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“You're hot for two seconds, and you're struggling to get work again. If it were easy, I don't think that's a good place for an artist to work from.”

Ifs Thinking Two Artist Easy Struggle Hot Seconds Good Place

Author:Tatiana Maslany

“Four months of preparation and about 12 hours of shooting turned into about 30 seconds of screen time.”

Hours Four Months Screens Preparation Shooting Seconds Screen Time

Author:Wentworth Miller

“Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.”

Lasts Tiny Seconds Finishing

Author:Mario Batali

“Tony Hale is a devout Christian and is a complete retard when it comes to swearing. The script called for him to swear for about 30 seconds and he just couldn't do it.”

Christian Scripts Seconds Swear Swearing Hale Retard

Author:Jason Bateman

“Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.”

Needs Acting Be Good Suits Seconds Ninety

Author:Bill Murray

“I've always been afraid of video games - not afraid that I wouldn't like them, but that I would like them too much, and that after mere seconds in front of any particularly bright and absorbing game, I would abandon all ambition, turn into a mouth-breathing zombie, and develop a wide, sofa-shaped rear end.”

Ends Turns Games Too Much Fronts Ambition Mouths Mere Wide Video Breathing Abandon Seconds Not Afraid Zombie Absorbing Sofas

Author:Susan Orlean

“A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.”

“These days, it takes only seconds - seconds - for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an international headline.”

International These Days Seconds Headlines

Author:Leon Panetta

“Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.”

Source: Gone to Soldiers: A Novel

“So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.”

Ifs Firsts Can Do Ready Excited Worried Lifts Seconds Anxious Explosions Astronaut

Author:Sally Ride

“Is Elizabeth Taylor fat? Her favorite food is seconds.”

Food Fats Seconds Food Safety Favorite Foods

Author:Joan Rivers

“The day is coming when, in 45 seconds, you can download a movie.”

Seconds Downloads

Author:Brian Roberts

“A woman can laugh and cry in three seconds and it's not weird. But if a man does it, it's very disturbing. The way I'd describe it is like this: I have been allowed inside the house of womanhood, but I feel that they wouldn't let me in any of the interesting rooms.”

Ifs Men Way Feels Doe Has Beens Three House Interesting Rooms Laughing Cry Let Me Seconds Womanhood Disturbing

Author:Rob Schneider

“I'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to predictive texting for a - acceptable to some - synonym.”

Phones Neglect Seconds Acceptable Resorts Texting Fiddle Insert Synonym

Author:Will Self

“I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car.”

Two Half Team Car Including Faster Seconds Mates Inspirational Team Team Mate

Author:Ayrton Senna

“No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds.”

May Matter Helping Happiness Joy Forget Laughing Laughter No Matter What Heartache Seconds Forget It Strength And Wisdom

Author:Red Skelton

“I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.”

Two Havens Musician Guitar Aspiration Seconds

Author:Slash

“I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.”

Trying Years War Country Manners Seconds Finding Peace Good Manners

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.”

“I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.”

Men Mind Change Leadership Opinion Ten Seconds Iron Lady

Book:As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds.”

Feels Mean Persons Stills I Can Enough Bigs Certain White Sea Ocean Speed Nostalgia Ties Seconds Racing Sail Knots Yacht

Book:Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness

Source: Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness

“When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.”

Feels Mind Looks Persons Body Might Energy Space Half Talking Doors Tree Sky Minutes Car Breathe Your Body Seconds

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.”

Loses Business Millions Economy Gains Machines Tragedy Seconds Annoying Slot Machines

Author:Ted Turner

“Now you know those trick candles that you blow out and a couple of seconds.”

Knows Couple Blow Tricks Seconds Candle

Author:Tim Vine

“I always like to watch comics and it's interesting that you can tell if someone's funny in 10 seconds.”

