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- Nov 07, 2020
Day Quotes
Lines on routine, duty and the shape of an ordinary day.
These quotes span a wide range of daily experience: actors describing the grind of read-throughs and reshoots, and reflections on the discipline service members carry with them off duty as well as on. For more on the rhythm of daily life, see our Day-To-Day Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
I can't be under the weight of the character for a 14-hour shooting day. I don't think anybody can do that.
- Sleep
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's so important, after a song is finished, to go to sleep and listen to the song with fresh ears the next day. It's sometimes a traumatic event. And playing it for someone else for the first time - that is the most nerve-wracking thing of all. But we learn so much.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have raced for 20 years and one day you have to stop, it's not easy, especially when you are hit with big problems.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I have luck and keep working and the puzzle comes together, maybe one day I will drive an F1 car.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are some things I cannot do as I did before the accident. Trying to do them the same way was impossible, and I was getting frustrated. Then one day I said to myself that I had to relearn those things and do them in a different way and see what was possible, and how it could be achieved.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have two parents who are brilliant storytellers. The art of developing a story and nurturing a story was present in my household from the day I was born.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd watched every episode of 'True Blood' from the very beginning. The show's characters were in my blood, so when I started, I was really prepared. I made sure I wasn't the new guy asking stupid questions on his first day.
- Fat
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- Nov 07, 2020
The catering on 'True Blood' was so good - I'd be eating amazing doughnuts all day, then realised I was in danger of turning into a right fat faerie.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm married to my job. I'm obsessed with my work, and I run myself into the ground every single day. Unfortunately, a lot of other pursuits have to take a back seat.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lots of countries, like Israel, live with terrorism every day, and it doesn't impact their integrity. The big threat to America is the way we react to terrorism by throwing away what everybody values about our country - a commitment to human rights. America is a great nation because we are a good nation.
- Nov 07, 2020
In military school, on day one you must memorize the mission of the Merchant Marine Academy.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science fiction has never been about the future; it's always been about the present day whether it's Victorian England that Wells was writing about or the post-9/11 era that I'm writing about.
- Nov 07, 2020
The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion.
- Deepen
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- Nov 07, 2020
That is, we are bombarded by all kinds of images and influences and we have to fend some of them off if we're to take in any of them, or to carry through just our ordinary day's work, or really deepen whatever we have to do or say.
- One Day
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- Nov 07, 2020