But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.
I don't go to Mass every day. But I go to church every day. Just sitting there thinking - it's a great way to start the morning you know? You feel so good coming out and your approach to everything is suddenly really clear.
In West Virginia the most vulnerable people we have are people who get up every morning and go to work.
It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint considering that one may not wake up the following morning.
I still love doing what I do and I'm really lucky to get up in the morning and want to go to work.
The episodes all blend together for me so I don't remember. I can't even remember what I had for breakfast this morning. I always feel I must be such a disappointment to them.
Those golden minutes before you are completely awake when your mind is just drifting you have no censorship you are ready to develop any kind of idea. That's when I come up with the best and worst ideas. That is the privilege of being a writer - that you can stay in bed for an hour in the morning and it's work time.
The thing with me is if I wake up one morning and I'm not happy working as an actress I'll stop. It's not something I have to do. It's not a vocation.
I never really drank coffee in college but now I'm on my feet all day and out all night and can't believe it hasn't always been in my life. When morning comes I crave it.
The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What impact could it have? These are questions leaders I have spoken to have posed.
Most of the top actors and actresses may be working in ten or twelve films at the same time so they will give one director two hours and maybe shoot in Bombay in the morning and Madras in the evening. It happens.
Whereas I used to get depressed or neurotic or dwell on things I see my son's bright eyes and smile in the morning and suddenly I don't feel like I'm depressed anymore. There's nothing to be depressed about when you've got that.
I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.
I am not a morning person.
The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.
Prince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs.
I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years.