I'm obsessed with TV. How wrong our parents were when they said we should only watch an hour a day. Stop wasting your time reading books.
The first time I went to Taiwan, there were cameras, paparazzi, TV stations outside my hotel twenty-four hours a day nonstop.
There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.
There are only so many hours you can sit on the bus and watch TV or play basketball or whatever we do to pass the time before we go out onstage.
News is virtual now. It is not 24-hour news cycles; it is instant news cycles. It is live. News is live all the time, around the clock.
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.
If you're playing for five hours you don't want to score goals all the time and I loved dribbling. I could score a goal, but I preferred to dribble.
I tried therapy. This had never appealed to me. For me, it was a bit like a Chinese meal: very filling at the time, but then an hour later you're hungry again.
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
Richard Brown: Oh, Mrs. Dalloway... Always giving parties to cover the silence.
Virginia Woolf: Leonard, I believe I may have a first sentence.
Virginia Woolf: Say something, Nessa! Didn't you think I seemed better?
Richard Brown: I've stayed alive for you. But now you have to let me go.
Virginia Woolf: I can't think of anything more exhilarating than a trip to London.
The Operative: [to Mal] You cannot make me angry. Inara Serra: Please, spend an hour with him!
I was a political refugee living in Venezuela. I had a job that was twelve hours a day, no money. It was a hard time.
If I'm going to be working out two hours a day, I may as well have a goal... and I'm pretty competitive by nature. A triathlon is a new fun thing.
They are representations of many shared hours of collaboration between us all. That's the real nature of the relationship the orchestra and I are trying to build.
It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
So, I'm happy to do that because it's a wonderful working relationship but I will be going out for pilot season for half hour work and that's the gamble I'm taking.
I have so much respect for television actors and directors. We're on set doing 16-hour days, and that's just what we do.
