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Well, I had an after hours club in Vancouver and when any of the Motown acts would call. -- Tommy Chong
A dozen extra steps becomes a tremendous aggravation when you are pushing your edge out hour after hour. -- Carl Shapiro
The joy of the creative process, minute by minute, hour after hour, day by day, is the sublime path to true happiness. -- George Lois
Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words. -- Norman Mailer
I can't bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour-or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing. -- George Eliot
What these people do here is obviously not working. They sit in their commuter traffic hour after hour. They make the earth a toxic waste dump. -- Frederick Lenz
I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment. -- Susanna Clarke
The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously. -- Agnes de Mille
If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget. Children are not, for the most part, suffering from a psychological condition, they're suffering from childhood. -- Ken Robinson
I worked more intensively hour after hour when I was starting out [writing]. More laboriously. I'd say quantity is important as well as quality, and if you're not producing enough, make a schedule and stick to it. -- Lydia Davis
There's a whole generation growing up thinking you shouldn't seek knowledge for its own sake, and that theatre and art and books are activities that you do after-hours, rather than things that are at the heart of life. That's a huge change. -- Jeanette Winterson
I talk to hundreds of companies a year and spend hour after hour in heady pow-wows with CEOs, financial analysts and my colleagues in the mutual-fund business, but I stumble onto the big winners in extracurricular situations, the same way you do. -- Peter Lynch
Even if every program were educational and every advertisement bore the seal of approval of the American Dental Association, we would still have a critical problem. It's not just the programs but the act of watching television hour after hour after hour that's destructive. -- Ellen Goodman
Babies should enjoy the freedom to vocalize whether it be in church, a public meeting place, during a movie, or after hours when the lights are out. They have not yet learned that joy and laughter have to last a lifetime and must be conserved. -- Erma Bombeck
They sat on a park bench, held hands, and told each other their stories hour after hour. They were not lonely anymore. They had found and been found by their 100% perfect other. What a wonderful thing it is to find and be found by your 100% perfect other. It's a miracle, a cosmic miracle. -- Haruki Murakami
Why does reading freak people out so much? Sure, I could be pretty anti-social when we were on the road, but if I was playing a Gameboy hour after hour, no one would be on my case. In my social circle, blowing up space monsters is socially acceptable in a way that American Pastoral isn't. -- Nick Hornby
It is the moment when our resolution seems about to become irrevocable--when the fatal iron gates are about to close upon us--that tests our strength. Then, after hours of clear reasoning and firm conviction, we snatch at any sophistry that will nullify our long struggles, and bring us the defeat that we love better than victory. -- George Eliot
What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead. -- Carson McCullers
It doesn't look nearly as big as it did the first time I saw one. Mickey McGuire and I used to sit hour after hour in the cockpit of the one that American used for training, at the company school in Chicago, saying to each other, 'My God, do you think we'll ever learn to fly anything this big?' -- Ernest K. Gann
I wanted to lie hour after hour on a couch, pouring out the dark, secret places of my heart--do this feeling that over my shoulder sat humanity and wisdom and generosity, a munificent heart--do this until that incredibly lovely day when the great man would say to me, his voice grave and dramatic with discovery: "This is you, Exley. Rise and go back into the world a whole man. -- Frederick Exley
The forehands or backhands don't mean much after three hours. -- Maria Sharapova
You can't stay in the desert, you go nuts after 24 hours. -- Lykke Li
Gardens were before gardeners, and but some hours after the earth. -- Thomas Browne
Free speech does not live many hours after free industry and free commerce die. -- Herbert Hoover
There's something cathartic about swearing 150 times after spending ten hours in the editing room. -- Liev Schreiber
For 40 hours a week competition is awfully stiff but after that there's very little competition . -- Zig Ziglar
Horror films do not prepare us for the hours lost in searching after one clear thought. -- Norman Mailer
The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success. -- Thomas A. Edison
Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice. -- Zig Ziglar
After obsessively Googling symptoms for four hours, I discovered 'obsessively Googling symptoms' is a symptom of hypochondria. -- Stephen Colbert
Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day. -- Markus Zusak
And it's true, you hear things in Damascus and, after a few hours, the human double-take stops operating. -- Robert Fisk
One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning. -- Herman Melville
I'm always late to bed - usually after midnight - but then I sleep for around ten hours. -- Bonnie Tyler
It was only literally hours after the wedding when he felt he didn't have to keep up the facade. -- Trisha Goddard
It'll be the fastest spacecraft ever to Jupiter...13 months after launch. We pass the Moon in just nine hours. -- Alan Stern
But after several hours, I go anyway, walking in silent sock feet, so as not to awaken the ghosts. -- Suzanne Collins
Timothy Leary and I kept the same hours. He believed, as I do, that "After midnight, all things are possible. -- Hunter S. Thompson
After thousands of hours of news coverage, we have learned that Hillary is a liar and Barack is a terrorist or something. -- Adam McKay
It's hard to say which I like more, the perfectly happy days or the hours right after we've ended a good fight. -- Crystal Woods
My grandkids believe I'm the oldest thing in the world. And after two or three hours with them, I believe it, too. -- Gene Perret
For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work. -- Doug Larson
You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid. -- Tom Stoppard
Come now, what masques, what dances shall we have To wear away this long age of three hours Between our after-supper and bedtime? -- William Shakespeare
I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and completely out of it. -- Anthony Bourdain
I give myself 24 hours after a loss. After that, I'm totally on to the next game. But for 24 hours, I'm not a happy man. -- Rick Pitino
After film school, I would write 8 hours a day on film and 8 hours a night on TV, and then sleep once and a while. -- Tobias Lindholm
I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my soul's delight. -- Nikki Grimes
Yes, I was the child who would sneak into her closet and read 'Nancy Drew' for hours after the designated 'lights out' time of night. -- Rachel Nichols
I learned more about psychology in the five hours after taking these mushrooms than in the preceding 15 years of studying and doing research in psychology. -- Timothy Leary
Now, they say that New Zealand is beautiful and I do not know -- because after 22 hours on a plane any landmass would be beautiful. -- Lewis Black
Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours. -- Robert Harris
You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good out of it. -- Twyla Tharp
I hate it when, after I let a white person know they've said something racist, I end up having to listen for hours to their life. -- Toi Derricotte
As the director, you cannot control what people do after hours or in their trailers or on break. Why would you want to? But you can't. -- Catherine Hardwicke
I used to hate my hair. Now I love it. I spend hours brushing my hair out after it dries. I love it when it's big. -- Petra Collins
Instead of taking a year off, I started Dreamers of the Day exactly 36 hours after I sent the manuscript for A Thread of Grace to the publisher! -- Mary Doria Russell
If one swallows a cup of chocolate only three hours after a copious lunch, everything will be perfectly digested and there will still be room for dinner. -- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Instead of taking a year off, I started 'Dreamers of the Day' exactly 36 hours after I sent the manuscript for 'A Thread of Grace' to the publisher! -- Mary Doria Russell
I love to meet my fans, and after every show I usually hang out for a few hours, talking to my fans, signing autographs, and selling T-shirts. -- Tommy Chong
I listen to nothing or classical music just because after being in the studio for twelve hours, the last thing you want to do is listen to anything. -- Casey Spooner
The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That's easy to manage. -- Haruki Murakami
New clothes are a great way to deal after a breakup. A good mix CD also helps you get through it and... you know, 72 hours of ice cream. -- Jennifer Love Hewitt
If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good oneâ??and the same goes for paintings. -- Elizabeth Bishop
On a Friday night, I like to go out because my friends, who have been working normal hours, just want to let go after a stressful week at work. -- Douglas Booth
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. -- F. Murray Abraham
after several months of probation work, standing on my feet some ten to twelve hours a day, I decided that as a nurse I was a pretty good entertainer. -- Kate Smith
The problem with being a cop is you spend all your time around criminals. After all, eight hours out of every day of our lives are spent with coworkers. -- Jarod Kintz
I never practice before, I never work hours on a script. I just choose my characters and trust them, and after that, it's about the director taking your hand. -- Melanie Laurent

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