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The film company wants you to look fantastic, and borrows clothes and diamonds from designers and jewellers for you to wear. I will not do that again. It is a pernicious pastime. Models wear designer things, so you become like a salesperson. There are actual signs outside the ceremony that say, `Turn around.` Why? Because they want you to advertise the dress. I don`t want to be involved in an advertising jamboree.

- Julie Christie

I`ve smoked ten marijuana cigarettes in my life. And they`ve given me a sore throat, a headache, and made me sleepy. I can`t understand why anyone would wanna use the stuff. It seems such an impractical pastime as you can get sent to jail for it

- Frank Zappa

I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It`s America`s pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year.

- Mark McGwire

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

- Robert Benchley

Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime.

- Joseph Cornell

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

- Alberto Vilar

Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.

- Alice Hoglan

But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world.

- Allan Gurganus

True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself; hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person

- Albert Camus