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• How is it, one fine morning, Duchenne discovered a disease which probably existed in the time of Hippocrates.

  Jean-Martin Charcot

  Disease, Fine

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• When I got up this morning the sea was full of sun pennies - and now it all seems to be covered in lemon scrim. Writers ought to live far inland or next to the city dump, if they are ever to get any work one. Or perhaps they need to be stronger-minded than I am.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Writing, Sea, Cities

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• I went to Morocco, joined a band called Pegasus, ran out of money, went to Gibraltar and worked on the docks, writing songs about the sun and the morning and the birds.

  Graham Parker

  Song, Writing, Bird

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• Opinionated writing is always the most difficult... simply because it involves retaining in the cold morning-after crystal of the printed word the burning flow of molten feeling.

  Gavin Lyall

  Writing, Printed Word, Feelings

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• I write early in the morning. I just wake up whenever I feel awake and I have to be sitting and writing pretty soon after that. If I take too long to think about the impossibility of what I'm trying to, I'll be defeated by it.

  Tim Cahill

  Writing, Thinking, Long

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• Old men when they begin to hear the last trumpet, on the morning breeze, often have a kind of absent-minded smile; like people listening. And their smiles are just politeness.

  Joyce Cary

  Men, People, Listening

  joyce cary (1944). “the hore's mouth”

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• It is the first duty of a gentleman to remember in the morning who he went to bed with the night before.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Night, Gentleman, Bed

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• I started writing morning pages just to keep my hand in, you know, just because I was a writer and I didn't know what else to do but write. And then one day as I was writing, a character came sort of strolling in and I realized, Oh my God, I don't have to be just a screenwriter. I can write novels.

  Julia Cameron

  Writing, Character, Hands

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• It's never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you - you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.

  Al Pacino

  Fun, Waiting Around, Get Up

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• I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I'd like to use my time more carefully.

  Alan Lightman

  Use, Mail, Messages

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• If I produce it, I will stage it as a performance. A small audience will be invited; rehearsals of the sections will be done in the mornings, and those sections will be recorded in the afternoons.

  Bill Dixon

  Done, Afternoon, Rehearsal

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• There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street to-day, and another to-morrow, and so on, day after day: He may do so once in his life; but so far as mere luck is concerned, he is as liable to lose it as to find it.

  P. T. Barnum

  Men, Luck, Gold

  P. T. Barnum (1999). “Art of Money Getting”, p.49, Applewood Books

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• I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Reading, Writing, Half

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• Every morning I wake at 6am or 6.30am, champing at the bit.

  John Grisham

  Every Morning, Bits

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• I spread the message of hope and of unity. That's what gets me up in the morning. I can tell you what is wrong, but I can't tell you how to fix it. I'm a raptivist, not a politician. I deal in hope.

  Chuck D

  Unity, Messages, Politician

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• Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

  Ivy Lee

  Time, Writing, Numbers

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• I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning.

  Dave Eggers

  News, Back When, Way

  "Dave Eggers on his favorite things about newspapers" by Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. January 05, 2010.

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• I get up at sunrise. I'm a Buddhist, so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together, but then it's list-making time. I have carpentry projects. We have roads we keep in repair. It's not back-breaking, but it's certainly aerobic and mildly strenuous.

  Patrick Duffy

  Buddhist, Coffee, Wife

  "Goodbye Texas, hello Woking!" by William Leith, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2006.

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• I'm a morning person because I learned to write my novels while still practicing law. I would get to the office at 6:30 a.m. and write until other people arrived, around 9. Now I still do that. I start at 6:30 or 7, and I'll write until 11, then take an hour off, then work until about 2 p.m. By then my brain has had enough.

  Steve Berry

  Writing, Law, Office

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• What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.

  Judy Blume

  Writing, Character, Waiting

  "Young at Heart: Judy Blume". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. December 13, 2004.

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• Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies.

  Andrew Bird

  Trying, Shapes, Get Up

  "A Conversation with Andrew Bird: Crafting Music and Chicago Memories". Interview with Sarah Brooks, thirdcoastreview.com. Setember 2, 2016.

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• I feel pretty good when I get out of bed in the morning. I don't feel all beat up, which is nice.

  Drew Bledsoe

  Nice, Bed, Beats

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• I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.

  Ian Botham

  People, Work Out, Half

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• A lot of people think Formula One isn't a sport because everyone drives a car when they go to work in the morning. But we're pulling up to six G on a corner or during breaking, which is almost like being a fighter pilot. So we have to do a lot of work on our neck muscles.

  Jenson Button

  Sports, Thinking, People

  "Button your lip" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2005.

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• As an actor, it's more interesting to play a nerd than anything else. It's a lot more fun - you don't worry about 'what's my hair like?' in the morning or 'which is my great angle?

  Nicholas Brendon

  Fun, Hair, Play

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