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“On the set, I visit the set for a lot of the rehearsals, and there's always a writer on set. And then I'm involved in post-production, very intensely involved in editing, and the sound mix and color timing. Really, I have about nine jobs.”

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Author:Matthew Weiner

“Everyone's "journey" is different. Obviously with mine, I've had some amazing breaks, but then you have to be ready to seize the moment when the timing and the luck line up. You can't be afraid. You have to be open. I feel like I've always been a leaper, and I've always leapt into things without thinking.”

Thinking Different Moments Break Journey Luck Timing

Author:Sutton Foster

“I have a lot of films that I haven't gotten made, and that continues to trouble me. But someday, some way or another, I think I will. It's all about timing. There's a moment when you're hot and studios will make your next film, and then there's a moment when you're really cold, and they couldn't care less what you want to do next. That's when you have to recede and make lower-budgeted films.”

Thinking Moments Care Film Trouble Cold Hot Someday Timing

Author:Richard Linklater

“I don't know if I have actually good comedic timing. But I don't think I've worked at any timing. I think timing is probably something you can't work at. Well, I don't know. I definitely didn't work at it.”

Thinking Timing Comedic

Author:Mary McCormack

“I did a guest shot on a comedy series where they did 20 to 30 takes of everything. It's just gone by then. The joke is over. It's not funny anymore, and then of course, the editor's the one that has to figure out the timing. I think a lot depends on that.”

Thinking Comedy Jokes Over It Timing

Author:Dick Van Dyke

“I feel like all of my records have potential to be hits. Sometimes it's promotion, sometimes it's bad timing, but yeah I take it very personally. I'm very hard on myself when it comes to my records. I really believe that if it's not number one, I've failed.”

Believe Sometimes Timing Promotion

Author:Rico Love

“I feel great. George W.Bush is leaving. We're leaving. It's all perfect timing.”

Perfect Leaving Timing

Author:Al Jourgensen

“It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.”

Mind Hard Social Practice Hard Work Relation Timing Eloquence Prominence Social Relations Fortuitous Personalized

Author:Barbara Kruger

“I honestly think being single's great. Being in a relationship's great. It's all about the timing.”

Thinking Honestly Timing Being Single

Author:Mila Kunis

“I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.”

Knows Art Two Hands Able Form Quality Movement Masters Offers Draws Like Me Mediums Timing Cartoon Leonardo

Author:John Lasseter

“If I ran into a 19-year-old version of myself, I'd just tell her to live, full out. I might also tell her to go ahead and have a few babies and not worry about the timing of it.”

Ifs Years Might Worry Baby Versions Ran Timing

Author:Queen Latifah

“Life is about timing and overcoming difficult things.”

Life Life Is Sports Inspire Timing

Author:Carl Lewis

“Music deals with time and timing. It's so magical, but when you get into it, every little sound and every little space between the sounds, it's critical, so critical. And if it's not there, it not only feels wrong, but it ruins things.”

Ifs Feels Littles Sound Space Deals Critical Ruins Timing Space Between

Author:David Lynch

“In the case of Five-O, I believe it was a combination of many ingredients - timing, chemistry, Hawaii.”

Believe I Believe Cases Five Combination Ingredients Chemistry Timing Hawaii

Author:James MacArthur

“Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.”

Use Successful Talent Factors Arrogance Timing

Book:Out of my time

Source: Out of my time

“You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.”

Knows Way Real Sometimes Politics Timing Polite

Author:George McGovern

“I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.”

Thinking Motivational Action Spiritual Spirituality Term Can Do Business Activity Basketball Priorities Timing Top Priorities Timing Is Everything

Book:Living on Purpose: Straight Answers to Universal Questions

Source: Living on Purpose: Straight Answers to Universal Questions

“I have a solo deal with Columbia Records. So it's about, do I want to release an album, when can we do it, what kind of album should it be, how should it be released and marketed and what's the right timing? Do I have time to do it? It's all about questions.”

Want Should Kind Deals Records Albums Release Timing Solo Columbia Right Timing

Author:Cory Monteith

“The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.”

Giving Stories Death Change Dying Changed Criminals Timing Criminal Mind Impermanence Mind Opening Best Criminal Minds

Book:With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson

Source: With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson

“You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.”

Doe Winning Enemy Knowing Battle Mma Timing

Author:Miyamoto Musashi

“Early on, they were timing my contract with an egg timer.”

Eggs Contracts Timing Timer

Author:Conan O'Brien

“I am a believer in nutrient timing and supplementation, through 8Zone. I love eggs, apples, wild fish, leafy greens, brown rice, pasta, oatmeal, home grown Washington Potatoes, and cooking with coconut and olive oils.”

