Brad Pitt

That's the most important thing to me - that if I'm gonna spend however long it takes to make a movie, give up 14 hours a day for however many weeks or months, then it's very important for me to know that I'm working with people who I respect and enjoy and that we're going for something together.

Actor

Viola Davis

I think many women are successful in their professional lives - they are making the money and all that - but in their personal lives are a complete mess, because they haven't paid any attention to it, because they spent all of their time being successful.

American Actress

Venus Williams

Sjogren's is something you live with your whole life. The good news for me is now I know what's happening after spending years not knowing... I feel like I can get better and move on.

American Tennis Player

Morgan Freeman

Life doesn't offer you promises whatsoever so it's very easy to become, 'Whatever happened to... ?' It's great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better.

American Actor

Alan Rickman

Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.

British Actor

Josh Billings

There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.

American Comedian

Will Rogers

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

John Wooden

I like to spend time in the past, with the things that have been important to me.

American Coach

Shakira

I did not want to spend the rest of my life not being able to ride in a nice car.

Musician

Leonardo da Vinci

Italian Artist

Use 'spend' when talking about money, implying a transfer of wealth for goods or services.

Financial context

'Spend' can have a positive or negative connotation based on context, suggesting wise or reckless financial choices.

Spend wisely

Different collocations can imply various intentions, like 'spend money' (generic) versus 'spend a fortune' (large amount).

Collocation nuance

Use 'spend' to show how long you commit to an activity or place, giving sense of duration.

Time use

'Spend' can reflect different attitudes towards time: productive ('spend time working') or unproductive ('spend time idling').

Productive or not

Use 'spend' to describe the exertion of physical or mental effort towards achieving something.

Effort expenditure

'Spend' can express the use of emotional energy, like patience or empathy, in a situation.

Emotional investment

Use 'spend' to talk about staying somewhere temporarily, usually for leisure or rest.

Temporary stay

'Spend the night' can also hint at romantic or sexual connotations depending on the context.

Nightlife connotation

In a technical context, 'spend' relates to using up a resource until it's gone.

Resource depletion

Remember, 'spend' isn't just about money; it can be about any consumable resource.

Not always money

 and we spent much of our history coming up with ways to detect them, from medieval torture devices to polygraphs, blood-pressure and breathing monitors, voice-stress analyzers, eye trackers, infrared brain scanners, and even the 400-pound electroencephalogram. But although such tools have worked under certain circumstances,

The language of lying —...

 is so complex and so expensive that it's really only done at major universities and large institutions. And so in order to be able to access the brain, you really need to dedicate your life and spend six and a half years as a graduate student just to become a neuroscientist to get access to these tools.

How to control someone...

 And as the days roll by, the cubs continue to thrive under Giles's watchful eye. So, we try and spend a little bit of time with them every day. It's really important, because, ultimately, from day one, we've been building a bond with them. And the fact that they just get used to hearing my voice

Handraising Twin Tiger...

 The baby crawls down the middle of the mother's three vaginas, then must climb up to the pouch, where she spends the next 6-11 months suckling. Even after the baby kangaroo leaves this warm haven, she'll return to suckle milk. Sometimes, she's just one of three babies her mother is caring for.

The three different ways...

 So, spend some time living in those tasks and the answers to those questions, and you're well on your way to building your own fictional world. Once you know your world as well as you hope your reader will, set your characters free in it and see what happens. And ask yourself,

How to build a fictional...

 So social scientists have spent a lot of time looking at the effects of our body language, or other people's body language, on judgments. And we make sweeping judgments and inferences from body language. And those judgments can predict really meaningful life outcomes

Your body language may...

 I've ever seen in my life and I've spent my entire life underwater. and I've seen plenty of tiger sharks. This was like a truck. This was a huge tiger shark and it was coming right for me. That's when I did have a little bit of a panic.

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 spent this was real weather the writing was published or not it was something that had to be written to say what needed to be said to validate my reality

How to deal with...

 This video evidence helped to build a picture of a ruthless political assassination. Both women were released after spending two years in prison.

The Murder of Kim...

 a mud skipper a fish that spends most of its life

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