Monica Ali Quotes

I'm a morning person, so rising at 4-something on weekends is not a huge challenge for me. I am not, however, much of a morning eater - not at that hour, at least.

It's impossible for me to sleep late. I generally wake up around 9, 9:30. I wish I could get a solid nine hours; it's always around six.

During the week my alarm wakes me up at 6 A.M., so the latest I can sleep on Saturdays is about 7 A.M.

Yeah, I'm not really a morning person.

I'm generally so disoriented during the week about what I'm doing and where I am - I travel a lot - that when I'm home on a Sunday, I typically try to sleep in as much as I can.

I'm not an early bird at all. Ideally, on Saturday morning I'd allow myself a lovely lie-in. 10:45 would be just right.

I usually never sleep in past 10, unless it's the weekend and I had a night out with my friends, because I like to start my day.

I don't smile or talk before 10 A.M. unless it's scripted.

I get up at 6:17 in the morning. I've timed it perfectly.

Dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous.

I get up between 6:30 and 7 A.M., and my morning routine is always the same: hot water and lemon, eggs on toast and rose oil on the face.

The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress.

I would love to be a sleeper, but I'm not. I'm usually up pretty early, even if I've been out the night before.

My day begins a little before 6 A.M. I never set an alarm clock.

On Saturday mornings, because I'm surfing a lot for the part in 'John From Cincinnati,' I'll get up about 5:30 A.M .and go to Malibu and surf. There's something very therapeutic and healing about it.

I don't know how to exist before 9 A.M. And without coffee, I'm not classified as a human. Actually, I could be regarded as a threat.

I'm definitely a morning person. I wake up dead happy, looking forward to having my cereal!

I am not an early bird. I go to bed normally between midnight and 1 o'clock, so it is understandable that I cannot be an early bird. I wake up around 9 o'clock.

I'm not really a morning person.

I get up early. I like to read a little before anyone but the dog is up. I also like to read at night, not in bed but just before I go to bed.

I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am.

Wherever I am, I start my day, it's the same. I'm not an early bird. I'm not waking up at five o'clock, six o'clock; it's usually seven-thirty, eight o'clock, and I will then read the newspapers, emails from around the world and make phone calls.

When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.

I'm not a morning person: I can't function until I've had a coffee - or several.

I can't seem to shake waking up early.