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You look at most artists, the arc of their career, there's a definite decline at the end. And that decline could set in at any time. In your 50s, or your 60s and 70s if you're lucky. Time goes by fast, and you've got to be busy all the time.
- Seth
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I'm horrified to have been alerted to anti-Semitism showing up in a Facebook group I'm associated with. As a busy mum I don't have time to monitor everything.
- Gail Bradbrook
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We face many hurdles in our life and somehow we get busy in our hectic schedules and forget how to enjoy our life.
- Ankit Tiwari
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The homes I like the best are totally occupied, busy, and useful, whether it's a tiny little house or a great big one. Rarely do you find a great big house that's used in a good way. So I prefer smaller spaces that are full of books, full of things that people are doing.
- Martha Stewart
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There's a lot of reasons I had to move on. Family's definitely a big part of it. And the longevity of my career - I played for 15 years, and I was just tired of the whole international scene. It's quite busy. Very stressful.
- AB de Villiers
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Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister.
- Shelby Foote
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Often, those who bruise easily spend too much time thinking about themselves. I'd go so far as to say that oversensitivity is a privilege of the underoccupied. The majority of people don't have the time to lavish care on emotional wounds - they're too busy getting on with living.
- Mariella Frostrup
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If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.
- Gunter Grass
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The single moment when I knew that I had to get busy and do more was around the death of my son.
- Bobby Rush
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Most companies are busy making their products worse, not better. Updating is almost always a disaster.
- Eric Ries
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My dad had his own business and was extremely busy, but on a very rare occasion, he would play guitar and sing a bit. I was always fascinated by it. I wrote my first song in first grade because my dad was making songs up during those special moments, and it seemed like a fun thing to try myself.
- Natalie Prass
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I don't think of myself as busy because I don't even have to get dressed most days.
- Sally Rooney
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Kendall is really satisfied on her role in 'Keeping Up With the Kardashians.' With her modeling career, she's so busy. If she's not walking a runway, she's shooting a campaign or traveling around the world with her fashion obligations. She's a pretty busy little girl.
- Kris Jenner
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Everybody is so busy talking about 'Twittering' and talking about the new technologies and talking about this and that, but they don't talk about creativity.
- George Lois
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My mother tells me that I was a very busy, curious child and that I quite often challenged my father when I was little, which she thought was rather good for him!
- Claude Picasso
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Obviously I'm really busy, fitting in WWE stuff and appearances like this now, all the events I've done and the SmackDown tours, then travelling. I've just been to Singapore, I've been to Canada... all over the world.
- Pete Dunne
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Well, it has been rather hectic since the 11th of September. And even before then it was quite busy.
- Hugh Shelton
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You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy.
- Dorothy Dix
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I live in a town called Beerwah, right in the middle of Australia Zoo. It's not hustle and bustle and busy, so that's helpful. We travel all over the world, but I've always been able to come home and run around in the middle of the Australian outback.
- Bindi Irwin
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I was a slow starter. I didn't really make any dazzling impressions. But I don't really regret that because I learned a lot along the way. I always kept busy - I found my way my way, and I'm happy about it.
- Christopher Lloyd
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I've got four brothers, so with them and all our friends we had these sports parties in the basement. We'd play basketball, mini-sticks, baseball in the backyard, football, whatever it was. We were busy 24/7.
- Rob Gronkowski
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I really wished I had done the backpacking-through-Europe thing when I was younger, but I was busy doing musical theater.
- Annie Wersching
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I had no idea 'Moon River' would do so well. I was too busy working to think about it.
- Henry Mancini
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It's good to be busy. I prefer that than sitting back and enjoying life.
- Roger Taylor
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My life is very crazy and busy, but I love it that way.
- Hilary Duff
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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
- Pankaj Mishra
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Speaking of Twitter, I don't even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my every thought into cute 140-character sound bites. I used to only worry about being pithy for a living; now some of my best lines are wasted on a free app!
- Diablo Cody
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Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation.
- Louis de Bernieres
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No matter how busy I am, I find time to read, day and night.
- Lucio Tan
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I work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It's been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two.
- Cameron Mathison
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To get to the only club in my area you had to cross a really busy road and my mother forbade me from going there.
- Abdoulaye Doucoure
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I've always been really good at staying busy. Even while I'm working, I'm looking at what the next thing is.
- Brian Posehn
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'Women's' war has its own colors, its own smells, its own lighting, and its own range of feelings. There are no heroes and incredible feats; there are simply people who are busy doing inhumanly human things.
- Svetlana Alexievich
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The first time I came to New York in 1952, I was busy with music. I made the acquaintance at this period with John Cage, and also the acquaintance of Varese for the first time. We were very good friends. He gave me some scores, and we recorded them a little later.
- Pierre Boulez
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Actually, it wasn't a kid dream, because my father was a cosmonaut, and I was able to see all pros and cons of this job, and when I was a kid, it was more minuses than plusses: always busy, studying all day long, exams.
- Sergey Volkov
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I love to keep busy. But I never forget it's the countdown that made it all possible.
