Morning Quotes - Page 29

• I tend to start at 9 o'clock in the morning and write until 3. Those are my best hours. They fit the other rhythms of the world. So I write for six hours, pretty much without any breaks.

  Justin Cronin

  Writing, World, Six

  "Inside Justin Cronin's 'The Passage'". Interview with Christian Duchateau, www.cnn.com. May 15, 2011.

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• But when I felt like I had something to prove? Then I got up early every morning and worked all day long. I didn't know if I had any more talent than anyone else directing, but I knew I could work hard at it, and so I did.

  Ben Affleck

  Hard Work, Up Early, Long

  ""Argo" director/star Ben Affleck grows smarter and more ambitious with each picture". Interview with Christopher Borrelli, www.chicagotribune.com. October 10, 2012.

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• I had an amazing childhood, lots of love. But my dad worked his tail off, getting up at 4 in the morning and going off at 5, 6 o'clock, yet he always had time to spend with his kids and his wife.

  Criss Angel

  Dad, Kids, Wife

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• I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.

  Reverend Malcolm Boyd

  Eye, Night, Use

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• Hope is the motivation that empowers the unemployed, enabling them to get out of bed every single morning with unbounded enthusiasm as they look for work.

  Emanuel Cleaver

  Motivation, Empowering, Bed

  Emanuel Cleaver DNC speech, www.politico.com. September 05, 2012.

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• Think for a moment about what Obamacare has done: The federal government has come up with its own (ever-evolving) definition of 'health insurance,' which now includes free access to sterilization, contraception, and certain abortifacients such as the morning-after pill.

  John Cornyn

  Thinking, Obamacare, Government

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• In Rio Bravo when Duke makes love to Feathers, the scene dissolves to the next morning where we see him putting on his vest and almost humming. It was subtle, but you knew what happened. Give me a towel and some blankets any day!

  Angie Dickinson

  Giving, Making Love, Towels

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• I like it to be quiet, and it usually occurs in the morning. There are three or four places in my house where I can write and I like to keep moving around. The moment I find myself falling into a necessary routine, I change it. I'd rather not accumulate superstitions.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Moving, Fall, Writing

  "Poetry Questions: Stephen Dobyns" by Rebecca Foresman, www.newyorker.com. April 2, 2012.

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• That's what keeps me up at three in the morning: Who's looking at reviews of Cabin Boy right now?

  Chris Elliott

  Boys, Three, Cabins

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• I think public service is a calling and you do it as long as the things that brought you into the office can continue getting you up in the morning and as long as there's still work to get done.

  Anthony Foxx

  Thinking, Long, Office

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• Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting.

  Caio Fonseca

  Practice, Piano, Painting

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• And if I don't be there by morning, she'll know that I must've spent the night in jail.

  Eric Clapton

  Night, Order, Law

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• I'm not a great consumer. I always ask myself, 'Do I really need that piece?' I have friends who have 300 pairs of shoes; how would you leave the house in the morning?

  Mireille Guiliano

  Shoes, House, Needs

  "My life in shopping". Interview with Stephanie Powell, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2006.

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• If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It's a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste.

  Marc Andreessen

  Real, People, Waiting

  "Andreessen on Charlie Rose: 'I Am Creating A Fund'". Interview with Erick Schonfeld, techcrunch.com. February 20, 2009.

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• Let's be honest: the trappings of investment banking are quite tempting. I do miss it sometimes. And to be honest, there was a time I'd read the 'WSJ' in the morning, and for years I have done that.

  Chetan Bhagat

  Years, Missing, Banking

  "Q&A: Chetan Bhagat on His New Book". Interview with Diksha Sahni, blogs.wsj.com. September 19, 2011.

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• At the end of the day, I don't need to work, and I think it's good that I have the drive and willpower to get up and do something in the morning even though I don't need to.

  Petra Stunt

  Thinking, The End Of The Day, Needs

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• All you did was wreck my bed and in the morning kick me in the head.

  Rod Stewart

  Relationship, Wrecks, Bed

  Song: Maggie May

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• On a cold and gray Chicago morning another little baby child is born in the ghetto, and his Mama cries.

  Elvis Presley

  Baby, Children, Ghetto

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• Coffee in the morning, cocaine afternoons.

  Jackson Browne

  Coffee, Alcohol, Drug

  Song: The Road, Album: Running on Empty, 1977

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• Every morning just before breakfast I don't want no coffee or tea, just me and my good Buddy Wieser, that's all I ever need.

  George Thorogood

  Coffee, Alcohol, Drug

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• What happens when all the parts of childhood are soldered down, when the young no longer have the time or space to play in their family's garden, cycle home in the dark with the stars and moon illuminating their route, walk down through the woods to the river, lie on their backs on hot July days in the long grass, or watch cockleburs, lit by morning sun, like bumblees quivering on harp wires? What then?

  Richard Louv

  Nature, Stars, Lying

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.81, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Oft a little morning rain Foretells a pleasant day.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Nature, Rain, Littles

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.54, The Floating Press

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• The morning sun Radiantly Rises above the frosty woods.

  Dakotsu Iida

  Nature, Woods, Sun

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• Yeah, I'll pay your cab fare home, you can even use my best cologne, just don't be here in the morning when I wake up.

  Rod Stewart

  Home, Wake Up, Use

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• Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning, and the first thing that I knew there was milk and toast and honey and a bowl of oranges, too.

  Joni Mitchell

  Orange, Honey, Firsts

  Song: Chelsea Morning

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