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Besides , one is hungry after two and a half hours of high-tensioned , nerve-exhausting work . She was in bed usually by twelve-thirty . `` But you ca n't fall asleep like a dewy babe in my kind of job , '' she used to explain . `` People wonder why actresses lie in bed until noon , or nearly . They have to , to get as much sleep as a stenographer or a clerk or a book-keeper . At midnight I 'm all keyed up and over-stimulated , and as wide awake as an all-night taxi driver . It takes two solid hours of reading to send me bye-bye . ''