- Casey Kasem
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In today's society, many people feel stressed. So when they watch my videos at the end of a busy day, I want them to relax and experience something nice, to take away some of their anxiety and stress.
- Li Ziqi
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Perhaps all of our anxiety is not caused by broken brains but by working nonstop, missing out on time with our friends and families because we are all so busy 'hustling' and 'grinding' just to survive in an immoral economic system skewed to favor a very few at the top while leaving the rest of the country to fend for itself.
- Kirsten Powers
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As a writer, one is busy with archaeology.
- Michael Ondaatje
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A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got important work to do.'
- Daniel Goleman
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I keep busy. That was my nickname in college, 'Iron to the Fire.' I like to keep several things going at once.
- Creed Bratton
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I think that I'm busy in the present, and I don't want to go back. Well, there's been an unauthorized biography, and you can't stop them. It didn't worry me.
- Albert Finney
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I want to have a street named 'Swae Lee.' It doesn't need to be a busy street.
- Swae Lee
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Where I work, in the Arab region, people are busy taking up Western innovations and changing them into things which are neither conventionally Western, nor are they traditionally Islamic.
- Shereen El Feki
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You can really only enjoy life when you're extremely busy.
- Josephine de La Baume
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I wanted to remain a bachelor from the beginning, but I got married thrice, and I don't know why I did it. I think it's not easy to live with me because of my impatience and busy schedules. Sometimes my mother is unhappy about a few decisions I have taken, but it is completely personal, and I don't want to make it public.
- Pawan Kalyan
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I do most of my shopping over the Internet because as a busy working mum I can do the supermarket shop when the kids have gone to bed.
- Andrea McLean
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I have one really nice watch. It's a white-face, stainless-steel Rolex Daytona. I wear it a lot. I got that in the middle of 'The Office.' All the guys in the writers' room were like, 'Let's all get a nice watch.' We were too busy to upgrade our lives in a big way, but we thought this was a nice symbolic gesture.
- B. J. Novak
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I've got three brothers and two sisters. Dad was a plumber who worked really hard to support six children, and Mum was busy at home. The four brothers shared a room, a bunk bed on each side. It wasn't luxurious.
- Gareth Barry
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Actually, I've never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I've always worked, and I guess my mind is busy all the time. I've been in a lot of things just because of my own intellectual curiosity.
- Sam Wyly
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Nowadays, people don't ask you how you are, they say, 'Are you busy?' meaning, 'Are you well?' If someone actually does ask you how you are, the most cheerful answer, of course, is a robust 'Busy!' to which the person will reply 'Good!'
- Jo Ann Davis
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I was busy welcoming a new experience. I had never done a movie before.
- Chita Rivera
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My folks were busy. My dad was a teacher, and it was during the Second World War, and my mother was working. So I got my stories from films and books. I read a lot, and I love to read to this day.
- Robert Osborne
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You know I used to sit there and I'd go outside and play ball and everything, but now in my free time I just kind of lay back and relax because this atmosphere is so busy and stressful, so anytime I can sleep, you'd best believe I'm sleepin'.
- Scotty McCreery
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Rest is key. I need to get the right rest time and family time to stay refreshed. My downtime is for family activity. That's all about there is. I never switch off. Running my day-to-day golf business is a fairly busy one. There's a lot of moving parts and I'm trying to simplify it and make it easier.
- Ian Poulter
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I always want to be surprised and just see what's going to happen next. But definitely next is going to be busy, too.
- Charice Pempengco
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It's a crazy busy schedule, but I still have two hours a day for school because it's a priority.
- Charice Pempengco
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Big Brother is watching... look busy.
- Brandon Boyd
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Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
- George Burns
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Do I think Vince McMahon was looking at my matches in Japan going, 'We need him?' No. He wasn't. He's too busy. There's no way. But somebody may have been looking and going, 'All right, I like this guy. Let's give him a shot.'
- A.J. Styles
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I wasn't much into girlfriends. I was too busy tinkering in the garage.
- Woody Norris
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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
- Dag Hammarskjold
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I didn't have time to be anybody's muse; I was too busy rebelling against my parents and learning to be an artist.
- Leonora Carrington
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Also, this is what a pregnant Busy Philipps does in her free time, I'm taking master fondant cake decorating class with Anna from 'Ace of Cakes' at Duff's Charm City Cakes. It's, like, 4 three-hour classes.
- Busy Philipps
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People in the metros are busy making ends meet, but through my films, I like to give the reality of life a skip, and choose concepts which will give audiences a stress-free two-and-a-half hours.
- Rohit Shetty
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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In 1997, my father appointed me CEO but acted as player-coach, keeping busy on long-term clients such as KFC and international travel brands.
- Richard Edelman
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If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?
- Marie Dressler
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I like to have a sense of accomplishment through work. I'm busy golfing and attending activities, but I think of holding a meeting as playing golf. I think my approach is very good. I don't feel I lose a lot of fun things in life even though I am busy all day.
- Liang Wengen
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I have too busy a schedule to stick to an exercise plan, so I decided to diet.