Ifs Funny Interesting Watches Seconds

Author:Christopher Walken

“God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'”

Giving God Today Used Time Gratitude Conservative Appreciation Thanks Seconds Thanksgiving Thank You Thankfulness Saying Thank You Thankful Gratitude Gratitude And Appreciation Thanksgiving Day Expressing Gratitude Thanksgiving And Gratitude Thanksgiving Thanks Thanksgiving Gratitude Thank You Gratitude Gratitude And Thanks Thankfulness And Gratitude Great Gratitude Love And Gratitude Thankful Heart Inspirational Gratitude Express Appreciation Inspirational Thanksgiving Thankful Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Thankful Gratitude For Help Words Of Gratitude Thank You Appreciation Gratitude For Life Thanksgiving Inspirational Thanksgiving Thank You Thanksgiving Dinner Good Thanksgiving Gratitude For Health Grateful Inspirational Thanksgiving And Family Gratitude To God Happy And Grateful Thanksgiving Family Gratitude To Others Great Thanksgiving Spiritual Gratitude Gratitude For Friends Being Grateful For Life Blessed And Thankful Daily Gratitude Grateful Happy Day After Thanksgiving Sincere Gratitude Thankful For Friends

Author:William Arthur Ward

“If you catch him, just give me four seconds with Saddam Hussein.”

Ifs Giving Four Give Me Seconds Saddam Hussein

Author:Bruce Willis

“It's very interesting, the joke comes first and then the wording comes within five seconds, maybe ten seconds. My thing is to get the joke across in as few words as possible. However, sometimes a word that's not really needed does help the rhythm of it. It's a gut feeling.”

Firsts Doe Sometimes Helping Feelings Interesting Five Needed Ten Jokes Rhythm Guts Seconds Very Interesting Few Words Gut Feelings Wording

Author:Steven Wright

“To the audience, it's like I'm changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my show's almost like a 90-minute song that I know exactly. I wrote every note, and I know exactly where everything is.”

Knows Shows Song Audience Five Minutes Subjects Notes Seconds

Author:Steven Wright

“Waiting is so unusual that many of us can't stand in a queue for 30 seconds without getting out our phones to check for messages or to Google something.”

Waiting Messages Phones Checks Seconds Unusual Google Queues

Author:Julian Baggini

“Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”

Source: Fahrenheit 451

“Mona knocked at the wrong time. “Uh…yeah…wait a minute, Mona -- ” Mona shouted through the door. “Room service, gentlemen. Just pull the covers up.” Michael grinned at Jon. “My roommate. Brace yourself.” Seconds later, Mona burst through the doorway with a tray of coffee and croissants. “Hi! I’m Nancy Drew! You must be the Hardy Boys!”

Source: Tales of the city ; More tales of the city ; Further tales of the city: an omnibus

“If this glorious birth to death hassle is the only hassle we are ever to have ..if our grand exhilarating fight of life is such a tragically short little scrap anyway,compared to the eons of rounds before and after-then why should one want to relinquish even a few precious seconds of it?”

Ifs Want Should Littles Life Is Fighting Birth Rounds Glorious Seconds Scrap Exhilarating Before And After Hassle

Author:Ken Kesey

“A hip-looking teen watches an elderly woman hobble across the street on a walker. "Grammy's here!" he shouts. He puts some MacAttack Mac&Cheese in the microwave and dons headphones and takes out a video game so he won't be bored during the forty seconds it takes his lunch to cook. A truck comes around the corner and hits Grammy, sending her flying over the roof into the backyard, where luckily she lands on a trampoline. Unluckily, she bounces back over the roof, into the front yard, landing on a rosebush.”

“As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway.”

Ifs Knowing Concerned Complicated Seconds Calvin And Hobbes Friendship

Author:Bill Watterson

“Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and start tumbling down the stairs - you have those long, long seconds to know that you are going to be hurt, and badly?”

Knows Long Sometimes Hurt Steps Know How Missing Sand Do You Know Seconds Riding Bike Stairs Tumbling Riding Your Bike Tumbling Down

Book:My Sister's Keeper: A Novel

Source: My Sister's Keeper: A Novel

“If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a man my son!”

Ifs Men Life Running Earth Loses Hurt Walks Common Virtue Too Much Minutes Son Kings Distance Crowds My Son Seconds Foe Be A Man Unforgiving Loving Friends

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“Life is like that - twenty minutes of misery for every two seconds of joy.”

