- Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time Quotes
Quotes marking moments across time.
This page brings together quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family. It pairs well with Family Quotes for related reflections.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Reason
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason I wrote 'You Suck' was that I so enjoyed spending time with Tommy and Jody.
- Alone
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an author, you spend a lot of time by yourself in a room making clicky noises. It gets pretty insulated. You realize pretty early on in your career that even if this goes well, you could spend all your life in a room alone. Unless you pick projects that are going to get you out doing things, you're not going to actually live your life.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I kind of dislike 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' but most of Hemingway in general, mainly because his stylistic shenanigans ruined so many young writers of my generation who tried to imitate him. I think, for his time, he moved fiction to a different level stylistically, or at least added to the dialogue, but in our time, he's annoying.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been interested in dreams since I as a kid and I've wanted to do a film about them for a long time.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.
- Nov 07, 2020
If I spent my time worrying about what other people would think of my work, I would be too self-conscious to write.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents couldn't afford a full time drama school, but I basically just did every class I could do, and followed every drama interest I could. When I was 15 or 16 I did drama courses.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always a happy kid. I'd play the piano fairly well. I did all sorts of things fairly well. But who the hell wants to be happy all the time? It's a miserable state to be in permanently. Can you imagine how dreary that would be?
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't have to keep a bloody journal. It's terribly boring keeping a journal anyway. I hate it. You spend more time writing down life instead of living it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a teenager, I used to use the nickname 'Moo' as a moniker online, and then I turned into 'Moot' for fun, which I didn't even realize was a real word at the time, and it just stuck with me.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't want my parents to know about 4chan at first because of the adult content. By the time I was 18 and could talk about it, the site had become notorious for its exploits and the adult content on there.
- Hard Time
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- Nov 07, 2020