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“To a large extent: it's about economy of space. You have so little real estate when you're writing a half hour show. It's really twenty minutes. So you have to with a pilot introduce all your characters, set up the premise in a way that shows the potential for a series and make it funny and do it all in about thirty-five or forty pages. It's very hard.”

Way Writing Littles Real Hard Character Shows Hours Space Half Economy Five Minutes Pages Twenties Series Thirty Forty Pilots Introducing Estates Premises Half Hours

Author:Jonathan M. Goldstein

“The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours.”

Whole Hours Half Watches Four Minutes Effects Twenties Spread Aids Wheels Labour Exertion Insensible Winding Up

Book:On The Economy Of Machinery And Manufactures

Source: On The Economy Of Machinery And Manufactures

“And in your new lives you'll have to live entirely for that one sensation-that of imminent truth. And you're going to have to holler for it, steal for it, beg for it-and you're never to stop asking questions about it twenty-four hours a day, the rest of your life.”

Hours Four Twenties Asking Stealing Sensations New Life Rest Of Your Life Asking Questions

Author:Douglas Coupland

“That abominable and sensual act called reading the newspaper, thanks to which all the misfortunes and cataclysms in the universe over the last twenty-four hours, the battles which cost the lives of fifty-thousand men, the murders, the strikes, the bankruptcies, the fires, the poisonings, the suicides, the divorces, the cruel emotions of statesmen and actors, are transformed for us, who don't even care, into a morning treat, blending in wonderfully, in a particularly exciting and tonic way, with the recommended ingestion of a few sips of cafe au lait.”

“Have you ever taken a serious political stand on anything? Yeah. Sure. For twenty-four hours once I refused to eat grapes.”

Political Politics Hours Taken Four Serious Twenties Yeah Grapes

Author:Woody Allen

“Having my daughter, I screamed for twenty-three hours straight. And that was just during conception.”

Three Hours Daughter Twenties My Daughter Conception

Author:Joan Rivers

“Prayer is nothing but that complete surrender, complete oneness with Christ. And this is what makes us contemplative in the heart of the world; for we are twenty-four hours then in His presence: in the hungry, in the naked, in the homeless, in the unwanted, unloved, uncared for. For Jesus said, Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me.”

World Heart Said Jesus Christ Hours Prayer Four Twenties Surrender Hungry Naked Oneness Homeless Brethren Unwanted Contemplative Unloved

Book:Mother Teresa: Essential Writings

Source: Mother Teresa: Essential Writings

“Though we are involved in social work, our goal is to be contemplatives at the heart of the world. We are with Jesus twenty-four hours a day. We do everything for Jesus. We do it all unto Jesus.”

World Heart Jesus Social Goal Hours Four Involved Twenties Social Work

Author:Mother Teresa

“When I was young, I worked for a capitalist twelve hours a day and I was always tired. Now I work for myself twenty hours a day and I never get tired”

Young Hours Twenties Tired Capitalist Twelve

Author:Nikita Khrushchev

“I meditate every day for between ten to twenty minutes. Every morning, I work out and go to the gym for an hour. I pray to the architect that designed me. I'm grateful.”

Hours Morning Minutes Praying Ten Twenties Grateful Work Out Gym Architect Every Morning I Pray

Author:John Feldmann

“You can't be twenty-four hours of just Bush-bashing.”

Hours Four Twenties

Author:Stephanie Miller

“The justification - the idea that we have a right to invade another country and determine another people's destiny - is frightening. And I fear really for the future of that occupation. What happens now, and twenty years from now, and forty years from now, given our case? People in the United States may feel like when we don't see it on CNN twenty-four hours a day, it sort of disappears. But it doesn't disappear for the people who have to live under occupation - and their children and their children's children.”

People Feels Years May Children Ideas Country States Happens Given Hours United Destiny Cases United States Four Twenties Determine Disappear Forty Occupation Frightening Justification Cnn

Author:Edwidge Danticat

“Olay BB Cream is a lifesaver, and I wear it every day while I train and compete. Twenty-four-hour hydration and sheer color helps me look flawless even when faced with that unforgiving Jumbotron!”

