Morning Quotes - Page 20

• I tend to start at 9 o'clock in the morning and write until 3. Those are my best hours. They fit the other rhythms of the world. So I write for six hours, pretty much without any breaks.

  Justin Cronin

  Writing, World, Six

  "Inside Justin Cronin's 'The Passage'". Interview with Christian Duchateau, www.cnn.com. May 15, 2011.

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• Each of our children during their high school years went to 'early morning seminary' - scripture study classes that met in the home of a church member every school day morning from 6:30 until 7:15.

  Clayton Christensen

  Children, Home, School

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• But when I felt like I had something to prove? Then I got up early every morning and worked all day long. I didn't know if I had any more talent than anyone else directing, but I knew I could work hard at it, and so I did.

  Ben Affleck

  Hard Work, Up Early, Long

  ""Argo" director/star Ben Affleck grows smarter and more ambitious with each picture". Interview with Christopher Borrelli, www.chicagotribune.com. October 10, 2012.

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• I had an amazing childhood, lots of love. But my dad worked his tail off, getting up at 4 in the morning and going off at 5, 6 o'clock, yet he always had time to spend with his kids and his wife.

  Criss Angel

  Dad, Kids, Wife

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• When's the last time you really thought about what you eat, how much you move throughout the day, whether or not you feel fantastic when you get up in the morning, and which shoes keep your feet comfortable?

  David Agus

  Moving, Shoes, Feet

  "Living Like an Olympian" by David B. Agus, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 13, 2012.

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• I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.

  Reverend Malcolm Boyd

  Eye, Night, Use

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• Hope is the motivation that empowers the unemployed, enabling them to get out of bed every single morning with unbounded enthusiasm as they look for work.

  Emanuel Cleaver

  Motivation, Empowering, Bed

  Emanuel Cleaver DNC speech, www.politico.com. September 05, 2012.

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• A large amount of constant activity will get things going. For example, training in the morning will have everything, all the juices flowing by the time you actually get to work. So, when you're at work, you've been already up for an hour or so or two hours, and you're raring to go where everyone else is still wiping sleep out of their eyes.

  Henry Cavill

  Sleep, Eye, Two

  "Henry Cavill Talks Comics Influences, Filming the Action Scenes, Physical Training, and More on the Set of MAN OF STEEL". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. May 30, 2013.

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• Think for a moment about what Obamacare has done: The federal government has come up with its own (ever-evolving) definition of 'health insurance,' which now includes free access to sterilization, contraception, and certain abortifacients such as the morning-after pill.

  John Cornyn

  Thinking, Obamacare, Government

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• At the very end of a book I can manage to work for longer stretches, but mostly, making stuff up for three hours, that's enough. I can't do any more. At the end of the day I might tinker with my morning's work and maybe write some again. But I think three hours is fine.

  Peter Carey

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• Bagel in the morning is the ultimate breakfast for me; they're just good.

  Lee DeWyze

  Bagels, Breakfast, Ultimate

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• I remember being at school during morning meeting and looking around at everybody, 350 kids, saying a prayer. We're all very young and no one knows what it means, and I remember feeling strange that people were just repeating words that they didn't understand. I refused to participate. For some reason I always rejected it, but respectfully.

  Sean Durkin

  Prayer, Kids, School

  "'Marta Marcy May Marlene' and Mister Sean Durkin". Interview with Matt Singer, www.ifc.com.

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• I like it to be quiet, and it usually occurs in the morning. There are three or four places in my house where I can write and I like to keep moving around. The moment I find myself falling into a necessary routine, I change it. I'd rather not accumulate superstitions.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Moving, Fall, Writing

  "Poetry Questions: Stephen Dobyns" by Rebecca Foresman, www.newyorker.com. April 2, 2012.

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• In Rio Bravo when Duke makes love to Feathers, the scene dissolves to the next morning where we see him putting on his vest and almost humming. It was subtle, but you knew what happened. Give me a towel and some blankets any day!

  Angie Dickinson

  Giving, Making Love, Towels

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• My first job, 9 years old, part-time, was selling Christmas cards door-to-door. Ten years old, my brother and I had paper routes. We delivered a morning paper called the 'L.A. Examiner.' Get up at 4 o'clock, fold your papers, deliver them and get ready for school.

  John Paul DeJoria

  Brother, Jobs, School

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• I feel most like myself... after I run - I go out for five miles every morning.

  Junot Diaz

  Running, Miles, Feels

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• That's what keeps me up at three in the morning: Who's looking at reviews of Cabin Boy right now?

  Chris Elliott

  Boys, Three, Cabins

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• Training is full-on. Some days I really don't want to get out of bed and hit that track again. Sunday and Monday morning sessions are always horrible. But who really looks forward to going to work on a Monday morning?

  Jessica Ennis

  Monday, Sunday, Track

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• I think public service is a calling and you do it as long as the things that brought you into the office can continue getting you up in the morning and as long as there's still work to get done.

  Anthony Foxx

  Thinking, Long, Office

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• Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting.

  Caio Fonseca

  Practice, Piano, Painting

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• I was lucky because on the morning after the burning of the Reichstag I left my home very early to catch a train to Berlin for the conference of our student organization and that is the only reason why I escaped arrest.

  Klaus Fuchs

  Home, Organization, Lucky

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• You wrestle one night, get up the next morning and fly out to the next city. You try to work out, you try to get some food into you and, lo and behold, you have to go work again. You are living out of a suitcase.

  Bill Goldberg

  Night, Cities, Work Out

  "Interview: Goldberg". www.askmen.com.

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• When you were a volunteer for the Bush-Cheney campaign, you came in the morning; you had a supervisor who gave you a list of calls to make and a time to do it in.

  Ed Gillespie

  Volunteer, Campaigns, Lists

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• When I got my very first phone call that I'd hit the 'New York Times' list, I had a small rush of 'I've made it!' But the next morning, it occurred to me I didn't know what it was, so I called my agent and asked what being a 'New York Times' bestselling author really meant. He informed me that I was now a thousand pound gorilla.

  Lisa Gardner

  New York, Phones, Agents

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• I'm not a great consumer. I always ask myself, 'Do I really need that piece?' I have friends who have 300 pairs of shoes; how would you leave the house in the morning?

  Mireille Guiliano

  Shoes, House, Needs

  "My life in shopping". Interview with Stephanie Powell, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2006.

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