- Face
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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
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been asked to do 'American Idol' and 'X Factor.' I'm an Ed McMahon kind of girl. 'Star Search?' I'm in, all day long. It felt more authentic, and the market wasn't oversaturated with karaoke contests.
- President
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- Nov 07, 2020
The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Real is the club of my heart, and I promised my grandfather that I would play there one day. I hope that it will happen.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had my face sliced open one day. Stunt man went one way, and I went the same way and had a few stitches.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not much of a TV addict, and if I have a day off, and I'm pottering around at home, I will always listen to Radio 4.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One day, I was taken into a room with 25 animators, all working on Sadness. They asked me a lot of questions, and they got something of the way I move into the character.
- Average American
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- Nov 07, 2020
The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day, though one girl in Sacramento managed to handle an average of 10,000 every 24 hours for a month.
- Nov 07, 2020
A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wherever we are, any time of night or day, our bosses, junk-mailers, our parents can get to us. Sociologists have actually found that in recent years Americans are working fewer hours than 50 years ago, but we feel as if we're working more. We have more and more time-saving devices, but sometimes, it seems, less and less time.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've yet to use a cellphone, and I've never tweeted or entered Facebook. I try not to go online till my day's writing is finished, and I moved from Manhattan to rural Japan in part so I could more easily survive for long stretches entirely on foot, and every trip to the movies would be an event.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's no coincidence that the word 'holiday' suggests a holy day, or that the longest book in the Torah concerns the Sabbath. If you wish to advance in any sphere, the best way is to take a retreat.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020