Looks Helping Hours Four Color Twenties Train Help Me Sheer Cream Flawless Unforgiving Hydration

Author:Lindsey Vonn

“Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift!”

Hours Morning Four Wake Up Twenties Brands Every Morning Brand New Precious Gifts

Book:Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

Source: Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

“Even when I'm just sitting at my desk, I have to get up every twenty minutes or so and walk around, walk around, walk around, and then I can go back to the page. I can't just sit there for hours at a time. Language comes out of the body as much as the mind.”

Mind I Can Body Language Hours Walks Minutes Pages Sitting Twenties Get Up Desks

Author:Paul Auster

“Television is what we call the long form of storytelling, where we tell stories over thirteen, twenty-two, or twenty-four hours. Miniseries is an eight-hour form of storytelling, and film is a two-hour form. Each and every one of them are important to me, because they're a different modality of storytelling.”

Long Two Important Different Stories Film Form Hours Four Television Twenties Eight Storytelling Thirteen Twenty Two

Author:Grant Bowler

“At some point each day (well, most days) I unroll my mat and practice for an hour. I sit in meditation for a while. This can be five minutes or twenty minutes, but the daily practice - simply showing up for it - is centering.”

Wells Hours Practice Five Meditation Minutes Twenties Each Day Five Minutes Showing Up Centering

Author:Dani Shapiro

“Of course, I was a little concerned about it being over two hours [in "Aquarius" ]. "Neighboring Sounds" was two hours and eleven minutes. This is two hours and twenty-five minutes, and I did try bringing it down. For instance, I considered cutting out the sequence with the family looking at pictures.”

Trying Littles Two Courses Sound Hours Five Cutting Minutes Concerned Twenties Instance Five Minutes Sequence Eleven Twenty Five Eleven Minutes Aquarius

Author:Sonia Braga

“In Among the White Moon Faces, I wrote about my desire to be a writer as rooted in my obsessive hours of reading English novels and poetry. It was that spur, that desire, that pushed me to set aside love and marriage in my early twenties.”

Faces Desire Reading Hours White Novel Moon Twenties Rooted Obsessive Spurs Love And Marriage

Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“Because I think of novels as collaborative enterprises between the writer and the reader, all of my novels so far have ending with endings that maybe point in more than one direction, and that seems important to me because it seems important to me that after you've invested twenty or thirty hours of your imaginative life into this narrative that you have some stake in how it ends.”

Thinking Important Ends Seems Hours Novel Reader Twenties Narrative Thirty Enterprise Stakes Imaginative One Direction

Author:Emily Barton

“School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.”

Should School Used Hours Four Building Twenties School Buildings

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“Me and my friends would drive for eight hours to play for twenty people. That was cool, and if a couple of people bought t-shirts, that would be the greatest thing. We could go eat some hamburgers that night.”

People Ifs Play Would Be Night Hours Couple My Friends Twenties Eight Shirts T Shirt Hamburgers

Author:Girl Talk

“Once I chanted the Hare Krishna mantra all the way from France to Portugal, nonstop. I drove for about twenty-three hours and chanted all the way. It gets you feeling a bit invincible. The funny thing was that I didn't even know where I was going. I mean I had bought a map, and I knew basically which way I was aiming, but I couldn't speak French, Spanish, or Portuguese. But none of that seemed to matter. You know, once you get chanting, then things start to happen transcendentally.”

Knows Way Mean Matter Feelings Happens Three Speak Bits Hours Twenties France Maps Funny Things Invincible Krishna Mantras Hares Chanting Portugal Portuguese Speaks French Hare Krishna

Author:George Harrison

“Twenty years ago if you provided someone with horrible service, it may take weeks or even months for the word-of-mouth message to get out to 15-20 potential customers. Today, with social media, thousands of potential customers can learn about horrible service within hours, minutes or even seconds after it happens.”