Two Life Is Joy Minutes Twenties Misery Seconds Life Is Like

Author:Virginia C. Andrews

“As I drift back into sleep, I can't help thinking that it's a wonderful thing to be right about the world. To weigh the evidence, always incomplete, and correctly intuit the whole, to see the world in a grain of sand, to recognize its beauty, its simplicity, its truth. It's as close as we get to God in this life, and reside in the glow of such brief flashes of understanding, fully awake, sometimes for two or three seconds, at peace with our existence. And then back to sleep we go.”

“If two people stare at each other for more than a few seconds, it means they are about to either make love or fight. Something similar might be said about human societies. If two nearby societies are in contact for any length of time, they will either trade or fight. The first is non-zero-sum social integration, and the second ultimately brings it.”

People Ifs Firsts Humans Mean Said Two Might Fighting Social Trade Contact Staring Length Zero Seconds Making Love Integration Human Society

Author:Robert Wright

“I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was - I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.”

Source: On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“The first night Stephen and I slept together, he whispered numbers into my ear: long, high numbers -- distances between planets, seconds in a life. He spoke as if they were poetry, and they became poetry. Later, when he fell asleep, I leaned over him and watched, trying to picture a mathematician's dreams. I concluded that Stephen must dream in abstract, cool designs like Mondrian paintings.”

Ifs Trying Firsts Long Dream Together Night Numbers Design Painting Planets Ears Distance Abstract Spokes Seconds Mathematician

Book:One Way or Another: Stories

Source: One Way or Another: Stories

“Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to say we are not satisfied that your place of birth determines your right for life. Let us be outraged; let us be loud; let us be bold.”

Children Doe Dies Three Accepting Health Birth Drug Determine Satisfied Loud Your Children Seconds Child Abuse Outraged Abused Children Neglected Child

Author:Brad Pitt

“Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east.”

Two Left Feet West South East Seconds Compass Needles Brave New World Happiness Brave New World John North East

Book:Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books

Source: Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books

“Siobhan also says that if you close your mouth and breathe out loudly through your nose it can mean that you are relaxed, or that you are bored, or that you are angry and it all depends on how much air comes out of your nose and how fast and what shape your mouth is when you do it and how you are sitting and what you just said before and hundreds of other things which are too complicated to work out in a few seconds.”

Ifs Mean Said Air Depends Shapes Mouths Sitting Angry Work Out Complicated Breathe Bored Noses Seconds Relaxed

Author:Mark Haddon

“I have never felt any rest in sleep. For a few seconds I am numbed, then a new life begins, freed from the conditions of time and space, and doubtless similar to that state which awaits us after death. Who knows if there is not some link between those two existences and if it is not possible for the soul to unite them now?”

Ifs Knows Two Soul States Felt Sleep Space Existence Conditions Links Seconds New Life Time And Space After Death

Author:Gerard De Nerval

“No. We breathe. We pulse. We regenerate. Our hearts beat. Our minds create. Our souls ingest. 37 seconds, well used, is a lifetime.”

Mind Wells Heart Soul Done Used Waiting Beats Lifetime Seven Breathe Thirty Seconds Pulse Well Done Heart Beat

Author:Suzanne Weyn

“In the first few seconds an aching sadness wrenched his heart, but it soon gave way to a feeling of sweet disquiet, the excitement of gypsy wanderlust”

Way Firsts Heart Feelings Sadness Sweet Excitement Seconds Gypsy

Author:Mikhail Bulgakov

“They all think any minute I'm going to commit suicide. What a joke. The truth of course is the exact opposite: suicide is the only thing that keeps me alive. Whenever everything else fails, all I have to do is consider suicide and in two seconds I'm as cheerful as a nitwit. But if I could not kill myself -- ah then, I would. I can do without nembutal or murder mysteries but not without suicide.”

Ifs Thinking I Can Two Courses Can Do Alive Failing Mystery Minutes Jokes Opposites Murder Suicide Commit If I Could Seconds Cheerful Murder Mysteries

Book:The Moviegoer

Source: The Moviegoer

“I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away.”

People Ifs Firsts Looks Feelings Eye Five Shining Instant Seconds Flicker

Book:The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

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