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"It was the night things changed, can you see it now? These walls that they put up to hold us back fell down It's a revolution, throw your hands up, 'cause we never gave in"
"I'm thankful that when I go to bed at night, that I have been myself that day. And, I have been myself all the days before that."
"I didn't always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night."
"I've never been fascinated by the party lifestyle. Penciling in a night to get wasted is not something I want to do."
"Nobody knew the Iron Man had fallen. Night passed."
"When you're traveling on a body of songs that you have played for many, many years, for most nights of your life - I'm sure you've experienced this yourself - it's not that every night is not it's own thing. It is."
"You play the one song that people want to hear the most every night, and for every audience that's a special thing. And usually that translates back to you."
"You cried for night - it falls. Now cry in darkness."
"The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living."
"In every landscape, the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and that is seen from the first hillock aswell as from the top of the Alleghanies. The stars at night stoop down over the brownest, homeliest common, with all the spiritual magnificence which they shed on the Campagna, or on the marble deserts of Egypt."
"A mob is a society obodies, voluntarily bereaving themselves oreason, and traversing its work. The mob is man, voluntarily descending to the nature othe beast. Its fit hour oactivity is night; its actions are insane, like its whole constitution."
"When the night is darkest, the stars come out."
"In Garden Party or 40 Days and 40 Nights, I played characters who people dont necessarily like; I just find some humanity in them."
"A lady has every right to defend herself against unsought advances. And creatures of the night."
"I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night, and then the nap takes me."
"I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears."
"I have to say, doing theater, that's what you're trained to do. Doing film, when I first started doing it, felt like something else entirely. It felt like the difference between, I don't know, waiting tables and painting a great work of art. It's night and day. I didn't feel like it was even acting."
"Where I trained at in Florida, though, they didn't have Jack in the Box. There were a couple of nights where they were all I could think about. But, it worked out for me at the combine. It paid off."
"There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'."
"They all dreamt of each other that night, as was natural, considering how thin the partitions were between them, and how strangely they had been lifted off the earth to sit next each other in mid-ocean, and see every detail of each others' faces, and hear whatever they chanced to say."
