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). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.46, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got to pick what was in them, and then he'd make them up.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Father, Reading, Stories

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• It's been a great place to get in touch with what people are really thinking. And to make contact with readers and other writers. Egalitarian, wide open, like the Wild West!

  Greg Bear

  Thinking, Egalitarianism, People

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• My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Sensibility, Steers

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• It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Sleep, Insomnia, Men

  The Crack-up 'Sleeping and Walking'

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• And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers come from those backgrounds, so does much of the fiction.

  Stanley Schmidt

  Doe, Fiction, Enough

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• I like this job - most days I have a chance to make breakfast and take the kids to school or to read 'em a bedtime story. It's almost like a normal life.

  Mark Harmon

  Jobs, School, Kids

  Biography/Personal Quotes, 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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• 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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• 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'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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• Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can remember.

  Louise Brown

  Children, Reading, Sleep

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We have a demon, we have an angel inside, within our souls, and you just play with it, and sometimes the evil part of you wins the battle, in a very important decision, or in a bedtime, with your lover. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

  Demian Bichir

  Angel, Winning, Play

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Jose Saramago

  Needs, Use, Might

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

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

  Ian Hunter

  Thinking, Observers

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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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