#spent

I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#being #between #charmed #either #entire

I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#adult life #bound #flinching #i #i tried

At that time, I was signed to Columbia Records as an Independent Producer. I spent many weeks forming, auditioning, rehearsing and recording demos for Kenny, who was finally signed to Columbia Records. ↗

— Jim Messina

#columbia #demos #finally #forming #i

I spent two years in the Army. And my older brother, who was also a great positive influence on me, encouraged me to think about law school, and I said - well, I didn't have any money. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#also #any #army #brother #encouraged

My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#born #chauffeur #cook #county #early

My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards. ↗

— Nadia Giosia

#days #eat #italy #like #nights

It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent. ↗

— Barack Obama

#build #business #century #change #creative

I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again. ↗

— Abraham Pais

#another #bed #came #clock #could

I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it. ↗

— Danica Patrick

#back #been #beyond #childhood #coming

I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession and one of unequaled importance for its influence upon the minds and morals of the people. ↗

— Joseph Pulitzer

#deeply #elevation #having #i #i am