"If you spend your time, worth $20-25 per hour, doing something that someone else will do for $10 per hour, it's simply a poor use of resources."
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"I learned to park outside of Denny's because it's 24 hours. I made a deal at a 7-Eleven with a mailman so I could get my mail delivered there."
"All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours."
"When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day."
"The hour which gives us life begins to take it away."
"So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow."
"Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man."
"Everybody has 24 hours and the question is, what do you do with your 24 hours? That's what makes everybody equal."
"You can't be twenty-four hours of just Bush-bashing."
"The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life."
"I don't spend the day writing. I'll maybe write fresh copy for two hours, and then I'll go back and revise some of it and print what I like and then turn it off."
"As you live your hours, so you create your years. As you live your days, so you craft your life."
"Measure the success of your days by the lives touched vs the hours passed."
"Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day."
"Youth is an arithmetical statement of passing interest, each hour eats it up."
"Well, as you know, there are 24 hours in every day. And if that's not enough, you've always got the nights!"
"I'd live in a museum if I could. I used to spend hours and hours in the Museum of Modern Art."
"I think religion is best when it's reduced to a one hour television program."
"If all the actors are in the recording session at the same time, you can record all voices for one episode in an hour. Of course, the animation takes longer but the voice acting is done very quickly."
"And have her back by midnight. " "Is that some powerful Caster hour?" "No. It's her curfew."