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“I came home for a week after I finished filming Rambo because, after being in the jungle for three months, all I wanted to do was walk in the Highlands.”

Home Wanted Three Walks Week Months Finished Jungle Three Months Rambo

Author:Graham McTavish

“We built the iPod in weeks. It had to be what I thought it was going to be because there wasnt time for endless refinements.”

Week Built Endless Refinement Ipods

Author:Tony Fadell

“The first day, week and month of an employees experience carries a lasting impression.”

Firsts Week Months Impression Employee Carrie Lasting Lasting Impressions

Author:Scott Weiss

“One day, a leopard stalked into the synagogue, roaring and lashing its tail. Three weeks later, it had become part of the liturgy.”

Three Week One Day Tails Roaring Synagogue Liturgy Leopards

Author:Franz Kafka

“Exercise your imagination muscle! How many uses can you come up with for a flowerpot? Write down your answers. But don't write them in this book. Grab a separate sheet of paper. I didn't spend two and a half weeks writing a book just so you could mark up the pages with your silly ideas for things you can do with a flowerpot. When it comes down to it, what's wrong with a flowerpot not being a flowerpot? Why is nothing ever good enough for you?”

Writing Two Book Ideas Enough Use Can Do Imagination Answers Half Week Exercise Paper Pages Mark Come Up Silly Muscles Good Enough Sheets Writing A Book

Author:Amy Sedaris

“What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may be seven blind and come to nothing.”

Ifs May Week Blind Seven Prophecy Days Of The Week

Book:Three Wonder Plays

Source: Three Wonder Plays

“Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.”

Writing Given Novel Wife Week Paper Six Pens Telephones

Author:Evelyn Waugh

“The greatest victory anyone can taste is the daily challenge to outrun those fears that you vanquished... days, weeks, months past.”

Motivational Past Challenges Week Months Victory Taste Outrun Greatest Victory Daily Challenges

Author:Francisco Leon

“The joys of motherhood are not excessively apparent during the first few weeks of a baby's life.”

Firsts Joy Week Baby Motherhood Joys Of Motherhood

Author:Vera Brittain

“I've been married five times, and people think that's some bizarre thing, yet I've got buddies who refuse to get married and have sex with 15 people a week. I'm like "Which is better?" At least I was trying.”

People Thinking Trying Sex Five Week Married Refuse Bizarre Buddy

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“And I think about my cell at the Pawiak prison. During the first week I felt I would not be able to endure a day without a book, without the circle of light under the parafin lamp in the evening, without a sheet of paper, without you. . . .”

Thinking Firsts Book Light Able Felt Week Paper Prison Endure Circles Evening Cells Sheets Lamps Without You

Author:Tadeusz Borowski

“I should think you could be gladder on Monday mornin' than any other day in the week, because 'twould be a whole week before you'd have another one!”

Thinking Should Whole Week Monday

Book:Pollyanna

Source: Pollyanna

“I first travelled to Africa at the end of 1996 and was immediately captivated. I had planned on a three-week trip, and I ended up staying two months.”

Firsts Two Ends Three Week Months Staying Two Months Captivated

Author:Susan Minot

“You have to track every single thing you eat if you want to keep posting big numbers on the scale each week.”

Ifs Want Bigs Numbers Week Health Track Scales

Book:Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life

Source: Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life

“I'd rather know how you feel than hope and wonder and delude myself for weeks on end.”

Knows Feels Ends Wonder Know How Week How You Feel

Author:Dan Wells

“I like to go out, but sometimes it's nice to stay cozy at home, watching movies or TV, especially early in the week.”

Sometimes Home Nice Week Tvs Cozy Cozy Home

Author:Charlotte Ronson

“Next week John Boehner will be sitting behind Barack Obama at the State of the Union address. I think Obama should purposely try to embarrass him by telling the story of 'Old Yeller.' The state of our Union is strong, but not so good for one special dog.'”

Thinking Should Trying States Stories Next Strong Behinds Week Special Dog Sitting Unions Barack Addresses Next Week Old Yeller

Author:Bill Maher

“I was eight when we came to Australia. It was five amazing weeks onboard this ship - it was the Northern Star.”

Stars Five Week Eight Ships Australia Northern Star

Author:Graeme Base

“An idea is like a play. It needs a good producer and a good promoter even if it is a masterpiece. Otherwise the play may never open; or it may open but, for a lack of an audience, close after a week. Similarly, an idea will not move from the fringes to the mainstream simply because it is good; it must be skillfully marketed before it will actually shift people's perceptions and behavior.”

People Ifs Needs May Ideas Play Moving Audience Week Behavior Perception Producers Mainstream Masterpiece Fringe Promoters

Author:David Bornstein

“In Wall Street, the only thing that's hard to explain is next week.”

Hard Next Week Streets Wall Next Week

Author:Louis Rukeyser

“Action is hope. At the end of each day, when you've done your work, you lie there and think, Well, I'll be damned, I did this today. It doesn't matter how good it is, or how bad-you did it. At the end of the week you'll have a certain amount of accumulation. At the end of a year, you look back and say, I'll be damned, it's been a good year.”