Ifs Years May Happens Today Social Hours Week Minutes Media Months Messages Mouths Years Ago Twenties Social Media Customers Horrible Seconds Word Of Mouth

Author:Bill Capodagli

“I think what frustrated me more than anything else in my formative years was that I just had to work. I had to have a job. Like twenty to thirty hours a week, a lot of times in high school and college. And that was hard.”

Thinking Years Hard School Jobs Hours Week College High School Twenties Thirty Frustrated Formative Years

Author:Jon Gordon

“The first time I went to Taiwan, there were cameras, paparazzi, TV stations outside my hotel twenty-four hours a day nonstop.”

Firsts Hours Four Tvs First Time Twenties Cameras Hotel Stations Paparazzi Taiwan

Author:Jeremy Lin

“Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.”

“Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.”

Time Hours Four Periods Twenties Time Management Concept Of Time

Book:Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs

Source: Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs

“Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.”

Thinking Inspiration Hours Four Late Twenties Too Late Repartee

Author:Mark Twain

“I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.”

Ifs Want Needs Feels Moving Desire Hours Pleasure Deals Four Week Six Creating Twenties Seven Complaining Moving Forward Eighteen Inventing Inventing Things

Author:Alber Elbaz

“Garcia wondered why people with JESUS stickers on their bumper always drove twenty miles per hour under the speed limit. If God was my co-pilot, he thought, I'd be doing a hundred and twenty.”

People Ifs Jesus Hours Limits Hundred Twenties Speed Miles Pilots Bumper Sticker Speed Limits

Book:Strip Tease

Source: Strip Tease

“How much to learn if we could spend one hour, spend twenty minutes, with the us we will become! How much could we say to the us we were.”

Ifs Hours Minutes Twenties One Hour

Author:Richard Bach

“Even at the time—twenty years old—I said to myself: better to go hungry, to go to prison, to be a tramp, than to sit at an office desk ten hours a day. There is no particular daring in this vow, but I have not broken it and shall not do so. The wisdom of my grandfathers sat in my head: we are born for the pleasure of work, fighting, love, we are born for that and nothing else. (Guy de Maupassant)”

Years Said Guy Fighting Born Hours Pleasure Particular Broken Ten Office Twenties Prison Hungry Sat Daring Grandfather Desks Vow My Grandfather Tramps Fighting For Love Office Desk

Author:Isaac Babel

“You must therefore zealously guard in his mind the curious assumption 'My time is my own'. Let him have the feeling that he starts each day as the lawful possessor of twenty-four hours. Let him feel as a grievous tax that portion of this property which he has to make over to him employers, and as a generous donation that further portion which h allows to religious duties. But what he must never be permitted to doubt is that the total from which these deductions have been made was, in some mysterious sense, his own personal birthright.”

“Well, life isn't a cakewalk, is it?! Eighty-nine percent of the world's most valuable art was created by men living in rat-infested flats. You think Velásquez wore Adidas? You think he enjoyed the luxuries of central heating and twenty-four-hour pizza delivery?!”

Thinking Men World Wells Art Hours Four Percent Twenties Valuable Nine Luxury Enjoyed Flats Rats Eighty Pizza Delivery Heating Adidas

Book:Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Source: Special Topics in Calamity Physics

“Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.”

Life Looks Moments Eye Hours Compassion Morning Four Mindfulness Wake Up Twenties Peaceful Buddhist Brands Waking Vow Brand New I Smile Zen Master Peace Is Every Step

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”

Thinking Pain Faces Hours Four Imagine Sadness Sad Twenties Slap Slap In The Face

Book:The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition

Source: The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition

“I am something of a recluse by nature. I am that cordless screwdriver that has to charge for twenty hours to earn ten minutes use. I need that much downtime.”

