Awake Quotes - Page 38

• You are going to have hostile crowds and the fans are going to find out where you are staying and keep you awake at night. They are going to use everything possible.

  Cobi Jones

  Night, Fans, Use

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• The majority of people are not awake; it is only here and there that we find one even partially awake. Practically all of us, as a result, are living lives that are unworthy almost the name of lives, compared to those we might be living, and that lie within our easy grasp. While it is true that each life is in and of Divine Being, hence always one with it, in order that this great fact bear fruit in individual lives, each one must be conscious of it; he or she must know it in thought, and then live continually in this consciousness.

  Ralph Waldo Trine

  Lying, Live Life, Order

  Ralph Waldo Trine (2013). “The Wisdom of Ralph Waldo Trine”, p.392, Simon and Schuster

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• Hold the sadness and pain of samsara [suffering, confusion] in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun [fundamental awake human nature]. Then the warrior [brave enough to look at & work with reality] can make a proper cup of tea.

  Pema Chodron

  Pain, Heart, Sadness

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• Every day set the simple goal of trying to be more awake and less distracted.

  Russell Simmons

  Simple, Goal, Trying

  Twitter post from Jul 11, 2016

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• I do whatever I do. I go to the club. I work on material. While other people are sleeping, I'm awake. I always liked that. I like being able to drive when there's no traffic. It's almost like you own the street at night.

  Andrew Dice Clay

  Sleep, Night, People

  Interview with David Wolinsky, www.avclub.com. May 14, 2008.

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• Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself.

  Albert Claude

  Men, Cells, May

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• I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character.

  Tim Curry

  Character, Play, Careers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I work late at night. I'm awake and nobody bothers me. It's quiet and things come and talk to me in the silence.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Night, Silence, Quiet

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• My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.

  Sherman Alexie

  Father, Lying, Book

  "Encore: Living Outside Tribal Lines". "Moyers & Company" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. May 31, 2013.

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• What shouldn't you do if you're a young playwright? Don't bore the audience! I mean, even if you have to resort to totally arbitrary killing on stage, or pointless gunfire, at least it'll catch their attention and keep them awake. Just keep the thing going any way you can.

  Tennessee Williams

  Mean, Writing, Attention

  Tennessee Williams, Albert J. Devlin (1986). “Conversations with Tennessee Williams”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. The odors of fruits waft me to my southern home, to my childhood frolics in the peach orchard. Other odors, instantaneous and fleeting, cause my heart to dilate joyously or contract with remembered grief. Even as I think of smells, my nose is full of scents that start awake sweet memories of summers gone and ripening fields far away.

  Helen Keller

  Summer, Sweet, Memories

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• Hence reason also demands that, since our thoughts cannot all be true because we are not wholly perfect, what truth they do possess must inevitably be found in the thoughts we have when awake, rather than in our dreams.

  Rene Descartes

  Dream, Perfect, Body

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• Drama is what you do when you have a dream while you're awake.

  Ron Smothermon

  Dream, Drama, Definitions

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• Everybody nose dive, hold your breath, count to five. Back slap, booby trap, cover it up in bubble wrap. Room shake, earth quake, find a way to stay awake. It's going to blow, it's going to break, this is more than I can take.

  Peter Gabriel

  Blow, Poetry, Noses

  Song: Steam, Album: Us, 1992

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• I am awake a lot of nights.

  Roger Goodell

  Night

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• I usually plan to read a book for a half-hour before bed, but then I end up staying awake until 3 A.M. to finish it. Fortunately, my dog doesn't mind when I keep the bedside lamp on.

  Amanda Hocking

  Dog, Book, Mind

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• Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head.

  Bob Seger

  Lying, Echoes, Rock And Roll

  Bob Seger, The Silver Bullet Band (2012). “Bob Seger - Ultimate Hits: Rock and Roll Never Forgets (Songbook)”, p.45, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• I work really, really hard and it's challenging going through all of those time zones and having to be awake when you're supposed to be asleep. I literally fly more than a pilot.

  Miranda Kerr

  Time Zones, Challenges, Pilots

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• I like to keep mobile. It keeps my mind awake.

  Isabel Lucas

  Mind, Mobile

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Those golden minutes before you are completely awake, when your mind is just drifting, you have no censorship; you are ready to develop any kind of idea. That's when I come up with the best and worst ideas. That is the privilege of being a writer - that you can stay in bed for an hour in the morning and it's work time.

  Jo Nesbo

  Morning, Ideas, Mind

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• Most of my nightmares that jolt me awake either involve the cosmos or something completely out of human control. In reality, I worry more about nuclear war, or war in general.

  Lorene Scafaria

  War, Reality, Worry

  "Filmmaker on 'Seeking a Friend's' origins". Interview with Mike Ayers, www.cnn.com. June 23, 2012.

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• I unplug the phone and close the door and just stick with it. I don't ever go out for lunch and I don't take vacations. I like to be awake when no one else is: either just before dawn in the morning or late, late at night. Silence helps.

  Mona Simpson

  Morning, Writing, Night

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• We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.

  Maj Sjowall

  Lying, Night, Pay

  "The queen of crime". Interview with Louise France, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2009.

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• Part of my function as a writer is to dream awake. And that usually happens. If I sit down to write in the morning, in the beginning of that writing session and the ending of that session, I'm aware that I'm writing. I'm aware of my surroundings. It's like shallow sleep on both ends, when you go to bed and when you wake up. But in the middle, the world is gone and I'm able to see better.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Morning, Writing

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• Dancing of the autumn leaves on the surface of a lake is a dream we see when we are awake!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dream, Autumn, Lakes

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