#weeks

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium. ↗

— Booth Tarkington

#boyhood #decades #last #life #like

A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics. ↗

— Peter Jennings

#american politics #couple #long #long time #politics

That was, in writing the 'Twilight' script I had about five weeks to write that. I'd taken about a month to write the outline and then it was slam into a script and write it down fast because the writer's strike was looming. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#because #down #fast #five #had

He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you to play piano and organ on some stuff. He came over a couple times a week for two weeks and gave me therapy as to whether I should do The Thorns or not. ↗

— Matthew Sweet

#came #couple #couple times #gave #i

I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#journal #keep #longer #managed #never

Well you know, Woody doesn't rehearse, as opposed to my own method of directing where I really work with actors around a round table for weeks, examining the values of the material, so his technique is very different. ↗

— Mark Rydell

#different #directing #examining #his #i

A working woman could save a few shillings a week, and then every five weeks she'd come in and we'd cut her hair. She could shampoo it under the shower, swing it and dry it off or just let it dry by itself. It changed the lives of many young girls who'd never had the opportunity to be styled like that before. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#changed #come #could #cut #dry

I had a good chance when I went to Beijing and the guy who beat me, I'd beaten him three weeks before and he went on to win silver. ↗

— Billy Joe Saunders

#beaten #before #beijing #chance #good

When you travel so many weeks a year, it's always nice to have a home-cooked meal. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#many #meal #nice #travel #weeks

I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you're likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do. ↗

— George Shearing

#avoid #awful #being #couple #giving