#seconds

It's a gamble you take, the risk of alienating an audience. But there's a theory - sometimes it's better to confuse them for five minutes than let them get ahead of you for 10 seconds. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#audience #better #confuse #five #gamble

I'm not limited by my gender, and I don't think anyone else should be either. Because I am the age I am and I sort of rode the crest of the first profound post-suffragette feminists, I wasn't fighting to burn my bra. Those women fought that fight just seconds before I came into womanhood. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#am #anyone #because #before #bra

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

After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#book #bookstore #content #few #glance

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

I was an open, smiley and gregarious child. I could make friends in 30 seconds wherever I went. ↗

— America Ferrera

#could #friends #gregarious #i #make

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#about #change #i #make #make up

You know, when my dad was a racing fan in Australia he would follow Jack Brabham and sometimes only hear if he won two days after a race - when the result finally appeared in his newspaper. These days I can tweet something and it's all over the world in seconds. ↗

— Mark Webber

#appeared #australia #dad #days #fan

Same thing, like my commercials are often times really funny because I tend to find 30 seconds is a really good amount of time to tell a joke. ↗

— Alex Winter

#because #commercials #find #funny #good

All I could feel was this warm liquid running down my neck. You automatically think it's blood, it's all in split seconds, so I decided to say I didn't agree with him. ↗

— John Prescott

#automatically #blood #could #decided #down