My Time Quotes - Page 12

• Travel, trouble, music, art, a kiss, a frock, a rhyme -- I never said they feed my heart, but still they pass my time.

  Dorothy Parker

  Art, Kissing, Trouble

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

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• In the camp, this meant committing my verse-many thousands of lines-to memory. To help me with this I improvised decimal counting beads and, in transit prisons, broke up matchsticks and used the fragments as tallies. As I approached the end of my sentences I grew more confident of my powers of memory, and began writing down and memorizing prose-dialogue at first, but then, bit by bit, whole densely written passages. My memory found room for them! It worked. But more and more of my time-in the end as much as one week every month-went into the regular repetition of all I had memorized.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Memories, Writing, Lines

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• I came back late last night at the Athlete's Village so I'm a little bit surprised about my time this morning. It's really good and I'm going to race tonight and tomorrow night so I'm excited to see what I can do.

  Katerine Savard

  Morning, Athlete, Swimming

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• Back in my time, and I sound old now, it was black and white boots and that was it. Now you've got snoods, people wearing headphones when they are doing interviews, which I find disrespectful, pink boots, green boots, you name it they've got it, tights - they'll be wearing skirts next.

  Paul Ince

  Football, Black And White, Names

  "Notts County's Paul Ince slams modern football trends". "Late Kick Off Midlands" with Dan Walker, news.bbc.co.uk. Februry 28, 2011.

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• I have watched hundreds of Christians in my time become financially blessed then develop an acquisitive streak that in turn makes their souls as metallic as the coins they seek.

  Selwyn Hughes

  Christian, Blessed, Soul

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• I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Love, Beautiful, Dream

  Luigi Pirandello (2017). “Pirandello's Love Letters to Marta Abba”, p.310, Princeton University Press

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• I spent thirty-three years in the Marines, most of my time being a hlgh class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.

  Smedley Butler

  Wall, Marine, Men

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• I was as afraid as the next man in my time and maybe more so. But with the years, fear had come to be regarded as a form of stupidity to be classed with overdrafts, acquiring a venereal disease or eating candies. Fear is a child's vice and while I loved to feel it approach, as one does with any vice, it was not for grown men and the only thing to be afraid of was the presence of true and imminent danger in a form that you should be aware of and not be a fool if you were responsible for others.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Fear, Children, Men

  "True at First Light". Book by Ernest Hemingway, ch. 17, 1999.

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• When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  New Day, Looks, Praise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3883, Delphi Classics

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• I'm cool with whatever. I'll just keep eating my bread, sipping my soup and serving my time. But the chicken is going to lay some more eggs one day.

  Charles Oakley

  Eggs, One Day, Soup

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• I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.

  Cindy Sherman

  Art, Ideas, Cameras

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• If my time with my kids is shorter than it was yesterday, it's better than nothing.

  Maya Rudolph

  Kids, Yesterday, Ifs

  "Maya Rudolph's DOs and...More DOs!". Interview with Jessica Duncan, www.glamour.com. March 7, 2012.

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• I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface.

  Christian Slater

  Past, Done, Littles

  "Christian Slater: Clean Slater". Interview with Stephen Rebello, movieline.com. July 1, 1993.

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• The Girl Scouts is where I became acquainted with the idea that a woman can do anything. Learning that early on has a tremendous impact on the development of a young girl's personality. It had a huge impact on me. Girl Scouts is where I first learned about philanthropy and fell in love with the concept of helping others-in my troop this was very important. We did a lot of community service like picking up trash and feeding the homeless. Loving humankind was something that echoed throughout my time at Girl Scouts.

  Lisa Ling

  Girl, Helping Others, Impact

  "Girls Scouts' 100th Anniversary a Time to Reflect", abcnews.go.com. March 12, 2012.

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• Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man of my time, but I've been living 2,000 years ago-and not just in a new country, America, but in the Holy Land, too

  Max von Sydow

  Movie, Country, Opportunity

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• If I had to choose a single destination where I'd be held captive for the rest of my time in New York, I’d choose the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

  Tim Gunn

  Art, New York, Museums

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• I don't like reading things that people say on the Internet because I know so much of it is not true. I don't want to waste my time worrying about what other people are thinking. I just want to focus on being able to do cool projects.

  Lily Collins

  Reading, Thinking, People

  "Lily Collins Feels The 'Momentum' Going Into 2011". Interview with Eric Ditzian, www.mtv.com. January 10, 2011.

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• I'm not a big filmophile. I don't watch movies a lot for a hobby. I spend all my time watching sporting events. Because, opposed to movies, you can never tell how they're going to end.

  Michael Douglas

  Hobbies, Events, Watches

  FaceBook post by Michael Douglas from Jul 08, 2013

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• But I did have two months off between Loser and the start of Prozac Nation. So, it was supposed to be Jason time, right? My time to enjoy myself away from movies.

  Jason Biggs

  Two, Jason, Months

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• And that is how I employ my time in cinema, saying things about people who I think have touched us in terms of our value judgement and by example.

  Richard Attenborough

  Thinking, People, Judgement

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• But I'm a citizen of Texas and try to spend most of my time there.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Texas, Trying, Citizens

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• When you're a young actor, there's this pressure to rush. But I hope to be doing this into my sixties and seventies, so I'd prefer to take my time.

  Felicity Jones

  Actors, Pressure, Young

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My feet never touched the ground. Lots of good groups with crazy and unique images. It was wild. I spent all of my time doing gigs, TV appearances, interviews, or recording. I could write a book -- and probably will.

  Suzi Quatro

  Crazy, Book, Writing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In Hollywood, there is a lot of pressure to do certain things and getting into drugs, alcohol, or partying a lot is a major one. I stay out of that, because it is a waste of my time. I always remember where I came from and to never change who I am - I stick to my morals, and I do not let anyone pressure me into doing things that I do not want to.

  Ashley Benson

  Party, Who I Am, Alcohol

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• I was a strange child. I was the kid with funny hair listening to dodgy music [...] I'd come in with my hoodie and skate-shoes, with purple hair under the hood. I got away with it because I spent all my time in the art room, so they figured I was 'artistic'. I was that kind of kid, listening to Green Day and the Deftones and all that kind of thing.

  Katie McGrath

  Art, Children, Kids

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