Walt Whitman Quotes
I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
Quotes to Explore
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I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.
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For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.
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I Sellotape whole tins of sardines to my face at night, attach two squeezed lemon rinds to my armadillo-skinned elbows, and put cucumber on my eyes. By the time I'm finished, I look like a fruit salad with added fish. In the morning, the pillow is pretty much a write-off.
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It sounds super cliche, but my sister is 12 years younger than me, and I remember when I was there holding her in my arms for the first time. And that kind of responsibility you feel when you hold a child in your arms.
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I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland.
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You never know how much time you got.
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When I am stressed, my No. 1 reliever is my music.
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I don't think of myself as Scottish or lesbian when I sit down and write. I am glad I have broken out of that limited audience.
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I think I'm a narcoleptic. I could sleep on a railway track with a train running over me, in-between the rails.
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I need about three seats lengthwise to sleep on a plane. It's not easy for me to curl up.
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From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy.
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The moment of the print button for biology is nearing. Effectively, this could also mean that in a not-too-distant future, smart pharmacology will permit us to receive a continuous supply of antidepressants or neuroenhancers every time our dopamine level drops.
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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
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I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.
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We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
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I am crumbling in sync with old Hackney.
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Human beings are the only species that deliberately deprive themselves of sleep for no apparent gain. Many people walk through their lives in an underslept state, not realizing it.
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Successful women don't sleep until noon.
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I just feel like I've been in a lot of high-pressure situations, and I think I'm able to stay poised in those situations.
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I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore.
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The hand has the richest articulation of space.
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I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
