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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
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what would have been worse: If Mira had come home one day to say she was gay or an actress.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 25, I was in a show called 'Bajour,' and I was going to leave the show because I couldn't breathe. I couldn't sing, and I couldn't do the basic dance steps I had to do. Fortunately, two actors in the production - who were also yoga instructors - taught me some breathing exercises, and my asthma was cured that day.
- Congenial
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by profits and marketing, and generally less congenial - but my day is the same: get out of bed, procrastinate, sit down at my desk, try to write something.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some candidates can sit in an office for 10 hours a day asking for money. That's just not who I am.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
At United, my United, we had been honed into a ruthless team who played great football but, ultimately, were there to win football matches and league titles. At Newcastle, they could certainly play on their day, and the crowd was formidable, but there was a weakness - a vulnerability that you could seek out.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I don't know. Pee-wee just kind of popped out one day, pretty much fully fleshed-out and fully formed.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
In eighth grade, I wore a tie to school every day. I didn't own jeans. But it wasn't a granola thing, it was really more of an INXS thing.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's what we do in this country. That's the American Dream. That's freedom, and I'll take it any day over the supervision and sanctimony of the central planners.
- Nov 07, 2020
I work a lot with blind people in my spare time outside of Unilever, and I count my blessings every day.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a consumer goods company serving billions of consumers every day, Unilever understands the drivers and motivations that create the norms that lie behind people's behaviour.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't changed my mind about modernism from the first day I ever did it... It means integrity; it means honesty; it means the absence of sentimentality and the absence of nostalgia; it means simplicity; it means clarity. That's what modernism means to me.
- Day One
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- Nov 07, 2020