letterer, and they found out six seconds after I got the job that I couldn't letter. I still can't letter. So, they hired me to draw.”

Stills Jobs Found Six Draws Letters Seconds Publication Harvey

Author:Ernie Colon

“We should all die with a sharp, brusque heart attack. My father was lucky like that. One day he went hunting. He had a good day, he killed a lot of game, he was with his best friends. He said, "Ah, I'm still a good hunter." Then he said, "I don't feel well," and in 30 seconds it was all over.”

Feels Should Wells Heart Said Stills Dies Father Games One Day Lucky Seconds Hunting Hunters Good Day Heart Attack

Author:Alain Resnais

“Give three hundred seconds to your dream. Take a tiny step with big integrity. It takes a step to break to break into a run. The result at hand doesn't matter. The resolve does. Show up for your love. Showing up always shines.”

Source: This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love

“At times, I do Tabata, a high-intensity Japanese training regimen, in which I must do 20 seconds of a specific body part with 10 seconds of rest. This must be done eight times within four minutes. Your heart rate shoots through the roof, but you burn a lot of fat.”

Heart Done Body Four Minutes Training Rate Eight Fats Seconds Intensity Roof Heart Rate

Author:Arjun Rampal

“I meditate. Like, I try. Not every day, but even if I'm not doing that meditation, the moments of my day have changed because I'm not on my phone so much. I'm intentionally not checking my phone every two seconds.”

Ifs Trying Two Moments Meditation Changed Phones Seconds

Author:Anderson Cooper

“We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st.”

Humans Lasts Minutes Seconds Cosmic December Calendars Last Minute

Author:Carl Sagan

“I am willing to believe that my unobtainable sixty seconds within a sponge or a flatworm might not reveal any mental acuity that I would care to call consciousness. But I am also confident [...] that vultures and sloths, as close evolutionary relatives with the same basic set of organs, lie on our side of any meaningful (and necessarily fuzzy) border and that we are therefore not mistaken when we look them in the eye and see a glimmer of emotional and conceptual affinity.”

Believe Looks Might Eye Care Lying Sides Consciousness Emotional Willing Meaningful Borders Seconds Organs Sixty Mistaken Sloth Affinity Sponges Fuzzy Vulture

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“The country was a dreamland; and perhaps it even reminded my wife's grandfather of the night he woke up drunk in his friend's house, beside his friend's wife, everything similar but new, different, better. The United States of America was like an eternity of those first disorientating seconds of not knowing and not wanting to.”

Source: All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well

“I have no style. There are certain people who just have a visual sense that defines their work. You could probably watch 30 seconds of anything they do and you'll know exactly who directed it. I don't have that skill.”

People Knows Certain Watches Style Skills Visuals Seconds

Author:J. J. Abrams

“In this age of Twitter and Snark every misstep gets posted online in twelve seconds.”

Age Online Seconds Twelve

Author:Howard Kurtz

“I figured I had seconds, maybe minutes to live.”

Minutes Seconds

Author:Curtis Sliwa

“The Democratic Convention is $27 million in debt. They had to cancel the kick-off event at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. A speedway is the perfect place for the Democratic Convention. You go around in circles, turn left every few seconds, and you end up right where you started.”

Ends Turns Left Perfect Millions Events Democratic Debt Circles Kicks Seconds Conventions Motor Charlotte

Author:Jay Leno

“If it could save a person's life, could you find a way to save ten seconds off the boot time? If there were five million people using the Mac, and it took ten seconds extra to turn it on every day, that added up to three hundred million or so hours per year people would save, which was the equivalent of at least one hundred lifetimes saved per year.”

People Ifs Way Years Persons Turns Three Hours Millions Five Ten Hundred Lifetime Saved Extras Seconds Boots Macs

Author:Steve Jobs

“It's like seeing someone for the first time, and you look at each other for a few seconds, and there's this kind of recognition like you both know something. Next moment the person's gone, and it's too late to do anything about it.”

“The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.”

Years Actors Acting Minutes Fame Seconds

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Bram Stoker (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Bram Stoker (Illustrated)

“So on and on I go, the seconds tick the time out There's so much left to know, and I'm on the road to find out.”

