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It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.

Quote by William Faulkner about work, shame, drinking, things, man, day, love

Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I'd record for hours and hours until it's time to go to sleep.

Quote by Michael Jackson about sleep, rightness, time

He would use amphetamines to stay awake because he would have late night maneuvers that would go way into the early morning hours and he was given pills to stay up for the long hours.

Quote by Priscilla Presley about life, night, use

I'm often amazed at the way politicians -who spend hours pouring over opinion poll results in a desperate attempt to discover what the public thinks -are certain they know precisly what God's views are on everything

Quote by Simon Hoggart about politics, opinion, public, god

They did interviews with my wife and daughter - they were...

They did interviews with my wife and daughter - they were genuinely in fear of me having a heart attack, working 20 hours a day, eating fast food.

Quote by Willie Aames about attack, fasting, food, wife, fear, heart, day

The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours.

Quote by Charles Babbage

Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about love

Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about creation, unforeseen, poetry, things

As much preparation as I had made for the old man...

As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about old, olderness, man

Dick Smith is the best makeup man in the world. I'd get...

Dick Smith is the best makeup man in the world. I'd get to the studio by 4:30. We'd work on the makeup for four and a half hours.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about work, world, man

It's probably just 10 hours out of 365 days in front of...

It's probably just 10 hours out of 365 days in front of the camera, film in the camera. Not enough. It's not enough.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about day, film

Oh, yeah, I see the world differently now. Actually, when I first had the baby, I was breast-feeding him for two years straight. So we were together for two years of his life, every single day, all hours of the day. So I was two people, and I...

Quote by Erykah Badu about day, world, life, people

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful...

Quote by Louisa May Alcott about olderness, youth, age, old, work, day, time, life

People say to me, Would you like to swap your life with me for 24 hours? Your life must be very strange. But of course I have not experienced any other life. It's not strange to me.

Quote by Prince Andrew about life, people

I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that...

I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.

Quote by Barbara Taylor Bradford about thinking, writing, work, day, time

Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, ...

Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.

Quote by Orson Scott about writing

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about love

I love tinkering with the web site. I'm a Mac user, and it's fun for me to create a web page with HTML, but I have two kids and a lot of work to do, so it's rare that I can steal the four or five hours it takes to pack together a good addition to...

Quote by Michael Chabon about work, good, good luck, love

I don't live that much with the character. I find it hard...

I don't live that much with the character. I find it hard enough having to spend so many hours with the character during the day.

Quote by Catherine Deneuve about character, day

The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I...

The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.

Quote by Johnny Depp about poetry, eyes, beauty, fear, mind

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