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“There are a lot of shows that have secrets and string people along and use the secrets of the narrative engine to keep people coming back every week. I don't know if those programs even have an answer. I don't know how they build their shows.”

People Ifs Knows Use Shows Answers Secret Know How Week Program Narrative Strings Engines Coming Back

Author:J.H. Wyman

“In L.A., I like to surf. I went through a phase - I was surfing four days a week. I'm still not good at it; I still spend most of my time falling.”

Stills Fall Four Week My Time Phases Surfing Surf

Author:Jess Weixler

“My favorite pre-Ponzi schemer was known as '520 Percent Miller' because he promised 10 percent returns a week, or 520 percent a year. Of course he was just using new investors' money to pay old investors, and soon he was on the lam.”

Years Courses Pay Known Week Return Percent My Favorite Investors

Author:Mitchell Zuckoff

“I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week.”

Ifs Thinking Should Home Week Should Have Folks Ran

Author:Cynthia Payne

“I love Japanese and Thai food, especially seafood, and eat out with my wife two or three times a week.”

Two Three Wife Week My Wife Three Times Seafood Thai Thai Food

Author:Pierre Dukan

“Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.”

Writing Wells Hard Inspiration Song Hours Week Hard Work Guitar Piano

Author:Bjorn Ulvaeus

“An astounding thing is that, almost every single week, I have met someone from my past.”

Past Week Mets My Past

Author:Michael Aspel

“I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.”

Firsts Father Born Week Son Males Pounds Hospitals Twins Philadelphia Premature Pennsylvania

Author:Buzz Bissinger

“It's like this: The time between having an idea and its public launch is measured in days not months, weeks not years.”

Years Ideas Week Months

Author:Tim Bray

“I also played with Jimi Hendrix. Jimi would come down and sit in with Retaliation and we would have a ball. He offered me the gig with him at 20 pounds a week, which at that point, was like 60 bucks.”

Week Balls Down And Pounds Gigs Bucks Hendrix Retaliation

Author:Aynsley Dunbar

“Most theater methodology is predicated on the idea of repeated actions. That's what you work toward. Having the actor repeat the same moment eight times a week. In a film, it's getting that one moment right.”

Ideas Moments Action Film Actors Week Theater Eight Repeats Methodology

Author:Stephen Daldry

“Out all of these zillions of letters, one of the first ones that came was, as it turned out from Johnny Carson within the last five or six weeks of his life. I had worked with him. He lost a son who had worked for me.”

Firsts Lasts Lost Five Week Son Six Letters

Author:Dick Ebersol

“I've just put my heart and soul in a song and need at least a week to recover.”

Needs Heart Soul Song Week My Heart Heart And Soul

Author:Beth Gibbons

“Most artists come in and out of the country, they stay may be 2 weeks - or a month max and then they leave.”

May Country Artist Week Months Max

Author:Edwin Starr

“When I was about 13 or 14, I had an English teacher who made a deal with me that I could get out of doing all of the year's regular work if I would write a short story a week and on Friday read it to the class.”

Ifs Writing Years Made Stories Deals Class Teacher Week Short Story Friday English Teacher

Author:Victor Salva

“During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice to run the kingdom of Denmark for a year.”

Years Running Evil Week New York Kingdoms Useless More Money Denmark Evil Things

Book:Prejudices Fourth Series

Source: Prejudices Fourth Series

“If you don't make the commitment today to start becoming the person you need to be to create the extraordinary life you really want, what makes you think that tomorrow - or next week, or next month, or next year - is going to be any different? They won't. And that's why you must draw your line in the sand TODAY.”

“Intravenous injections of extract from dog's pancreas, removed from seven to ten weeks after ligation of the ducts, invariably exercises a reducing influence upon the percentage sugar of the blood and the amount of sugar excreted in the urine ... the extent and duration of the reduction varies directly with the amount of extract injected.”

