"Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly."

-- Richard Wright

#Night Quotes #Elbows Quotes #Wake Up Quotes

“I love Italy and I say I am from Italy wherever I go.”
“It doesn't make much sense and it's nil premium. They're going to have co-CEOs...which is a very uncomfortable structure.”
“Baseball is a game dominated by vital ghosts; it's a fraternity, like no other we have of the active and the no longer so, the living and the dead.”
“After living on the edge, the adrenalin, some people in the military get addicted. Anything else seem boring. They have to have the excitement.”
“For me, architects and film directors operate similarly. They are practical. As an architect, you know what you want in the conception of a space - but you still need a lot of people to help you out. You need an engineer, interior architects. But a film is the same - you have all these elements. But in terms of concept, it's always about time. When you approach a building, you need time to go from point A to B. Buildings are designed as a journey and films are the same, you have an opening that you come through, an angle you follow, maybe a disruption in space.”

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“Modesty needs to come from the heart.”
“Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.”
“The sun is always shining. We have oxygen, trees, birds. There's so much good things on Earth, still. We haven't destroyed everything.”

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