Richie Havens (Richard Pierce "Richie" Havens) Quotes

I eat once a day if I remember, and I try never to go to sleep.

Richie Havens

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• When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Up
  • You
  • Try

• One of the strangest experiences one can have is to sleep on stage, as I once did in Sydney when I'd lost the key to my flat. I had to stay at night in a bed, which conveniently was on stage because my character Sandy Stone did his monologue from a bed. To wake up looking at a shadowy auditorium is a very peculiar feeling.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Up
  • Character
  • Night

• I grew up playing on unprepared surfaces where your wicket depended on quickly adapting to the bounce. As a kid, I could never differentiate off-spin from leg-spin. All I looked to do was to try to hit the ball before it pitched.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Up
  • Never
  • Try

• The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Up
  • Sleep
  • More

• Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • You
  • Wish
  • Try

• You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • You
  • Try
  • Either

• 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.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Trying
  • Bad
  • Pretty

• Charles Bean is a brilliant director. I come in with an idea and try to do it, but I fall on my face. And then, he says, 'Wait a minute, there was a little moment in there. Let's try that moment and expand in that direction.'

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Fall
  • Moment
  • Try

• You know what it's like to feel anxious - it's horrible feeling anxious. It's stressful having that feeling, having butterflies in your stomach, even for a day, and you don't sleep at night.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Night
  • Feeling
  • Day

• I try to be very modest with what I do. I'm not a frivolous spender.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Try
  • Modest
  • Frivolous

• Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It's my hobby to go around to shops and markets.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Good
  • Try
  • Hobby

• I'm being hypocritical because I have a Twitter, but I try to not talk about things like, 'Oh, I had a grapefruit this morning and it was delicious,' because, who cares?

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Morning
  • Try
  • Twitter

• My wife likes me to point out that she puts our daughter down to sleep more often than I do, which gives me time to write stupid books about it.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Time
  • She
  • Wife

• It's physically hard for me to work. I start to break down, physically. My joints start. I get weepy eyes. I don't sleep well. I was never a hard worker, I guess. So the voiceover work ethic is really great for me - couple days a month, two hours a day.

  

  H. Jon Benjamin
  • Work
  • Great
  • Eyes

• 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.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • Done
  • Respect

• I don't feel comfortable with luxury, and I try to stay fairly normal.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Try
  • Comfortable
  • Luxury

• I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Personality
  • Try
  • Cartoon

• I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Try
  • Preparation
  • Beyond

• It was a morning in early summer. A silver haze shimmered and trembled over the lime trees. The air was laden with their fragrance. The temperature was like a caress. I remember - I need not recall - that I climbed up a tree stump and felt suddenly immersed in Itness. I did not call it by that name. I had no need for words. It and I were one.

  

  Bernard Berenson
  • Words
  • Summer
  • Trees

• With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • People
  • Up
  • Say

• Believe it or not, in 1969 the French writer Georges Perec wrote a palindromic story that was 500 words long! The whole story reads the same backwards as forwards.

  

  Ursula Dubosarsky
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Words

• I grew up feeling that to be gay was a tragedy. I didn't grow up thinking that it was morally wrong, but I grew up thinking that it would make me marginal, prevent me from having children, and quite possibly prevent me from having a meaningful long relationship. It seemed that this condition would leave me with a vastly reduced life.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Life
  • Up
  • Thinking

• To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.

  

  Berthold Auerbach
  • Money
  • Art
  • Prudence

• I eat once a day if I remember, and I try never to go to sleep.

  

  Richie Havens
  • Sleep
  • Try
  • I Remember