"Last night I fell asleep in a satellite dish. My dreams were broadcast all over the world."
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"I forgot and left the lighthouse on all night. Next day the sun wouldn't rise."
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"There's no one with intelligence in this town except that man over there playing with the children, the one riding the stick horse. He has keen, fiery insight and vast dignity like the night sky, but he conceals it in the madness of child's play."
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"The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents."
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"The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night."
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"Men born in hot countries love the night because it refreshes them and have a horror of light because it burns them."
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"A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can’t see--that’s my idea of happiness."
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"Through endless night the earth whirls toward a creation unknown."
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"This book is called "Blue Nights" because at the time I began it I found my mind turning increasingly to illness, to the end of promise, the dwindling of the days,the inevitability of the fading, the dying of the brightness. Blue nights are the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but they are also its warning."
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"There are Depeche Mode parties around the world where people listen to our music all night long. The more remixes we can give them, the more interesting those nights have got to be."
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"The Argentine tango isn't here to play nicely with the other children. The Argentine tango is here to seduce your women, spill things on your rug, and sneak out your bedroom window in the middle of the night."
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"Love! Love until the night collapses!"
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"I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been - if you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again."
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"In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions, much of one’s life history is etched in the senses. And things of no particular importance, or irreplaceable things, can suddenly resurface in a café one winter night."
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"Every night in sleep God takes away all your troubles to show you that you are not a mortal being; you are spirit."
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"I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night."
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"If you mess up the performance on stage, you do it again the next night. You're like alright, you let yourself off the hook, and you've got to go back in there. Whereas, with a film, I would go home and be like, "Well, I've ruined the arc of the character forever. That scene is never going to work. I know because I can never shoot it again." So, it's all miserable, but in different ways."
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"Make a list of your current wants and desires. Next to each, put down what benefit or payoff there would be when you achieve it. Look at this list often throughout the day and before retiring at night."
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"The punt returner got smacked like Nancy Kerrigan's knee on souvenir pipe night."
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"The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder."
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