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• I don't follow other players or the tournaments they play. I have my own schedule and do my own thing. I never really think, 'Oh, I want to be or play like so-and-so.' I just like being myself.

  Maria Sharapova

  Thinking, Player, Want

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• With my schedule being so crazy, I can't call every day or hang out with my friends like I used to and that's definitely sad.

  Jordin Sparks

  Crazy, Used, Hanging Out

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• I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President.

  Arlen Specter

  Running, Availability, Romance

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• I don't really have a schedule of when I want to show my children my movies.

  Steven Spielberg

  Children, Want, Shows

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• In a world where companies increasingly know about their business in real time, it makes no sense that public reporting mostly follows the old quarterly schedule. Companies sit on vital information until reporting day, at which point the market goes crazy.

  James Surowiecki

  Crazy, Real, World

  "Inside Tracks". www.newyorker.com. June 10 & 17, 2013.

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• My hobbies include maintaining my physical and mental health. It's a full-time job. Yoga definitely helps for both of them. I'm a big fan of relaxing and not having a schedule. That's my best way to keep from going crazy.

  Olivia Thirlby

  Jobs, Crazy, Yoga

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have a massive phobia for schedules and calendars. I need people to tell me where I need to be. I can't bear to see it in black and white. I think it's a fear of being pinned down.

  Sam Taylor-Wood

  Black And White, Thinking, People

  "This much I know" by Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2009.

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• I spend a lot of time on the 'Glee' set. A lot of time. Luckily we have to dance and rehearse, so we're always moving, but having such a tight schedule can make it hard to find the time to exercise. It's definitely a struggle!

  Jenna Ushkowitz

  Struggle, Moving, Exercise

  "Jenna's Fitness Tip: Get A Workout Buddy!". www.seventeen.com.

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• I have no regular schedule. I get up whenever I can.

  Jimmy Wales

  Get Up, I Can

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• Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.

  Venus Williams

  Sports, Thinking, Years

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• Someone once asked Somerset Maughham if he wrote on a schedule or only when struck by inspiration. "I write only when inspiration strikes," he replied. "Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.

  Steven Pressfield

  Morning, Inspiration, Writing

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.64, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No plot. No eureka! Just production schedules and days. You might as well be living inside a photocopier. Your lives are all they're ever going to be.

  Douglas Coupland

  Waiting, Doe, Plot

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• But there was something about the largest object in the solar system vanishing that tended to disrupt normal schedules.

  James Dashner

  Vanishing, Normal, Maze Runner

  James Dashner (2016). “The Maze Runner Series Complete Collection (Maze Runner)”, p.206, Delacorte Press

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• Uh, excuse me, sir, I, uh, don't known how to uh, to uh, tell you this, but you were three minutes late. The schedule is a little, uh, bit off." He grinned sheepishly. "That's ridiculous!" murmured the Ticktockman behind his mask. "Check your watch." And then he went into his office, going mrmee, mrmee, mrmee, mrmee.

  Harlan Ellison

  Office, Watches, Three

  Harlan Ellison (1979). “The fantasies of Harlan Ellison”, Macmillan Reference USA

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• Guess who has PE first hour? This is so unfair. I start the day off perspiring like an elephant in heat. Don't the people who make up our schedule understand body odor? Don't they understand frizzy hair? ~Vee

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Hair, Elephants, People

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• If you talk about it, it's a dream, if you envision it, it's possible, but if you schedule it, it's real.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Twitter post from Jul 11, 2017

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• Steve has a reality distortion field.” When Hertzfeld looked puzzled, Tribble elaborated. “In his presence, reality is malleable. He can convince anyone of practically anything. It wears off when he’s not around, but it makes it hard to have realistic schedules.

  Walter Isaacson

  Reality, Fields, Realistic

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Walter Isaacson Great Innovators e-book boxed set: Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• So I’m into men now, even though they can be frightening. I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, non-Velcro-shoe-wearing man.

  Mindy Kaling

  Men, Shoes, Up Early

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.180, Crown/Archetype

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• I was very disturbed when Jesus found a demon in a guy, and he put the demon in a herd of pigs, then sent them off a cliff. What did the pigs do? I could never figure that out. It just seemed very un-Christian. Technically, I'm an agnostic, but I definitely believe in hell -- especially after watching the fall TV schedule.

  Matt Groening

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

  "Questions for: Matt Groening". www.nytimes.com. December 27, 1998.

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• I like girls that have a nice smile and nice eyes. I want to date a girl who understands my busy schedule and that I have to be on tour a lot. And she has to make me laugh!

  Austin Mahone

  Girl, Nice, Eye

  "6 Love Secrets From Fall's Hottest Guys!" by Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. July 30, 2013.

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• Their coverage on the Fox News Channel has been atrocious. The stuff that comes out of Sean Hannity's mouth has been infuriating. The stuff that Bill O'Reilly says has been illogical. You go up and down the schedule and it's insanity over there. The number of lies, perpetuated, promoted by Fox News is just shameful and it hurts everybody.

  David Shuster

  Hurt, Lying, Numbers

  "MSNBC's David Shuster Loves 'Brilliant' Obama; Hates 'Atrocious' Fox News". Article by Scott Whitlock, www.newsbusters.org. May 01, 2009.

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• School is consonantal in its unchanging schedule. God, full of possibility, is a vowel. Death: the ultimate consonant.

  Myla Goldberg

  School, Vowels, Possibility

  Myla Goldberg (2005). “Bee Season”, Anchor

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• Its true. Im a simple person. Some people tend to live from trauma to trauma, and that energizes them. I have a hectic schedule, but my mind seeks simplicity - like being in nature, a long bike ride, or sitting on the back porch.

  Amy Grant

  Simple, Hectic Schedule, Long

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• Sometimes I forget that the world is not on the same schedule as I. That everything is not dying, or that if it is dying it will return to life, what with a little sun and the usual encouragement.

  Nicole Krauss

  Encouragement, Dying, Usual

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.220, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Children who plan their own goals, set weekly schedules, evaluate their own work build up their frontal cortex and take more control over their lives.

  Bruce Feiler

  Children, Goal, Plans

  "Agile programming - for your family". TED conference, www.ted.com. 2013.

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