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I've always considered transcribing to be an invaluable tool in the development of one's musical ear and, over the years, I have spent countless glorious hours transcribing different kinds of music, either guitar-oriented or not.
Steve Vai
Music
Glorious
Different Kinds
Tool
Considered
Musical
Spent
Kinds
Invaluable
Development
Countless
Over
Hours
Always
Years
Different
Either
Ear
By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.
Steven Chu
Happy
Design
Unknown
Spent
Criterion
Constructing
Purpose
Main
Devices
Overall
Hours
Parts
Grade
Maximize
Graduated
Where
Size
Moving
Moving Parts
Many
Fourth
Number
Set
My politics were pretty anarchistic until 1969 when the Montreal police went on strike. Within hours, mayhem and rioting broke out and the Mounties had to be called in to restore order. It instilled in me that one's convictions can be subjected to empirical test.
Steven Pinker
Politics
Me
Police
Convictions
Strike
Montreal
Broke
Out
Rioting
Pretty
Restore
Had
Instilled
Empirical
Hours
Until
Within
Test
Were
Subjected
Mayhem
Order
They made a three-hour 'Raw,' but two hours is about my time limit. I ain't got that kind of attention span.
Stone Cold Steve Austin
Time
Attention Span
Made
Kind
About
My Time
Raw
Attention
Hours
Limit
Got
Span
Two
I'm as much my own master as anyone can be, without being the master of others. I can write anywhere - all I need is a couple of hours of solitude and a computer, and I can write a chapter. Since my work is portable, I can live anywhere I like.
Stuart Woods
Work
Chapter
Solitude
Master
Own
Live
Others
My Own
Computer
Write
Since
Like
Hours
Couple
Without
Being
Anyone
Anywhere
Much
Portable
Need
Healthy camel crickets spend a lot of their waking hours grooming, so I have learned to recognize the ones that will soon die because they walk about encrusted with sand and bits of litter, having lost all interest in keeping clean.
Sue Hubbell
Walk
Will
Healthy
Lost
Spend
Bits
Recognize
About
Having
Clean
Soon
Hours
Learned
Because
Camel
Lot
Waking
Die
Interest
Litter
Sand
Grooming
Keeping
I became an insomniac, really, hardly slept at all, didn't even try to. And it's carried on. I hate to say I only need as much sleep as Mrs. Thatcher, but I can cope really well on five hours.
Sue Townsend
Hate
Try
Slept
Say
Carried
Only
Hours
Well
Became
Five
Thatcher
Much
Really
Even
Cope
Hardly
Need
Sleep
To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and focusing on training.
Sugar Ray Leonard
Best
You
Training
Speed
Spend
Focusing
Running
Lifting
Weights
Bag
Hours
Hours And Hours
Hitting
Need
To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and just focusing on training.
Sugar Ray Leonard
Best
You
Training
Speed
Spend
Focusing
Running
Lifting
Weights
Bag
Hours
Hours And Hours
Hitting
Just
Need
I have a secret project which adds four hours every day to the 24 hours we have. There's a bit of time travel involved.
Sundar Pichai
Time
Day
Travel
Every Day
Every
Secret
Project
Adds
Bit
Hours
Involved
Time Travel
Which
Four
I think I'm the only singer who doesn't have a temper. The only time I got angry was at a music studio when I was made to wait for three hours without being informed about the delay in the recording.
Sunidhi Chauhan
Music
Time
Angry
Wait
Made
Delay
Three
Recording
Think
Temper
About
Only
Only Time
Studio
Hours
Singer
Without
Got
Being
Informed
Who
I live myself with my cat Pebbles. She isn't enjoying the attention as much as me - she ran off up the stairs as soon as the film crew for the show came into the house. She didn't come down for hours. But I have the support of all my brothers and sisters and my neighbours and friends - everyone thinks it's just great.
Susan Boyle
Myself
Great
Me
Down
Live
Crew
Everyone
Ran
Neighbours
Brothers
Brothers And Sisters
Cat
Support
Attention
Soon
Come
Hours
House
She
Came
Off
Up
Friends
Sisters
Just
Stairs
Much
Show
Film
Enjoying
Thinks
Pebbles
Men find it difficult because I've got so much energy and hardly sleep at night, only four or five hours. I wake up in the early hours and potter around.
