I eat broccoli. I think about the plot. I pace in circles for hours, counter-clockwise, listening to music. I try to think of one detail in the scene I'm about to write that I'm really excited about writing. Until I can come up with that one detail, I pace.
The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and not hear a damned word he says.
If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.
In my darkest hours I had a choice to make. I could be a victim or a victor.
I have built my life to pursue the new. I don't have family, don't know many people and I am usually ready to leave within an hour.
Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please.
During the days I felt myself slipping into a kind of madness. Solitary confinement has an astonishing effect on the mind. The trip was to stay calm and keep myself occupied. I spent hours working out how to break free. But trying to escape would have been instant suicide.
How had it turned into this? I had lived my whole stupid life without him, and now I could barely make it through the hour.
Time. There seems to be vast quantities of the stuff spooling around me in all directions, everywhere i look. Days and hours. Weeks and minutes. Years. The hard part, ive discovered, is filling it.
Peak hours for sending a first email through the online dating system tended to be during work (eleven A. M. to four P. M. ) and then just after dinner (seven P. M. to nine P. M. ). I did have a few women send me a first message after eleven P. M. Those who did had an 82 percent chance of coming from a profile that had too many words.
I wake up every morning and think to myself, 'How far can I push the company forward in the next 24 hours?
The greatest events-they are not our loudest but our stillest hours.
Carter is doing a high-wire act over a cesspool, preaching all the way. Sinclair Lewis, thou shouldst be living in this hour. We have a Warren Harding impersonating Elmer Gantry.
Better three hours too soon, than one hour to late.
If you sincerely desire a truly well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty. " You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, no matter what. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket. . . even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the telepathic pressure alone of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well-grounded in consensus reality.
We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.
The process is to me is going onstage night after night after night after night until I get a new hour. And then once that hour is solidified and recorded, I move on.
I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness - and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day, I'm a human trying to make it through in this world.
If you have any doubt that time is relative, try stretching fifteen minutes' worth of input of over four hours cubicle-cell time with an ultra-slow internet connection and frequent visits from supervisors.
Being on set is a hard thing. A lot of people are like, oh, you get to make a movie, and it's all fun. But the reality is, it's a lot of hours. It's a lot of reshoots; it's a lot of waiting. And you can become increasingly agitated by the amount of time that you are waiting. But that's real.
