Bedtime Quotes - Page 2

• American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.

  Don DeLillo

  Reality, Dangerous, Margins

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). "Conversaciones con Don DeLillo", p.46, Univ. Press of Mississippi.

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• El insomnio es un alimentador asqueroso. Se alimenta de cualquier tipo de pensamiento, incluso de pensar en no pensar.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Sueño, Sueño, Insomnio

  Clifton Fadiman (1957). "Any Number Can Play", Cleveland : World Publishing Company

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• That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.

  Antonia Fraser

  Writing, Prison, Concern

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• Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work.

  Lytton Strachey

  Giving, Age, Majority

  Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.72, Delphi Classics

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• Granted, the writers, directors, producers, and that community make a great deal of money. But they might be choosing to do a whole lot of other things for the living they make.

  Norman Lear

  Community, Directors, Might

  Entrevista con Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. 27 de abril de 2005.

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• Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood.

  Richard O'Brien

  Hollywood, Very Good, Deals

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• Me gusta este trabajo: la mayoría de los días puedo preparar el desayuno y llevar a los niños al colegio o leerles un cuento antes de dormir. Es casi como una vida normal.

  Mark Harmon

  Trabajo, Escuela, Niños

  Biografía/Citas personales, www.imdb.com.

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• Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.

  Edmund Vance Cooke

  Sleep, Fighting, Insomnia

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• On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid narcotic is pushed back a bit.

  Peter Straub

  Liquid, Afternoon, Desks

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• I'd love to do some bedtime stories for kids or that kind of thing. But with the demands of the shooting schedule and balancing the demands of being a single mother, it's a wonder you can squeeze in anything.

  Roma Downey

  Mother, Kids, Stories

  "Roma Downey: No voice of an angel" by Donna Freydkin, www.cnn.com. October 15, 1999.

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• Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call.

  Bill Walsh

  Sports, Editors, Wake Up

  "Copy Desk: Don Podesta and Bill Walsh". Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. February 16, 2005.

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• Gran parte de mi tiempo de lectura durante la última década y media lo he pasado leyendo en voz alta a mis hijos. Los rituales de cena, baño, cuentos y sueño a la hora de dormir de esos niños han sido un elemento básico de mi vida y algunos de los momentos mejores y más especiales que puedo recordar.

  Louise Brown

  Niños, Lectura, Sueño

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• I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I was about two/three to when I was about 15. In fact they didn't stop until I eventually kind of kicked them out of my bedroom.

  Samuel West

  Reading, Two, Parent

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• I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

  Ed Koch

  Politics, Firsts, Speak

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• I'm not great at bedtime stories. Bedtime stories are supposed to put the kid to sleep. My kid gets riled up and then my wife has to come in and go, 'All right! Get out of the room.'

  Adam Sandler

  Sleep, Kids, Wife

  Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 21, 2008.

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• I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it.

  Patti Davis

  Moving, Writing, Overwhelming

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• I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Writing, Catholic, Literature

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• I usually doze off between 7:30 and 9 p.m. while putting my baby to sleep. Then I suddenly wake up remembering I'm an adult with no bedtime. I spend the next four hours catching up on reading, e-mails, and other adult pursuits until I collapse for good until sunrise.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Baby, Reading, Sleep

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• I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.

  Ian Hunter

  Thinking, Observers

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• Tenemos un demonio, tenemos un ángel dentro, dentro de nuestras almas, y simplemente juegas con ello, y a veces la parte malvada de ti gana la batalla, en una decisión muy importante, o en la cama, con tu amante. A veces ganas, a veces pierdes.

  Demian Bichir

  Angel, Ganar, Jugar

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• Physical activity within four hours of bedtime and illness can also cause this type of insomnia.

  Alistair Sinclair

  Insomnia, Four, Causes

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• I was so unhealthy. I used to go to 'Cold Stone Creamery,' get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Ice Cream, Orange, Stones

  "High School Musical Star Vanessa Hudgens on Cheetos, Working Out, and Breaking Up (with Zac Efron)". Interview with Claire Connors, www.shape.com.

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• Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.

  José Saramago

  Needs, Use, Might

  "The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis". Book by Jose Saramago, 1984.

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• Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it.

  Alton Brown

  Hate, Writing, Done

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• Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Writing, Achievement, Asking

  Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James East Irby (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.90, New Directions Publishing

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