#nut

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. ↗

— James Goldsmith

#monkeys #pay #peanuts #you

Skiing is better than sex actually, because for me a good round of sex might be seven minutes. Skiing you can do for seven hours. ↗

— Spalding Gray

#because #better #good #hours #me

You open the show with a bang, then don't come back on for 45 minutes. ↗

— Robert Goulet

#bang #come #minutes #open #show

Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty. ↗

— John Grierson

#cruelty #doorstep #drama #earth #ends

Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener. ↗

— Nanci Griffith

#because #else #even #fantasy #fiction

The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute. Even if I was given two months, I'd do it in the last three days. ↗

— Ayumi Hamasaki

#even #everything #given #i #i do

Let's say music is needed for only 43 seconds of film. You have to score it so it is an entity, so it won't bother anyone when it ends so quickly. Or if a song runs 2 minutes and 45 seconds, but the titles run a minute longer, you have to arrange that song so it doesn't get repetitious. ↗

— Marvin Hamlisch

#arrange #bother #ends #entity #film

I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? And for the last 20 years - you've got to pick yourself up and dust yourself off and then go on your merry way and start again, in a sense, and that's what I've been doing. ↗

— Colin Hay

#away #been #doing #dust #famous

If you're poor and you do something stupid, you're nuts. If you're rich and do something stupid, you're eccentric. ↗

— Bobby Heenan

#nuts #poor #rich #something #stupid

The hours, minutes and seconds stand as visible reminders that your effort put them all there. Preserve until your next run, when the watch lets you see how Impermanent your efforts are. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#efforts #hours #how #lets #minutes