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“I spent a lot of time alone, before. I didn't realise how important it was to really have someone. To have someone who would just- who would kill for you. You know?”

Loneliness Alone Crowns Of Nyaxia Carissa Broadbent Needing Someone Mische Having Someone Kill For You

Author:Carissa Broadbent

Source: The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“I spent a lot of time at the New York Public Library, the main branch. I was one of those people. If you ever spend a good amount of time there, you realize there are people who spend the entire day there. They're bookish homeless people.”

People Ifs Realizing New York Amount Library Branches Homeless Public Library Homeless People

Author:Lisa Yuskavage

“I spent a lot of time bowling as a kid, mostly because I grew up in bowling alleys. They were kind of my playgrounds.”

Kind Kids Grew Grew Up Alleys Playgrounds Bowling Bowling Alleys

Author:Chris Hardwick

“I spent a lot of time developing in books why worshipping separately actually impacts inequality, economic, social, on and on. So I really do believe there are huge advantages to being together even though it's difficult, even though we have a lot to learn.”

Believe Book Together Social Difficult Economic Huge Advantage Impact Inequality Developing Being Together

Author:Michael Emerson

“I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now”

People Want Wanted

Author:Karl Malone

“I spent a lot of time in Arcadia when I worked there in 2009.”

Time River Hurricane Ian Flooding Arcadia Lot Worked Spent 2009

Author:Steven Magee

“I spent a lot of time in India with my father. I don't know all about their religion. But I know they love God. And I don't know. I've seen their sincerity.”

Knows Father India God Love Sincerity

Author:Joel Osteen

“I spent a lot of time in London when I was growing up and I've always picked up accents without even really meaning to. It used to get me into trouble as a child.”

Children Used Growing Up Growing Trouble London Accents Really Mean

Author:Christopher Guest

“I spent a lot of time in the past year trying to work out the trick of writing a true story about love. I think I may have been coming at the whole thing a little sideways. You see, it’s awfully hard to live a true love story when you’re focusing your attention on the love story you want to write.”

Love Love Quotes Love Story Writers On Writing Writing Process Quotes About Love Love Stories Writing Love

Author:Jeanette LeBlanc

“I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist's office. I didn't apply myself. My mother thought I had learning disabilities.”

School Mother Office Disability Psychologist Learning Disability

Author:Roger Goodell

“I spent a lot of time in Tower Records. I'm a huge music nerd, and Tower was instrumental to me when I was growing up.”

Growing Up Records Growing Huge Towers Nerd Instrumental Music

Author:Colin Hanks

“I spent a lot of time lifting my drums into a van, playing to ten people night after night. I can't complain about anything now.”

People I Can Night Ten Complaining Vans Lifting

Author:Fred Armisen

“I spent a lot of time looking at that picture. Wondering what I’d think of that girl, if I was someone else, seeing how easily she sits in her boyfriend’s lap, laughing, with his arms around her. I would have thought her life was perfect, the way I once thought Cass’s was. It was too easy, I was learning, to just assume things.”

Ifs Thinking Way Girl Easy Perfect Wonder Laughing Seeing Arms Assuming Lap That Girl

Author:Sarah Dessen

Source: Dreamland

“I spent a lot of time making music and touring around the country and living the weird life. I was just trying to keep a job and get by. So in a lot of ways, I went through a strange version of film school. So you live through a lot of things, and put them into your work.”

Way Trying Country School Jobs Film Strange Versions Touring Film School Weird Life

Author:Dito Montiel

“I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age.”

Kids Age School My Own Deep Relationship

Author:Jodie Foster

“I spent a lot of time on Diane Arbus film, not only writing it, but running around talking through various production issues. All this crud, and then it didn't happen. There's a lot of time-wasting stuff that happens in life with movies.”

Writing Running Film Various

Author:Tamara Jenkins

“I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm.”

Bigs Young Dad My Dad Farms Agriculture Uncles

Author:Emeril Lagasse

“I spent a lot of time playing in miserable places that were not a lot of fun. Somebody once said it is character building and I was like: My character is just fine.”

Said Character Fun Building Fine Miserable Character Building

Author:Diana Krall

“I spent a lot of time protecting myself. I mean, I've met a lot of extraordinary people over the years - and I just wish I had been able to open myself up to them more.”

