"Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time - and I liked it. I still like being alone."
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"My sister Naomi and I always wanted to go to Tahiti. We planned a fantastic holiday to visit several islands, but at the last moment, Naomi cancelled. It was the first time I'd holidayed alone, and it was absolutely the best."
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"Most actions derive not from your own initiative but from your family circumstances, your education, your calling, and so on. You must therefore give up a little time to performing actions which derive from yourself alone. They need not be important; quite insignificant actions fulfill the same purpose."
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"I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own."
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"I tried acupuncture, the patch, and hypnosis, but found that I needed to do it alone - when the time was right for me."
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"Time alone reveals the just man but you might discern a bad man in a single day."
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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."
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"I actually like spending time alone - it doesn't bother me at all."
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"Time alone is irreplaceable. Waste it not."
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"I spend most of my time in a room alone where eight hours go by, and I have no sense of time. I work seven days a week, and I live in this sort of vague subconscious fog a lot."
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"Sparky Anderson taught me this a long time ago: 'There's three ways you can treat a person. You can pat 'em on the butt, you can kick 'em in the butt, or you can leave 'em alone."
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"I'm an introvert. I get my energy by spending time alone. I need that hour or two to myself every day."
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"When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other people, and my writing sucked. Now I have a laptop; I can do the most tedious part of my job in a public place."
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"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."
1
"This is how many people become artists, musicians, writers, computer programmers, record-holding athletes, scientists... by spending time alone practicing what they love."
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"I used to spend a lot of time alone as a kid, creating characters and doing voices in my room, and I thought to myself, I'm either going to go absolutely nuts, or I'm going to find something to put that energy into."
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"And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone."
2
"It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone."
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"I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing."
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"One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise."
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