#late

My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#all night #awake #bad #bed #books

I've always said I've wanted to be around forever. I never wanted to be the latest, greatest thing. I want to be like Willie Nelson - touring when I'm 70. To do that, you can't be the latest, greatest thing because those things fizzle out. ↗

— Gary Allan

#around #because #forever #greatest #greatest thing

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue. ↗

— Woody Allen

#comedy #confronts #dessert #drama #just

By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#cia #come #deal #doing #great

People out there must be told about the self-loathing that follows rape and how it's the greatest breakage in divine law to mutilate themselves, as I have done. ↗

— Tori Amos

#divine #done #follows #greatest #how

I'm really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can't say I felt that way in my late 20s. ↗

— Tori Amos

#feeling #felt #happy #i #late

A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington. ↗

— David Amram

#duke #duke ellington #ellington #few #hear

If I don't think about anything, and start with a clean slate, in terms of what I have to do, a lot of different ideas come up, and I can think about things more openly. ↗

— Namie Amuro

#anything #clean #come #different #i

Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#just #kind #once #reality #special

My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related. ↗

— Loni Anderson

#cancers #chronic #dad #ended #had