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I did not have a mobile phone in 1993. No one did, except the occasional banker or Hollywood star seeming smart, or… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
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A really good day for me is to write my book for about four hours, go to the writing room for about… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
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I am sitting here 93 million miles from the sun on a rounded rock which is spinning at the rate of 1000… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Humanity today is like a waking dreamer, caught between the fantasies of sleep and the chaos of the real world. The mind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That's the most important thing to me - that if I'm gonna spend however long it takes to make a movie, give… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
January 8 has been a lucky day for me. I have started all my books on that day, and all of them… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
If you're a full-time manager of your own property - and full-time, according to Congress, is 15 hours a week - you… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
There’s only one difference between published and unpublished writers, and it is this -- the first group see their work in print… — Kate Mosse Copy Share Image
I used to practice piano for hours, and now, with a synthesizer, you can input the music and the machine perfects the… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
It really doesn't matter how long. If you practice with your (body), no amount is enough. If you practice with your head,… — K. Anders Ericsson Copy Share Image
What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage,… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
It's a great incentive to work long hours. I limit the holiday to two weeks and then get the hell back to… — Michael O'Leary Copy Share Image
From where we lived, to practise in St Louis was an hour-and-a-half drive each way, so that took a lot of the… — Jimmy Connors Copy Share Image
This is the violet hour, the hour of hush and wonder, when the affectations glow and valor is reborn, when the shadows… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labour under Brutal Conditions; Months of Continual Darkness and Extreme… — Ernest Shackleton Copy Share Image
Whenever I wasn't in school with a tutor three hours a day, I'd get a knock and be rushed to set and… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
The European style of living is seductive: fewer hours worked, more hours at the cafe, less concern over self-betterment. But that style… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed:… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
I write two pages - that's all I write. It takes me about an hour. I've learned that's all I'm capable of… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
As a rule, dictatorships guarantee safe streets and terror of the doorbell. In democracy the streets may be unsafe after dark, but… — Adam Michnik Copy Share Image
People say to me, Would you like to swap your life with me for 24 hours? Your life must be very strange.… — Prince Andrew Copy Share Image
I just try to eat things in moderation and find exercise that I enjoy, because I'm not a gym person. I cannot… — Daniella Alonso Copy Share Image
I could actually care less about the poor. We have some living near us, and pee-yew. They are always coming and going… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Within a few hours I had them off, was about ready to play the shows. That night I opened, and during the… — Mary Lou Williams Copy Share Image
I made one choice, for example, which is I'm just going to confine work to working hours. I'm not going to work… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
When the dawn was still long hours away, bad thoughts took on flesh and began to walk. In the middle of the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I work out twice a day, once in the morning and once before bed. I'll start with half an hour of running… — Erin Heatherton Copy Share Image
My life honestly isn't as weird as people think it is. I work longer hours, maybe I have a bit more money,… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
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