At least half my writing time is spent researching. So for every hour I'm actually clicking on the keyboard, I'm spending another hour trying to figure out some tiny detail I need answered.
Gail Carriger
Related I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy ... CHARLES S. DUTTON I'm an introvert. I get my energy by spending time alone. I need that hour or two to myself ever... AMIT BHATIA I set the time on my iPhone to be 30 minutes late, so I'm only an hour and a half late to appoin... BILL HADER When I'm writing, I'm trying to access my subconscious and turn off my conscious brain. I us... DAN GILROY When I'm writing, I'm just in it and trying to figure out what seems best. PATRICK NESS My favorite part of podcasting is running my mouth for an hour. The only time I don't like it is... BILL BURR If you're going to nap, make sure you have a proper chunk of time blocked out. I'm not one o... J. J. WATT I write about two hours a day, and I write in fits and spurts - 45 minutes here, a half-hour there -... ELLEN POTTER I'm probably creative for half an hour a day. The rest of the time, I'm just doing what'... GARY HUME I'm a fast and impatient dresser, so I can't dress myself up for too long. I don't even ... GENELIA D'SOUZA I'm no Buddhist monk, and I can't say I'm in love with renunciation in itself, or travel... PICO IYER So, I'm happy to do that because it's a wonderful working relationship but I will be going o... CHARISMA CARPENTER I'm kind of a nervous guy. I know on television I look like I'm half asleep, but inside I... BILL MEDLEY I'm tough, I'm pushy, I'm really loud. I used to spend a lot of time thinking about it. ... CHRISTINE QUINN I'm a morning person, so rising at 4-something on weekends is not a huge challenge for me. I am ... LESTER HOLT I'm a product of the 1970s, so I have a short attention span. You know, I grew up on cartoons an... ROBERT KURSON I just moved into a new house, so I love spending time at home. Everything for me is all about self-... LEA MICHELE An hour of my time is a tiny price to pay for all the support I've gotten from my fans. ERIK ESTRADA I was working, like, 14-hour days on 'Fargo,' and now if I schedule more than two things in ... ALLISON TOLMAN I'm a stand-up comic. I'm always doing dates; it's just that, if I'm working on a pr... WANDA SYKES Women always think that I'm Chandler, so if I don't joke around for half an hour, they think... MATTHEW PERRY So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm... GENE WILDER I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... wor... TASHA SMITH I'm always exploring other people: trying to figure out myself, trying to figure out everyone. BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY I have a half an hour warm-up I do that my voice teacher gave me. I exercise at least for an hour du... JOSH YOUNG For some reason, every time I peak in my career, I injure myself. So, I'm constantly on the come... SANIA MIRZA I've started spending more of my time studying, trying to improve my IQ by reading and writing. ... ILYA ILYIN It's so funny, I've done so many projects where I've been interrogated. I guest starred ... AARON PAUL I'm always trying to figure out what my taste is, what my likes and dislikes are. BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD During the day, if I don't have any other commitments, I'm usually at my desk writing, revis... GAIL TSUKIYAMA So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the pe... JACKIE COOPER I'm about making music and spending time with my family. I've been in the spotlight so long ... BIG BOI I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at persp... GARRY TRUDEAU I'm like a three-and-a-half, four-hour-a-night sleeper. It's not enough to function. MELISSA MCCARTHY I'm trying to figure myself out through my movies. Whether it's big stuff like what we'r... JASON REITMAN Every so often, I'll get an idea from a dream, but most of the time, ideas come to me while I... JEANIENE FROST Life is hard, and a lot of people come home tired from work. If they're gonna spend half an hour... JAMES PATTERSON I'm a Macintosh nut. I got my PowerBook, so if I'm not writing jokes, I'm working on tha... JEFF DUNHAM Every one of my positions cuts - out half the country. I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-gay rights, I... MICHAEL BLOOMBERG Well, I'm pretty domestic actually. I walk my dog. I go grocery shopping. I hang out with friend... JAMES IHA Recording a song for a film doesn't take much time; it's hardly an hour's job, but conce... KAILASH KHER They say Einstein died while he was still trying to figure out gravity. I think I'm going to die... TOM DELONGE In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example,... HANK AZARIA I may never get my own action figure, but at least I think what I'm doing is really legitimate m... GAVIN DEGRAW I'm single, so I'm trying to do an overall overhaul. The look I'm going for is very '... CHLOE SEVIGNY At readings, audience members sometimes ask if I keep writing past the two hours if I'm on a rol... AIMEE BENDER When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube. CLIFFORD STOLL I wouldn't say that I'm actually trying to cause chills in the audience, but certainly my go... ERIC WHITACRE Every time I step out on that field, I'm 100 percent. My teammates know that. They know what I... ROBERT GRIFFIN III We've been here half an hour, and we're told it will be another hour and a half. But at least it's l... ANDREW NASH If I sleep for more than half an hour, I get horrible dreams in which I'm firing a gun and helic... EMMANUEL JAL If anything, I'm constantly trying to figure out how to look chic with the minimal effort requir... MARTHA HUNT Now I meditate twice a day for half an hour. In meditation, I can let go of everything. I'm not ... HUGH JACKMAN I work out every morning for an hour while in front of the news channel or business channels, then I... IAN MILLAR I have certain rules that I've established for myself that took a while post-day job to figure o... SLOANE CROSLEY I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I ca... QUESTLOVE Running is my time for myself. I'm like, 'I'm going for a run!' and my husband knows... LAILA ALI I'm most happy when I am writing at night, because I need space and time to write. CECELIA AHERN At the beginning