Joe Mays Quotes
(The fielders are) just sitting out there playing jacks on the carpet, and the next thing you know the ball gets hit to them, and they can't get to it because you've put them to sleep.
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I retire every time I'm done with a movie. Then I go back. You know, I enjoy sleep. But I love to work; it's fun for me. As long as it continues to be fun, and I'm tolerated by the people around me, I will do it.
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When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.
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I've been pretty lucky with neighbors. But back in 1998, I lived, like, literally next door to Wrigley Field in Chicago. And I had, like, 50,000 bad neighbors spread out over the course of one summer. I'm a diehard Cubs fan, but living right next to the ballpark, it's just - as you're trying to go to sleep, you can just, like, hear urination.
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I just love playing in major championships.
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Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep.
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I don't sleep at night at all. Making movies is a marathon. I'm a good 100-yard-dash guy.
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Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that. The man was tired. He was tired.
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No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
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I stopped playing in Jr. events when I was 12 and played women's.
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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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When I go home, all I wanna do is just sleep and eat.
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I have always found myself playing the hero, but I love villains. Villains have more fun.
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I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.
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Yes, I love playing Mom.
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I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.
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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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My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, 'dream on'. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories.
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I still sleep with my baby blanket.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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I've had plenty of good times and have settled peacefully into quite a boring existence that I love. I had enough fireworks and chaos. It is a blissful boring life, believe me.
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You never go into a season thinking you're going to strike out 200 guys or that you would have the most double-digit strikeout games in the big leagues, or anything like that. You just try to win, and the outing becomes what the outing becomes.
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There are a lot of things money can't buy. Not one of them is on my son's list.
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Choosing a partner is choosing a set of problems. There are no problem-free candidates.
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(The fielders are) just sitting out there playing jacks on the carpet, and the next thing you know the ball gets hit to them, and they can't get to it because you've put them to sleep.
