- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Night Quotes
What the night reveals.
These night quotes range from describing an empty venue as lifeless after dark, to recalling an awkward formal evening cut short by injury. Another notes the unequal treatment people can face late at night depending on circumstance. Related reflections continue in our Day quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fight night, I have to go out there and perform. I have to go out there and do what I've been trained to do. It has to come my way. I have to go out there and take it.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Shotgun's one of the first songs I ever wrote. It's about a couple I met at Waffle House, an all night diner I used to hang at before I could go to bars.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
With acting, I started very young, and I'd performed for a lot of children in boarding schools, late at night after the dormitory lights were out. I'd have a flashlight, and I'd be Count Dracula, or Shakespeare, or Yogi Bear, and leap from bunk to bunk. I loved the laughter; I liked the way it made people feel.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even in Los Angeles, where we lived, when we would date somebody or go out with them, if we went out with somebody else the next night, we often found that women were banging on our windows while we were bedded down with other women!
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sun doesn't shine at night, and wind power is highly variable. To meet our emissions goals, we're going to have to grasp every arrow in the quiver, and nuclear is one of those arrows.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once we started headlining at the Fillmore East, we were free to play all night, at least for the second set. 'Whipping Post' could get lengthy.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I do an hour-and-a-half show, if I don't improvise 20 minutes worth of new material each night, I feel I've let myself down.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
My kids are always in the kitchen with me - I bring them to the bakery and let them decorate cakes, and they also try to help me and my wife, Lisa, cook dinner at night.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The last thing you want to do is play a long gig on a hot night, pass out, and wind up in a hospital emergency room.
- Fish
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not like I'm out eating McDonald's and Del Taco every night. I eat good: my mom fixes dinner every single night - baked chicken, fish - she cooks a great meal every single night.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandma was so old-fashioned. She thought we were supposed to have homework every night. I would come home, and she would be like, 'Where's your homework?' and I'd be like, 'I don't have none.' She'd be like, 'I'ma call your teacher.'
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did a play in New York at the public theater, a Shakespeare play, and M. Night Shyamalan, who is the writer/director of 'The Village,' came and saw me in the play and asked to go to lunch afterwards.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020