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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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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
- Copy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent a lot of time at my grandparents in the school holidays, and the only books in the house were a copy of the Bible and Agatha Christie's 'Murder at the Vicarage.' I developed a taste for murder mysteries and then later discovered libraries, second-hand bookshops, and jumble sales.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did want to be Joni Mitchell for quite a long time.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time. But, like most writers, you start off feeling your way.
- Space
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back in the day, when I started, you were still allowed to make mistakes. You got to make your mistakes in public, in a way. I think the world was a more forgiving place when I started my career, in the sense that we got time and space to develop as a writer.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not everything happens as we want or desire. It doesn't matter. I'm a fighter, and I'm ready to fight every time.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did my part. I signed it for UFC 205 in New York. I signed my part, and Julianna turned it down. She didn't want to fight that time, but I don't care about this because I am a fighter, and if she don't want fight, we was looking for another opponent to make fight.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My focus is my preparation, my good condition, and every time, I go forward and forward, and nothing can stop me.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course my goal is to be the champion, and of course I want revenge with Amanda because I feel much stronger, and I know next time it will be a totally different result of the fight.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not going to the past, and it's not tied to me, every time moving forward, and this is more important - to move forward every time.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think getting punched in the face is too fun. I keep going because this is what I am. Every time I fight, this is why we live. We have to feel this. That's how we become stronger. That's how we become champions.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came to Hollywood and I loved it. It was a great time, but in my head I was still elsewhere, in Europe. I believed in a certain cinema, which I still do believe in - a certain European cinema - and as a young woman being in America, I thought I was being taken away from that.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
In performance, you don't always feel that sort of family bond right off the top. It sort of develops and grows over time.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020