of every week, I like to sit down and figure out what I'm going to make. I prob... MARTINA MCBRIDE My poor vision gives me a soft-focus morning. For the first half hour, I kind of wander through my h... CARRIE ANN INABA I, for one, find writing excruciating. Some mornings, as I'm on my way to my desk, my hands actu... ROSEMARY MAHONEY Every time I go into a tournament, I'm strictly on my own. I know I'm playing for my bread a... CHARLIE SIFFORD I found I am not an anarchistic form creator; I'm intuitive, and I'm trying to figure out a ... THOMAS VINTERBERG I never really focus on writing for other people, to be honest. Every song I've ever written was... SKYLAR GREY When I'm not working, I'm on the road with my band. Or I'm performing in poetry houses d... MALCOLM-JAMAL WARNER It's never fun having to bulk up for a job on an action film, then lose weight for another role.... OLIVER JACKSON-COHEN I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were... RICKY SCHRODER I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people. NATALIE MERCHANT My hands. I'm constantly working on my hands. I'm constantly working on my ground game and c... BROCK LESNAR I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible. ORSON WELLES I don't know if I have good habits, but I'm very devoted to writing. I'm very compulsive... ROBERT LOPEZ I'm just ah, actually developing a tv show for HBO, and I'm directing a film this summer, an... BRUCE MCCULLOCH I want to clear my mind a little bit and give my mind a little bit of time to breathe so I can pinpo... FRED DURST Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spe... BAILEE MADISON I'm not thinking about me that much anymore. Every time I look, I'm looking for my daughter,... ALESSANDRA AMBROSIO I can't do any more 'Peep Show' because of my loyalties in Los Angeles to 'Two And A... SOPHIE WINKLEMAN I'm fulfilling my dreams that I had as a kid every single day. That's why I'm trying to ... AARON RODGERS Half the time on vacation, if I'm in a bikini, I allow myself - I eat, like, waffles and pancake... ASHLEY TISDALE When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frighte... BARRY LOPEZ My writing is progressing slowly, but at least it's moving forward. I'm sure that's the ... MIKHAIL BULGAKOV I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to f... ERNEST GAINES I'm like a rocket - I go a hundred miles per hour. HEIDI KLUM When I carve out time to game, it's because I rationalize that I 'deserve it,' so I reli... FELICIA DAY As for swimming, I'm now in the pool 5 days a week from 8 to 10 a.m. And I'm in the gym for ... DANA TORRES I'm in two modes when I'm on Lanai: In engineering mode, I'm trying to find the right pl... LARRY ELLISON For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even witho... WASHED OUT It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm ... TANITH LEE They're trying to kill me before I'm dead. I come to Quebec to spend some time with my famil... PAT BURNS I prioritize the things that need to get done at work, and I ask myself where I'm spending the m... ELISABETH HASSELBECK Every year, I have to spend another hour working out. Pretty soon I'll be spending eight hours w... CASSANDRA PETERSON It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It'... ALAN ALDA I do Twitter, but I'm still not great on it - I'm not good at writing short little jokes, so... CECILY STRONG I go to the gym every day. That tends to taper off when I'm at a tournament. During tournaments,... VISWANATHAN ANAND Every time I dance, I'm trying to prove myself to myself. MISTY COPELAND When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern da... SARAH ZETTEL Inevitably I draw on my own relationships when I write, so if I'm writing about a fight between ... EMILY GIFFIN Every minute I'm on the set, it's play time for me. I feel like I'm on the beach! RACHEL G. FOX I'm definitely writing my fears. It's almost therapeutic to at least voice a terror, to say,... PAOLO BACIGALUPI My mind is in another planet behind the blocks. Sometimes I'm up in the blocks, and I'm like... CESAR CIELO I play tennis five hours a week, from Monday to Friday, for one hour every day. I like to be fit. If... BJORN BORG
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GAIL COLLINS The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting... GAIL COLLINS I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. It's a specta... GAIL SIMMONS My all-time favorite program in my entire life was 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.' GAIL COLLINS How do you give smart, accomplished, ambitious women the same opportunities as men to reach their go... GAIL COLLINS The work-family divide is the biggest issue for American women. But in some ways it's amazing ho... GAIL COLLINS Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find ... GAIL SHEEHY Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's ... GAIL SHEEHY When I got to be a CEO, I said: 'Right. I'm now going to tackle gender inequality head-on. I... GAIL KELLY Patience is the secret to good food. GAIL SIMMONS I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not goin... GAIL SHEEHY Eating a lot is an occupational hazard but it's a pretty great problem to have. I spend a lot of... GAIL SIMMONS In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Pas... GAIL SHEEHY Now my poor hometown is being castigated as the center of an IRS scandal. Humble workers at the Cinc... GAIL COLLINS Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to d... GAIL COLLINS I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were tradit... GAIL COLLINS Bin Laden wasn't all that central to the terrorist network any more, but taking him down created... GAIL COLLINS I will not compare myself with others, nor them with me. I will appreciate myself and others for wha... GAIL BLANKE There are two kinds of people. One kind, you can just tell by looking at them at what point they con... GAIL GODWIN I just really like Houston despite its craziness. There is a sense of energy and a kind of excitemen... GAIL COLLINS If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing. GAIL SHEEHY For a border state, I would argue that Texas is less lunatic on the subject of immigration issues th... GAIL COLLINS I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's reci... GAIL SIMMONS