#seconds

Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play. ↗

— Sam Shepard

#did #doing #earn #end #everything

Let the answer hang there for two or three or four seconds. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#four #hang #seconds #three #two

I have no style. There are certain people who just have a visual sense that defines their work. You could probably watch 30 seconds of anything they do and you'll know exactly who directed it. I don't have that skill. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#certain #could #defines #directed #exactly

Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds. ↗

— Kate Adie

#children #kill #nine #now #people

Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything. ↗

— Mario Batali

#change #everything #finishing #food #last

Granted, prostate exams aren't the most enjoyable things in the world, but they only last about 10 seconds. It's well worth it. Just think of the possible consequences if you don't get it done. ↗

— Len Dawson

#consequences #done #enjoyable #exams #get

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

#developing #doing #ends #film #got

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#dead #dream #drop #eyes #factories

The worst moment was when I was performing and I was about to sing, but I choked. I had a tickle in my throat and I started coughing, and I couldn't get the words out. It lasted for like thirty seconds, but I got over it, and luckily the crowd didn't seem to care. ↗

— Chris Brown

#care #choked #coughing #crowd #get

One of the jokes on our flight is that, if we have a normal entry day going, the plan is for me... to actually take the orbiter first and fly it for maybe 10 or 15 seconds and then hand it on over to Scooter. ↗

— Duane G. Carey

#day #entry #first #flight #fly