- Arjun Janya
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I had all the material for a long time, but I was just too busy. Sometimes we'd sit around at home and sing some of these songs at family things, and everyone always said I should record them.
- June Carter Cash
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I know how I like to be treated, so I always start by saying, 'Could you give me a moment of your time, I know you're very busy,' and usually, they will.
- Arthur Godfrey
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When you have a lot of opportunities, which I am blessed to have had in terms of my work, you get into the habit of not paying attention to certain specifics. And as we get busy, anything we do is the same thing.
- Jake Gyllenhaal
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I've learned to accept the fact that my students are far too busy preparing for their own legal careers to care one bit about the off-campus antics of Professor Burke. I get the impression that my students are vaguely aware of my novels, but are at best mildly curious.
- Alafair Burke
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I guess I was always in awe at the amount of energy that surrounds Washington, D.C. My experience in coming up before was that it was a very, very busy place.
- Tom Graves
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My life is extremely full and wretchedly busy, and I feel that while my life drains energy from my work, my work in turn drains energy from my life. The result is, I am always playing catch-up spiritually. That is my thorn.
- Jan Karon
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My uncles are always busy away acting, so I barely even see them much at all, but I always know that they are so supportive. Anytime I do see them, they always check up on it and make sure everything's okay and let me know that they're there for me.
- Hero Fiennes-Tiffin
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If I'm not hungry and I'm busy, I am quite happy to skip a meal. It's informal intermittent fasting. I feel strongly that this is one of the strongest areas of longevity research.
- David Andrew Sinclair
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I always keep myself busy. I'm writing. Or I'm creating something. Or I'm doing stuff with the kids. I'm up incredibly early in the morning; I go to bed incredibly late at night.
- Natascha McElhone
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Yes, this is Mango himself. Listen I'm terribly busy and don't have time for a phone interview right now.
- Chris Kattan
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Skydiving is special because it's almost the closest to an out-of-body experience you can have. We live in such a stimulated, connected, busy world - to be up in the air with nothing but yourself and the landscape is incredibly peaceful.
- Georgia King
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I discovered that the best thing for me was to be very busy all the time. I can get a lot done, and I can do those tasks well.
- Terry J. Lundgren
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One of my favorite traditions is that my sisters and I, we all wear the same pajamas. I've even still got some from when I was 6. Also, I'll always remember cooking together in the kitchen and that no matter how busy our schedules are, we are all together for Christmas.
- Bailee Madison
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The real reason Jews don't have more Hanukkah music is that, historically, American Jewish singer-songwriters were too busy making Christmas music. 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,' 'Silver Bells' and 'The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting)' were all written by Jews.
- Matisyahu
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We always make so many excuses for ourselves - 'I'm so busy, I'm so tired, I don't want to do it.' You know? 'I'm passionate about it, but I'm not going to be the person that changes things.' Why do we tell ourselves that? We totally could. There are so many people who are making so much change just because they're passionate.
- Cameron Boyce
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If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm sure. If I'm busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil's playground.
- Lisa Marie Presley
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The devil is busy and trying to distort and adulterate the things that are the pure essence of God.
- El DeBarge
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My mother smokes me out. We'll get these long periods of me thinking I'm too busy to call her up or e-mail her, and she'll send me something. My mom's a real whiner. I love her to death, but she always sends me these 'woe is me' things. I think she might be Jewish. I'm not sure. She's Baptist-Jewish, which is a double whammy.
- Ronnie Dunn
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I like to be busy. It's not always easy because the schedule gets busy; especially, the more successful you are, the more demands you have. But it's definitely worth the sacrifice.
- Venus Williams
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That's what the sport is all about - stay busy and don't forget to have fun while doing it.
- Alexander Gustafsson
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Henson had never spoken to me about Kermit, but he had spoken to Frank Oz about the idea of me doing the character if he became too busy. I felt flattered.
- Steve Whitmire
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When I was as little as four years old, my mom would give me a pen and paper and tell me to write a story to keep me busy.
- Tracie Peterson
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At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it.
- Yukio Mishima
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Just to be spontaneous and free is life's biggest luxury and privilege when life is so busy.
- Morten Harket
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I am very busy. I work hard all the time. But I also need to relax; I need to disconnect. That's why I like horse-racing, spending time with my friends. It helps me to recover energy.
- Massimiliano Allegri
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In my experience, being busy and working hard is the key to sanity/happiness.
- Jemima Khan
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When I'm working, I'm pretty busy with that, but when I'm not, yeah, I like to make music. I sing in jazz bars and stuff, and then I mainly paint every day. It's kind of like a different side of my mind I like to use, and it keeps the other one fresh, and yeah, writing, I've been writing with some friends.
- Alia Shawkat
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My household is, in a nice way, very busy.
- Ann Brashares
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People think it's suspect and self-indulgent to make art, and I don't think that's true. Some people think you should be busy making something that you can sell in the marketplace, and if nobody wants to buy it, it must be crap. And that's not true.
- Dana Spiotta
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While my friends were busy listening to the Talking Heads, Police, and B-52s, I was busy teaching myself to program on the Atari.
- Steven Sinofsky
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