- Hands
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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
- Day And Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a line between scurrilous nonsense and serious discussion that laps over, especially in this day and age when you've got all this electronic media and these blogs and this kind of fanatical impulse to bring down the opposing candidate.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have any thoughts on blogs, because I don't read them. I don't read them not out of any principle, but because there are only 24 hours in a day, and I like to read books.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every once in a while there's a day or two when I say, 'Gee, electric guitars, what an ugly sound.' But I'm a very enthusiastic person. For sure I'm an excitable, fun-loving person. I enjoy life.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't see how anybody cannot be political in this day and age. There's so much going on and you have to be aware and you have to vote. Our lives are political.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If things are going well, if the writing's coming along, I jump out of bed happy. And if the previous day has been bad, I get out of bed disgruntled.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Long Island is shaped the way it is largely because of Robert Moses. Long Island is a perfect example of how political power shapes people's lives every day.
- Cram
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
A game is great, in my view, only if it can be played happily by a sane person of at least average intelligence for several hours a day for fifty years. Both pool and billiards qualify.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
New Orleans life is such a night life. The thing that comes up very often is that our day essentially doesn't start until midnight or 2 in the morning.
- Habit
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- Nov 07, 2020
To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed.
- Right
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020