Time Away Quotes - Page 2

• Spending a lot of time away from home was strange. My parents visited me, obviously, but I was in hospital a lot, alone. And then when my health had improved a bit and I was in a sick-bed in the house, with the life of the house going on around me, that was very vivid for me. I always think that's a bit like the position of a novelist in a novel, going through drafts: there but not there, one remove from reality.

  Maggie O'Farrell

  Home, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We are here lounging our time away, doing nothing, and having nothing to do. It gives me great regret to be passing my time so uselessly when it could have been so importantly employed at home.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Regret, Home, Giving

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• I always suggest to women to take time away from the norm. And that takes a lot of courage. Most people can't do that, they can't loose and run, and say, 'Look, I'm going to just have an entirely new environment, devoid of all the habitual concerns of the day.'

  Maya Tiwari

  Running, People, Looks

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I think that men think they need their man caves. They don't really do. They think they want them, and then the second they do get them and they have alone time and time away from the girl, and the girl is really cool with giving them alone time, then that's when they, or at least I, start to think, "So, why are you so cool with me being alone? What's wrong with me that you don't want to be with me every second."

  Chris D'Elia

  Girl, Men, Thinking

  "Whitney's Chris D'Elia Is Back With More Relationship Advice". Interview with Annie Gabillet, www.popsugar.com. February 14, 2012.

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• I write mostly in my office in the shed outside at home, but it can get very cold. I write best on the train, among people. As a writer you spend so much time away from people.

  Dermot Healy

  Home, Writing, People

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• You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Book, People, Needs

  "Will Social Media Make Us Anti-Social? A Talk With Gary Shteyngart". Interview with Mary Kuntz, www.theatlantic.com. October 26, 2011.

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• The only thing I don't like about acting is that it takes so much time away from my family. Otherwise, I don't have any complaints.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Acting, My Family, Complaints

  "Mark Wahlberg: 'I've been hustling my entire life'". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2013.

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• I like some time away to recharge the batteries, not only physically, but emotionally so that I get to the point where I'm just dying to direct again and then that's the right time to do it again.

  John Lee Hancock

  Dying, Batteries, Right Time

  "Director John Lee Hancock Talks SAVING MR. BANKS, Why He Takes Time Between Projects, Working with Disney’s Legal Department, and THE AMERICAN CAN". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 18, 2013.

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• Shooting a television show is hard enough, and it takes a lot of time away from your personal life and your family life.

  David Boreanaz

  Television, Shooting, Enough

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 12, 2014.

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• It seems like a cliche, but you do grow up a lot faster when you travel a lot, go through things like this interview, spend time away from home and hang around with other actors. It's inevitable that you're not going to have a so-called normal childhood.

  Matt Dillon

  Growing Up, Home, Childhood

  "Matt Dillon Meets Fame... Diffidently". The Boston Globe, November 03, 1983.

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• This is who I am
  Escapist
  Paradise Seeker
  Farewell, time to fly
  Out of sight
  Out of time
  Away from all lies

  Tuomas Holopainen

  Lying, Farewell, Sight

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• It's a funny thing - when I'm crazed with work, spending time with my children relaxes me. Yet, at the end of a long weekend with them, the very thing I need to relax is a little work and time away from them!

  Emily Giffin

  Children, Weekend, Funny Things

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• And then he was kissing her, and she was struck by his nearness, his solidity, his smell. It was of the garden and the earth and the sun. When Cassandra opened her eyes, she realized she was crying. She wasn't sad, though, these were the tears of being found, of having come home after a long time away.

  Kate Morton

  Eye, Home, Kissing

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.545, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes it's not catastrophic. Sometimes you only come to the bottom of your coffee cup. Sometimes you have a good day. No one wants to know. No one wants to tell you about theirs either. You might somehow take it. Turn it against them. See the flaw. You always tell them the whole thing sucks. It keeps you alive. They figure if you're out there having a rotten time, everything's fine and you're doing your part. No one will ever try to take your bad times away from you but they'll come swarming for your happiness.

  Henry Rollins

  Coffee, Good Day, Trying

  Henry Rollins (2005). “Roomanitarian”, 2.13.61

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• I see time away hasn’t made you any more charming. (Fang) Oh, I can be charming. I just choose not to. People start to think you like them, then when you stab them in the back, they take it so personally. Really pisses me off. (Thorn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, People, Charming

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Bad Moon Rising: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.223, Macmillan

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• I can't help but smile as I swipe a lone tear trailing down my cheek. How can I not be crazy in love with this guy? Time away from him didn't change anything. I can't deny him another chance. That would be denying myself.

  Simone Elkeles

  Crazy, Guy, Tears

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• The Masters is where I won my first major, and I view this tournament with great respect. After a long and necessary time away from the game, I feel like I'm ready to start my season at Augusta.

  Tiger Woods

  Respect, Views, Games

  "Tiger Woods to play Masters next month" by James Hibberd, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 16, 2010.

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• I enjoy being busy, I really do. Remember, I'm the stub end of the railroad. I have no family, so I'm not taking busy time away from people that I should be spending it with. So I'm just relaxing and enjoying it.

  Betty White

  People, Railroads, Remember

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

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• I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.

  Taylor Swift

  Would Be, Roles, Stories

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• Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.

  Henri Nouwen

  Writing, Community, Solitude

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “Clowning in Rome: Reflections on Solitude, Celibacy, Prayer, and Contemplation”, p.13, Image

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• Whenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the time away, and any trouble you get into through being well known. It's not for the acting, that's for sure.

  Bill Murray

  Thinking, Acting, Actors

  "Old stone face cracks". Interview with Garth Pearce, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2005.

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• Don't waste your time away thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Yesterday, Waste, Don't Waste Your Time

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• Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Taken, Years, Acting

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• Through buried paths, where sleepy twilight dreams The summer time away.

  John Keats

  Summer, Dream, Twilight

  John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.64, Рипол Классик

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• I just need some time away to remember why I stay.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Needs, Remember

  Twitter post from Sep 24, 2017

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