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• By the time I was ten or eleven, I had a song-book and I was writing everything down. It used to just be my hobby but now it's like my diary, it's where I can go in my own little bubble.

  Ella Henderson

  Song, Book, Writing

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• ...all along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a craft, or a technique, well, I've always been taken with Henry Geldzahler's answer to that question when he said, I thought it was a hobby.

  David Hockney

  Photography, Art, Taken

  Lawrence Weschler, David Hockney, Getty Foundation (2008). “True to life: twenty-five years of conversations with David Hockney”, Univ of California Pr

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• Speaking for myself, but [Kriota] probably [agrees], I don't do different things because I have to, but certainly my career's taken a lot of twists and turns because things work out for a while and then something shifts and they don't. I went into illustration as a way of supporting my comics career. Then I got really interested in performance and I knew that was always going to be more of a hobby, but that's something I've kept doing.

  Robert Sikoryak

  Taken, Illustration, Careers

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't have any hobbies because my working job is my hobby. What I do is I spend my whole time looking through telescopes and having brain scans and buying books about various different ideas and I just sit around, that's my life.

  Robin Ince

  Jobs, Book, Ideas

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• My big hobby is photography. I collect stereo photographs from the 19th century.

  Brian May

  Photography, Century, Bigs

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• My own hobbies are rather quiet. I like to read and do needlework, and I love animals.

  Betsy Byars

  Animal, Quiet, Needlework

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• When I was acting, as a hobby, I would devour popular science books and keep up-to-date about what was going on in the science community. And then, suddenly my hobby became my job. I didn't one day say, "I'm not acting. I'm now going to be a science person."

  Dallas Campbell

  Jobs, Book, Community

  Source: collider.com

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• I have a nice office. I have a nice house... So I'm not denying myself some great things. I just don't happen to have expensive hobbies.

  Bill Gates

  Nice, Office, House

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• Sitting around with funny people, banging out jokes and creating a television show. I have no hobbies, no outside interests. I'm fine with spending 14 hours a day putting a show together with tape and string.

  Jon Stewart

  Creating, People, Together

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• I recommend everyone who DJs to do it as a hobby and make sure you have a day job or are going to school. Only 100 DJs in the world make a living doing this, by that I mean making a good, comfortable living.

  Armin van Buuren

  Jobs, Mean, School

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• My kids are my main hobby but, now they’ve gotten older, they’ve forced me to do things without them. I do a lot of things with my boat. My wife and I enjoy boating.

  Ric Flair

  Kids, Wife, Boat

  Source: smackdown5.moonfruit.com

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• Smoking is, if not my life, then at least my hobby. I love to smoke. Smoking is fun. Smoking is cool. Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult. It makes growing up genuinely worthwhile. I am quite well aware of the hazards of smoking. Smoking is not a healthful pastime, it is true. Smoking is indeed no bracing dip in the ocean, no strenuous series of calisthenics, no two laps around the reservoir. On the other hand, smoking has to its advantage the fact that is a quiet pursuit. Smoking is, in effect a dignified sport.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Sports, Growing Up, Fun

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.292, Vintage

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• I'm definitely an athlete who has a hobby playing music. I've been doing baseball since I was 5 or 6. It's the only thing I've ever thought of really my whole life, and music came into my life actually in '99, playing and singing. It's definitely been the only hobby I've had that I can't put down.

  Bronson Arroyo

  Baseball, Athlete, Singing

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Music was just played all around me, and I couldn't run from it. My pops, he never learned to sing, but he'd have his little drink on the side, and he'd put on the best of his hits - gangster rap or oldies - and he'd sing all day on his mic plugged up to the wall set-up. It's a trip. I've just seen that my whole life, so I've always just had a love for music. By the time I was 13, I really just jumped in it. And it's something I took on to have as a hobby.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Running, Wall, Rap

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I'm one of the lucky people that, my job is my passion, is my hobby. I hope this doesn't sound arrogant: I truly feel that this is what I'm meant to do, to swim and to talk about protecting the environment, my two passions.

  Lewis Pugh

  Jobs, Passion, Two

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• I was particularly anxious that I shoot the tires out of the class system. All it is these days is a hobby of certain masochists, and certain sadists.

  William Monahan

  Class, Tire, These Days

  Source: collider.com

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• It has ever been my hobby-horse to see rising in America an empire of liberty, and a prospect of two or three hundred millions of freemen, without one noble or one king among them. You say it is impossible. If I should agree with you in this, I would still say, let us try the experiment, and preserve our equality as long as we can. A better system of education for the common people might preserve them long from such artificial inequalities as are prejudicial to society, by confounding the natural distinctions of right and wrong, virtue and vice.

  John Adams

  Horse, Kings, Freedom

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1854). “Works: with a life of the author”, p.546

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• Very few people have a lot of time to dedicate to one hobby. I was fortunate to have started so young, because when you're young you have nothing but time. Hours and hours to burn up on something as silly as a movie.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Silly, People, Hours

  Robert Rodriguez (1995). “Rebel Without a Crew, Or, How a 23-year-old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player”, E P Dutton

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• There is no question about that. Business is my hobby. It is not a burden to me. In any case Reliance now can run without me.

  Dhirubhai Ambani

  Inspirational, Running, Powerful

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• Singing was more of a hobby, and I was terrified of anyone's opinions. The only reason I kept doing it was because people responded positively, and if they hadn't I don't really know if I'd feel the same. I'm not into fighting for people's affections.

  SZA

  Fighting, People, Singing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The time I like listening to music most on headphones is, I have a game I play with my brother, he's a musician as well.And he sends me MIDI files of keyboard pieces. So, these are pieces where I just get a MIDI file; I don't know what instrument he was playing them on; I know nothing about his section of the sound of the piece, and then when I'm sitting on trains I do a lot of train travel I turn them into pieces of music. And I love to do that; it's my favorite hobby.

  Brian Eno

  Brother, Favorite Hobby, Games

  Interview by Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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• It's a really fun hobby to set imagery to music, and finding the right songs for that. Your favorite song in the world might not work at all... for one reason or another.

  Zach Braff

  Song, Fun, World

  "Talking Scrubs with Star Zach Braff and Creator Bill Lawrence". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. November 28, 2006.

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• But, of course, one relies on the everyday people who just simply like your music, for whom you may not be a hobby but they enjoy being in your presence at a concert.

  Cliff Richard

  People, Everyday, May

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• Politics was my hobby, and I really spent 25 years as a full-time homemaker. I tell the feminists the only person's permission I had to get was my husband's.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Husband, Years, Feminist

  "Phyllis Schlafly Still Championing The Anti-Feminist Fight". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. March 30, 2011.

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• I still write poetry from time to time, but my whole life is so music-oriented at this point that it's hard for me to even think about having other hobbies.

  Jack Tatum

  Writing, Thinking, Life Is

  Source: pitchfork.com

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