People Years Mean Able Wish Mets Extraordinary Ordinary People

Author:Diane Keaton

“I spent a lot of time reading blogs by mothers who had children with varying degrees of neural dysfunction, from schizophrenia to all sorts of different issues. And honestly, I don't think it's different for anybody. There's no right way to make sure your child will be emotionally and mentally healthier. It's just frustrating.”

Thinking Way Children Different Mother Reading Issues Degrees Our Children Honestly Your Children Right Way Frustrating Blogs Schizophrenia Dysfunction

Author:Vera Farmiga

“I spent a lot of time standing on street corners [of New York City] talking to local residents. I spent time in bookstores and galleries. But most of the time, I really did not have much to do.”

Cities Talking Streets New York Standing Corners Locals New York City Gallery Bookstores Residents Street Corners

Author:Ai Weiwei

“I spent a lot of time staring at the clock in school, so I have that kind of personality.”

Kind School Personality Clock Staring

Author:Diablo Cody

“I spent a lot of time studying our Founders and people like Samuel Adams and the original Tea Party. What Adams and the Sons of Liberty did in Boston was spread the word about the abuses of the British. They had Committees of Correspondence that got the word out to the colonies. We need Committees of Correspondence now, and we are getting them.”

People Needs Party Liberty Study Son Abuse Originals Spread British Tea Founders Committees Boston Tea Party Colony Correspondence

Author:Nat Hentoff

“I spent a lot of time taking acting lessons Actors have no inhibitions, and Im inhibited by everything. To be able to make fun of yourself is a skill and a liberating experience.”

Able Actors Fun Acting Lessons Skills Liberating Inhibitions

Author:Maksim Chmerkovskiy

“I spent a lot of time teaching myself theory and harmony so I could be free to express myself on the instrument.”

Teaching Theory Harmony Instruments

Author:George Benson

“I spent a lot of time trying to layer upon layer upon layer as I wrote. I think that's often the fear of a writer, that little nuances won't get picked up.”

Thinking Trying Littles Layers Nuance

Author:Morgan Parker

“I spent a lot of time waiting for things to happen to me, which is more or less as pathetic as it sounds.”

Happens Waiting Sound Pathetic

Author:Sloane Crosley

Source: I Was Told There'd Be Cake

“I spent a lot of time when I was president, trying to end wars, prevent killing, and promote understanding. What I have seen is that peace works better than conflict, and one of the best manifestations of it is in travel and tourism.”

Trying War Ends Understanding President Conflict Travel Killing Manifestation Tourism Travel And Tourism

Author:William J. Clinton

“I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.”

Crowns

Author:Halle Berry

“I spent a lot of time with a real detective, a lady detective inspector who was the only female detective inspector in the whole of East London. She and I hung out a lot. She showed me what she did and I spent time with her. So, [she was] a lot of the inspiration for the way I dressed and sometimes the dialogue in those interview scenes where we're cross examining and questioning the youths and trying to get a confession out of them.”

Way Trying Real Sometimes Whole Inspiration Youth Scene Female Crosses East London Dialogue Interviews Questioning Confession Hung Detectives Examining Inspectors East London

Author:Emily Mortimer

“I spent a lot of time with both [Laurence Fishburn and Keanu Reeves], obviously, on the Matrix trilogy. Worked a lot, on a day-to-day level, with Laurence Fishburne. And then we'd bumped into each other through the film community for years and years.”

Years Film Community Levels Day To Day Trilogies

Author:Chad Stahelski

“I spent a lot of time with making sure everyone felt wanted.”

Wanted Felt

Author:John Cameron Mitchell

“I spent a lot of time with my teams, especially in the East Coast teams, talking about dealing with the elements a lot of time, and a lot of instruction about field position and those kind of things. I like that variable.”

Kind Talking Team Fields Position Elements East Instruction Coast Variables East Coast

Author:Bill Parcells

“I spent a lot of time with some native Hawaiians who protest being part of the United States and literally carry protest signs saying "We are not Americans." And they have no real warmth for being the 50th state.”

Real Native Protest Warmth

Author:Sarah Vowell

“I spent a lot of time, a lot of energy trying to be a better artist and I still [do]. I spend a lot of time focusing on my craft. If you're going to take your passion into something beyond just something for fun on the side, you got to spend a lot of time on it to be great, and then you've got to make smart decisions about who you collaborate with [and] where you live [to] put yourself in the right situations to meet the right people to catch those breaks.”

