"I lose sleep at night wondering whether we are intelligent enough to figure out the universe. I don't know."
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"The world, I think, has too many late-night talk shows."
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"That the north star is the brightest in the night sky. I'd guess about 9 out of 10 people think this. But it does not require a grant from the National Science Foundation to learn the answer. The North Star is not even in the top 40 in the night sky. It's the 49th brightest star. Rather dull and boring by most measures."
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"Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees that some said walked in the night."
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"The biggest pitfall to avoid is not writing. Not writing is really, really easy to do, especially if you're a young writer. The hope that elves will come in the night and finish it for you, is a very common one to have. That is my main recommendation - you have to write, and you have to finish what you write and beyond that, it's all detail."
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"In a Ramada Inn near the grapevine, they stop to rest for the night. Traveling down south, looking for good times. Visiting old friends feels right."
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"Got to fight to control the violent side, every day and night."
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"Many years have passed since that night. The wall of the staircase up which I had watched the light of his candle gradually climb was long ago demolished. And in myself, too, many things have perished which I imagined would last for ever, and new ones have arisen, giving birth to new sorrows and new joys which in those days I could not have foreseen, just as now the old are hard to understand."
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"At night I can write for hours."
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"I go through phases when I've been filming where I wake up in the middle of the night and I think I'm being filmed."
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"The normal 21-year-old doesn't have to worry about their night out being put on TMZ."
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"Most of the time one night blends into the next and weeks blend into weeks and months into other months. And sooner or later we all die. But at the beginning of the night anything’s possible."
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"It's the time of the night I like best, when most people are asleep and it feels like the world belongs completely to my friends and me, as though nothing exists apart from out little circle: everywhere else is darkness and quiet."
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"I felt an unrelenting restlessness. It was the first time I had ever experienced jealousy, and that emotion clung to my skin day and night like a dark stain, a contamination I could not shed; it became so unbearable that when finally I rid myself of it, I was freed forever of the desire to possess another person or the temptation ever to belong to anyone."
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"A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun."
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"It's nice to stay up nights worrying about the material, and not about the investors who gave you $10 million to do your musical."
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"I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different."
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"Folks were doin' a lot of runnin' that night"
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"But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely... punishment?"
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"Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening to the sympathies or so enlightening to the understanding. Other pursuits belong not to all times, all ages, all conditions; but this gives stimulus to our youth and diversion to our old age; this adds a charm to success, and offers a haven of consolation to failure. Through the night-watches, on all our journeyings, and in our hours of ease, it is our unfailing companion."
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