Knows Left Seconds Tick

Author:Cat Stevens

“In the US. Infantry Manual published during World War II, the soldier was told what to do if a live grenade fell into the trench where he and others were sitting: to wrap himself around the grenade so as to at least save the others. (If no one "volunteered," all would be killed, and there were only a few seconds to decide who would be the hero.)”

Ifs World War Would Be Hero Sitting Soldier War Of The Worlds Seconds World War Ii World War I Wraps Manuals Trenches Grenade Infantry

Author:Anatol Rapoport

“My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds - what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay.”

Important Lasts Watches Return Work Out Seconds Decay Sculpture

Book:Rain, sun, snow, hail, mist, calm

Source: Rain, sun, snow, hail, mist, calm

“My mother had heard all about miniskirts but had never seen one so I took her for lunch at Alvaro's [in Chelsea]. We walked down the King's Road and waited 10 seconds for our first miniskirt and a girl came along with her skirt tucked round her arse. I said: 'What do you think, ma?' And she said: 'If it's not for sale, you shouldn't put it in the window!'”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Said Mother Girl Heard Kings Window Rounds Seconds Lunch Skirts Chelsea Arses

Author:Michael Caine

“What goes 0-300 in less than 2 seconds? Your mother on a scale.”

Mother Scales Seconds

Author:Alex Trebek

“It's true, I do sometimes suspend myself over the canvas, but mostly I work at a table when I'm making a painting. When I use 'The Rig,' my feet are firmly anchored. I lower myself horizontally just long enough to make a brush stroke - a matter of seconds - and then I'm upright again. My assistant then erases the painting quickly with a squeegee and I go for it again... until I get it right. It's like trying to hit a home run.”

Trying Long Sometimes Matter Enough Use Home Running Feet Painting Tables Seconds Canvas Strokes Brushes Erase Assistants Home Run Methodology Rigs Brush Strokes

Author:James Nares

“On the other hand, and let's face it, there's always another hand, unless you're a Saudi Arabian shoplifter of course, hurt feelings can be quite traumatic. I've heard that it can take seconds, sometimes even minutes, to get over it.”

Sometimes Feelings Hands Faces Courses Hurt Heard Minutes Over It Seconds Get Over Hurt Feelings Saudis Arabian

Author:Pat Condell

“Every few seconds a new book sees the light of day. Most of them will just be a part of the hum that makes us hard of hearing. Even the book is becoming an instrument of forgetting. A truly literary work comes into being as its creator's cry of protest against the forgetting that looms over him, over his predecessors and his contemporaries alike, and over his time, and the language he speaks. A literary work is something that defies death.”

Book Hard Light Literature Speak Language Forget Cry Becoming Instruments Creator Hearing Protest Seconds Predecessors New Books Literary Works

Author:Ivan Klíma

“If you are explaining, you're losing. It's a bumper sticker culture. People have to get it like that, and if they don't, if it takes three seconds to make them understand, you're off their radar screen. Three seconds to understand, or you lose. This is our problem.”

People Ifs Problem Culture Three Loses Losing Screens Seconds Explaining Radar Bumper Sticker Bumper Sticker

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“Whoever came up with "hold the shift key for eight seconds to turn on 'your keyboard is buggered' mode" should be shot.”

Should Turns Keys Shots Eight Seconds Turn-on Keyboards

Author:Linus Torvalds

“Yesterday President Obama traveled to Jamaica, where he will meet with students and Caribbean leaders. Jamaica's such a beautiful place, Obama says he can't wait to just take it all in, hold it for several seconds, and then exhale.”

Beautiful Waiting President Leader Students Yesterday Seconds President Obama Traveled Caribbean Beautiful Places Jamaica

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“Coe has smashed the world record, 1:44.92 seconds has never been run easier”

World Inspirational Running Funny Records Easier Seconds Entertaining Athletics World Records Bloopers

Author:Ron Pickering

“When the word began to get out, the idea of tying imitations of aquatic worms was not met with universal approval in the fly-fishing community. It seems that worms had somehow gotten a bad name. I think a fishing pal of mine hit it on the head when he said, It just pisses them off that you can catch trout, I mean really big trout, on a fly that a five-year old can tie in twenty seconds!”

