- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Morning Quotes
How you start the morning sets the tone.
A few of these are about quiet, private morning routines — writing early, reading the news — while another compares real friendship to the effort behind a good cup of coffee. For a spiritual start to the day, see our Prayers.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I live in New York and got a call from my agent saying there was this new role on 'Mad Men,' it might be recurring and they're seeing people tomorrow. I said, 'OK, this is one of those things where you hedge your bets, use your miles and get on a plane.' I flew out Tuesday morning and got the job on a Wednesday.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes it's so weird just to do an interview. This morning I was back in my parents' house, with my brother, and we went for a jog together, then had breakfast as a family. And a couple of hours later I'm wearing high heels and a dress and makeup, and talking about my job.
- Thinking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you're still thinking about it.
- Shoes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I usually decide what to wear in the morning, but sometimes, I'll have a favorite coat or sweater or shoes, and I'll wear them everyday for a week!
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I woke up on the plane this morning and was turning on my phone and I had to put my pin number in. That's when I realized that since the age of 10 I've been using 2012 as my pin number. But now that I've won gold in the 2012 Olympics, I've achieved that goal and, for the first time in 14 years, I'll have to change my pin.
- Nov 07, 2020
I do yoga every morning.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the morning I drink a big glass of water with lemon, a pinch of baking soda and maple syrup.
- Grind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing I don't miss is waking up in the morning, hurting, the grind of the game.
- Wake Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
I gotta go through, like, a little routine when I wake up in the morning to get everything functioning and ready to go. But, the only thing is everything just goes back to gridlock so fast once I sit down, 'cause you know you go to work again.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very happy with the way I look. I wake up some morning, catch myself in the bathroom mirror, and go, 'hey girl, you're alright'. But on the other hand, I find the website stuff, and the polls, something completely removed from my own personal life. You can't take anything like that too seriously, otherwise you'd end up in the loony bin.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
- Nowhere
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- Nov 07, 2020
One morning, in February 1986, out of nowhere, I experienced a realization. In an instant, I discovered that when I believed my stressful thoughts, I suffered, but when I questioned them, I didn't suffer.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to sleep in. And then, one morning, a cockroach crawled onto my leg. I looked at it, and suddenly I awoke from a kind of hypnotic trance in which I had been all my life.
- Dress
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- Nov 07, 2020
The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean when you come into the set at 7:30 in the morning and you come out of make-up and the first thing you know, the ladies start coming into our dressing rooms at 7:45.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
In April of 1976, Epic Records was flying out to sign us when I tripped over a light case after a gig and broke my arm. We called the next morning and said, 'Don't go to the airport - Bun E. broke his arm.' They thought Mercury or someone was trying to sign us, so they offered us, like, $25,000 more on top of the deal.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020