Thinking Years Wells Looks Ends Matter Done Today Action Lying Certain Week Amount Each Day Accumulation Good Years

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Women's right-to-know laws are supported by the overwhelming majority, not just of men, but of women, and 70% of the American people favor bans on abortion after the 20th week late term abortions.”

People Knows Men Law Term Week Late Majority Favors Abortion Overwhelming Bans

Author:Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

“The world starts to exist, for Americans, when we are in conflict with a place. And then all of a sudden, Afghanistan pops up on the TV screen and it becomes a place. And it exists for three weeks and then it disappears into thin air.”

World Three Air Week Tvs Conflict Pops Disappear Screens Afghanistan Thin Air

Author:Isabel Allende

“In film you have the script months ahead of time often, for a good film, but in television it seems like you might not get the script until a week or two weeks before you've got to film it. It's a little weird, but also quite challenging. It reminds me of repertory theatre.”

Littles Two Seems Might Film Challenges Week Television Like You Months Scripts Theatre Two Weeks Good Films Ahead Of Time

Author:Wesley Snipes

“The fear among economists across the political spectrum that was - was that we were rapidly plummeting towards a second Great Depression. So, in the weeks and months that followed, we undertook a series of difficult steps to prevent that outcome. And we were forced to take those steps largely without the help of an opposition party, which, unfortunately, after having presided over the decision-making that had led to the crisis, decided to hand it over to others to solve.”

“In episodic television you'll have a good guy who's on every week and that's his show! He's the regular on it, and you're not going to be "gooder" than he is; I mean, he's the guy who's got to solve your problem! So if you're playing a good guy, you have to have a problem, and he's going to solve it for you. And the only really strong dramatic part is the heavy, because the meaner and crueler and rottener you are, the better the good guy looks when he whips ya' at the end because he always is gonna whip ya! So, the best dramatic guest shot is the heavy.”

Ifs Looks Mean Ends Shows Problem Guy Strong Week Television Shots Heavy Solve Be Good Dramatic Guests Whips Good Guy

Author:Leslie Nielsen

“I learned by transcribing songs out of the Library of Congress collection in Washington where I was working. I got a job when I just turned twenty in 1939 and Alan [Lomax] needed some help. I listened to hundreds of records every week.”

Helping Jobs Song Records Week Needed Twenties Library Congress Collections Transcribing

Author:Pete Seeger

“I was really lucky. I had a really great opportunity. I went to an all girls, very small private school from seventh grade all the way to graduating. It was so wonderful because the focus was school at school...and during the week I could be that nerdy bookworm of a girl, and do six hours of homework at night.”

Way School Night Girl Opportunity Hours Focus Wonderful Week Lucky Six Grades Graduates Really Great Homework Great Opportunity Nerdy Private School Seventh Grade Bookworms

Author:Sophia Bush

“Food is one of my favourite things. Though I certainly know lots of people who happen to be happily married who don't have food play the role in it that it plays in my life. And I don't know how they do it, and frankly I feel so bad for them because I just love food and one of my favourite things is asking, "What do we want for dinner? What do we feel like eating?" That wonderful negotiation that goes on several times a week about what "we" feel like.”

People Knows Want Feels Play Happens Roles Know How Wonderful Week Goes On Eating Married Asking Dinner Favourite Negotiation Food Love Happily Married Favourite Things

Author:Nora Ephron

“In the previous days and times, we've been involved, not exclusively, but largely, in the process of individual survival: How do I get through the day, how do I get through the week, how do I get through the month? In the 21st century, we're learning that we can no longer concentrate on individual survival strategies, that unless we begin to coalesce those strategies and learn how we can survive collectively, that no individual is going to survive in the long run.”

Long Running Individual Process Week Century Months Involved Survival Strategy Long Runs 21st Century

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“I started doing stand-up at the age of 20. This was back in 1976, around the time (coincidence?) that the first comedy clubs were starting. The young comedians of today gasp when I tell them how many shows I did that first year: 500. Five nights a week.”

Years Firsts Shows Age Today Young Night Five Comedy Week Starting Clubs Comedian Coincidence Comedy Clubs Age Of 20

Author:Emo Philips

“Call home at least once a week. It's a proven fact that we call home less the older we get. And that's wrong. It should be the other way around. As we get older, our parents get older.”

Way Should Facts Home Parent Week Proven

Author:Randy Pausch

“You couldn't find nobody deader, not if you'd sarched for a week. Why, door nails, and Julius Caesar, and things o' that description, would ha' been lively compared with your poor ma when I see her. Lively! that's what they'd ha' been.”

Ifs Death Poor Doors Week Description Nails Lively Julius

Author:Laura E. Richards

“It is right that people should have a statuary right to holidays and a maximum working week. It is right that part-time workers should have the same equality when it comes to hourly rates.”

