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		New Orleans is awake all night, and every night is a party.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kodi Smit-McPhee
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		There’s no use saying anything in the schoolyard because there’s always someone with an answer and there’s nothing you can do but punch them in the nose and if you were to punch everyone who has an answer you’d be punching morning noon and night.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Frank McCourt
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Voyaging into the night, one knows exactly where, on a known vessel, an absolute harmony with the elements of the unreal. 1959, reacting on a remark of Robert Motherwell
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ad Reinhardt
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		'Whom are you?' he said, for he had been to night school.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				George Ade
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When we developed the 'Seinfeld' show, we took a bet on Jerry Seinfeld, who was not a household name. But Jerry had a voice. He was appearing on 'Late Night', on 'The Tonight Show', had some commercials out there, his voice of observational comedy, looking at the world around him, that voice was really starting to come into its own.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Warren Littlefield
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Olympia Dukakis
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I go through cycles with my writing. I have cycles where I'm up all night and lose track of time, and then I go for months without a thing to write about. My song 'So Good, So Right' came to me while I was washing dishes after a dinner party.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Brenda Russell
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Everything is holding its breath inside me. Everything is waiting to explode like Christmas. I want to be all new and shiny. I want to sit out bad at night, a boy around my neck and the wind under my skirt. Not this way, every evening talking to the trees, leaning out my window, imagining what I can't see.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sandra Cisneros
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		One night, I wrote down all the things I was waiting to do with my little granddaughter, and it became a book, 'I Already Know I Love You.' It was one of those really lovely things in life.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Billy Crystal
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The middle ground in Congress has all but disappeared. The founders intended competing principles and interests to check excesses and create a balance in our politics that would benefit 'we the people.' Gerrymandered districts and a hyped-up fight-night media offer a partial explanation of why we seem to have neither checks nor balances.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Donna Brazile
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I will never forget the first time I was teargassed or the night I hid under my steering wheel as the SWAT vehicle drove down a residential street. I will never forget that it was illegal - in St Louis, in the fall of 2014 - to stand still.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				DeRay Mckesson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I like to dress pretty basic during the day, but with a sophisticated bohemian spin, and sometimes a little rock chic. At night I like to go glamorous.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alessandra Ambrosio
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		The desire to do different things was the main motivator that made me leave late night because I'd been there seven years. The combination of an entrepreneurial desire to see how far I could push my success and a short attention span. But now I've done other things. And I'm sort of ready to sit somewhere and sit in the same place for a while.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Andy Richter
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Carl Sagan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		As far as 'Windup Girl' becoming a hit - none of us expected that. 'Night Shade' was just hoping not to lose their shirts, and I had grown up hearing from everyone that science fiction didn't sell, so all of our expectations were very low.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Paolo Bacigalupi
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log, dry, bald and sere: A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall, and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ben Jonson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I enjoy theater just for the sheer excitement of it and the immediate response that you get, and how every night the audience is a little bit different; but then, it's expensive to work in N.Y., and stage work is limited, so you're just doing it for the art.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dorian Missick
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My idea of a romantic night is to watch action films.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Corey Hart
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Driven through by her own sword,summer died last night, alone.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Joanna Newsom
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I sleep every night, what am I called or not called? And when I wake, who am I if I was not I while I slept?
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Pablo Neruda
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Paul and I were both struggling actors. One night he would serve me in a restaurant, and the next night I would serve him. It was what out of work actors did.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Soul
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Essentially, the popular musician in America must learn that his basic job is to entertain people, to make them forget their sorrows for a moment or two; in the same sense that any popular art form must aim at the same distraction value. Any such job as that is basically a young man's business. It takes a young man's energy to go traveling around the country, night after night in a different place, prancing and cavorting around in front of mobs of people all out to try to forget their problems for an evening. And for a young man it can be a good enough way of life, if he happens to like it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Artie Shaw