- Great
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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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bringing accountability to Washington has been an important part of my time in office and an important part of my campaign.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must enforce the laws we have on the books, secure our borders, and deny special benefits to illegal immigrants such as in-state tuition rates. This approach is best for American citizens and is fair to those who have taken the time and effort to go through the legal immigration process.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the sense that writing is to retrieve the past and stop the passing of time, all writing is about loss. It's not nostalgia in the sense of yearning to bring back the past, but recognition of the erosion of things as you live.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, there is urgency in fiction, even though writing is, in itself, an act against the corrosiveness of time.
- Distance
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are writing something, you automatically create a certain distance. It can be very little. Even within the same city you imaginatively have a certain distance from your subject, and at the same time, you have to have a connection.
- I Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe if a sentence is to retain its strength over time, it needs to be carefully made.
- Footage
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- Nov 07, 2020
David Beckham is always seen as the thickest man on the planet, too daft to complete a jigsaw puzzle. But then you watch old footage of him playing and every time he plays a ball across the field, he's intuitively working out the trajectory of the ball.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
The key to a happy marriage is myself being absent for long periods of time. My wife Leesa and I will celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary next year, but if my comedy gigs petered out and I was around the house more, we'd 100% be getting divorced.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm hugely negative, so if a joke doesn't land it takes me a long time to get over it. If something doesn't go well I go dark in my head. Basically I start thinking it should be illegal for me to be doing comedy.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love my home, spend as much time in London as I can, and try wherever possible to avoid travelling for work. Sometimes I think I'm really badly equipped to be an actress.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've done a few costume dramas, and people say, 'What was it like wearing the costumes? Did they really help you with your character?,' and most of the time it doesn't make any difference. You're wearing something a bit weird, and it's sort of uncomfortable, but it doesn't really have a huge impact on the part that you're playing.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I have to spend prolonged periods of time in a trailer, I go mad. Stuck in a metal box doing nothing, I lie there paralysed with boredom.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an actor. And like a lot of actors, it's very important that everybody loves you all the time.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things!
- Each Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish to present myself in front of the camera, each time under the features of a different woman. I would like to live and apprehend the problems, the conflicts, the feelings and the impulses of women radically different from me.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020