“We actually did go on a camping trip together as part of the research, in a caravan, for a week. I guess we picked who annoyed us most from genuine experience. We did a lot of research on camping and what annoys people. It's quite often children playing ball games. It's a huge debate in the caravan world whether children should be allowed to play ball games or not.” PeopleWorldShouldChildrenPlayTogetherGamesWeekHugeGoes OnResearchBallsDebateGenuineAnnoyingAnnoyedCampingChildren PlayingBall GamesCaravans Author:Alice Lowe
“When I was a kid the highlight of my week would be doing a fossil hunt at the local quarry... that kind of thing.” KindWould BeKidsWeekLocalsHuntsFossilsHighlightsQuarry Author:Alice Lowe
“I have a hard time imagining a country or a government where I would say, "Oh, this is good," where I could live under a government that I respect for a day or a week, even to see what it feels like.” FeelsCountryHardGovernmentWeekHard Times Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“I wrote short stories for seven years and used to mail them out. You couldn't send them by e-mail. I called them manila boomerangs. I'd seal the self-addressed stamped envelope inside an envelope and I'd mail it off, and it would come back six weeks later with a rejection letter in it.” YearsSelfStoriesUsedWeekSixLettersSevenRejectionShort StoryMailSeven YearsSealsEnvelopesManilaBoomerangRejection Letters Author:Jess Walter
“Because I work at other things, whenever I get a chance to write I feel grateful for it. But I learned that sometimes, I couldn't do anything else and I shouldn't plan to do anything that night or the next day. There were times when I was writing something difficult for days or weeks and when I'd finish, I would get up and go out of my shed into the garden and be sick. I had terrible migraines.” FeelsWritingSometimesNightNextDifficultChancePlansWeekTerribleGardenSickGratefulGet UpShedNext DayMigraine Author:Damian Barr
“When, in 1966, I progressed to The Frost Report, I was paid ten guineas a minute. I was guaranteed three minutes a week, so this was good money.” ThreeWeekMinutesTenPaidReportsFrostGuineaGood Money Author:Eric Idle
“There are no women in these ground combat jobs.Women, of course, have been flying combat missions in fighter jets, attack helicopters, for more than 20 years, but beginning this week, those ground combat jobs in infantry, artillery and armor will be open to women. Officials don't expect a rush of women interested.” YearsHas BeensJobsCoursesWeekMissionsFlyingFighterOfficialsCombatJetArmorHelicoptersArtilleryInfantryFighter Jets Author:Renee Montagne
“I had this bad habit of not writing out a first draft and going back. For me it was the first sentence, then the second sentence, and I might be several weeks on the first page instead of writing a draft and trying to figure it out from there.” WritingTryingFirstsMightWeekFiguresHabitPagesSentencesBad Habits Author:Donald Ray Pollock
“To keep the readers interested, and coming back, and to keep coming up with new and exciting ways to present stories and to present the character in a reflection of the times, is an absolutely incredible accomplishment. Hats off to all these people who have done such incredible creative work and still do every week.” PeopleWayStillsDoneCharacterStoriesCreativeWeekReaderReflectionExcitingIncrediblesAccomplishmentHatsComing BackCreative WorkHats Off Author:Michael Uslan
“The truth is the music is really an incredible personal part of the movie. When I was drawing the storyboards for Watchmen, I had just gone to my iPod and was grabbing music. It took me about two weeks to really put my playlist together. But once I had it, I kinda just put my headsets on and drew for five months. But that music's the music that's in the movie.” TwoTogetherGoneFiveWeekMonthsTruth IsMusic IsIncrediblesDrawingTwo WeeksIpodsGrabbingPlaylistsHeadset Author:Zack Snyder
“I'm on a constant yo-yo of health. I will go a week eating incredibly clean, but then I'll follow that up with a month's worth of binge eating. Then I hit the gym and eat clean, and then I mix it up with core exercises, yoga, Pilates, and sitting on an incline bench while checking my phone.” WeekMonthsExerciseEatingYogaSittingConstantCleanPhonesCoreGymBenchesPilatesInclineBingeBinge Eating Author:Josh McDermitt
“Musically, there's probably nothing better than, after spending weeks or months of grinding on a lyric or a song, when you play a good song from beginning to end for the first time - there's a moment there where all the pain and suffering is worth it.” FirstsEndsPlayMomentsPainSufferingSongWeekMonthsFirst TimeSpendingWorth ItPain And Suffering Author:Five for Fighting
