Bedtime Quotes - Page 7

• Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

  Edna O'Brien

  Soul, Mind, Hotel

  Vogue Interview, April 1985.

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• Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  Dream, Writing, Fidgeting

  FaceBook post by Jerry B. Jenkins from Feb 20, 2015

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• There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Writing, Two, Giving

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• I adore going to movie sets and being part of a team trying to create something. And yet, I hate to miss even one bedtime with my girls. . . My sisters both are working mothers. I understand that my being an actress as well as being at home isn't some heroic thing. That doesn't mean it isn't confusing or difficult--especially that question of how you find a balance.

  Jennifer Garner

  Girl, Mother, Hate

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• The other night I was walking down the stairs behind one of my daughters. I was tired, and she was goofing around, you know like kids do, doing all this stupid stuff on the stairs. And I was thinking, please just go down the stairs and let's get you to bed. It's after your bedtime. I've had enough for one day. And then I sort of caught myself. I snapped out of it. I was like, 'dude, you should be dancing down the stairs behind her'!

  Forest Whitaker

  Daughter, Dad, Stupid

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• Most of the books I read these days are children's books at bedtime.

  Charlie Brooker

  Children, Book, These Days

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I have an elaborate wind-down ritual, which combines reading, ESPN, movies, and jamming the blues on my keyboard. There's still a part of me that's a little kid who is psyched because I no longer have a bedtime!

  Tohoru Masamune

  Reading, Kids, Wind

  "Tohoru Masamune: Pursuing Dreams and Embracing Chaos". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Any food products made from flour, especially whole-wheat flour, form gas when broken down in the large intestine. Beware of eating these types of food before bedtime to avoid feeling inflated in the morning.

  Mehmet Oz

  Morning, Broken, Feelings

  Source: www.today.com

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• I have to deal with seven ex-stray dogs, and one ex-stray cat. One dog is nearing nineteen years old. Before I go to teach, he likes for me to tell him bedtime stories.

  George Singleton

  Dog, Cat, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There were the fairy tales my father told to me at bedtime. All the standards. I thought my father invented wolves.

  John Dufresne

  Father, Fairy Tale, Tales

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When your child has matured sufficiently to understand how the judicial system works, set a bedtime for him and then send him to bed an hour early. When he tearfully accuses you of breaking the rules, explain that you made the rules and you can interpret them in any way that seems appropriate to you, according to changing conditions. This will prepare him for the Supreme Court's concept of the US Constitution as a 'living document'.

  Joseph Sobran

  Children, Way, Bed

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• Great writers are the saints for the godless.

  Anita Brookner

  God, Writing, Saint

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• Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.

  Ken Follett

  Thrillers

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• When I was very young my mother sang to me at bedtime and my dad would often play the banjo or fiddle in the evening. I knew music was important and central to everything, most particularly it had a powerful healing value and created a sense of peace and security. This stood out to me as I always felt the world was precarious and dangerous, and music supplied those moments of real peace and safety.

  Rory Block

  Mother, Powerful, Dad

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• Some boy nuh know dis, dem only come around like tourist. On the beach with a few club sodas. Bedtime stories, and pose like dem name Chuck Norris and don't know the real hardcore.

  Damian Marley

  Beach, Real, Boys

  Song: Welcome To Jamrock, Album: Welcome to Jamrock

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• Survivors told me that sleep was a great escape from the nightmare that was Jonestown. I also longed for bedtime each night at Escuela Caribe; sleep allowed me to forget where I was for a few hours.

  Julia Scheeres

  Sleep, Night, Survivor

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We haven't really - it's harder for us to set those rhythms. So it's really important to keep a steady bedtime and wake time to really lock in those rhythms.

  Shelby Harris

  Important, Locks, Rhythm

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Today, in this, the 21st century, bedtime doesn't matter at all. All that matters is what you set for your DVR.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Matter, Today, Century

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• Any platform that you use to tell stories helps you regardless of the medium regardless if they are bedtime stories that you tell your children or comics or film. Specifically what makes comics unique is that they are a storytelling device that forces you to think both visually and economically. Some might say you are limited by your imagination, but that is not true because someone has to draw it.

  Jeph Loeb

  Children, Unique, Thinking

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• When I was a kid my father would read Neil Simon plays with me when I was going to bed, as bedtime stories. All of these old plays like The Odd Couple and Lost in Yonkers - funny but corny plays about Jewish New Yorkers in the mid-20th century.

  Zach Woods

  Couple, Father, Kids

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Bedtime stories were definitely a big part of my life because I was just so excited my father was talking to me.

  Adam Sandler

  Father, Talking, Stories

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The truth is that I used to read J.J. bedtime stories. He came up to me at the FOX commissary about four years ago and he said, "Do you remember what you gave me for my Barmitzvah?" I said no. He said, "You gave me the annotated Sherlock Holmes and my son is reading it now." It was the gift that kept on giving.

  Nicholas Meyer

  Reading, Son, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• My mom didn't adhere to any of those typical rules. She woke us up for school every morning, and was there at dinner or would call at bedtime. She never left for longer than a week. She recorded while we were sleeping.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Mom, Morning, School

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• My four-year-old daughter regularly requests reading Book One [the March] at bedtime; the methods of reading, delivering, and processing the book's content vary according to a kid's age and developmental level, but she's deeply affected by the story, asking follow-up questions for days.

  Nate Powell

  Daughter, Book, Reading

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'

  Nathan Fillion

  Kings, Reading, Kids

  "Nathan Fillion Reveals Why He's Hooked on Books" by David Hochman, parade.com. June 8, 2012.

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