“I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.” JobsUsedImpossibleWeekStreetsNew YorkGrewGrew UpWaitressAllowance Author:Lady Gaga
“You cannot begin to imagine the shock I had when I came down on the floor for the first time. First of all, there's this whole thing about playing sitcom comedy. I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do. I went slowly. We went through the week of rehearsal, then we got on the floor with the cameras, which I'm used to because of my experience in the old days. Then came camera day, with an audience, and it was stunning, enthralling, exciting and chaotic. I had never experienced anything like that before, as an actor. I was part minstrel, part actor.” KnowsWantFirstsWholeUsedActorsAudienceComedyImagineWeekFirst TimeExcitingCamerasShockRehearsalChaoticOld DaysSitcomStunningMinstrels Author:William Shatner
“I was born with the wrong sign In the wrong house With the wrong ascendancy I took the wrong road That led to The wrong tendencies I was in the wrong place At the wrong time For the wrong reason And the wrong rhyme On the wrong day Of the wrong week Used the wrong method With the wrong technique Wrong Wrong.” ReasonUsedHouseBornWeekMethodTechniqueTendenciesRhymeWrong TimeWrong ReasonsAscendancyWrong Road Author:Martin Gore
“I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas feels like ten years. I used to go to bed to try and go to sleep to try and make it go faster.” FeelsTryingYearsTwoKidsRememberUsedSleepWeekBedTenEndlessChristmasFasterTwo WeeksGoing To SleepBeing A KidEndless Time Author:Andrea Arnold
“I'm less confident now than I've ever been. In this peculiar craft, confidence is something you spend a lifetime losing. I used to be frightened only one night a week but now I'm frightened of every performance. I mean really frightened.” MeanUsedNightActorsWeekLosingPerformancesLifetimeUsed To BeCraftsFrightenedPeculiarOne Night Author:Glenda Jackson
“I used to refer to my drug use as putting the monster in the box. I wanted to be less, so I took more - simple as that. Anyway, I eventually decided that the reason Dr. Stone had told me I was hypomanic was that he wanted to put me on medication instead of actually treating me. So I did the only rational thing I could do in the face of such as insult - I stopped talking to Stone, flew back to New York, and married Paul Simon a week later.” ReasonUseWantedFacesUsedSimpleTalkingWeekNew YorkDrugMarriedStonesDecidedAddictionBoxesMonstersRationalInsultDrsFlewMedicationDrug Use Book:Wishful Drinking Source: Wishful Drinking
“When you play in the Premier League, say you're playing against a lower-end team, they set up to defend all the time, they set up to block you off. But when you play in the Champions League, all the other teams are used to winning every week, so it's more of an open game, it's more attacking, end-to-end.” EndsPlayUsedGamesWinningWeekTeamBlockLeagueChampionAttackingPremier LeagueChampions League Author:Gareth Bale
“The CEO of Enron, Jeffrey Skilling, married one of the Enron secretaries this week. It's amazing how romantic these Enron guys can be when they realize that wives can't be forced to testify against their husbands. Skilling said today she was the best secretary Enron had ever had. She could shred 950 words a minute. ... I guess they are on their honeymoon right now. That's going pretty well. Hey, he's used to screwing Enron employees.” WellsSaidTodayUsedGuyRealizingWifeWeekMinutesRight NowHusbandMarriedHeyEmployeeSecretaryCeoHoneymoonEnron Author:Jay Leno
“Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could destroy them in 15 minutes. There's a fantastic joy in destroying something that you've meticulously built. Then you're free to build a new thing. Destruction and creation they're inseparable.” IdeasUsedJoyCitiesWeekMinutesCreationBrotherModelsBuiltDestructionFantasticAttractiveMy BrotherDestroyingNew ThingsInseparable Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“For many weeks after [my wife] died, I could not get used to the feeling of coldness and lifelessness on her side of the bed - and it was even worse when they took the body away and buried her.” FeelingsBodyUsedSidesWifeWeekBedDiedMy WifeBuriedColdness Author:Jonathan Coe
