I’d like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they’d be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that’s because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.
The fact that I have had so much time to be a dad and to be around my children is brilliant.
Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world.
I take the six weeks of the school summer holidays off because I’m pretty sure I’m not going to look back on my life one day and say, ‘Damn, I wish I hadn’t spent so much time with my children.’
I had spent so much time studying literature at Stanford and the history of medicine at Cambridge in an attempt to better understand the particularities of death, only to come away feeling like they were still unknowable to me.
I think one of the things that is essential for happiness in life, or at least for non-sadness, is producing something. I guess that’s why I spend so much time and agony writing books. But working on carpentry is sort of like all the pleasure with none of the agony.
I only have so much time and energy and money, and I’m going to put it into my work.
It’s cool when fans spend so much time making things for me. It means a lot.
Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.
I am excited to run in the community where my wife and I work, where my daughters graduated and my son attends high school, where my family goes to synagogue, and where I have spent so much time working for and with the people of South Florida.
With Shakespeare, because you invest so much time in working on material, it always sort of stays with you to some degree.
You can’t put as much into one thing as you want, and I felt like I was shortchanging football a little bit by giving school so much time.
As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I’m doing either of these things.
Directing is more what I would like to get into eventually. Frankly, I feel like it would be a waste if I didn’t because I’ve spent so much time on film sets, and I know how they work, and I love them, and I love leading them. I would like to do that as a director definitely.
To become a doctor, you spend so much time in the tunnels of preparation – head down, trying not to screw up, trying to make it from one day to the next – that it is a shock to find yourself at the other end, with someone shaking your hand and asking how much money you want to make.
One of the downsides of the job is that I am travelling so much, and I don’t have so much time to go out and socialise as people who have a more traditional job might do, so it’s hard.
A lot of the things I do outside the rink are just to relax and recover. We spend so much time at the rink, so it’s nice to decompress a little.
I find theater emotionally expensive and all-involving. You have to pour so much blood and passion and heart into it. And so much time. Why do that for something that’s only vaguely interesting and anyone can do it?
You obviously don’t really forget how to play the old songs; you just don’t have to spend so much time convincing yourself that you remember them. Way less mental energy is spent swimming around in lyrics you’ve already written and chords you’ve already played.
You spend so much time in the world of virtual that the actual – which nothing is more actual than stand-up – it’s a painful experience for the audience, and the comedian a lot of time – we miss that.
I spent so much time fighting that I didn’t take the time to reflect on what I was actually going through.
The Scottish game is not easy – far from it.You don’t have so much time on the ball. There are aggressive defenders but it is good. Every opponent likes to mark closely so it is not so easy to score. In Germany there was more space to run into other areas of the pitch.
At first, I was only interested in music, but I spent so much time in the clubs and seeing fashions change. So naturally, I developed an interest in it.
Pro Tools rules. You get the opportunity to try more things because you don’t waste so much time trying to get the perfect take.
I love so much what I do that I spend so much time thinking about it, and then I go home, and then I’m thinking about it, so it’s nice sometimes when a movie is over, and then the niggling feelings about whether you’ve did it right or not start to ebb away.
Politicians in Italy seem to spend so much time giving interviews, they don’t have time to make the laws.
I spend so much time thinking and I don’t generally have strong emotional reactions too much.
I’m really proud of myself because I’ve pared my beauty regimen down to a cream blush and berry-tinted lip balm, which has saved me so much time.
If feminism wasn’t powerful, if feminism wasn’t influential, people wouldn’t spend so much time putting it down.
Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free.
It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is indefensible because there is nothing to defend.
You know those little talking relationships that never go anywhere on Snapchat? Those are the worst. You dedicate so much time and energy to one person just to find out that they’re talking to 50 other girls at the same time.
Larry Fitzgerald, I’ve spent so much time with him, he’s one of my favorites and one of the best.
For a rich and reasonably successful guy, it is impossible not to enjoy your job; otherwise, why would you spend so much time and effort doing it? I am a great fan of Norilsk, and I like this kind of challenge.
I’m very quiet off stage. I think I’m a pretty boring person. I’m not super talkative; I spend a lot of my time running and zoning out. I spend so much time trying to write jokes and ‘be on,’ so when I’m finally off stage, I just want to sit.
We spend so much time sublimatin’, thinkin’ about, ‘What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?’
There’s a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven’t the time to enjoy it.
You reach a point at which you have to view your life through the things you’ve spent so much time doing. The alternative is a perilous feeling of waste.
My mother used to laugh that if they asked me to clean up my room, I would spend so much time reading every tiny bit of paper, a receipt or whatever, instead of throwing it in the trash.
It’s such a long mission and we get to spend so much time in space… we’re doing such exciting research. And I don’t want to overemphasize the life science research, but as a physician the life science research that we’re doing is extremely exciting.
The problem with the literary hothouse of New York City is that people spend so much time looking in the mirror. They go to parties with people who are just like them, and they write novels about people who are just like them. It’s limiting.
So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others.
We worked so hard, spent so much time in weight room and in camps to be where we are today. We wanted to come out and be as good as any team in the state, to prove we could hang with any team at any time.
My goal is to make the biggest difference possible in the world. I have only so many resources and so much time.
One thing I’m not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won’t live.
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.
I’m very fortunate to have spent so much time in the industry and to have lived through several generations of filmmakers, actors and technicians. There’s a huge volume of experience seeing people change and seeing content change.
I honestly don’t listen to a lot of music – I spend so much time working at my own music.
It’s so hard going into a performance that you’ve worked all week for and put so much time and effort into and when a silly little simple mistake that’s never happened before happens, it can be really discouraging.
We spend so much time closing ourselves to protect from scary things that we forget that when we do open to the world, inspiration can flow.
If I didn’t want to fight Carl Froch then I wouldn’t have invested so much time and money into appealing with the IBF over the dubious outcome of the first fight.
The thing that nobody talks about with nurseries is that it’s also about creating a beautiful place for you. You spend so much time there, it needs to be a soft place to land.
I do limit my exposure to the public. You only have so much time.
For somebody for whom they’re going to buy a certain amount of gas irrespective of the price, should they really spend so much time thinking about the price of gas? It doesn’t affect anything they do.
If you’re too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don’t do anything.
People spend so much time in their cars, and it’s a legal way to have fun by speeding a little bit or testing yourself a little bit, and you get to invest in your car. For some people, it becomes their baby.
