Browsing Topic Best Time Away Quotes

Whenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the time away, and any trouble you get into through being well known. It’s not for the acting, that’s for sure.

If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it’s not that much time away from home.

I enjoy being busy, I really do. Remember, I’m the stub end of the railroad. I have no family, so I’m not taking busy time away from people that I should be spending it with. So I’m just relaxing and enjoying it.

I feel like there’s too many paintings left unpainted that I just don’t want to take the time away.

Getting some time away to be active, work out, do yoga is definitely a necessity in life. These activities help me relieve stress and center my mind when I’m playing the waiting game after an audition.

No matter what job you have, even when it’s one you love, it’s important to take some time away, both mentally and physically, to regroup, refresh and regain good, positive energy.

It’s weird as actors because I mean we’re fortunate in the group of people who have to spend time away from their families. There are men and women serving overseas who certainly have it a lot harder than we do, and there are jobs that take people away from the families, and that’s a reality with some jobs that you have. One thing that’s really difficult I find is the transition, because not only do you have to learn how to transition to living on your own again, there’s a transition that happens learning how to live with somebody again.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

I write mostly in my office in the shed outside at home, but it can get very cold. I write best on the train, among people. As a writer you spend so much time away from people.

There’s great value to knitting or digging up your garden or chopping up vegetables for soup, because you’re taking some time away from turning the pages, answering your emails, talking to people on the phone, and you’re letting your brain process whatever is stuck up in there.

The negative about acting is that you have to spend a great deal of time away from your friends and loved ones, but it’s not like working a 9-5 job and only having two or three weeks off a year. I may not have seen my girlfriend for two or three months, but then we can spend two or three months together solidly.

When you spend so much time away from home, travelling around doing things like this, talking about yourself too much, which is often very painful… So, to actually come home and just be amongst people who know you extremely well, who you can’t pretend to be anything other than yourself in front of, is a relief really. It gives you a sense of who you are again. You just don’t get any time at home… it’s such an existence of feeling very unsettled and travelling around. It’s great.

It’s a funny thing – when I’m crazed with work, spending time with my children relaxes me. Yet, at the end of a long weekend with them, the very thing I need to relax is a little work and time away from them!

Solitude is very different from a ‘time-out’ from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.

You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.

Sometimes it’s not catastrophic. Sometimes you only come to the bottom of your coffee cup. Sometimes you have a good day. No one wants to know. No one wants to tell you about theirs either. You might somehow take it. Turn it against them. See the flaw. You always tell them the whole thing sucks. It keeps you alive. They figure if you’re out there having a rotten time, everything’s fine and you’re doing your part. No one will ever try to take your bad times away from you but they’ll come swarming for your happiness.

I try to preserve a certain amount of time away from the movies, so I don’t allow time to do those smaller parts that might give me an opportunity to do more seemingly ‘artful’ things. Although, having said that, I don’t feel any lack of noble purpose if I do a film that’s commercial.

It won’t be long before another day, were gonna have a good time. And no ones gonna take that time away. You can stay as long as you like

Through buried paths, where sleepy twilight dreams The summer time away.

I was bargaining for time away from Hollywood, and Columbia was bargaining for money. I got what I wanted and they got what they wanted. They knew I was so anxious to do Born Yesterday that I’d have done it for a dollar. They gave me the next best thing.

There’s not a second of my time on tour where I’m not engaged with something. It is the hardest job – a great job, and I love it – but truly the hardest job I’ve ever had. There’s no time away, there’s no time off, and it’s so exhausting. I drive myself around in a van, and I don’t have the money or infrastructure to do it differently, and I’m involved at every level. I feel like I’m just collecting info, and can’t wait to get home to try and process these.

Don’t waste your time away thinkin’ ’bout yesterday’s blues.

I do like our young talent here, but it needs to get better. And we need some better veterans if we can go out and get them. We all get discouraged by losing. I sit there every game and see the little things that happen and you feel like they cost you games. But the reality is that we are still some time away from being what I hope we can be. And that’s going to take some good decision-making on our part.

I like some time away to recharge the batteries, not only physically, but emotionally so that I get to the point where I’m just dying to direct again and then that’s the right time to do it again.

Position yourself to succeed by doing the other things in your life that rejuvenate you. You can create little islands of time away from your novel that will help preserve your balance. Exhaustion will affect both your writing’s quality and your productivity.

It can sound trite if you just say citizens need to be educated for democracy to work, but for him it wasn’t trite. It was really this strenuous challenge to citizens to use their moments of leisure, which he defined as time away from work, to collect the facts that were necessary for full democratic participation.

If you take the time away, you take the character away.

I just need some time away to remember why I stay.

When you are living your dreams it doesn’t feel like work, but it’s important to take some time away for yourself. It’s goot to make some time for your own company.

A good woman must constantly resist alluring and deceptive messages from many sources telling her that she is entitled to more time away from her responsibilities and that she deserves a life of greater ease and independence. But with personal revelation, she can prioritize correctly and navigate this life confidently.

I was able to complete a motocross track at my house, and that’s something I’ve always enjoyed. That time away is really what developed the passion I needed to come back and compete.

I just feel like it gets harder and harder every year with Ace getting older and time away from my husband and even family events such as birthdays and friends’ weddings and things that I’ve always just missed out on because of softball.

And then he was kissing her, and she was struck by his nearness, his solidity, his smell. It was of the garden and the earth and the sun. When Cassandra opened her eyes, she realized she was crying. She wasn’t sad, though, these were the tears of being found, of having come home after a long time away.

Time away from thinking about something is as valuable – perhaps even more so – than directly thinking about it.

It seems like a cliche, but you do grow up a lot faster when you travel a lot, go through things like this interview, spend time away from home and hang around with other actors. It’s inevitable that you’re not going to have a so-called normal childhood.