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Time Quotes



"I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read."


"If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing."


"Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; to every day we live, a day we die."



"There really isn't a time to pause and have a celebration. I feel so serious about the whole thing."
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"This has been on the schedule for a long time. You don't get President Clinton on a 24-hour notice."


"I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time."


"However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school."


"Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read."



"And I'm supposed to grab her and kiss her and she's supposed to react. Well, what happened was, Julie was very nervous at that time, given this incredible part which she did beautifully."


"I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years."


"We've seen in the last half century an incredible shift. This is just an extraordinary time to be alive."
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"I don't spend a lot of time thinking of what they'll do musically, I try to imagine being locked into a windowless room with this person for twelve hours at a time. If you can look at that and think it might be fun then maybe you've got the right musician."


"I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme."


"At the same time, the Reagan Administration assured that the main elements of policymaking were in the hands of competent loyalists, thus assuring a successful launch and a highly successful first year."


"Play more than one game at a time. This is a painless way to learn how to do many things at once."


"I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress."


"In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that."


"I don't read magazines much, and I have an awful time with books."


"Every time I go to the theater, there's something about the atmosphere, seeing something unfold live in front of an audience, that you can't get out of your system."


"Sometimes I use Botox. Compared to most, I use it very sparingly. One time I did too much, though. I feel weird if I can't move my face, and that one time I overdid it, I felt trapped in my own skin."


"Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free."


"I was in Kansas for about a month, and we worked most of the time in a very small town, so it felt like the production basically took the whole town over. In a way, we were the Martians in Kansas."


"Now is not the time to give greater protections to pharmaceutical companies that put unsafe drugs like Vioxx on the market. Such protections have nothing to do with the liability insurance crisis facing doctors and should be stripped from this bill."



"My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives."


"Yes. I did more research than I ever wanted to and saw some things I wish I didn't. I went on ride-alongs, spent time with Homicide, Cold Case, and SVU detectives, hung out in subways learning how to spot pervs and pick-pockets, viewed an autopsy, went to a police firing range, and witnessed court cases and I read, read, read."



"Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky."
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"For some time I've had my eye on Tom McCall's seat - which is a great deal more than he's had on it."


"And I'll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven hours with special devices which were built for me."
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