Needs Use Hours Minutes Ten Twenties Recluse Downtime Screwdrivers

Book:Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

Source: Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

“Pick a man, any man. Every guy I fall for becomes Jesus Christ within the first twenty-four hours of our relationship. I know that this happens, I see it happening, I even feel myself, sometimes, standing at some temporal crossroads, some distinct moment at which I can walk away and keep it from happening, but I never do. I grab at everything, I end up with nothing, and then I feel bereft. I mourn for the loss of something I never even had.”

“Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!... Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing through streets and road, over railroad tracks and bridges, threading crowds, avoiding collisions, at twenty miles or more an hour, and wondering all the time when you're going to smash up. Well, now, that's something! And then go home again after three hours of it... and then to think that tomorrow I can do it all over again!”

“Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.”

Giving Two Dream Hours Inspiring Activity Give Me Twenties Twenty Two

Author:Salvador Dali

“When do you learn that the world, like any diner worth its salt, is open twenty-four hours a day?”

World Hours Four Twenties Salt Diners

Author:Daniel Handler

“If one believed in angels one would feel that they must love us best when we are asleep and cannot hurt each other; and what a mercy it is that once in every twenty-four hours we are too utterly weary to go on being unkind.”

Ifs Feels Hours Hurt Four Goes On Angel Mercy Twenties Weary Unkind

Book:The Solitary Summer

Source: The Solitary Summer

“I am strongly of the opinion that, after the age of twenty-one, a man ought not to be out of bed and awake at four in the morning. The hour breeds thought. At twenty-one, life being all future, it may be examined with impunity. But, at thirty, having become an uncomfortable mixture of future and past, it is a thing to be looked at only when the sun is high and the world full of warmth and optimism.”

Men World May Age Past Hours Opinion Morning Sun Four Ought Bed Optimism Twenties Uncomfortable Awake Thirty Warmth Mixtures Insomnia Twenty One Impunity

Book:The Little Nugget

Source: The Little Nugget

“The Beatles, they had it all figured out, okay? "I Want to Hold Your Hand." The first single. It's effing brilliant, right?... That's what everybody wants, Nicky. They don't want a twenty-four-hour hump sesh, they don't want to be married to you for a hundred years. They just want to hold your hand.”

Want Years Firsts Hands Hours Four Married Hundred Okay Twenties Brilliant Being Married

Author:Rachel Cohn

“All day long this man would toil thus, his whole being centered upon the purpose of making twenty-three instead of twenty-two and a half cents an hour; and then his product would be reckoned up by the census taker, and jubilant captains of industry would boast of it in their banquet halls, telling how our workers are nearly twice as efficient as those of any other country. If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy.”

Source: The Jungle

“We could have made it to the Arizona border in a few more hours if we hadn't been distracting each other with stupid little arguments. Don't get me wrong; I liked J.Lo fine. I've made that bed. But I'm not sure there's a person in the world I could be with twenty-four hours a day for three weeks without getting a little snippy. If I ever meet such a person, I'm marrying them.”

Ifs World Littles Persons Made Three Hours Four Week Stupid Fine Bed Argument Twenties Made It Borders Not Sure Marrying Arizona Bickering

Book:The True Meaning of Smekday

Source: The True Meaning of Smekday

“Two hours. One hundred and twenty minutes. Anything might be done in that time. Anything. Nothing. Oh, he had had hundreds of hours, and what had he done with them? Wasted them, spilt the precious minutes as though his reservoir were inexhaustible.”

Two Done Might Hours Minutes Hundred Twenties Reservoirs

Book:Crome Yellow

Source: Crome Yellow

“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”

“When something tragic has happened, you'll find that you, the tragicee, become the person that has to make everything comfortable for everyone else.... As a tragicee and future divorcee, you'll also find that people will question you on the biggest decisions you've ever made in your life as though you hadn't thought about them at all before – as though, through their twenty questions and dubious faces, they're going to shine light on something that you missed the hundredth time around during your darkest hours.”

People Persons Made Light Faces Hours Decision Happened Comfortable Twenties Shining Divorce Tragic Dubious Darkest Hour

Author:Cecelia Ahern

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