People Should Week Should Have Workers Rate Holiday Maximum Part Time

Author:John Richard Reid

“Suicide is the dumbest possible way of getting revenge. Why is that? Because the people you want to strike back at are the very same folks who won't even remember you a week after you're gone, while the people you want to spare most -- the people who love you -- are the ones who will have to live with the pain of your suicide for the rest of their lives.”

People Way Want Pain Remember Gone Week Love You Suicide Folks Revenge Strikes Spares Remember You Remembers You Strike Back Getting Revenge

Author:David J. Lieberman

“The difference between camels and men; a camel can work a week and not drink; a man can drink a week and not work.”

Men Differences Week Drink Camels

Author:Julian Tuwim

“Consider for a moment what you pay attention to all day long. What seems important to you, what do you take for granted and hardly attend to at all? Write it down. Do not judge your answers. Be honest and simple. As you keep track all week long, you'll be amazed at what claims your attention, what you give your precious life force to.”

“April is the two-week-old kitten, the month-old lamb, the six-month-old heifer, the two-year-old girl. Too young to know it has either past or future, it wears the ribbon of the fleeting present as part of itself.”

Knows Years Two Past Young Girl Week Months Six Two Years Fleeting Six Months April Two Weeks Lambs Kitten Ribbons Two Year Olds

Author:Gladys Hasty Carroll

“You take a handful of rocks and put them in a jar. Then once a week, you take one tiny pebble out of the jar and throw it away. When the jar is empty, why, you'll just about be over your grief. ... Time alone will do if you're short on rocks.”

Ifs Grief Week Rocks Empty Tiny Over You Handful Me Alone Jars Pebbles Alone Time

Book:Lovely in Her Bones

Source: Lovely in Her Bones

“Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in a week in dispensable bread, how much in alms.”

Week Bread Quarters Corn Corny Alms Dispensable

Book:The manor farm

Source: The manor farm

“I run probably 35-40 miles a week, and I think 80 per cent of your body is what you eat. The biggest part is just eating well.”

Thinking Wells Body Running Week Eating Your Body Miles Cents Eating Well

Author:Matthew Morrison

“I tell people I'm a stand-up comedian two hours a week. The rest of the time, I'm somebody's husband, I'm somebody's father. I'm a man. I take great pride in that.”

People Men Two Father Hours Week Pride Husband Comedian Stand Up Comedian

Author:Steve Harvey

“If you woke up, every day, and someone punched you in the face, for the first week, you'd go, "Why is someone punching me in the face?" But, by the time you got through week two, you'd take it and just go on with the day.”

Ifs Firsts Two Faces Week Goes On Punching

Author:Dominic Monaghan

“No pills, not even aspirin, and certainly no supplements ever enter my mouth - everything I need comes from my fish and vegetarian diet, which incorporates many different kinds of fruit and vegetables every week.”

Needs Kind Different Week Mouths Fruit Fishes Diets Vegetarian Vegetables Different Kinds Pills Supplements Aspirin Fruits And Vegetables Vegetarian Diet

Author:David H. Murdock

“I go on at least 2-3 auditions a week in the pursuit of more work. So I'm constantly working on material and constantly honing and trying to perfect a craft that is never perfectible - it's always new, and it's always different. It's always a work in progress.”

Trying Different Perfect Progress Week Materials Goes On Pursuit Crafts Auditions Work In Progress Honing

Author:Jake Busey

“I take a few pictures a week, but the best part is waiting for my film to be developed. The suspense is exciting, and the reward is great.”

Film Waiting Week Exciting Rewards Suspense

Author:Morgan Saylor

“I feel prematurely old. I'm actually having this major belated quarter-life crisis. I'm turning 30 in a couple of weeks. I've been thinking a lot about mortality. A lot about what I'm going to do with my life and how to enjoy it. One of the things I'm going to work on is being more spontaneous, letting go, embracing the beauty of come-what-may.”

Thinking Feels May Enjoy Week Couple Letting Go Majors Crisis Mortality Quarters Spontaneous Going To Work Life Crisis Belated Turning 30

Author:Chris Pine

“My sons and I thoroughly enjoy Legos. We go to the toy store every week for more. I never want to take what we build apart; I want to put it on a shelf. My wife is starting to get a little annoyed with the Legos lying around.”

Want Littles Lying Enjoy Wife Week Son Starting My Wife Stores My Son Toys Shelves Annoyed Legos

Author:Mark Wahlberg

“I train five days a week hard - but it is short and sharp - 30 to 40 minutes of functional and pretty dynamic body-strength circuits, then I do a good yoga session on the sixth day, then I rest.”

Hard Body Five Week Minutes Yoga Train Session Circuits Body Strength

Author:Bear Grylls

“After my first week of no wheat, my stomachaches were gone, my mucous cleared up, and I felt incredibly energetic. My headaches were also less frequent and less severe, and I had lost 3 pounds, most of it swelling and water weight my body had been holding onto as part of its response to the wheat products in my diet.”

Firsts Body Lost Felt Water Gone Week Products Weight Response Diets Pounds Severe Holding On Energetic Wheat Headache Swelling

Author:Daphne Oz

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