Susannah York
Wake Up
Men
Energy
Difficult
Find
Only
Potter
Hours
Because
Around
Got
Wake
Up
Five
So Much Energy
Much
Hardly
Four
Early
Night
Sleep
I hate when the sun is high and there are no shadows. If I could do super high-budget movies, I would only shoot when the sun starts to get low - but you can't just shoot for four hours every day.
Susanne Bier
Day
You
Every Day
Hate
Every
Starts
Sun
High
Would
Super
Shadows
Only
Could
Hours
Get
Shoot
Just
Movies
Low
If I Could
Four
You don't want to watch a film for two hours that depresses you or makes you think so much it evokes a negative reaction.
Sushmita Sen
You
Negative
Think
Hours
Reaction
Makes
Want
Much
Film
Watch
Two
I'm a fan of meeting readers face to face, at reader events, where we're able to sit down and take some time to talk. Too often, at regular book signings, I meet readers who have traveled six or eight hours to see me, and I'm unable to spend more than a few short minutes chatting with them as I sign books.
Suzanne Brockmann
Time
Me
Book
Events
Face
Sit
Few
Down
Too
Book Signings
Meet
Meeting
Spend
Books
Sign
Unable
See
Able
Some
Minutes
Face-To-Face
More
Take
Chatting
Hours
Talk
Reader
Readers
Than
Often
Six
Short
Eight
Where
Fan
Them
Regular
Who
Traveled
I have a pretty big TV background, and I have clocked so many hours in so many writers' rooms over the years.
Suzanne Collins
Big
Background
TV
Pretty
Writers
Over
Hours
Years
Rooms
Many
It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.
Sydney Madwed
Job
Put
Counts
Hours
I've had the joy of spending thousands of hours under the sea. I wish I could take people along to see what I see, and to know what I know.
Sylvia Earle
People
Joy
Wish
Spending
Thousands
See
Could
Take
Had
Along
Hours
Know
Sea
We're very much perfectionists, so when we're putting on a huge show and want to play to the best of ability, we rehearse intensely. And I have a guitar pretty much in my hand for at least five hours before doing a show. I'm just noodling and mucking around and working on some of the songs here and there.
Synyster Gates
Best
Guitar
Before
Ability
Some
Pretty
Songs
Perfectionists
Putting
Hours
Around
Least
Doing
Hand
Huge
Very
Five
Intensely
Just
Want
Much
Working
Show
Rehearse
Play
Here
You can make me work for 14 hours at a stretch, but don't make me sit.
Taapsee Pannu
Work
Me
You
Sit
Hours
Make
Stretch
To me, a good film is one that can keep me engaged for two hours.
Taapsee Pannu
Good
Me
Hours
Engaged
Keep
Film
Good Film
Two
The thing for me is that 'Thor' was an indie film that just had a few more zeros on the budget. At heart, it is just a simple story about a guy trying to get home to deal with someone who has broken into his house. It's just 'After Hours,' but set in space.
Taika Waititi
Home
Me
Broken
Heart
Simple
Space
Few
Thor
Indie
About
Indie Film
Someone
Guy
More
Had
Budget
Hours
House
Deal
His
Get
Trying
Just
After
Story
Who
Film
Thing
Set
When you work online, staying on the Internet more than you need to feels like being at the office after hours.
Tavi Gevinson
Work
You
Internet
Staying
Online
More
Feels
Like
Hours
Than
Office
Being
After
Need
I had moved across the country, taken internships, networked, worked long hours, and called in favors to get there. And I had done it. I was working in Hollywood. So imagine the melancholy I found myself in when I realized that I didn't love casting the way that I always thought I would.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Love
Myself
Thought
Long
Country
Melancholy
Way
Would
Favors
Casting
Long Hours
Had
Taken
Hours
Always
Get
Done
Moved
Hollywood
Realized
Worked
Working
Across
Found
Imagine
I was in the gym five days a week, two hours a day. At one point, I was going seven days straight. I had put on a lot of weight, and then I started losing it drastically, so I was worried. It turned out I was overworking myself. My trainer told me that I couldn't break a sweat, because I was burning more calories than I was putting on.
Taylor Lautner
Myself
Day
Me
Losing
Worried
Seven
Drastically
Out
Gym
More
Point
Week
Had
Weight
Put
Putting
Days
Hours
Because
Calories
Lot
Five
Trainer
Than
Going
Break
Burning
Straight
Sweat
Turned
Then
Started
Two
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