Efficiency : (15) " Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order. " - Tobias Wolff " A lot of the time, what happens is, when you shoot in L.A., you tend to be able to do things faster, believe it or not. " - Greig Fraser " It’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious. " - Elbert Hubbard " It doesn’t take me long to write songs. " - Ben E. King " The work is intense. You have to calculate a great deal very quickly which requires football intelligence and real concentration. Part of my role is to shuttle between the defense and the attacking lines to make sure that the ball circulates well and quickly. " - Sergio Busquets " Since I don’t have much time to cook, I tend to cook in bulk and eat leftovers. " - Andrea Navedo " The cost of an animated film really comes down to man hours. If you gather together world-class talent, then the question becomes how do you deploy that talent in a way that minimizes waste. " - Chris Meledandri " In books, you can just wallow in dialogue, and you can just wallow in written words. In screenplays, every line has to serve the purpose of the line that’s implied before it and the line that’s implied after it. Maybe five lines have to do the work of fifty lines. " - Chuck Palahniuk " Thats what cooking is: youve got this certain ingredient and you figure out what to do it. You never waste anything in a professional kitchen. Its all revenue. " - Paul Wahlberg " Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi. " - Larry Wall