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Night Quotes
"I know he played on the last record but I don't wake up in the middle of the night thinking of Eric Clapton."
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"I've always just shown up and tried to figure out what's for lunch and am I going to get to play some racquetball that night."
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"When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful."
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"We had to decide: Do we want to do Saturday Night or go to our Senior Prom? We opted for Saturday Night Live."
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"Saturday Night Live is hitting me on a regular basis again. This is my fourth decade that I've been lampooned on Saturday Night Live."
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"Sammy Davis, I backed him up. I used to study him every night. I saw how great performers worked and was able to incorporate a little bit from the best."
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"Mick Jagger and I just really liked each other a lot. We talked all night. We had the same views on nuclear disarmament."
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"I've done that I was touring a couple of years ago with R. Kelly and the Lillith Fair, I would do the late night underground gigs as well because it's always around those times that there was a hot song, either on the radio or in the clubs, it would just be simultaneous."
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"Wednesday a junior came to me, and told me I was to be hazed as I left the Opera House Friday night."
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"I was with this girl the other night and from the way she was responding to my skillful caresses, you would have sworn that she was conscious from the top of her head to the tag on her toes."
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"If you feel like you're getting into a rut with a song, a night off usually fixes it."
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"Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive."
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"The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost."
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"The one thing I could do was voices and impersonations and weird characters, and there was really no call for that, except on Saturday Night Live."
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"If you see me on Friday, you'll see different material on Saturday night."
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"I try something new every night. It's an hour show; if it works I maybe try it a few more times and then move that off and try something new. It's a great workshop for me."
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"It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope."
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"I have been away a great deal in the daytime, occasionally at night."
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"Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything."
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"Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there."
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"I do miss Saturday Night Live, that's for sure. There's nothing like it. I just hosted, and I felt I'd only been away for a week."
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"You have to remember the band played from 1960 to 1965, every night. You get into a rut playing nightclubs every night, and you didn't want to run it into the ground."
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"Yeah, I was a local hero. It was great for me, 'cos I had a full house every night all night seven nights a week for five years that I played. The next five years I just played five days a week, but I still had a full house every night."
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"I sat down one night and wrote the line rock, rock, rock everybody."
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"I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night."
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"I have a hotline to the tabloids. When I get up in the morning, I call the Star, and the last thing at night, I call them. I want them to have the inside track."
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"When we got knocked out against Porto in the Champions League, I only slept two hours that night. I was not a nice person to be with after that match. I was struggling to get the result out of my system."
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"He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest."
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"Turn up your radio. Watch lots of telly and eat loads of choc. Feel guilty. Stay up all night. Learn everything in six hours that has taken you two years to compile. That's how I did it."
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"You have a different crowd every night, so you should do a different show to suit them. I tailor the show to their mood."
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"Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!"
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"We had high and boisterous winds last night and this morning: the Indians continue to purchase repairs with grain of different kinds."
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"I'd rather play a few nights at the Fillmore than play one night at an arena."
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"No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'."
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"I want to feel lucky every night when I go onstage, and not feel like, 'Oh, great, here we go again."
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"I like a drink, mate. I'll have maybe 10 or 12 pints on a good night out."
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"It's cool to go to a place that has posters up and it's one night only. It feels more special."
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"When I read the script sometimes, it's like 'Christ! Enough!' I can't sleep at night sometimes. There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off."
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"There were air raids at night. The factory was dark and dirty. And I remember thinking - well - I must find somebody or something because like this I cannot go on."
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"It is difficult to go on the next night after you receive a sandbagging."
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