Source: Fly Fishing the Tailwaters

“Well, it was never supposed to be like that. Walt died before we had finished. The original idea of Walt's was that you came down there, into the caves, and there were no pirates. But they had been there just seconds before! There was a hot meal on the table, steaming.”

Wells Ideas Artist Died Hot Originals Tables Finished Supposed To Be Meals Seconds Caves Pirate Walt Original Ideas

Author:John Hench

“As the seconds tick down, Belgium are literally playing in time that doesn't exist.”

Football Seconds Commentators Tick Belgium

Author:Guy Mowbray

“To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten. The first 'second' is when you come out of the blocks. The next is when you look up and take your first few strides to attain gain position. By that time the race is actually about half over. The final 'second' - the longest slice of time in the world for an athlete - is that last half of the race, when you really bear down and see what you're made of. It seems to take an eternity, yet is all over before you can think what's happening.”

Source: I Have Changed

“It's now come out just before his record-breaking 100-meter dash, gold medalist Usain Bolt ate at McDonald's. Apparently he timed his meal so when the race started he would have exactly 9.63 seconds to get to a toilet.”

Funny Race Records Gold Meals Seconds Olympics Toilets Bolts Mcdonalds Meter London Olympics Records Breaking

Author:Conan O'Brien

“That dude scored 8 points in the last 19 seconds, pulled out a miracle win at the Garden. He made me choke on a chicken bone that day. I'm serious.”

Made Lasts Winning Serious Basketball Garden Miracle Bones Chickens Nba Seconds Choke

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“You want me to admit I'm a four-foot, six-inch freckle-faced person of Jewish extraction? I admit it. All but the extraction. But being short never bothered me for three seconds. The rest of the time I wanted to commit suicide.”

Want Persons Wanted Three Four Feet Six Suicide Commit Seconds Want Me Inches Bothered You Want Me Freckles Extraction

Author:Mel Brooks

“Israel is doing what any other country would do, and certainly the U.S. would do. If 80 percent of your population were under fire and you had 60 seconds or 90 seconds to get into bomb shelters, if terror tunnels were dug underneath your border in order to come in and explode your kindergartens and massacre your people and kidnap American citizens.”

People Ifs Country Order Fire Citizens Percent Population Terror Israel Borders Bombs Seconds Shelter Other Countries Tunnels American Citizens Kindergarten Massacres Bomb Shelters

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“We are where centuries only count as seconds, and after a thousand lives, our eyes begin to open.”

Eye Century Thousand Karma Seconds Eye Opening

Book:Plays:

Source: Plays:

“The average daydream is about fourteen seconds long and we have about two thousand of them per day. In other words, we spend about half of our waking hours - one-third of our lives on earth - spinning fantasies.”

Long Two Earth Hours Half Fantasy Our Lives Thousand Thirds Average Seconds Waking Spinning Daydreaming Fourteen

Book:The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human

Source: The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human

“I hope each day to have done 10 seconds of good work that they can use in the film. And Im always afraid I didnt get those 10 seconds.”

Done Use Film Each Day Seconds Good Work

Author:Louis Garrel

“It only takes around 60 seconds to cast your vote in the polling station. 60 seconds to protect the economy, 60 seconds to protect your jobs, 60 seconds to protect the services your family relies on. A lot is at stake during those 60 seconds.”

Jobs Economy Protect Vote Casts Our Family Rely Stations Seconds Stakes Polling

Author:Ross Kemp

“If all seconds were as averse to duels as their principals, very little blood would be shed in that way.”

Ifs Way Littles Would Be Blood Seconds Shed Principal Dueling

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Sometimes you go up to people who look totally normal and then you talk to them for a few seconds and you are like, Oh I better get out of this, because this person is a little mentally unbalanced, and they are not going to get a joke.”

People Looks Littles Persons Sometimes Normal Jokes Seconds Unbalanced

Author:Billy Eichner

“Sometimes I'll go out into the crowd and keep singing, but I'll get maybe seven rows out and I'm out of synch, I'm a couple seconds behind the band and then it becomes chaos.”

Sometimes Behinds Couple Band Singing Seven Chaos Crowds Seconds

Author:Rob Zombie

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