“If you make a street poster and literally paste it on the street in a city like New York, where it's such a mixed population and so densely populated, and it stays up for a full week and doesn't get covered up by something else or pulled down, you will have fifty thousand people who will have seen it. It will be the poorest of the poor - some homeless man who lives on the street will see it and probably appreciate it, or some businessman or landlord will see it. Everyone will see it. And whether or not they even realize that they saw it, on some level it's affecting their consciousness.” PeopleIfsMenRealizingPoorLevelsCitiesConsciousnessSawsWeekStreetsNew YorkThousandAppreciatePopulationFiftyCoveredHomelessBusinessmanPoorestPostersLandlordCovered Up Author:Eric Drooker
“I try to, at least once or twice a week, have someone over and model, usually a dancer friend or a poet or someone to come over and just stay still for me. Depending on how exhibitionist they are, it will determine the finished work. And I say, "You're the muse; you come up with it. I'll draw you however you want."” WantTryingStillsWeekPoetModelsDrawsDetermineCome UpFinishedDancerMuseFinished WorkExhibitionist Author:Eric Drooker
“As an artist who lives here and wants a more sophisticated engagement between local social dynamics and global discourse, it's great to see that reflected via the relationships we've developed with our customers. For some people it's a political act to eat from us three days a week because they recognize they are financially supporting the premise of the project each time they come. 95% of our annual revenue is purely from the public via food sales.” PeopleWantPoliticalArtistThreeSocialWeekProjectsCustomersLocalsEngagementSophisticatedDiscourseRevenuePremisesAnnualsDynamics Author:Jon Rubin
“I wasn't that familiar with silent films. I didn't know, for example, how hugely popular silent films were in the 1920s, how people would go to the movies several times a week.” PeopleKnowsFilmWeekExampleSilentFamiliarSilent Films Author:Laura Moriarty
“I love playing football. I started playing for a school team, which is fun, and I play a lot of five a side. I nowhere near good enough to go professional but it's definitely one of my main hobbies. I play three times a week.” EnoughPlaySchoolThreeFunSidesFiveWeekTeamFootballGood EnoughHobbiesThree TimesPlaying Football Author:Matthew Lewis
“Reporting is pretty vital to me. It keeps me connected to the world. A 40-hour-per-week day job may be less feasible as time goes on.” WorldMayJobsHoursWeekGoes OnConnectedDay JobsTime Goes On Author:Laura Lippman
“I started boxing one day a week to experience aggression, which has been really interesting.” Has BeensInterestingWeekOne DayBoxingAggressionReally Interesting Author:Gwyneth Paltrow
“I think any person who goes to Rikers is criminalized, even just for visiting. I go back every week to see my friends in there. When you go to see a criminal, you are by relation a criminal and subject to be treated like one.” ThinkingPersonsWeekSubjectsMy FriendsRelationCriminalsTreatedVisiting Author:Cecily McMillan
“When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.” FirstsMadeStillsEnoughJobsPayWeekMusicianClubsQuittingFactoriesGood Week Author:Billy Joel
“Something I've learned over time, and trying to remind myself this week as I am back in New York and feeling pretty anxious, is that things always seem less dire when you're in the country than when you're outside. I don't exactly know why it is, except that people just have to get on with their life, so they do. And you don't have time to do anything other than keep going.” PeopleKnowsTryingCountryFeelingsSeemsWeekNew YorkI've LearnedKeep GoingAnxiousFeeling Pretty Author:Rebecca Hamilton
“Fashion Week was at Bryant Park and there were a few shows like Marc Jacobs, or when Alexander McQueen came to town, that were offsite, Helmut [Lung] was offsite, but it was very intimate. It wasn't the way it is today where you have a thousand people at the show. You may have had 200 to 250 and it was really the trade and you know fashion greats.” PeopleKnowsWayMayShowsTodayWeekFashionThousandTownsTradeIntimateParksLungsJacobMcqueenFashion Week Author:Roopal Patel
“I learnt a lot from my Broadway experience, it was one of the most challenging things I will probably ever have to do in my entire life, because it was eight shows a week - live singing with really hard choreography - and the spontaneity, you don't know what's going to happen.” KnowsHardShowsHappensChallengesWeekSingingEightBroadwaySpontaneityChoreography Author:Ariana Grande
