All Nighters Quotes

• I spent a year pulling all-nighters and driving around in a really tiny fuel-efficient car relying on the kindness of strangers and seeing this incredible range of landscapes throughout the United States. That's what happened with The Honesty Room. It was a huge night and day switch.

  Dar Williams

  Kindness, Honesty, Night

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. November 3, 2016.

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• Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere threat of a filibuster is enough to stop a vote; senators are rarely asked to pull all-nighters like Jimmy Stewart in 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.'

  Evan Bayh

  Two, Today, Determined

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• When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that's why I think architects do all-nighters and they kind of do those deadlines. For four days I remember doing four nights in one row with no sleep. I mean nobody, unless you are crazy, would do that, but you are totally focused on the project.

  Zaha Hadid

  Crazy, Mean, Sleep

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• I become one of those people who walks alone in the dark at night while others sleep or watch Mary Tyler Moore reruns or pull all-nighters to finish up some paper that's due first thing tomorrow. I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece. I want all my important possessions, my worldly goods, with me at all times. I want to hold what little sense of home I have left with me always.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Book, Home, Writing

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.192, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She had been living like a hermit herself, in a cramped, seedy apartment in Somerville, spending long hours in the lab. All-nighters had become a regular thing. She didn't have any close friends, didn't go out on dates, didn't even go to the movies by herself. She had sacrificed a normal life in order to get a PhD, and become a scientist.

  Michael Crichton

  Order, Long, Labs

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• Praying through is all about CONSISTENCY and INTENSITY. It's 'all-nighter' prayer. It just won't take 'NO' for an answer!

  Mark Batterson

  Prayer, Consistency, Answers

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• At Harvard, the strong and savvy and confident thrived, while the nice or shy or quaintly moral were just bit players. In Ysleta, you believed in God because you were poor and needed something to hold on to. At Harvard, you believed in your good luck or bad luck, in all-nighters, in your political savvy.

  Sergio Troncoso

  Strong, Nice, Good Luck

  Sergio Troncoso (2011). “From This Wicked Patch of Dust”, p.97, University of Arizona Press

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• We've tried to regulate things so that you at least get to go home at night and not have to pull all-nighters and see them on weekends and things. So, you know, like everything in life, it's a balance.

  Pete Docter

  Home, Weekend, Night

  "It's All In Your Head: Director Pete Docter Gets Emotional In 'Inside Out'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 10, 2015.

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