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  • Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?
  • On stage, you rehearse for five weeks, and it goes out to 300 people. In 'EastEnders,' you get ten minutes to rehearse, and seven million people watch it!
  • One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.
  • George M. is where I met my dear friend Joel Grey. We connected at rehearsal one day during a five-minute break. We were both looking out the same window and we knew in five minutes that we'd made a connection.
  • A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.
  • To write it - three months, to conceive it - three minutes. To collect the data in it - all my life.
  • It is funny that people always assume you have a bigger part in a movie than you actually do. I remember a lot of people thought 'Adventureland' starred me and Kristen Wiig. But we were like, 'No, we're only in the movie for like ten minutes!'
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  • Robert Frost A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Barry Hannah Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it in an hour, sometimes. 'Cause with this, with writing, you can occasionally feel like a caveman, like you've been working with pitch and tar on this brush.
    Barry Hannah
    American novelist (1942 - 2010)
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  • Horace Mann Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Horace Mann Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Barbara Sher ''Now'' is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream. You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.
    Barbara Sher
    American speaker, lifestyle coach, and author (1935 - 2020)
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  • Big Bank Hank 'Rapper's Delight' was done in 17 minutes. Just one take, no mistakes, and it went to press from there. The record went platinum in 8 days.
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  • Brad Feld 'Sunspring,' the first known screenplay written by an AI, was produced recently. It is awesome. Awesomely awful. But it's worth watching all ten minutes of it to get a taste of the gap between a great screenplay and something an AI can currently produce.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Milton Berle A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.
    Milton Berle
    American comedian and actor (1908 - 2002)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Francis Picabia A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.
    Francis Picabia
    French painter and poet (1879 - 1953)
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  • C. S. Lewis A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Billy Porter All you need to do is turn on the news, and in five minutes, you're depressed with the state of the world. Choosing joy is a completely active choice. It doesn't just happen. You can't just say, 'I want to be happy.' You have to take action.
    Billy Porter
    American actor and singer (1969 - )
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  • Billy Graham America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest number of artificial amusements of any country. People have become so empty that they can't even entertain themselves. They have to pay other people to amuse them, to make them laugh, to try to make them feel warm and happy and comfortable for a few minutes, to try to lose that awful, frightening, hollow feeling-that terrible, dreaded feeling of being lost and alone.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Bradley Whitford Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes.
    Bradley Whitford
    American actor and political activist (1959 - )
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  • Carl Hagelin Being surrounded by hockey, I got forced into it as a kid. I started skating when I was 4 and had a rink only 10 minutes from my home. In my town, we had one outdoor rink and one indoor rink, so you could skate all year long. I lived by a lake, too, so we did a lot of skating on the lake.
    Carl Hagelin
    Swedish ice hockey player (1988 - )
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  • Milton Berle Committee-a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
    Milton Berle
    American comedian and actor (1908 - 2002)
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  • Mark Twain Few sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Anne Dudley Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously.
    Anne Dudley
    English composer, keyboardist and conductor (1956 - )
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  • Bernadette Peters George M. is where I met my dear friend Joel Grey. We connected at rehearsal one day during a five-minute break. We were both looking out the same window and we knew in five minutes that we'd made a connection.
    Bernadette Peters
    American actress, singer, and author (1948 - )
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