Ann Romney Quotes

I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.

From morning when I wake up until I go to sleep, I am working. I go to bed and I want to switch off, but the brain doesn't switch off.

The main thing is, I can't stay up late partying when I'm on tour. That's not good for my voice or my health in general.

Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you're working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week.

I worked 120 hours a week for eight years. That's 20 to 22 hours a day every day and one week I only got 15 hours sleep.

His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours.

The tour life definitely puts strains on your body, not just because of the dancing but because of the fact that you are traveling into the wee hours of the day, getting up early, going to sound check - just the grueling process of it all.

Sometimes you work all the way through to 5am, then get a few hours and you're back on set again.

Sometimes I don't even pull my shoes off for six weeks at a time, except, you know, just to take a shower. I just take breaks between 24 hours a day, just a break now and then, it don't take me long to rest; maybe 20 to30 minutes sometime, or maybe an hour.

For months, I slept at work, even though I had an apartment. I'd fall asleep on the floor at 4:30 A.M. By 7 A.M., I was up and ready to start teaching every class.

I used to weigh myself every day at a certain time of day. Then I would write down the number and measure my body fat. It wasn't a healthy way to live.

Touring is hard on the body.

I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight.

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

My lifestyle had made me a walking time bomb.

I used to stay up, stupidly, to work, and I'd just eat to keep my eyes open. I wasn't even hungry - it was just a way to power through.

At the end of the day, the last thing I want to do is - well, anything. I just want to sleep. I crash out hard every day at 'Common Law.' I definitely lost a couple years of my life just on the fatigue factor on the first season.

I'm quite well-rehearsed in having mental days; being awake at the crack of dawn and still having to be awake late at night.

I was drinking so much coffee and Red Bull just to keep going it screwed me.

There were actually a couple of times I fell asleep at the gym on accident after a workout, but it was still late enough, so I went home and caught some sleep.

I used to go out and carouse. I was afraid to go to sleep because I thought I might miss something.

I overworked myself to a point of malnourishment.

I don't sleep much. I don't sleep much - I work, I work, I work.

When you try to do everything perfectly, it gets very tiring.

One of sports journalism's great ironies is that covering an Olympics can be wildly unhealthy. NBC shows athletes in peak health performing on the ice and snow, but not the haggard reporters subsisting for three weeks on stadium starches, cheap beer, deadlines, and little sleep.