I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues players and their styles. So it seems like every record I'll do, I will appropriate these blues styles that I remember.
‐‐ Alex Chilton
I spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with G.I. Joes. I know it well.
‐‐ D. J. Cotrona
I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We're supposed to be complete and whole, and you can't be whole if you're trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please.
‐‐ Jane Fonda
I spent a good part of the nineties roaming the Earth writing about conflict. It was very grueling. I was beginning to find this way of life was, wow, addictive and deeply meaningful.
‐‐ Janine di Giovanni
I spent a great deal of my life being ignored. I was always very happy that way.
‐‐ Saul Leiter
I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter.
‐‐ Maureen O'Hara
I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.
‐‐ Rachel Kushner
I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German, and it's a country I knew very well, spent a lot of time in. I knew the history very well. I've always wanted to do a piece of work about the post-war period, of one sort or another.
‐‐ Stephen Daldry
I spent a long part of my childhood repressing my more animalistic desire systems, and in a way, it permits me to do some of the stuff that I would want to be doing in a way that's more comfortable and doesn't break my internal rules. It expands the realm of possibility.
‐‐ Autre Ne Veut
I spent a long time away from my parents when I was younger. I would go hunting and fishing with my uncle, and we would go for weeks at a time. I also spent a lot of time in Texas with my grandparents.
‐‐ RJ Mitte
I spent a long time experimenting, saying, 'Here's a record that's free, or $5 if you want a nice version or $250 if you'd like a really nice coffee-table thing.' Everything felt like the right thing to do at the time and then six months later would feel tired. And I would feel tired. So that's one reason for returning to a major label.
‐‐ Trent Reznor
I spent a long time in London on the stage, and you knew exactly what you were going to be doing. You not only knew the performance, but you also knew exactly where you would stand.
‐‐ Daniel Sharman
I spent a long time working in restaurants and making no money. It was very character-building, but I think it could have been built in a shorter time.
‐‐ Graham Norton
I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.
‐‐ Denis Leary
I spent a lot of money and time at pizza places. Golf and Stuff in Ventura, right off the 101, was my hangout. Skating Plus, right behind it, always had a good selection of games. That was the place to be when you were from Oxnard back in the '80s.
‐‐ Rich Moore
I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.
‐‐ George Best
I spent a lot of my 20s just trying to make other people happy, rather than trying to figure out if doing that made me happy.
‐‐ Reese Witherspoon
I spent a lot of my adult life overcoming fear. It was a subject I knew a lot about, and it's one of the most important and most powerful human emotions. Fear is one of the greatest driving forces in the world. So I thought I could go into the horror genre and do things differently and contribute a different point of view.
‐‐ Scott Derrickson
I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences, so I was able to make my own decisions about what I wanted to do.
‐‐ Dido Armstrong
I spent a lot of my life - 20 years of it - in war, training army trackers and commanding a tracker unit, and then in the Game Department, tracking lions and elephants and poachers. So I've spent literally thousands of hours tracking people or animals, and training others to do it.
‐‐ Allan Savory
I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.
‐‐ Shania Twain
I spent a lot of my life schlepping around New York with people not doing things for me.
‐‐ Debbie Gibson
I spent a lot of my time working in the American module, and he would stay in the Russian segment working on his things, and we'd meet up at meal times. So it actually worked out very well.
‐‐ Leroy Chiao
I spent a lot of my twenties wanting a maid, really. I thought I wanted a relationship, but I just wanted somebody to fix and nurse me, and I'd take her hostage for six months. When you're 23, 24, you want to be in a relationship because they look brilliant - you've heard all the songs about it and seen all the movies and it looks great.
‐‐ Robbie Williams
I spent a lot of my youth working outside in the elements, and I kind of revel in defeating tough weather.
‐‐ Nick Offerman
I spent a lot of time alone; I left school to be tutored. So, most of my companions were animals. It's as simple as that. I knew more animals than I did people.
‐‐ Jamie Wyeth
I spent a lot of time at my grandparents in the school holidays, and the only books in the house were a copy of the Bible and Agatha Christie's 'Murder at the Vicarage.' I developed a taste for murder mysteries and then later discovered libraries, second-hand bookshops, and jumble sales.
‐‐ Val McDermid
I spent a lot of time behind the Iron Curtain, and their cars were abysmal.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke
I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
‐‐ Tammy Duckworth
I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
‐‐ Karl Malone
I spent a lot of time dwelling on yesterday, and it did me no good.
‐‐ Gerry Cooney
I spent a lot of time feeling alienated and rejected.
‐‐ Lisa Bonet
I spent a lot of time in boarding school. This is something I will never do to my kids. I think if you're having kids, then you have to take care of them; otherwise, what's the point? There are many things that parents say are good for the kids, but the truth is they say that because it is good for the parents.
‐‐ Vincent Cassel
I spent a lot of time in churches. If you go to a synagogue, someone is always asking if you're alone, if you're married. In a church, in a hundred years no one would ask.
‐‐ Peter Malkin
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.
‐‐ Christopher Guest
I spent a lot of time in the clouds. Becoming a mother has really helped me put my feet on the ground and given me a very powerful sense of self and a powerful sense of priority in life.
‐‐ Evangeline Lilly
I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist's office. I didn't apply myself. My mother thought I had learning disabilities.
‐‐ Roger Goodell
I spent a lot of time in the White House in the public areas where reporters are allowed to go, but I spoke to people about the private quarters as well. Some of the things I learned were small, novelistic details. For example, the fact that there were still pet stains on the carpets from the Bush cats when the Obamas moved in.
‐‐ Jodi Kantor
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.
‐‐ 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. That stuff was heavy.
‐‐ Fred Armisen
I spent a lot of time listening to people. But it's also true that I liked details and listening to people when I was a bartender and when I was a waitress and probably when I was a babysitter as well. I suspect that's part of what drew me to psychotherapy rather than the other way around.
‐‐ Amy Bloom
I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age.
‐‐ Jodie Foster
I spent a lot of time on farms when I was growing up, and I've been obsessed with the practical logic of farmyards - the turning radius of tractors, where the chickens and ducks might go. It's not a place where stand-alone aesthetic decisions make a lot of sense.
‐‐ Jaquelin T. Robertson
I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm.
‐‐ Emeril Lagasse
I spent a lot of time on my own working out the physical vocabulary for how Gollum moved. As I say, I drew on a lot of Tolkein's descriptions of how he moves, but also the conceptual artist sketches.
‐‐ Andy Serkis
I spent a lot of time outdoors as a kid.
‐‐ Joel Edgerton
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.
‐‐ Diane Keaton
I spent a lot of time star-gazing, writing, and learning languages when the other kids were doing cooler things in Detroit.
‐‐ Lizzo
I spent a lot of time staring at the clock in school, so I have that kind of personality.
‐‐ Diablo Cody
I spent a lot of time taking acting lessons... Actors have no inhibitions, and I'm inhibited by everything. To be able to make fun of yourself is a skill and a liberating experience.
‐‐ Maksim Chmerkovskiy
I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.
‐‐ Halle Berry
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.
‐‐ Bill Parcells
I spent a lot of time with President Mandela supporting his efforts in the peace process in Burundi. The thing that impressed me the most was his humility.
‐‐ John Prendergast
I spent a lot of time with the LAPD. I spent six weeks training, weapons training, ride-alongs, surveillance, interviewing them, in all different departments and divisions.
‐‐ Ramon Rodriguez
I spent a lot of time writing about tax and pensions and mortgages.
‐‐ Paula Hawkins