“Several weeks of summer vacation in the Thirties I spent working at $15 a week in the FORBES office.... I worked in the mail cage, where envelopes were slit and subscription payments extracted. Dad used to come pounding down the office aisle and pause long enough to ask, How much today? Inevitably the answer was inadequate-except once. That day the controller said excitedly, Mr. Forbes, the ledger shows a slight profit this month! ... My father turned to him and said, Young man, I don't give a damn what your books show. Do we have any money in the bank?” MenGivingLongSaidBookEnoughShowsTodayYoungUsedAsksFatherAnswersWeekMonthsDadOfficeSummerProfitDamnYoung ManVacationMailPausesCagesPaymentInadequateEnvelopesAisleSlitsForbesDon't Give A DamnControllersI Don't Give A DamnSubscriptionSummer Vacation Author:Malcolm Forbes
“When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.” WarStatesUsedTimeWeekSpecialTheoryConflictConfusionNervousGoing AwayRelativityTheories Of Relativity Author:Albert Einstein
“Dates used to be made days or even weeks in advance. Now dates tend to be made the day after. That is, you get a phone call from someone who says, "If anyone asks, I was out to dinner with you last night, okay?"” IfsMadeLastsUsedNightAsksWeekOkayDatingPhonesDinnerUsed To BeLast NightPhone Calls Book:Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People Source: Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People
“The late Président de Montesquieu told me that he knew how to be blind--he had been so for such a long time--but I swear that I do not know how to be deaf: I cannot get used to it, and I am as humiliated and distressed by it today as I was during the first week. No philosophy in the world can palliate deafness.” KnowsWorldFirstsLongPhilosophyTodayUsedKnow HowWeekLateLong TimeBlindSwearBlindnessDeafHumiliatedDeafnessMontesquieu Author:Lord Chesterfield
“I used to dream of a week-long beach vacation with white sand under my toes... right now, I'd settle for 48 hours at a Motel 6 with some Lysol and a UV lamp.” LongDreamUsedHoursWhiteWeekRight NowBeachSettlingSandVacationToesLampsMotels48 HoursLong BeachWhite Sand Author:Ingrid Weir
“I was always looking to be entertained. We lead such full lives and a lot of us don't lead very pleasant lives and don't like what we do... My dad worked his whole life as a salesman and that wasn't what he really wanted to do. He looked forward to two weeks vacation every year and he used to say to me, 'Whatever you do, make sure you do something you really like so you don't just have your vacation to look forward to.' And I love movies.” LoveLifeYearsLooksTwoWholeWantedUsedWeekDadMy DadWhole LifePleasantLove LifeVacationTwo WeeksSalesmanMovie LoveFull Life Author:Jerry Bruckheimer
“I used to suffer particularly because the poor animals must endure so much pain and want. The sight of an old, limping horse being dragged along by one man while another man struck him with a stick he was being driven to the Colmar slaughterhouse - haunted me for weeks.” MenWantPainUsedSufferingAnimalPoorWeekSightHorseSticksEndureDrivenOne ManAnother ManSlaughterhousesLimping Author:Albert Schweitzer
“I used to get letters from guys in prison. Anymore now I don't even open them. They'd ask me to please sign a couple of cards for their children. Then I see them on eBay two weeks later. Or the people that write and say, "You is one of my favorite cartoonists. I would like a drawing, please." I guess they encourage inmates to write letters to celebrities. It's like a way to make money by selling autographs or something. Give me a break.” PeopleWayGivingWritingChildrenTwoUsedGuyAsksBreakWeekCouplePleaseLettersGive MePrisonMy FavoriteDrawingSellingCardsMaking MoneyAsk MeTwo WeeksAutographsCartoonistInmatesEbay Author:Mike Royer
“I remember how difficult it was to perform certain operations on gelatine prints. A few weeks ago I asked my gelatine printer at Picto, "Can you make just the shadows a little bit brighter?" He gave me a very strange look because in Photoshop you just turn a button, and we're used to that now, but it is totally impossible in gelatine silver printing.” LooksLittlesRememberUsedCertainTurnsBitsDifficultImpossibleWeekStrangeLittle BitShadowOperationsSilverPrintButtonsBrighterPrintingPrinterPhotoshop Author:Peter Lindbergh
