As a professional ballet dancer, I have to accept that weekends are about work. The notion of a leisurely break with all the buzz and excitement of a Friday night simply doesn’t exist for me.
I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays.
Executives will talk about the importance of passion, but what they really mean is finding somebody who will work nights and weekends on their assigned task but predictably and reliably follow orders and just work harder.
I think that music is a lifestyle that you sort of intravenously plug into and unplug from when you do and don’t need it. Some people live it 10 hours a day, some on weekends. It’s no more important or non-important than that.
I was lucky enough as a kid to spend most of my weekends at the Fillmore East. On a great night, that was like a Holy Roller evangelical church.
I love football. My weekends are booked. Saturday college games and Sunday NFL and ‘Monday Night Football.’ Booked! Football is first, then basketball and then everything else.
When I came out of the military, I had a club in Memphis and I started using the The Bar Kays as my club band. They were still only in the middle school – but I’d take them on the road with me on the weekends, sometimes.
We would go in there with our parents once in a while for – actually go into Manhattan for dinner, weekends occasionally to a museum, but most of my memories of traveling into Manhattan was with the school trips and then later on as we got, you know, into high school, kind of on our own and with friends.
On the weekends, I do the usual parental things, going to the boys’ football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.
A lot of the time I had a nanny. But I never felt like I didn’t come first. Mum always made time to be a mother. On weekends she would sit down next to me, hold my hand or sit me on her lap and make me talk about my week. She would continuously try to get to know me.
Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.
On weekends, I sit in a lounge chair on my balcony. I love to be outside when the weather’s right. I can stay there pretty much all day.
Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they’re successful.
‘Anna Karenina.’ I read it in college. I was so engrossed that I couldn’t stop reading it and neglected all my other studies. I would go to the library even on nice warm weekends and just lock myself up. I think that was the first time that I felt transformed by a book.
On the weekends, it’s much more relaxed. I enjoy cooking, so on Saturdays I make a big breakfast of eggs or pancakes, and sausage. Sean makes a mean cup of coffee. We read or put on music and watch the kids dance. We really enjoy hanging out together as a family.
I’ll watch CNN in the mornings to catch up on what’s going on. On the weekends, I get the Sunday edition of ‘The New York Times.’
By the dawn of the millennium, the hallways at Microsoft were no longer home to barefoot programmers in Hawaiian shirts working through nights and weekends toward a common goal of excellence; instead, life behind the thick corporate walls had become staid and brutish.
By day, I’m a venture capitalist. On weekends, I love rockets.
When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn’t develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.
I love the sitcom schedule. It takes a week to make an episode, but we don’t work on weekends. I’m usually done in time to get home for dinner with my wife and daughter.
I try to take breaks from makeup on the weekends. I try to not to wear any on Fridays and Saturdays. It’s good to let your skin breathe and it’s good not to depend on makeup, to feel comfortable in our skin.
Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?
Atlanta is interesting. You have high education rates but there are plenty of regular folks. People have degrees but chop wood on weekends.
I started baking with my family and friends. We would make easy and competent dishes and spend our evenings and weekends together in the kitchen. It was quite argumentative and ferocious – it was family life. That instilled the love and comfort of food for me.
The thought of the weekends I used to have now makes me shake.
Whenever I date a guy, I think, ‘Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?’
Because our daughters have school and it’s just such a hassle going down to New York all the time, we can really only go on the weekends, we kind of… Steve came up here and worked out stuff for the second half of the record.
Cities can be paradoxical places. In the mornings they buzz with commuters, in the evenings they come alive with diners and partygoers, at weekends the streets fill with shoppers and market traders. But amidst the hustle and bustle, even the greatest city can be a lonely place.
When I began working in Yahoo, my family moved with me. Despite our efforts, our kids wanted to study in Los Angeles, and I was forced to see my family and friends only on weekends. In the beginning I even enjoyed it, but knew that at some stage I’d want to go back home.
No one will pay you for planning an expedition at first: you have to work in pubs at weekends so you can pay the gas bills. I joined the Territorial Army, which paid me when I turned up to drill nights, and so did my wife.
When I was little, my parents took away candy except on the weekends. So I’d rush out of my room at 5:00 A.M. on Saturday and sit in front of the TV, jamming my face with candy.
My dad was a physician. As a kid, I remember driving around with him on weekends so he could do his rounds at the hospital and talk to patients. We’d spend time in the car talking about what was going on with them, their stories.
I’m nearly always at home at the weekends; that’s important for every working woman today, not just me. I don’t encourage people to come in at the weekend and work; I encourage people to go home and create great families.
When I first started writing, I was in advertising at the time, I was doing most of my writing on weekends. I had studied most of the other series heroes and I figured it would be fun for mine to be different and put him in and around water. So I dreamed up Dirk Pitt.
I grew up in New York City, and both my parents worked. On weekends, we’d go out to the country, and on Sunday nights we’d come back. Sometimes we were a little cranky – it was a long drive. But we could always look forward to one thing: my mother’s ziti and meat sauce.
I work on most weekends, so my husband is the executive chef. He is an amazing cook. I love the way he does salmon, and his apple pie for dessert is delicious.
Do you tend to sleep in during the weekends? That usually signals that you’re trying to sleep off a debt you’ve accumulated during the week.
There are people who love on weekends to go out when the sun comes out. I just want to lie in bed and watch sports and relax.
Real estate is my life. It is my day job, if you will. But it consumes my nights and weekends, too.
If you have a life which is adrenaline-charged all week long because you’re a powerful CEO, or you have responsibilities and you’re committed to the people you look after, it’s very difficult on weekends to sit around the garden. So you probably look for something which gives you the same sort of adrenaline buzz.
My friends and I would get up early and take our horses through the national forest. My mom was very free. It was always ‘Out of the house!’ There was no watching television on weekends.
It is so important to be active when you are young, and I think it would have helped me tenfold if, alongside ‘Popworld,’ school, T4, Radio One and all those other things I was doing, that I had played a bit of sport at the weekends with my friends.
The ’80s don’t seem to have gone away. Most weekends in the summer we’re off doing a festival in front of 10,000 or 15,000 people with a load of other ’80s acts. It was just such a great era for music, for individuals and characters. It just had a spirit.
I spent my whole teenage life trying to get to London and go to dance school, but when I got there, I couldn’t wait to get to the clubs on weekends. I knew I wanted to make music.
There’s no guarantees in anything you do. But I hope there are many more weekends I can race in my life, and high school graduation you only do once.
I started off as a juggler. I used to do a half-hour show on the weekends to make money as a kid. Then I went to Cleveland, Ohio in 1983 to the international jugglers competition junior division and came second. So that was my first job, being a juggler.
The basic work schedule for me is whenever I’m not doing anything more important, like taking care of my kids or something. So, it’s most of the day, five days a week, most evenings and sometimes on the weekends.
At training camp, you brainwash yourself into thinking every,day is the same, no weekends or holidays. It’s all the same – a work day. You develop a mental state to just work hard and get ready for the fight.
I rent a Jacobean-fronted hunting lodge in Hampshire from the National Trust and like to go there as much as possible. I’ve grown to love it so much, especially when writing my memoirs there at weekends.
