Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It’s hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone. – August Wilson
In one hotel, the maid who built the fire fainted in our room. Exhaustion was the cause. We talked with her later and learned that she worked 17 hours a day and makes 95 marks a month – about 50 cents. – Agnes Smedley
If Twitter is worth seven billion next month, I’m happy for them to be worth six billion and spend a billion making it safer for people, for example. – Beeban Kidron
I have a lot of influences. I like to sit down with the cinematographer a month before, and we’ll watch pieces of 20 or 30 movies. You’re basically the sum of all the experiences you’ve ever had, and they’re sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies. – Ben Affleck
I basically sat down for a month, with all the Sun stuff I could find and just picked out my favorites. I didn’t think that they were indicative of ’54 to ’57, although I tried to stay within that period. – Brian Setzer
I love new cities, and if I haven’t travelled for a month, the need to go somewhere starts to gets under my skin. – Adelaide Clemens
I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle. – Barry Goldwater
I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn’t get reviewed in any major outlets. – Anita Diament
Because Genentech is a leading developer of cancer therapies, some doctors also fear that the company’s pricing plans for Avastin – around $8,800 a month – may encourage other companies to charge more for their own oncology drugs. – Alex Berenson
My experience of fiction was, in the beginning, so exploratory. I wasn’t sitting down to a desk at Yaddo with a month, thinking I have to have a draft of a novel. – Bill Clegg
I’m used to doing my jobs like a couple of photo shoots a month and a bit of presenting here and there, but the majority of my days are with the baby. – Abbey Clancy
Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed. – Claire Danes
I go home and stay there. I wash and scrub up each day, and that’s it. One month I actually grew a moustache, just so I could say that I’d done something. – Bill Murray
Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 – and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally. – Anne Stevenson
If you pay your credit card off every month, get a rewards card. One that gives you airline miles or that will give you 1 percent cash back at least on every purchase. – Aaron Patzer
My granddad passed away a month before I started shooting for ‘Ishaqzaade,’ and my mom died just before the film’s release, both within a year of each other. – Arjun Kapoor
November is Jewish book month, so Jewish Community Centers all around the country have book fairs where they invite authors and sell books in advance of the holidays. – Anita Diament
I’m amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it’s changed. You go away for a month and there’s three more skyscrapers. – Bryan Adams
When I was little, my grandma used to get romance novels, and she would get hundreds of these, and she’d read a dozen a month. – Chuck Palahniuk
The fact that they’re a congressionally chartered group should no more incline people to give to that group than the fact that it’s National Pickle Month should make them eat more pickles. – Barney Frank
There is no denying that auto-bill pay is easier and more convenient than keeping track of and remembering to pay all of your bills each month, so it makes sense to use it for fixed expenses that you have approved and that you’re 100% comfortable with. – Alexa Von Tobel
I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar. – Bobby McFerrin
To be a consistent winner means preparing not just one day, one month or even one year – but for a lifetime. – Bill Rodgers
I advocate that every woman be a part of a circle, and a circle that meets at least once a month, or if you can’t do that, once every two months or every four months. – Alice Walker
I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way. – A. E. van Vogt
An investigation by msnbc.com shows that the CDC routinely takes as long as a month – and sometimes as long as nine months – to visit the scene of firefighter deaths. – Bill Dedman