I spent ages figuring out things like viewpoint, how you tell the story, and so on.
I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida.
Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.
People of deserts cannot know the importance of forests; to know this, one must first have sweet memories spent in the forests!
I've spent my fortune, tarnished my public view and made myself the brunt of punch line after punch line.
I spent a lot of my 20s just trying to make other people happy, rather than trying to figure out if doing that made me happy.
If you think people in your life are normal, then you undoubtedly have not spent any time getting to know the abnormal side of them.
It is not for the State Department or even the Secretary of State to say when and how the resources of the American people will be spent.
Apparently, if you live until 75, you'll have spent 25 years in bed, so it makes sense to have a decent mattress.
I spent hours as a kid on the putting green of the local golf course imagining I was sinking a putt to win the Masters.
I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.
I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.
My obsession with eating out partly comes from having spent 10 long years at English boarding schools in the 1980s, where food was pretty low on the list.
I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
I have proudly spent several periods in government, but I'm not a career politician. I come from a family of 'citizen soldiers.'
People ask what I really did in the three years between 'The Dreaming' and 'Hounds of Love.' I spent it with my family, living a normal home life.
Chicago is fun. We've spent a lot of time there, about 15 years. My wife's parents and family live in Chicago, so that's a big selling point.
I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done.
We've seen more reform in the last year than we've seen in decades, and we haven't spent a dime yet. It's staggering how the Recovery Act is driving change.
I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him.
If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?
