Spare Time Quotes - Page 3

• I try to read, but my attention span is so bad, and ever since Netflix was invented, that's all I do in my spare time, which is really bad, but it's like a chore to read for me.

  Eliot Paulina Sumner

  Trying, Netflix, Attention

  "The Self-Aware Solo Artist". Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 15, 2015.

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• Being on the road, the Internet enables me to interact with people in some way. It's not so much interacting with my fans - it's about doing something with what I have. I have my camera and I have my computer, and if I have some spare time, rather than watching some mindless bullshit pop-idol program on TV, why not show people my pictures and try and discuss things that I feel are important?

  Lily Allen

  Idols, People, Bullshit

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, music.avclub.com. February 14, 2007.

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• I had a very high opinion of my father's judgement of things and he said, "You better get a job that pays the bills because a writer doesn't make any money. If possible, get a job that allows you to write in your spare time."

  Andrew Davies

  Jobs, Father, Writing

  Source: collider.com

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• We drank quite a lot and Tony Harrington said, "We're thinking of starting a record label at The Wire; how about you do a solo record?" I said, "Well, how am I going to do that?" I thought about it, and I'd been working on a lot of music in the years before, and I was working as a journalist, full time, really, up until that point; in whatever little spare time I had, I was working on music. So I said yes.

  David Toop

  Thinking, Years, Wire

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I work 12 to 14 hours a day, and in the spare time I do sport.

  Mikhail Prokhorov

  Sports, Hours, Spares

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• Dilbert: I'm obsessed with inventing a perpetual motion machine. Most scientists think it's impossible, but I have something they don't. Dogbert: A lot of spare time? Dilbert: Exactly.

  Scott Adams

  Science, Thinking, Machines

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• I had wanted for so many years to feel that writing really was at the center of my life, not something I did in my spare time. So the writing and teaching feel in some way to be one thing - the personal engagement and the social engagement good partners.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Teaching, Writing, Years

  Interview with Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org. September 22, 2010.

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• Apart from the obvious advantages of having ice to melt, filter, then drink, you can also break apart the water's hydrogen from its oxygen. Use the hydrogen and some of the oxygen as active ingredients in rocket fuel and keep the rest of the oxygen for breathing. And in your spare time between space missions, you can always go ice skating on the frozen lake created with the extracted water.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Oxygen, Ice, Breathing

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.214, W. W. Norton & Company

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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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• I can remember the day when all that a professor was supposed to do was to mark "C minus" on students' examination papers, then gohome to tea. Nowadays they seem to feel that they must know just how much we (outside the university) eat, what we do with our spare time, and how we like our eggs.

  Robert Benchley

  Eggs, Tea, Paper

  Robert Benchley (1943). “Benchley beside himself”

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• My friend devotes himself to his life, whenever he can find the spare time. His motto is: 'Don't just sit there: live!' So he's too busy to stand, to walk, to do anything, except to live. He even refused to kiss a girl, when invited, on the grounds that it was time again to be living. Schedules are sacred to him.

  Marvin L. Cohen

  Life, Girl, Kissing

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• My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time. He was always so frustrated having to work to support the family that I was like, I'm never going to do that. I don't want to just be working a menial job to support my family and dreaming of being an artist. We learn from our fathers in that way.

  Rainn Wilson

  Dream, Jobs, Dad

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Spare time is like spare change. It's hard to quantify, the definition of that phrase. What do I do when I'm not onstage singing, or sleeping, with or without someone else? I watch movies.

  Marilyn Manson

  Sleep, Singing, Watches

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. April 3, 2015.

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• There's a lot of time sitting in movies, so you can put alligators in people's trailers in your spare time. So it [making a film] moves slower, which in some ways is great, because you can live with a scene and invest in it a lot. And in some ways it's hard, because sometimes you can start to lose your energy a little bit, but both are fun.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Fun, Moving, People

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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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• I do have spare time and I love to read, and I love just to go to a national park and just relax and just think. But most of the time, it's swimming or talking.

  Lewis Pugh

  Swimming, Thinking, Talking

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• Shooting guns is not something I would do in my spare time.

  Lena Headey

  Gun, Shooting, Spares

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Getting started as a volunteer anywhere can be a challenge to a lot of people. The biggest hurdle is that people think they have to give all of their spare time. But if you only have a half hour, you can still make a difference. Assisting with small tasks is invaluable.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Thinking, Differences, People

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• I do cagefight commentary in my spare time.

  Joe Rogan

  Spares, Commentary

  "Joe Rogan On the Bigger, Crazier ‘Fear Factor’ Return, Miley Cyrus, ‘Toddlers & Tiaras’ & More". Interview with Maggie Furlong, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2011.

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• Paranoia is a survival trait when you run in my circles. It gives you something to do in your spare time, coming up with solutions to ridiculous problems that aren't ever going to happen. Except when one of them does, at which point you feel way too vindicated. - Harry Dresden, Changes, Jim Butcher

  Jim Butcher

  Running, Circles, Giving

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.3270, Penguin

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• I suppose you could pass for a starlet. You do have that femme fatale air about you. Like you crush boys’ dreams in your spare time.

  Janette Rallison

  Crush, Dream, Boys

  Janette Rallison (2009). “Just One Wish”, p.28, Penguin

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• Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time to spare, time in which all the happiness that was yours and all the happiness that might have been yours becomes clear to you. You see with utter lucidity all that you are losing.

  Yann Martel

  Might, Losing, Enough

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.211, Canongate Books

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• My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of.

  Amy Tan

  Jobs, Taken, Doctors

  "Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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• We used to play a lot outdoors, not in leagues, but just in our spare time.

  Steve Yzerman

  Sports, Time, Play

  The IGN Interview, ca.ign.com. December 1, 2003.

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• When you make movies, I find that I never have time to go to the movies and enjoy movies like I used to, because I'm so movied out, right, I'm so filmed out that the last thing that I wanna do is with the little spare time that I have is stick in a dark room and watch more stuff on the screen.

  James Wan

  Dark, Watches, Littles

  Source: collider.com

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