#spent

We had offers to go everywhere and we could have done them. But what would have been the point? We were tired. We had worked hard and needed a break before we got stale. We spent six months at home and writing songs. ↗

— John Bonham

#before #break #could #done #everywhere

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood. ↗

— Alan Hovhaness

#arlington #because #born #childhood #five

It's not going to be easy; Enterprise IT has spent decades growing a defensive culture based on the premise that you only get noticed when you screw up, so that must be avoided at all costs. ↗

— Tim Bray

#based #costs #culture #decades #defensive

What was frustrating about Armageddon was the time I spent not doing anything. It was a big special effects film, and I wasn't crazy about pretending I was in outer space. It feels ridiculous. ↗

— Steve Buscemi

#anything #armageddon #big #crazy #doing

Then, there was Cary Grant. He spent three hours a week in hospitals teaching nervous people how to eat jello. ↗

— Red Buttons

#cary grant #eat #grant #hospitals #hours

Reagan didn't socialize with the press. He spent his evenings with Nancy, watching TV with dinner trays. But he knew that to transcend, you can't condescend. ↗

— Maureen Dowd

#evenings #his #knew #nancy #press

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning. ↗

— Lillian Gish

#happy #happy life #learning #life #spent

I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera. ↗

— Thomas Jane

#craft #down #falling #front #i

Time spent researching varies from book to book. Some novels require months, even years of research, others very little. I try to do most of my research before I begin but inevitably questions emerge during the writing. ↗

— Jonathan Kellerman

#begin #book #during #emerge #even

My wife and I have spent half our lives, half our adult lives, trying to save special parts of California. ↗

— Pete McCloskey

#california #half #i #lives #our