“I worked real hard to learn to play first. In the beginning, I used to make one terrible play a game. Then, I got so I'd make one a week, and finally, I'd pull a real bad one maybe once a month. At the end, I was trying to keep it down to one a season.” TryingFirstsRealEndsHardPlayUsedGamesWeekMonthsTerribleBaseballSeasons Author:Lou Gehrig
“I'm comfortable wherever I am, and I can be anywhere and feel comfortable after three weeks. I adapt, and I'm like a chameleon. If a country doesn't have Internet, then I get used to not having the Internet. I could basically live anywhere. I'm a nomad at heart. Nothing is more boring than monotony.” IfsFeelsHeartI CanCountryUsedThreeWeekInternetComfortableBoringMonotonyNomadChameleon Author:Julie Delpy
“Television is a great job for a writer in the way that movies used to be, way before my time. Back when writers in Hollywood were on staff or under contract at any given studio and you'd write movie scripts and then the movies would get made within a few weeks, such that you could be a working writer in the movie business back in the '30s and '40s and '50s and have a hand in writing five or six movies a year that actually got produced. The only thing remotely like that in the 21st century here in Hollywood is working in the TV business.” WayWritingYearsMadeHandsJobsUsedGivenFiveWeekCenturyTelevisionTvsSixHollywoodScriptsStudiosUsed To BeMy TimeContractsStaff21st CenturyBack WhenGreat JobMovie Business Author:Vince Gilligan
“I'm the only person in my family who can't sing. My grandmother was an opera singer and all of her kids were in church five days a week - or between church and vocal lessons at Carnegie Hall. But my mom had her first studio experience recording on my album. She's used to having to fill the room, so she had to adjust to the microphone and not sing opera.” FirstsPersonsKidsUsedChurchRoomsFiveWeekMomLessonsMy FamilyAlbumsStudiosMy MomSingersGrandmotherHallsOperaMy GrandmotherVocalMicrophonesCarnegieOpera SingersCarnegie Hall Author:Le1f
“I used to go to the same club every week in my home town, and even there I'd always stay at the back of the queue. I never once assumed I could just walk in.” HomeUsedWalksWeekTownsClubsQueuesHome Town Author:Nikki Sanderson
“We usually break the story first. For instance, on The Monuments Men, and this one is more complicated because there's a lot of history, so before we started, we sat down with Robert Edsel, the author of the book, for about a week, and basically, he just gave us a lecture and went through everything. And then, I had a researcher, somebody who we had actually used on Argo.” MenFirstsBookStoriesUsedBreakWeekComplicatedInstanceSatLecturesMonumentResearchersArgo Author:Grant Heslov
“'One Week' changed my life because I used to be the Million Dollars Guy, and now I'm the Chickity China Guy.” UsedGuyMillionsWeekChangedDollarsChinaUsed To BeMillion DollarsChanged My Life Author:Ed Robertson
“Faith is not simply a private matter, or something we practice once a week at church. Rather, it should have a contagious effect on the broader world. Jesus used these images to illustrate His kingdom.: a sprinkle of yeast causing the whole loaf to rise, a pinch of salt preserving a slab of meat, the smallest seed in the garden growing into a great tree in which birds of the air come to nest.” WorldShouldMatterWholeUsedJesusChurchPracticeGrowingAirTreeWeekEffectsBirdGardenShould HaveSeedsKingdomsMeatSaltSmallestNestsContagiousSprinklesYeastSlabs Author:Philip Yancey
“I got into photography because of the immediacy of the medium. I used to sit in front of a canvas for weeks trying to create something. Now I can see the image right away.” TryingI CanUsedWeekFrontsPhotographyMediumsCanvasImmediacy Author:Mario Sorrenti
“Fifteen years ago, God unequivocally and undeniably gave me Isaiah 22:22 as a life-verse. "Then I will set the key of the house of David on his shoulder, when he opens no one will shut, when he shuts no one will open." After 40 plus confirmations over a two-week period - yes, more than 40 - I became thoroughly convinced this verse was both a promise and a weapon for me. I have since used the verse hundreds of times throughout America - in all 50 states and in Washington DC - to open and close spiritual doors for the Lord.” YearsTwoStatesAmericaSpiritualUsedHouseLordDoorsWeekKeysPeriodsPromiseWeaponsYears AgoConvincedShouldersPlusVersesFifteenTwo WeeksConfirmationFifteen YearsWashington Dc Author:Dutch Sheets
