Hobbies Quotes - Page 16

• Actors always have things that they're not thrilled about on a show and have a hobby of bellyaching about those things.

  Jon Cryer

  Actors, Shows

  "Jon Cryer: I Thought Charlie Sheen Was Going to Die" by Lacey Rose, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 19, 2011.

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• I've made money doing things I love. DJing was a hobby. When I bought my turntables my mom said, "Oh what now, Taryn?" But it became pretty fruitful right away. I come from a very music-oriented family.

  Taryn Manning

  Mom, Things I Love, Made

  "Flowing with Taryn Manning". Interview with Gerry Visco, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2014.

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• History shows a typical progression of information technologies: from somebody's hobby to somebody's industry; from jury-rigged contraption to slick production marvel; from a freely accessible channel to one strictly controlled by a single corporation or cartel-from open to closed system.

  Tim Wu

  Technology, Typical, Corporations

  Tim Wu (2010). “The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires”, p.9, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Well, it's not really the right word, but freedom is kind of a hobby with me, and I have disposable income that I'll spend to find out how to get people more of it.

  Penn Jillette

  People, Income, Kind

  "Flashback: Penn Jillette Calls Cops on Groping TSA Agent". drudgereport.com. November 13, 2002.

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• When I was young I was constantly reading walls; I took in everything written on walls, from love messages to political messages. It was my hobby and became my art.

  Jose Parla

  Art, Wall, Reading

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You can have a startup and one other thing, you can have a family, but you probably can't have many other things.

  Sam Altman

  "Lecture 2: Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part II". Sam Altman's "How To Start a Startup" lecture to the class at Stanford University in Stanford, California, genius.com. 2014.

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• [On the Barbie doll:] Her values, while somewhat Yuppified, are not so bad. Look at GI Joe. His only wardrobe is fatigues, he spends all his time trying to kill people, or getting his own innards splashed across the landscape. His big hobby is death.

  Caryl Rivers

  Barbie Dolls, People, Trying

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• What transsexuality emphatically is not is a 'lifestyle,' any more than being male or female is a lifestyle. Gender is many things, but one thing it is surely not is a hobby. What it is, more than anything else, is a fact.

  Jennifer Finney Boylan

  Males, Female, Facts

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• Flying radio-controlled airplanes [is my guiltiest pleasure]. Only God would give me a hobby where I'm looking up to the sky. It's the only time where I am able to focus and concentrate on nothing but looking up. It's a fascinating hobby.

  Tyler Perry

  Airplane, Sky, Giving

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I started blogging as a hobby, not really thinking anyone would read my site, just my friends.

  Perez Hilton

  Thinking, Blogging, Site

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• And then Gossip Girl completely blew open the door to fashion for me. I'd go to fashion shows and call my publicist and say, 'Can I wear that?' I think I became my own stylist by not knowing any better. And once I was told it was time to get one, I thought: This is one of my favorite hobbies! And I'm going to pay someone to steal my hobby from me? That's a terrible idea!

  Blake Lively

  Girl, Fashion, Thinking

  "Ooh La La, Blake Lively Talks to Florence Welch About Clothes, Men and More!". Interview with Florence Welch, www.glamour.com. May 31, 2011.

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• Sadly, my hobby is what I do for work, so I don't go off and go fishing. I go home and veg, and then I go back to work.

  Andrew Stanton

  Home, Fishing, Back To Work

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. June 25, 2008.

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• Yeah, I mean, climbing's always been a massive hobby of mine up until, kind of, recent times when I've had family, but no, it's been a driving passion in my life and, uh, I've always wanted to climb the Matterhorn. It was the mountain that, sort of, inspired me to climb, as a youngster. So, it was great to be able to get to do it.

  Andy Serkis

  Passion, Mean, Climbing

  "Andy Serkis Interview – Talks THE HOBBIT, TINTIN, BURKE & HARE and SEX & DRUGS & ROCK & ROLL". Interview with Ron Messer, collider.com. May 16, 2010.

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• People over 100 are the fastest-growing group in America. People soon will be working 'til 100 - some because they have to - and living 'til 125 or even 135. What do I know, I'm just a weatherman, but I've made a hobby of studying this, and it's phenomenal.

  Willard Scott

  America, People, Groups

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• I went to this massive co-ed school for the first time when I was 16. Everyone there had been together since elementary school, and I found it quite difficult, especially when I'd never stepped into a classroom with boys. So I started looking out in the community for a social outlet. I started getting involved in student films and community theater. Acting began as a hobby.

  Holland Roden

  School, Boys, Community

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• I went [to Hobby Lobby] this morning and bought the cutest little wicker basket to hold all my morning-after pills.

  Cecily Strong

  Morning, Pills, Littles

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• I just got in music because it was a hobby. I got into clubs for free, got to drink for free and left with the hottest girl from the night. I never dreamed it would be for me to go on this kind of ride at all.

  Shaggy

  Girl, Night, Would Be

  Source: www.thepier.org

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• I recommend everyone who DJs to do it as a hobby and make sure you have a day job or are going to school. Only 100 DJs in the world make a living doing this, by that I mean making a good, comfortable living.

  Armin van Buuren

  Jobs, Mean, School

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• I only work on my books at nights and at weekends. It is really just like a hobby.

  Jeff Kinney

  Book, Weekend, Night

  "Jeff Kinney: 'I didn't think I was writing Wimpy Kid for kids' - interview" by Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2011.

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• My own hobbies are rather quiet. I like to read and do needlework, and I love animals.

  Betsy Byars

  Animal, Quiet, Needlework

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• I don't have any hobbies because my working job is my hobby. What I do is I spend my whole time looking through telescopes and having brain scans and buying books about various different ideas and I just sit around, that's my life.

  Robin Ince

  Jobs, Book, Ideas

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• One of the best places for a shy person to meet people is in a coffee shop. If you are a reader, bring a book and read it there - that gives a guy something to ask you about. Same goes for sketching, writing, or any hobby you can take with you.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Coffee, Book, Writing

  "Dating Advice". The Washington Post Live Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. February 9, 2005.

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• When people ask me if I have a hobby, a lot of times my answer is that I like to surf in warm water. I like to ski, if I have the opportunity. But really, I like to go to my studio and write music that I want to write, where there's no pressure to come up with a hit single.

  Scott Weiland

  Writing, Opportunity, People

  "Scott Weiland's new solo LP is a 'Hodgepodge' inspired by marital woes and brother's death" by Chris Harris, www.mtv.com. November 10, 2008.

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• Back in the 40s and early 50s, building simple electronic projects was a popular hobby of many people. Back then, you could buy, you know, a few parts and - with tubes and build something on your kitchen table, and it would actually work.

  Robert Moog

  Simple, People, Kitchen

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• Physics is a hobby of mine, as much as a person of limited intelligence can understand physics.

  Arthur D. Levinson

  Physics, Persons, Mines

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