I was tired. I hadn’t slept eight hours in two, three years. I lived on four, five hours of sleep. You can do it during a campaign because thousands are screaming for you. You’re getting adrenaline shots each day. Then the campaign ends, and there are no more shots.
When I was pregnant, a few of my friends told me that their babies slept in bed with them. I remember thinking how crazy that was. Then I started reading up on it and decided it was something I actually wanted to try.
I can nod off anywhere. Once, when I was little, I even slept through a car crash.
At one stage, I didn’t have any money, so I slept on the streets for a few nights. It wasn’t uncommon in the 1950s, and it wasn’t uncommon to be out of money. There wasn’t anywhere to go to get money.
I slept like a baby the night before, because I knew that I’d win the next day.
For a while we lived in a tent we’d pitched inside his parents’ house and we slept on pillows.
There’s always a little bit of anticipation – some people call it nerves – the night before, and although I always slept pretty well before big matches, you want to be on edge a little bit to get the best out of yourself.
A lot of people don’t know what it’s like to actually be hungry. I do. I’ve also slept on the streets.
I first came to Mumbai by train, without a reserved ticket. I stood by the door and slept in the space next to the washroom. I know what struggle is.
Tanushree Dutta became Miss India as she slept her way to the top.
Before I had my child, animals were my life. I slept with four dogs in my bed.
When I did my first student film, it was a ten minute film and it cost $U.S.4,000. I worked three jobs to pay for that and I haven’t really slept since.
Like, even going to Duke Ellington School of the Arts, like, they slept on me. I think they thought I was talented, but for whatever reason, they didn’t want to give me a lot of solos or any type of just love like that. But I don’t know. I think that’s what encouraged me to grind so hard.
America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
I became an insomniac, really, hardly slept at all, didn’t even try to. And it’s carried on. I hate to say I only need as much sleep as Mrs. Thatcher, but I can cope really well on five hours.
It seems like we’re getting fewer stops in California every year. It’s good because we’re exposing the sport to other parts of the country. But it’s not like it used to be, when we played for a hearty handshake, slept in vans and traveled up and down the coast from Santa Cruz to San Diego.
When I slept it was literally in the midst of an arsenal. If I heard dogs bark more fiercely than usual, or the feet of horses in a greater volume of sound than usual, I stood to arms.
‘This will pass and it always does.’ I consistently have to keep telling myself that because being an entrepreneur means that you go to those dark places a lot, and sometimes they’re real. You’re wondering if you can you make payroll. There is a deadline, and you haven’t slept in a while. It’s real.
Oddly enough you’d think, now that I wasn’t training professionally, I’d be able to enjoy a lie-in at the weekend, but I actually slept more when I was competing because I was so tired.
I never ever slept again after my first pregnancy.
There are few relationships that give as unconditionally as food. I have opened and shut down restaurants and slept on the streets, but I have always bounced back because my belief in the relationship has been strong.
There was a singer-songwriter who slept on our couch for a year when I was about 7 or 8. She used to sing these songs for us, and I loved it. It was magical to watch her.
The first Mardi Gras I went to, I stayed at the Tulane AE Pi house on Broadway. Slept on a pool table one night, slept under it the next.
I haven’t slept for ten days, because that would be too long.
I worked pretty much 18-hour days and slept three to five hours each night, which, frankly, is just not enough.
First of all, I would like to clear the air on one thing. Alison has slept with more men than Amanda; Sydney has slept with more men than Amanda; I think Matt has slept with more men than Amanda.
When I’m in New York, I have, like probably everybody else in Manhattan, a white-noise generator to use at night: a Marpac Dual-Speed Dohm-DS. It is terrific. I’ve never slept better in the city.
I never slept when I lost. I’d see the sun come up without ever having closed my eyes. I’d see those base hits over and over and they would drive me crazy.
Last night I slept like a log. I woke up in the fire place.
I didn’t have a curfew and always slept at friends’ houses, but on Sundays, Mom dragged me to church. It was the best thing she did for me. I was moved just to be there and to feel God had a plan for me.
I’m not into one-night stands. I’ve only slept with three guys in my life and they all involve relationships.
My parents kept me close to them. I even slept in the same room with them throughout my younger years.
I was born in Faridabad but brought up in Delhi and Mumbai. My father had been living hand-to-mouth and literally slept on railway platforms when he came to Mumbai for the first time to become a film singer. My parents were both singers; they sang together and fell in love due to their singing.
I had spent many days hungry; had slept on railway stations at times because I did not have money to pay for a hotel room… there were moments when I felt I had compromised my dignity as a human being and as an actor.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
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