“The old actors in the old days, they used to go on tour, to get the play ready for the West End, and to learn their lines. The old timers used to say, "Be very careful, dear boy, what you get in to during the first weeks of a long tour."” FirstsLongEndsPlayUsedActorsLinesBoysWeekReadyGoes OnWestDearCarefulOld DaysOld TimeTimerWest EndOld Timers Author:Tom Courtenay
“They [movies] don't really have the cultural impact - other than "Star Wars," of course - that they used to because television is something that week to week people invite into their homes. It's a relationship that in success can go on six, seven, eight years. I think certainly in the early days, you definitely want that engagement.” PeopleThinkingWantYearsWarHomeUsedCoursesStarsWeekTelevisionGoes OnSixImpactSevenEightEngagementInvites Author:Alfred Gough
“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
“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
“Can't nobody do what Fetty Wap does. So when I go to the studio, it may be four to five hours max, probably three days out the week. I used to go to the studio for 10 to 15 hours, and I would do five to 10 songs. Now I go for four to five hours and I do, like, 15 to 20 songs. I'm an ad lib guy. Most people know me for my ad libs.” PeopleKnowsMayDoeUsedGuySongThreeHoursFiveFourWeekStudiosAdsKnow MeMax Author:Fetty Wap
“There are other ways I think of myself as spoiling myself ... I ... get a massage once a week. Other people can, I didn't used to, and I can now.” PeopleThinkingWayI CanUsedWeekMassage Author:Steve Ballmer
“I always laugh because I used to think the week before anyone saw me on "Charlie's Angels," nobody cared what I ate, how I exercised, what clothes I wore. Nobody was interested and the minute I was on "Charlie's Angels" everything I said was interesting.” ThinkingSaidUsedInterestingLaughingSawsWeekMinutesClothesAngelCharlieNobody CaresCharlie's Angels Author:Cheryl Ladd
“My theory is that church used to be that place. Instead of being a place where you went to look good, it was a place where you could risk going every week to look your worst.” LooksUsedChurchRiskWeekWorstTheoryUsed To Be Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“I didn't use anybody's story. I used the context and the structure of the situation. People were so, so desperate to tell their story and begin to digest their experience - like turning it into a story - that after the fist few weeks I could go with a pad and pencil and take notes. People didn't seem at all bothered by that.” PeopleStoriesUseSeemsUsedSituationWeekStructureNotesDesperatePencilsFistsBotheredPads Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“I used to give her [my wife] to read the column every week before I sent it to the editors. And sometimes she was so mad - are you crazy? You're not going to send that, or, you're not going to write that about me. So I would go, OK. You have five hours. Go ahead, write the column yourself.” GivingWritingSometimesUsedHoursFiveWifeWeekCrazyMadMy WifeEditorsColumns Author:Sayed Kashua
“I'm so used to artists saying to me, "Listen, I'm going to have five pages done next week," and then three weeks later I'm phoning them, begging them for two pages. And Stuart [Immonen]is a guy who will promise you five pages and deliver six pages, and the six pages are even better than you could have ever imagined.” TwoDoneUsedArtistGuyThreeNextFiveWeekPromiseSixPagesBeggingBetter Than YouNext Week Author:Mark Millar
“There was an author who titled his books by days of the weeks and another one that used colors. Then there was Edward Gorey who wrote the book The Gashlycrumb Tinies, about the untimely death of 26 Victorian children, each representing a letter of the alphabet. I thought what a great way to link the titles.” WayChildrenBookUsedWeekColorLettersTitlesLinksRepresentingAlphabetVictorianLetters Of The AlphabetUntimely Death Author:Sue Grafton