Blood Week Influence Dog Amount Exercise Ten Seven Sugar Percentages Reducing Vary Reduction Duration Injection Pancreas

Author:Frederick Banting

“The conversation of most middle-class Americans, we are told, revolves around consumption: what to buy, what was just bought, where to eat, the price of the neighbor's house, what's on sale this week, our clothes or someone else's, the best car on the market this year, where to spend a vacation. Apparently we can't stop eating, shopping, or consuming. Success is measured not in terms of love, wisdom, and maturity but by the size of one's pile of possessions.”

Source: The Signature of Jesus

“And I'm asking you for your good and for your nation's security to take no unnecessary trips, to use carpools or public transportation whenever you can, to park your car one extra day per week, to obey the speed limit, and to set your thermostats to save fuel. Every act of energy conservation like this is more than just common sense-I tell you it is an act of patriotism.”

“I want to have enough space to, I don't know, think thoughts. I mean, I just - I don't know that I'm capable of having an exciting, profound thought every week that's worth a column.”

Thinking Knows Want Mean Enough Space Week Capable Exciting Profound Columns Profound Thoughts

Author:David Plotz

“I think it's important that campaigns be aired all the way through, that people aren't voting three weeks before, before debates are held.”

People Thinking Way Important Three Week Campaigns Debate Voting

Author:Judy Woodruff

“Portal Bridge is based on a design from the 1840s and was already obsolete shortly after it was completed in 1910. It's a swing bridge that needs to be opened several times a week so barges can pass up and down the river. It takes about a half an hour. The problem is it fails to lock back into place on a regular basis.”

Needs Problem Hours Half Failing Week Design Rivers Bases Bridges Swings Locks Up And Down Obsolete Portal Barges

Author:Ray LaHood

“My granddaddy died when I was about 6 years old, I think. And my grandmother took a job cooking in the school lunchroom. So she did great. She made $18 a week.”

Thinking Years Made School Jobs Week Died Cooking Grandmother My Grandmother School Lunch Granddaddy

Author:Willie Nelson

“I did the David Cronenberg film, A History of Violence, with Viggo Mortensen and I played a real sociopath. For the next seven years, I played the psycho-of-the-week.”

Years Real Film Next Violence Week Seven Seven Years Psycho Sociopath

Author:Greg Bryk

“Being mayor of New York was a crisis a week and an emergency every other day.”

Week New York Crisis Emergencies Mayors

Author:Rudy Giuliani

“I am going home and I think in a week or so, hopefully, I'll be done with all the press stuff, and then I can kind of into my cave and start preparing for "Mad Max."”

Thinking Kind I Can Done Home Stuff Week Mad Presses Hopefully Preparing Caves Max Going Home Mad Max

Author:Charlize Theron

“With theatre especially, you don't want to do it unless you love it - there's no way you can pull it off, making people happy, making yourself happy for 12 weeks or whatever.”

People Way Want Week Theatre Making People Happy

Author:Carey Mulligan

“When you start playing a character every day for seven weeks, it suddenly starts becoming easier.”

Character Week Becoming Easier Seven

Author:Carey Mulligan

“The world is full of what seem like intractable problems. Often we let that paralyze us. Instead, let is spur you to action. There are some people in the world that we can't help, but there are so many more that we can. So when you see a mother and her children suffering in another part of the world, don't look away. Look right at them. Let them break your heart, then let your empathy and your talents help you make a difference in the lives of others. Whether you volunteer every week or just a few times a year, your time and unique skills are invaluable.”

“If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored.”

Ifs Week Painting Bored

Author:Jean-Michel Basquiat

“We had to have a star each week.. Possibly our program being on Sunday and having a little fun with the Bible was dangerous.”

Littles Fun Stars Week Dangerous Bible Program Sunday

Author:Edgar Bergen

“I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is, they would say, if they are honest, that it is a big department store, with new things every week - all the money to buy them, and maybe a little more than the neighbours.”