“I haven't taught creative writing all that much (my CW teaching consists of a few summer workshops for elementary school children and an eight-week class for older adults), and I don't really know what my teaching style is yet.” KnowsWritingChildrenSchoolClassCreativeWeekTeachingStyleHavensTaughtSummerAdultsEightCreative WritingWorkshopsElementary SchoolOlder Adults Author:Mary J. Miller
“The hardest thing in a novel is time. You've got [a line like] "two weeks later, he woke up with a headache," and you've got to add up that entire two weeks and what the date is and whether it works. That kind of stuff drives me crazy and if I don't have it exactly right, I can't move forward because I don't feel confident.” IfsFeelsKindI CanTwoMovingStuffLinesNovelWeekCrazyAddHardestMoving ForwardHardest ThingTwo WeeksHeadacheDrive Me Crazy Author:T.C. Boyle
“It's funny - for a long time, I didn't know I was writing a book. I was writing stories. For me, each story took so long and took so much out of me, that when I finished it, I was like, Oh my gosh, I feel like I've poured everything from myself into this, and then I'd get depressed for a week. And then once I was ready to write a new story, I would want to write about something that was completely different, so I would search for a totally different character with a different set of circumstances.” KnowsWantFeelsWritingLongBookDifferentCharacterStoriesWeekReadyCircumstancesLong TimeFinishedWriting A BookDifferent CharactersWriting StoriesOh My Gosh Author:Molly Antopol
“I tend to have to just get away from it all, so it is nice when touring to be able to come home for a week or two and close the door and not really see anybody.” TwoHomeAbleNiceDoorsWeekGet AwayComing HomeTouring Author:Adam Young
“My grandpa could go days, weeks, even months without a drink but if he took that first drink, he couldn't stop. Once, when I was twelve, my mom and I were driving and we saw my grandpa staggering drunk down the street. I asked if we should stop and help him. My mom sadly shook her head and kept driving.” IfsShouldFirstsHelpingSawsWeekStreetsMomMonthsDrinkMy MomDrivingDrunkTwelveGrandpaStaggering Author:Brian Lindstrom
“I go to ballet five days a week. I would love to go to a fashion show one day, because I never have.” ShowsFiveWeekFashionOne DayBalletFashion Show Author:Elle Fanning
“There was a TV show called Thank Your Lucky Stars, with the catchphrase "I'll give it five!" The Beatles and Stones were so popular when they were on it. One week The Beatles were number one and then the Stones were right on their heels.” GivingShowsStarsNumbersFiveWeekTvsLuckyStonesHeelsTv ShowsLucky Star Author:Gordon Lightfoot
“Once you make something you think it's awesome, but it's only after you listen to it for a few weeks then you actually get a proper perspective on it.” ThinkingWeekPerspective Author:Flume
“I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it.” EndsUsedRecordsWeekMum Author:Elton John
“When you are doing seven shows a week, you have to take care of yourself. There are some moments when you cannot allow yourself to emotionally reenact the issue you're talking about or the experience that you're remembering. I mean that would kill you, you know. To experience a thing, a trauma, every single night, it would probably kill you emotionally.” KnowsMeanMomentsShowsCareRememberNightTalkingIssuesWeekSevenTraumaTake CareTake Care Of Yourself Author:Staceyann Chin
“China's economy became more complex. By now there is a large number of small- and medium-sized companies that work quite differently from big, state-owned enterprises. They don't follow any long-term business plan and don't rent office space for years to come. They start out and need an office right away, for a week, a month or half a year, and they want to be among other entrepreneurs like themselves.” WantNeedsYearsLongStatesBigsTermSpaceNumbersHalfCompanyEconomyPlansWeekMonthsOfficeEntrepreneurComplexesChinaMediumsLong TermEnterpriseLarge NumbersBusiness PlanHalf A YearOffice Space Author:Zhang Xin
“Sometimes I'm writing for magazines on assignment, but the university has to be patient with me. I mean, during the ten-week periods that I have a class, I'm there every Thursday night or whatever it is, but sometimes that's all I'm there, because I'm somewhere else the rest of the time.” WritingMeanSometimesNightClassWeekPeriodsTenPatientUniversityMagazinesBe PatientSomewhere ElseAssignmentsThursdayThursday Night Author:Pam Houston
“I sat next to Robert Duvall at the lawyers' table for six weeks, and it's still probably the best six weeks of my life.” StillsNextWeekSixTablesLawyerSat Author:Peter Jacobson
“I couldn't stop to be upset or depressed about anything when I was at Tiger Stadium with Billy Crystal shooting for three weeks. I was going to enjoy every second - even though apparently I didn't.” ThreeEnjoyWeekShootingUpsetTigersCrystalsStadiumsEvery SecondTiger Stadium Author:Peter Jacobson