Home Cooking Fishes Oil Believer Apples Brown Eggs Timing Potatoes Rice Pasta Olives Nutrients Coconuts Olive Oil Oatmeal

Author:Apolo Ohno

“As usual, my timing is bizarrely good.”

Usual Timing

Author:Jamie Oliver

“Time makes more converts than reason.”

Life Reason Political Motivation Time Politics Common Sense Timing Converting Tumult

Book:Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion

Source: Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion

“I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.”

Way Trying Kind Stories Bars Timing Pacing

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“I love the idea of 'the one' but I actually believe that there isn't a Miss Right. There are 12,000 Miss Rights out there and it's all timing.”

Believe Ideas Rights Missing Timing

Author:Matthew Perry

“I've always wanted to work with Blair, and finally the timing was right. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. I think he's a hugely underrated actor in Hollywood.”

Thinking Wanted Actors Amount Hollywood Timing Blair Underrated

Author:Tyler Perry

“The best moments can't be preconceived. I've spent a lot of time in editing rooms, and a scene can be technically perfect, with perfect delivery and facial expression and timing, and you remember all your lines, and it is dead.”

Moments Remember Lines Perfect Rooms Expression Scene Timing Editing Delivery Facial Best Moments Facial Expression

Author:Brad Pitt

“The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.”

Sports Football Essence Block Rhythm Deception Soccer Execution Timing Transcendentalism Tackling Blocking And Tackling

Author:Knute Rockne

“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.”

“Coming into the music industry, even when I was a kid, one thing I learned is timing is everything. You being prepared is everything.”

Kids Inspiring One Thing Industry Prepared Timing Music Industry Timing Is Everything

Author:Kelly Rowland

“To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.”

Source: The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress

“For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.”

Ifs Writing Wells Play Light Might Form Space Balance Essentials Concern Chairs Timing Essays Theoretical Playwriting

Author:Sam Shepard

“We have a growing new fan base, and we wanted to get out now, and play now, and the timing was right.”

Play Wanted Growing Fans Timing

Author:Nikki Sixx

“Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.”

“If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens.”

Ifs Happens Special Timing Something Special

Author:Rick Springfield

“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”

Source: Poems

“Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.”

Actors Timing Gary

Book:Self-portrait

Source: Self-portrait

“The essential ingredient of politics is timing.”

Politics Essentials Ingredients Timing Aquariums

Author:Pierre Trudeau

“What is history but a fable agreed upon?”

Political Time Memories History Seasons Historical Cycles Anticipation Timing Fables Timeliness Writing History Agree Upon Written History

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis of America's Ponzi entitlement structure is different. Driven by the demographics of an aging population, its causes, timing and scope are known.”

“There has certainly been criticism of the timing involved in getting help to the victims of the storm, and much of it may indeed be warranted. However, this is not the time for pointing fingers; rather, it is the time for offering a helping hand to our neighbors in need.”

Needs May Helping Hands Involved Criticism Victim Fingers Storm Neighbor Offering Timing Pointing Helping Hand Pointing Fingers

Author:Jo Bonner

“Committee - a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.”

Men Hours Groups Minutes Waste Silly Wasting Time Timing Committees Hilarious Modern Life

Author:Milton Berle

“Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.”

“The timing of the electrical failure seemed dramatic and perfectly correct, as if the lights had said, "You have no need for sight. Listen.”

Ifs Needs Said Light Sight Dramatic Timing Electrical

Book:Bel Canto

Source: Bel Canto

“Patient endurance permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord and our faith in His timing when we are being tossed about by the surf of circumstance. Even when a seeming undertow grasps us, somehow, in the tumbling, we are being carried forward, though battered and bruised.”

Lord Circumstances Patient Endurance Permit Timing Seeming Surf Bruised Battered Tumbling Undertow

Book:Men and Women of Christ

Source: Men and Women of Christ

“There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.”

Source: The Strategy of Survival: Human Significance of O'Neill's Plays

“At the thought of being eaten by rats, Despereaux forgot about being brave. He forgot about not being a disappointment. He felt himself heading into another faint. But his mother, who had an excellent sense of dramatic timing, beat him to it; she executed a beautiful, flawless swoon, landing right at Despereaux's feet.”

Beautiful Mother Felt Feet Beats Brave Disappointment Excellent Dramatic Timing Rats Headings Landing Flawless Despereaux

Book:The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread

Source: The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread

“Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour could make all the difference.”

Ends Hours Differences Minutes Timing One Hour One Minute Lullaby

Book:This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

“And for one second, it was like I could feel the timing clicking together, finally pieces falling into place.”

Feels Together Fall Pieces Timing Lullaby

Book:This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

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