People Ifs Thinking Littles Bigs Religion Asks Heaven Week Honest Concepts Stores Department New Things Neighbour Department Stores

Author:Erich Fromm

“I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity”

I Can Inspiration Hours Impossible Week Clock Ministers Can Not Sermons Impossibility Regularity

Author:Sinclair Lewis

“Do not fancy, as too many do, that thou canst praise God by singing hymns to Him in church once a week, and disobeying Him all the week long. He asks of thee works as well as words; and more, he asks of thee works first and words after.”

Firsts Wells Long Asks Church Week Singing Praise Thee Fancy Hymns Thanksgiving Day Praise God Disobeying Praises To God

Author:Charles Kingsley

“There are people who would like to get rid of minimum wage. But we have to have it, because if we didn't some people would not get paid money. They would work all week for two loaves of bread and some Spam.”

People Ifs Two Humor Funny Week Paid Bread Minimum Wages Minimum Wage Spam

Author:Chris Rock

“When I got to the hospice I was under the impression it would be a two- or three-week stay. But here I still am, six weeks later, and I've gotten so well Medicare won't pay for me anymore.”

Wells Stills Two Would Be Three Pay Week Health Six Impression Medicare Hospice

Author:Art Buchwald

“What sweeter words can fall on the human ear? It's going to be May all week long.”

Humans May Long Fall Week Ears

Book:Poor Russell's almanac

Source: Poor Russell's almanac

“Fashion Week is so important for designers.”

Important Week Fashion Designer Fashion Week

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“A week ago it was the mountains I thought the most wonderful, and today it's the plains. I guess it's the feeling of bigness in both that carries me away.”

Feelings Today Wonder Wonderful Week Mountain Carrie

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“My first few weeks in New York were an initiation into the kingdom of guts.”

Firsts Week New York Kingdoms Guts Initiation

Author:Shirley MacLaine

“I was 26 when I invented the wrap dress. It was just a nothing little printed dress made out an jersey, and before I know it, I lived an American Dream making more than 25,000 dresses a week.”

Knows Littles Made Dream Week Dresses American Dream Wraps Jersey Printed

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“I've been working so hard that I'm exhausted... I feel I won't be able to do without a few weeks' rest, so I'm going off to see the sea.”

Feels Hard Able Week Sea Exhausted Relaxation Working So Hard Resting And Relaxation

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“I think no more than a week after I started writing I ran into the first block. It's hard to describe it in a way that will be understandable to anyone who is not a neurotic.”

Thinking Way Writing Firsts Hard Week Block Ran Neurotic

Book:Sweet Bird of Youth

Source: Sweet Bird of Youth

“Outside, a ceiling of pearly gray clouds coalesced over Manhattan, and the apartment had grown dark. It just keeps dripping. It's been like this all week, .. Rain would be a relief.”

Would Be Dark Week Rain Clouds Relief Gray Apartment Ceilings Manhattan Dripping

Author:Joan Didion

“History and the generations to come will judge our leaders by the decisions they make in the coming weeks.”

Decision Leader Generations Week Judging

Author:Nelson Mandela

“Metal buildings are the dream that Modern Architects had at the beginning of this century. It has finally come true, but they themselves don't realize it. That's because it doesn't take an Architect to build a metal building. You just order them out of a catalog - comes with a bunch of guys who put it together in a couple of days, maybe a week. And there you go - you're all set to go into business - just slap a sign out front.”

Dream Together Guy Order Realizing Week Modern Century Fronts Building Couple Architecture Bunch Metals Architect Slap

Author:David Byrne

“Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a dilettante?”

Years Artist Understanding Week Months Cost Reflection Understood Flash Dilettantes

Book:On Music and Musicians

Source: On Music and Musicians

“There's been plenty of adversity, starting the moment he was born. He had a respiratory crisis, and it was touch and go for a week whether he would survive. I think ever since, you can feel this pulse in the guy, an almost physical enthusiasm.”

Thinking Feels Moments Guy Born Week Adversity Crisis Starting Enthusiasm Plenty Pulse Respiratory

Author:James Taylor

“A lot can happen in a week - just read any Bible, .. On the seventh day, Election Day, unlike the Bible, we can't rest.”

Happens Week Bible Election Election Day

Author:Michael Bloomberg

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