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• My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.

  Sam Abell

  Photography, Father, Dark

  "A Life in Photos: Q&A with Sam Abell". Interview with Jenny Wells, uknow.uky.edu. July 20, 2012.

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• After a long moment I closed the freezer door. I wanted to lie down and press my cheek against the cool linoleum. Instead I reached out with my little finger and flipped the Barbie's head. It went thack thack against the door. I flipped it again. Thack thack. Whee. I had a new hobby.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Lying, Doors, Long

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.102, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Old Flossie settle down on the other side of What-the-Dickens and dragged some handiwork out of a sack. She armed herself with two thorns shaped into knitting needles. A wodge of curlicued metallic scrubbing pad supplied the threat. 'I knit handcuffs as a hobby,' explained Old Flossie happily, and set to work. 'Idle hands get up to no good, so I like to be prepared in case I meet up with any idle hands.

  Gregory Maguire

  Knitting, Hands, Two

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• Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the ages of eight and ten I collected avidly. I'd pore over my Stanley Gibbons book, obsessively checking my collection's value. I always hoped I'd stumble across a really valuable one, a Penny Black or an Inverted Jenny, but it wasn't to be.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Book, School, Boys

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  If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies.

  Jon Stewart

  Motivational, Sticks, Daily Show

  "The Daily Show", January 22, 2009.

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• I grew up in a really small town with not a lot of money, and I liked singing, but it was just something that was a hobby.

  Justin Bieber

  Singing, Towns, Small Town

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• Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever, and the general level of his ecological education.

  Aldo Leopold

  Men, Hay Fever, Levels

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.66, Library of America

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• It's always gratifying to share a hobby with a friend, and pining for erstwhile suitors falls into that category. In the months to come, Libby and I would analyze our respective exes with the gusto and intellectual rigor of Jesuits.

  Patricia Marx

  Fall, Intellectual, Gusto

  Patricia Marx (2008). “Him Her Him Again The End of Him”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• People ask me what my hobbies are in interviews, and I always say biking. But all I bike for is to get to rehearsal more quickly.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  People, Rehearsal, Interviews

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• The music stuff is just a hobby.

  Tom Felton

  Stuff

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• I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.

  Orson Welles

  Making Money, Abandon, Persons

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• My life is really quite conservative. I've been married nearly 50 years. I don't have hobbies or children. I don't much care to travel. I've never had a big social life. I really just stay home, except when I go to work.

  Christopher Walken

  Children, Home, Years

  "Christopher Walken: 'I'm a regular guy" by Danny Leigh, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2013.

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• I like to go to work, and also, I don't have any kids. I don't have any hobbies. I don't like to travel. So going to work is kind of it.

  Christopher Walken

  Travel, Kids, Kind

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• Most recently, I learned another hobby: baking. It's so much fun to mix all the ingredients and to see the cake come out nice. It's so rewarding when the cake comes out great and tastes great.

  Yani Tseng

  Fun, Nice, Cake

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• When I still lived in Manhattan, people-watching was my hobby, and I spent many Sunday afternoons eating up the scene from a window seat at a Starbucks on Broadway.

  Susan Orlean

  Sunday, People, Manhattan

  "On the Wing" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. February 8, 2011.

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• Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby - nothing more.

  Bonnie Raitt

  School, Guitar, Childhood

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• My hobbies include maintaining my physical and mental health. It's a full-time job. Yoga definitely helps for both of them. I'm a big fan of relaxing and not having a schedule. That's my best way to keep from going crazy.

  Olivia Thirlby

  Jobs, Crazy, Yoga

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing is a hobby - each discipline is its own world with its own high standards. Of course, every artist has 'minor works' that they do, but I don't think I have any 'minor disciplines.'

  Patti Smith

  Artist, Thinking, Discipline

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• I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd get your supplies, and then you'd use your imagination.

  Amy Sedaris

  Imagination, Use, Crafts

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• I was rapping as a hobby. It was something I did for my friends and just played around on ideas and stuff like that.

  Brandy Norwood

  Rap, Ideas, Stuff

  "Brandy thanks Timberland for endorsing her new rap career" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. December 9, 2009.

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• I would like to make sleeping my new hobby, except that I'm too tired, really, to have a hobby. But a girl can always dream.

  Susan Orlean

  Girl, Dream, Tired

  "Perchance to Dream" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. September 23, 2010.

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• Television is the most interesting hobby I've ever had.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Interesting, Television, Most Interesting

  Kevin O'Leary (2011). “Cold Hard Truth: On Business, Money & Life”, p.210, Doubleday Canada

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• I think fashion is a lot of fun. I love clothes. More than fashion or brand labels, I love design. I love the thought that people put into clothes. I love when clothes make cultural statements and I think personal style is really cool. I also freely recognize that fashion should be a hobby.

  Anne Hathaway

  Fashion, Fun, Thinking

  "Anne Hathaway Talks The Devil Wears Prada". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. June 28, 2006.

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• It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood. I can always go to my family with any doubts or questions I may have.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  People, Doubt, Important

  "Vanessa Hudgens Interview BEASTLY". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 28, 2011.

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• Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Passion, Games

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