“I lived in New York, and I was the guy who was flying home almost every week, so there was a physical exhaustion and an emotional exhaustion for me, and a need to be home more.” NeedsHomeGuyWeekNew YorkEmotionalFlyingExhaustion Author:Peter Jacobson
“That's why I have to be a fiction writer, because I can't remember what just happened or where I went last week or what movie I just watched with my husband. I'm better off just making things up.” I CanLastsRememberFictionHappenedWeekHusbandMy HusbandBetter OffBecause I CanFiction Writers Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell
“I usually work seven days a week and rarely take vacations, which is both lame and unsustainable. I don't mind the idea of writing seven days a week, I suppose. Getting some work done early in the morning. But ideally I would love to take one day a week off.” WritingMindIdeasDoneMorningWeekOne DaySevenVacationLameWork DoneSeven Days Author:Brad Listi
“I want to be heavily tied to a city that I write for every week, that knows my stuff and I can interact with.” KnowsWantWritingI CanStuffCitiesWeekTied Author:Joel Stein
“I would make a comic for Rolling Stone every two weeks, because they're biweekly. And then I would make weekly comics for my weekly papers. It was on two parallel tracks. And then they all got collected in a book.” TwoBookWeekPaperStonesTrackComicRollingPapersParallelsTwo WeeksRolling Stones Author:David Rees
“I'm interested in the structure of art and how it works. And the content is also interesting, but I don't want to keep the same structure and just plug in new content every week.” WantArtInterestingWeekStructurePlugs Author:David Rees
“I would host a show where I take famous people out into the woods every week to find Bigfoot. I would do that. And you know what? We would find him in like a week.” PeopleKnowsShowsWeekWoodsHostBigfoot Author:Rob Huebel
“One of the first TV shows that I did was this prank show. And we did a prank where we took a Michael Jackson impersonator and I played his publisher.I was just really good at my job.We were just about to go onto the field to throw out the first pitch just two weeks after 9\11. It was a huge security breach, and we made a lot of cops look really dumb. Producers of the show thought it would be really funny and I didn't think about it because I was a young dumb comedian. So I got arrested and went to jail in the Bronx, and now I can never go back to Yankee Stadium.” ThinkingFirstsLooksMadeI CanTwoShowsWould BeJobsYoungWeekSecurityFieldsTvsHugeProducersDumbComedianJailCopTv ShowsPublishersYankeesArrestedTwo WeeksStadiumsBreachBronxPranksReally DumbYankee StadiumImpersonators Author:Rob Huebel
“The fans [of Vampire diaries] that we have now are the people who will watch it any day of the week. So, my first instinct was a little bit of an ego tap, but the second I processed it, I was fine. The only weird thing will be maybe not having as many people live tweeting because they're actually out doing something more interesting on Friday night. I'm not going to sit at home, reading Twitter on Friday night.” PeopleFirstsLittlesHomeNightReadingBitsInterestingWatchesWeekFansFineEgoLittle BitInstinctVampireFridayDiariesWeird ThingsFriday NightDays Of The WeekVampire Diaries Author:Caroline Dries
“Why even live? If that's your goal, if you're just clamoring your way to the top, I mean, why even have a life? Somebody was telling me the other day about the lives of investment bankers who work ninety hours a week and how it affects their patterns of consumption.” IfsWayMeanGoalHoursWeekInvestmentPatternsConsumptionNinetyBankers Author:Larkin Grimm
“When I was working at Omega, I took this Zen retreat, where you're quiet, you don't say anything for a week, and this guy there said, "You're going to be enlightened at the end of this week, that's my goal." I was the engineer, so I was recording everything at it was happening, but I was also participating, because I felt like it. So at the end of it, I did understand what enlightenment was, one-hundred percent.” SaidEndsGuyFeltGoalWeekQuietHappeningsEnlightenmentPercentHundredEnlightenedEngineersSay AnythingRetreatThis GuyParticipating Author:Larkin Grimm
“I'm a huge fan of horror. I can't handle all the blood and gore, but that's what The Following was meant to be. It was meant to be a genre show, a little movie, a little scary genre film every week. That was our goal. That's what Kevin Bacon and I wanted to do.” LittlesI CanShowsWantedFilmGoalBloodWeekFansHugeHorrorFollowingScaryHandleGenreMeant To BeGoreKevinWere Meant To BeBlood And Gore Author:Kevin D. Williamson