- Making
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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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To what extent do we self-construct, do we self-invent? How do we self-identify, and how mutable is that identity? Like, what if one could be anyone at any time? Well, my characters, like the ones in my shows, allow me to play with the spaces between those questions.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I definitely think the fact that I come from a multicultural background, my mother living life in a white skin and having white skin privilege from the time I was little, I was aware of that.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been a radio reporter for ten years, and if I learned anything from my time at 'This American Life,' it's how to craft a narrative so that even if the ending is ambiguous, it is somehow satisfying.
- Reporter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not to be weirdly glib, but as a reporter, you should be honest all the time.
- Copy
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time I was 10 or 12, I had discovered the lure of the romance genre - and the dusty copy of 'The Thorn Birds' on my parents' bookshelf.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time is a beautiful thing. It's like when you meet an old lover on the street six years later and they don't look so ugly anymore.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Time after Time' is one of the best pop songs ever written, in my opinion. It's an incredible, beautiful, timeless song.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I also think it was important for me and Freddie to be able to have a lot of time to share our lives at the beginning of our marriage rather than my coming home at 9 or 10 at night from the set. Things have really worked out for the best for both of us.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can gabble on now, but I couldn't when I was a kid, so I spent a lot of time in my own head on the moors by myself. It felt like writing was the right way to express myself.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to school in New York and grew up in and out of New York. I love it, and I miss it, and every time I go back, I think, 'Why am I in Germany?' I do know that my career is really important to me, and in Germany, they've always been so much more supportive than my previous engagements in the dance world.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love living in L.A. It's quieter. It's much more relaxing. I'm living in a house for the first time ever. I have a backyard for the first time ever; a dog for the first time ever. So it's a lot of firsts, and I love it so much. It's just so different. It's a nice change of pace.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020