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• Why do you want to become an author? I will accept only one answer. If it is because you feel you can write better than you can do anything else then go ahead and do it without frills and flourishes. Stick to your present job and write in your spare time: but do it as if it is a whole time job.

  Ngaio Marsh

  Jobs, Writing, Answers

  Ngaio Marsh (1996). “Death on the Air and Other Stories”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.

  Gary Burton

  People, Listening, Records

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• Yeah, I paint in my spare time, just to relax myself and wind down a bit.

  Tyson Chandler

  Wind, Relax, Paint

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• I started writing stories in my spare time.

  Ken Follett

  Writing, Stories, Spares

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• Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.

  Bat for Lashes

  Dad, Dramatic, Lashes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is no short cut to God; sadhana must be performed regularly and with devotion. It is our own effort which will enable us to experience the grace of God which is being showered on us all the time. Therefore, whatever spare time you get, use it to seek God. If you create peace in your own heart by doing sadhana, then that will have a positive effect on your family, your work and so on. The peace and love of God will overflow out of your heart and encourage others to move on the right path.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Moving, Heart, Cutting

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• The Philosophy of Princes is to dive into the Secrets of men, leaving the secrets of nature to those that have spare time.

  George Herbert

  Philosophy, Men, Leaving

  George Herbert (1853). “The poetical works of George Herbert [and The synagogue, by C. Harvey.]. With life, critical diss., and notes, by G. Gilfillan”, p.327

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• I tend to believe that computers are drawing kids -- and adults -- away from reading purely because they provide an alternative, vast source of spare-time amusement and entertainment. I recently heard a frightening statistic: there are less than one million true readers in this country (those who read every day instead of one book per year on a beach). Terrifying.

  Tim Lebbon

  Country, Beach, Believe

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• I was 12 when I got a small part in a movie in Texas. And in my spare time, I play with my dogs and write music and go out with my friends.

  Haylie Duff

  Dog, Writing, Texas

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• Most people won't have opportunity to do full-time service, but those lucky enough to have monetary wealth or some spare time really can make an enormous difference. As someone who's now in the public sector, and is seeing up-close-and-personal the real impact of what we do and what we give, I can tell you: every dollar and every volunteer help, in more ways than you can count.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Real, Opportunity, Differences

  Michael Bloomberg's Slate 60 Dinner Keynote Address At William J. Clinton Presidential Library In Little Rock, Arkansas, www1.nyc.gov. November 12, 2006.

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• Jack Nicklaus is a legend in his spare time.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Golf, Legends, Spares

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• I don't own a jet, but I rent jets in my spare time. That's the quickest and most comfortable.

  Justin Bieber

  Jet, Spares, Comfortable

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• I'm not to eager to play tennis in my spare time. I'm more interested in doing gym work and stuff like that. We have a lot of schools and courts around where I live, so if I really want to play I don't need to go too far.

  Lleyton Hewitt

  School, Play, Tennis

  "Lleyton Hewitt: Top Spin Intreview". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. November 20, 2003.

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• Every day, you are to offer your life to God for His service. You do not serve Him in your spare time or with your leftover resources. The way you live your life for God is your offering to Him.

  Richard Blackaby

  Offering, Live Your Life, Way

  Henry T. Blackaby, Richard Blackaby (2016). “Experiencing God Day by Day”, p.279, B&H Publishing Group

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• In civilized places idleness, once the prerequisite for abstract thought, poetry, religion, philosophy, and falling in love, has become a character flaw. In America we've managed to stamp it out almost completely, and few people under forty can remember a single moment of it, even in earliest childhood. The phrase 'spare time' has vanished from the land.

  Barbara Holland

  Falling In Love, Philosophy, Single Mom

  Barbara Holland (1999). “Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories”, Harcourt

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• I don't have any frustrations. It sounds a little silly, but life is too short for me. I don't worry about all the things that happen, I just think about what to do with them. I work a lot with blind people in my spare time and I count my blessings every day.

  Paul Polman

  Silly, Life Is Too Short, Blessing

  "Unilever chief Paul Polman wants to orient company for the long term". Interview with Lillian Cunningham, www.smh.com.au. May 25, 2015.

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• We play short songs and short sets for people who don't have a lot of spare time.

  Tommy Ramone

  Song, Play, People

  "Ramones: 'We play short songs for people who don't have a lot of spare time' - interview from the vaults" by Alan Betrock, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2013.

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• That state is a state of slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him.

  Eric Gill

  Men, Doe, Slavery

  Art-nonsense and Other Essays (1929) "Slavery and Freedom"

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• If you have any helpful suggestions I'd be pleased to hear them. If all you can do is make snide insinuations then it would probably benefit all concerned if you bestowed the fruits of your prodigious wit on someone with the spare time to give them the consideration they doubtless deserve.

  Iain Banks

  Giving, Suggestions, Benefits

  "Excession (The Culture, Book 5)". Book by Iain Banks (Chapter 7 "Tier", Section III, p. 219), 1996.

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• Spend 70% of your spare time doing things close to home and the other 30% doing work at the global and national level.

  Bill McKibben

  Home, Levels, Spares

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I have spent my spare time studying literature popular with young women of this planet. One should always study the battlefield." Sean glanced at him. "And?" "I suggest you give up now. According to my research, in a vampire-werewolf love triangle, the vampire always gets the girl.

  Ilona Andrews

  Girl, Giving Up, Vampire

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• There's something unnatural about a woman finding babies or, more specifically, conversation about babies, boring. They'll think she's bitter, jealous, lonely. But she's also bored of everybody telling her how lucky she is, what with all that sleep and all that freedom and spare time, the ability to go on dates or head off to Paris at a moments notice. It sounds like they're consoling her, and she resents this and feels patronized by it.

  David Nicholls

  Baby, Lonely, Jealous

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• I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to get an agent or publisher to even read the manuscript.

  Karl Marlantes

  Writing, Years, Agents

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• My father announced early on that he didn't want his sons to be "country club bums." And for a number of reasons, I bore the brunt of that - I have an older brother and two younger brothers. So he had me work in all my spare time. I started out picking dandelions, shoveling stalls, milking cows, building a fence - whatever dirty job was out there. That's a big deal, because you learn things working that you don't learn in school.

  Charles Koch

  Country, Brother, Jobs

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Sports have always been a really important part of how I energize myself, as well as how I relax. I spend a lot of my spare time with my family playing tennis, biking and rollerblading.

  Irene Rosenfeld

  Sports, Tennis, Important

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