"I've had insomnia since I was five years old. I just don't require much sleep. I'm never tired."

-- Nile Rodgers

#Sleep Quotes #Tired Quotes #Insomnia Quotes

“We need open minds and open hearts when we wrestle with the past and ask questions of it, and the answers it will provide are in nobody's pocket... We should let nobody tell us that they know all that it contains, or try to prescribe or constrain in advance what it has to tell us.”

Source : Eamon Duffy (2006). “Faith of Our Fathers”, p.186, A&C Black
“I'm kind of a purist and I actually just want to be a good player, with that said though... I probably should get a little more involved in that as that's what people are doing and making great songs out of their computer so it's kind of like, at what point does purist become arrogance?”
“Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.”
“Once I have a hook I think has potential - enough to spin out more than a hundred thousand words, then I start turning my attention to characters. Who are these people? Why did this thing happen to them? But the hook always comes first.”
“Liberty may be an uncomfortable blessing unless you know what to do with it. That is why so many freed slaves returned to their masters, why so many emancipated women are only too glad to give up the racket and settle down. For between announcing that you will live your own life, and the living of it lie the real difficulties of any awakening.”
“Acting is like sex, it’s possible if your partner is bad, but it’s better if they’re good.”
“Well, it looks like John Boehner will be the new Speaker of the House. He is the son of a bartender, one of 12 children. He grew up in a two room home with just one bathroom, worked his way through school, became the first person in his family to graduate from college. And, sadly, fell in with the wrong crowd and wound up in Congress.”
“You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time”

Source : Brian De Palma, Laurence F. Knapp (2003). “Interviews”, p.179, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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