"I used to - my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8, 9, 10. I've always heard kind of melodies in my head."
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"Hustle is waking up the day before you die and realising you gave it your all."
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"Sleeping or waking, we hear not the airy footsteps of the strange things that almost happen."
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"You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence."
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"I heard how people sounded when their dreams were shattered, when their lives were turned into a waking nightmare."
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"There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep."
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"Still, waking up this early was just wrong. “Why can’t people be reasonable and only die after eleven A.M.?” I whined."
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"It's not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow."
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"If people are living their lives for security and comfort and pleasure, then mind's every waking moment will be plotting those things. That's how it stays identified - as a body, as a you."
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"It's very weird waking around a corner and being nose to nose with myself on the side of a bus. And Times Square - that's the craziest one."
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"Politics is like waking up in the morning. You never know whose head you'll find on the pillow."
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"A good dream was something you clung to until the last moment before waking."
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"The simple truth of things is that bad dreams are far better than bad wakings."
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"The dream didn't fade as dreams usually do upon waking."
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"At the moment of waking up, before getting out of bed, get in touch with your breath"
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"I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was very young. I guess I was about 6 years old at the time, and I was fascinated by television. I started having waking fantasies where I was in a movie and there were crane shots of me during a scene."
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"The best thoughts most often come in the morning after waking, while still in bed or while walking."
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"Hold fast to your most indefinite, waking dream."
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"The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own"
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"If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him."
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