All Quotes

I spent hours as a kid on the putting green of the local golf course imagining I was sinking a putt to win the Masters.
‐‐ Mike Weir

I spent hours on the internet looking at how glamorous actresses winked and how they would put their hand on their waist, and I was told to look at how they would walk in a room and how her body takes place of everything.
‐‐ Berenice Bejo

I spent loads of time in Scotland as a kid. My dad would take us back up to Aberdeen loads, and I have very fond memories of getting chips from his favourite chippy and heading down to the beach to eat Baskin Robbins ice cream.
‐‐ Andrew Buchan

I spent lunchtime in a grave during the filming of 'Bloody Mama.' When you're younger, you feel that's what you need to do to help you stay in character. When you get older, you become more confident and less intense about it - and you can achieve the same effect.
‐‐ Robert De Niro

I spent many a summer early morning with the radio very low, half sleeping and half listening.
‐‐ Frankie Valli

I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my soul's delight.
‐‐ Nikki Grimes

I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.
‐‐ Spike Milligan

I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.
‐‐ Vikram Seth

I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy when you're learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape.
‐‐ Andrew Dost

I spent many years writing and directing in radio drama, so I am comfortable with an audience or a microphone, but I do worry about the blurring of an author's public persona with the work itself. A good 'performer' can make a mediocre book sound strong, and a shy author can leave listeners missing the excellence of his or her writing.
‐‐ Guy Gavriel Kay

I spent money, and I kept thinking, 'I get one more movie and I'll wipe these bills out,' but that movie never came. That black pride, I said, 'Man, I'm going to hang in there, I'm going to pay these bills.' So you owe a million dollars. 'I can pay that.' OK, fines, fees, now you owe two and a half million. 'But I didn't do nothin'!'
‐‐ Sinbad

I spent money, I slept with women around the league, but I always kept my mind on the game.
‐‐ Dennis Rodman

I spent more money on one robe than guys spend in five years.
‐‐ Ric Flair

I spent more than 20 years of my professional career researching and developing renewable energy sources.
‐‐ Jerry McNerney

I spent more time at the library than anyone my age when I was a kid.
‐‐ Dave Sitek

I spent more time in America, but I developed a very English sense of humour. I clicked into it deeply with Peter Sellers, who is still probably my favourite comedian.
‐‐ Christopher Guest

I spent more time on dark ships in danger zones than any other woman in the world.
‐‐ Elizabeth Kenny

I spent most of high school working on the debate team, probably at some expense to my grades. Being a member of the team was great training in critical analysis, organization, and logic.
‐‐ David Einhorn

I spent most of my career doing high-energy physics, quarks, dark matter, string theory and so on.
‐‐ Geoffrey West

I spent most of my career in business not saying the word 'woman.' Because if you say the word 'woman' in a business context, and often in a political context, the person on the other side of the table thinks you're about to sue them or ask for special treatment, right?
‐‐ Sheryl Sandberg

I spent most of my career in education and technology. I worked at Kaplan, and I was one of the first people trying to bring innovation into for-profit education.
‐‐ Jose Ferreira

I spent most of my career in hi tech, not in politics.
‐‐ Naftali Bennett

I spent most of my career operating businesses and fixing businesses, not staring at a Bloomberg screen.
‐‐ Nelson Peltz

I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80.
‐‐ Ernest Cline

I spent most of my high school years on movie sets and I'd have like one teacher, which was really bad.
‐‐ Devon Sawa

I spent most of my life locked in my bedroom, miserable about my raging acne.
‐‐ Moon Unit Zappa

I spent most of my life watching HBO series wishing that at some point in my career I might be able to work with them.
‐‐ Emilia Clarke

I spent most of my time playing pool instead of studying.
‐‐ James Garner

I spent most of my young life in the business and missed out on school events. I needed to be a young person and do what I wanted to do.
‐‐ Brandon Adams

I spent most of my youth in Manchester, in clubs and football grounds and the Manchester Apollo.
‐‐ John Simm

I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey. These are countries where the ancient past is interfused with the daily present, and I remember being struck with wonder at the constant sense of continuity and connection, the reminders that lie in wait for you at every turn.
‐‐ Barry Unsworth

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.
‐‐ Joyce Meyer

I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.
‐‐ Karlheinz Stockhausen

I spent most of this afternoon writing a new introduction for my autobiography.
‐‐ June Foray

I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.
‐‐ Stanislav Grof

I spent much of my life hiding.
‐‐ Kevyn Aucoin

I spent my 20s making film after film, often in very adverse conditions. You'd fly back from somewhere - Beirut, the Falklands, South Africa - on Saturday, and you'd have 24 hours to cut your film, and it would go out on Monday night.
‐‐ Paul Greengrass

I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.
‐‐ Lois McMaster Bujold

I spent my 30s figuring out how to be a grown up, I guess. I loved my 30s! My 30s were really about being happy with what I was doing.
‐‐ Ana Ortiz

I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.
‐‐ David Eagleman

I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.
‐‐ George Takei

I spent my childhood clad in 1970s hand-me-downs, primarily from male cousins, which mainly consisted of a selection of beige, brown and orange dungarees. That, combined with a perfectly round pudding-bowl haircut, made me look, on a good day, like a cross between Ann Widdecombe, one of the Flower Pot Men, and a monk.
‐‐ Miranda Hart

I spent my childhood eating. The only exercise I got was trying to twist off the cap of a jar of mayonnaise.
‐‐ Richard Simmons

I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons people have imaginations - because they can't maintain existence here.
‐‐ Rickie Lee Jones

I spent my childhood in Newfoundland and then my junior high and high school years in Alberta, Canada.
‐‐ Sara Canning

I spent my childhood in northern New York State, and like many kids, bugs and other critters fascinated me.
‐‐ Romulus Whitaker

I spent my childhood outdoors on my grandparents' farm. I learned to ride a motorbike when I was about six, a little PeeWee 50. I'd climb trees - there was a big weeping willow.
‐‐ Miranda Kerr

I spent my childhood tinkering with electronic circuits, on breadboards, as they used to be called, in particular making radio transmitters.
‐‐ Giles Foden

I spent my childhood watching every scary movie that Hollywood ever made. And I think that gave me the best education for storytelling. It also made me want to reproduce the scary moments that I felt, sitting in a theater at the age of 5.
‐‐ Tess Gerritsen