People Ifs Trying Stills Artist Passion Energy Fun Sides Decision Situation Break Smart Crafts Where You Live Smart Decisions

Author:John Legend

“I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera.”

Years Fall Fronts Cameras Falling In Love Crafts Falling Down

Author:Thomas Jane

“I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and you find out where your strengths and weaknesses lie in communication. I've had the same friends for 20 years now and I can count them on one hand.”

Years I Can Real Hands Happens Lying Communication Weakness Real Friends Strength And Weakness Who Your Real Friends Are

Author:Sarah McLachlan

“I spent a lot of years trying to beat the system and, in the end, the system kicked my behind good.”

Trying Years Ends Behinds Beats

Author:Mickey Rourke

“I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity, to name a few.”

Trying Years Important Joy Certain Names Black White Love Is Creativity Uncertainty Vulnerability Belonging Black And White Definite Inability Good And Bad Fullness Discomfort Outrun

Author:Brené Brown

“I spent a lot of years working for Ralph Lauren, and he had so many copycats, from Tommy Hilfiger to Abercrombie & Fitch to J.Crew.”

Years Crew Lauren Copycats

Author:John Varvatos

“I spent a majority of my life in Kansas City, so I am a Chiefs and Royals guy. I used to work for the Royals for like five years in the suites department and in the stadium club restaurant.”

Years Used Guy Cities Five Majority Clubs Chiefs Restaurants Five Years Department Royal Stadiums Kansas Kansas City

Author:David Cook

“I spent a month in India and where I learnt an important word for me, for everything that had come before and after, and the was the word 'seva' - the work you do without wanting reward, simply for the work itself, for the spiritual, for the practice and the experience it gives you by doing that work. I began to realise it was something I was searching for all my life, that I was doing theatre not for myself but for something for a search, for a seeking for something that is behind that, to find a truth somewhere about us.”

Giving Important Spiritual Behinds Practice Months India Rewards Seeking Theatre Realising Before And After Important Words

Author:George Ogilvie

“I spent a part of ...1923 with...Dr. W.W. Keen...In the ..Civil War....he was a surgeon...and had seen many men die from suppuration of wounds after he had operated. ...He would hold the sutures in his teeth and sharpen his knife on the sole of his boot, after he had raised up his boot from the muddy ground. That was the accepted practice at the time.”

Men War Age Dies Dark Practice Raised Medical Accepted Wounds Teeth Civil War Knives Boots Sole Drs Dark Ages Surgeons Muddy

Author:Paul Douglas

“I spent a week living as a man. Which was actually, I'm sorry to say, embarrassingly easy for me to do.”

Men Easy Week Sorry I'm Sorry

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“I spent a weekend in the White House with President Clinton, back in '99, I guess. We played golf and just hung out and talked on many subjects. I saw him several times subsequently in L.A. He's the smartest man I ever met, a great politician. Everybody was star struck around him.”

Men House Stars President White Saws Subjects Politician Mets Golf Clinton White House Weekend Hung President Clinton

Author:Dennis Quaid

“I spent a whole year when I was injured just trying to get my arm back to the point where I could hit a tennis ball for more than 30 minutes a day. I'd hit for 15 minutes and it would feel as if my arm was going to fall off.”

Ifs Feels Trying Years Whole Fall Minutes Arms Balls Tennis Injured Whole Year Tennis Balls

Author:Maria Sharapova

“I spent a year and a half working for an art fair. I worked as a post-production assistant for a documentary film company for a while. Then I worked at the Apple store because I wanted a discount to be able to buy new gear to edit things while I was figuring out whether or not I wanted to go to film school. Those were the main things.”

Years Art Able Wanted School Film Half Company Fairs Productions Stores Posts Apples Documentaries Gears Edits Assistants Discounts Film School Post Production Documentary Films

Author:Meera Menon

“I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself.”

Years Believe Might Steps Happened Program Committed 12 Step

Author:Carrie Fisher

“I spent a year in Professor Baker's famous class at Harvard. There, too, I learned some things that were useful to me-particularly what not to do. Not to take ten lines, for instance, to say something that can be said in one line.”

Years Said Lines Class Ten Instance Professors Harvard Bakers One Line

Author:Eugene O'Neill

Source: Conversations with Eugene O'Neill

“I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.”

Life Years Funny Blessing Humorous Towns Witty Sunday

Author:George Burns

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