“Writing is a completely private act. It's in a way like play but very serious play, and sometimes I can escape into the fictional world that I'm creating so fully as to see hours go by without my noticing it. I think that kind of suspension of time and that mindfulness is a real gift.” ThinkingWorldWayWritingKindI CanRealSometimesPlayHoursSeriousMindfulnessCreatingNoticingSuspensionFictional Worlds Author:Antonya Nelson
“I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.” ThinkingMenWayWantTermHoursSituationSeriousBecomingMiracleBecoming A Man Author:F. Murray Abraham
“Mutability is the badge of infirmity. It is seldom that a man continues to wish and design the same thing two days alike. Now he is for marrying; and now a mistress is preferred to a wife. Now he is ambitious and aspiring; presently the meanest servant is not more humble than he. This hour he squanders his money away; the next he turns miser. Sometimes he is frugal and serious; at other times profuse, airy, and gay.” MenTwoSometimesTurnsNextWishHoursWifeDesignSeriousGayHumbleServantAmbitiousMistressTwo DaysMarryingBadgesInfirmityMisersAiryFrugalMutability Author:Pierre Charron
“If you want to be watched 24 hours a day in everything you do, you can't turn that around. You can't wake up three years later and say, 'Stop bothering me, I'm a serious actor,' if all you've done is wear certain clothes and show up half-loaded at clubs.” IfsWantYearsDoneShowsCertainTurnsThreeActorsHoursHalfSeriousClothesWake UpClubsBotherThree YearsLoaded Author:Ali MacGraw
“I drop my kid off at school and then race home, and its a very limited time. I can only do really serious writing for a couple of hours. And then I always go on a walk, I do a one-to-two-hour walk; I dont go running or hard hiking.” WritingI CanTwoHardHomeRunningKidsSchoolHoursWalksRaceSeriousGoes OnCoupleHikingLimited Time Author:Maria Semple
“I don't feel any pressure to be funny at all. I'm funny because I want to be funny. I could sit here and be serious for an hour and you would go away and make me much funnier than I am.” WantFeelsHoursSeriousPressureGoing Away Author:Jim Carrey
“I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but the thing that always made us laugh were movies like Zero Hour. That's what inspired us.” ThinkingMadeHoursLaughingSeriousBrotherTvsGrewGrew UpInspiredMovieZeroMarx Brothers Author:David Zucker
“I think that came out of watching all those serious movies for all that time. If you watch a movie like Zero Hour, Sterling Hayden is pretty funny, and so are the guys in the cockpit.” IfsThinkingGuyHoursWatchesSeriousMovieZeroSterlingCockpit Author:David Zucker
“Most important, for openers, work six hours a day, seven days a week for six years. Then if you like it you can get serious about it.” IfsYearsImportantHoursWeekSeriousSixSevenYou Like ItSeven Days Author:Alex Katz
“I don't believe, in a show like ours, that you really want to see character growth. That's just my opinion. Maybe to a small degree, but nothing serious. To that end, it doesn't have the same importance that it would have, if you were on an hour-long show. I think an audience gets really hungry for a character to grow and change on an hour-long show, and I think I would be more antsy.” IfsThinkingWantBelieveLongEndsCharacterShowsWould BeGrowsGrowthHoursOpinionAudienceSeriousDegreesImportanceDon't BelieveHungryGet Real Author:Ty Burrell
“Have you ever taken a serious political stand on anything? Yeah. Sure. For twenty-four hours once I refused to eat grapes.” PoliticalPoliticsHoursTakenFourSeriousTwentiesYeahGrapes Author:Woody Allen
“You have to make that stand out from the rest of the three hours. There are times when I'm having fun and being loose, and there are times when I'm ultra serious - calling the Giants/Patriots in the Super Bowl is a lot different than calling the Giants/Cubs game last Saturday. There are different levels of intensity, and I try to respect that when I'm doing it.” TryingDifferentLastsThreeGamesFunHoursLevelsSeriousCallingHaving FunGiantsIntensityBowlsPatriotSaturdayStanding OutSuper BowlDifferent LevelsCubsUltras Author:Joe Buck