Evan Dando Quotes

Basically, between 1989 and 1994, I hadn't taken a vacation.

Evan Dando

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• Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Work
  • Vacation
  • Too Much

• Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Book

• Having someone cook all your meals is the best vacation ever!

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Best
  • Someone
  • Vacation

• I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realise that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Great
  • Popular

• My best vacation was renting a boat and motoring along the Adriatic, going along the Croatian coast, before it became so fashionable. I've also sailed around the Turkish islands, the Greek islands and Sicily.

  

  Ian Schrager
  • Best
  • Boat
  • Greek

• I had one of the most outdoorsy childhoods you could imagine. I basically lived in the woods until I was 13. My dad and I built a huge treehouse in our backyard in Chesterfield, about 30 feet in the air. And we'd vacation on an island in Michigan, where I hunted a deer that we ate.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • Dad
  • Air
  • Feet

• The women's movement ruined a permanent vacation.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Women
  • Movement
  • Vacation

• I prefer to do cable TV because it allows you the time to do other things. I definitely have an eye on doing more work in features and playing different characters, but I am also a big fan of going on vacation and playing golf and going to the beach.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Time
  • Money
  • Vacation

• I'm pleased to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I realize I am a writer people buy to take on vacation.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Great
  • Vacation

• Once when I was working for the Daily News, I was summoned back to work from vacation because Donald Trump announced he was getting a divorce.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Work
  • Trump
  • Daily

• A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • You
  • Take
  • Vacation

• I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Love
  • Food
  • Need

• From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for women, that was defined as the right to choose an interesting a career, a high-status mate, the desirable handbag or vacation, the perfect family size, and a definitionally fruitless quest for 'perfection.'

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Women
  • Family
  • High

• I admired the way McCain worked on campaign finance reform. I admired the way Nancy Pelosi stiffened the Democrats' spine during the health care debate. I admire the way Barack Obama has raised a dog in the White House without ever putting it on the roof of the car for a vacation drive.

  

  Gail Collins
  • House
  • Health
  • Car

• I coach soccer, and my wife and I are very involved in our kids' lives. Our family is busy with doctor appointments, soccer practice, school, work, travel, vacation... life.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• New York reminds me a little bit of Canada and my upbringing. Los Angeles is like living in a vacation, and you have to pinch yourself every once and a while.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Yourself
  • New York
  • Vacation

• You know what, I'm happy to say that everything outside of 'Dexter' feels like a vacation, and I don't mean to say anything negative about the show. It's just a different kind of work. Emotionally it's taxing and complicated, and that's a great thing.

  

  Jennifer Carpenter
  • Work
  • Great
  • Different

• I don't have to work another day of my life, thank God, but I'm in a place where I probably work as hard or harder today than I ever have, but I do it because I want to, not because I have to. What is the difference between work and play? I think the difference is purpose. When your vocation becomes your vacation, the old quote, you know that's when you made it.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Thinking
  • Today
  • Purpose

• You always have to appeal to your audience. You always have to consider how well your project will do in terms of admissions. I abandoned many stories because of that. But I don't get too down about it. It's something I accepted from the time I decided to work in films. I could always do something else if I got sick of it, like draw manga, or make my own films. I found it pointless sitting in my house not working, though I'd like to go on extended vacations from time to time.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • House
  • Film
  • Audience

• There is no bigger fight than Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder.

  

  Deontay Wilder

• What's needed is patience and composure. The bank deposits of the Greek people are fully secure. The same applies to the payment of wage and pension - they are also guaranteed.

  

  Alexis Tsipras
  • People
  • Patience
  • Greek

• Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of incredible insights.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Time
  • Children
  • Same

• Basically, between 1989 and 1994, I hadn't taken a vacation.

  

  Evan Dando
  • Vacation