- Change
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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
- Boogie
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, PT Anderson sent me a script of Boogie Nights which I let lay around my house for about three months, then one day I'm cleaning my office and decided that I'd better read this before the guy calls me back. I never put it down, bro.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doing the Five Tibetan Rites exercises every day - it makes me feel at home wherever I am.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I especially remember that on All Souls Day, when so many people wanted new monuments for the graves, our whole family pitched in. I did the lettering on the stones, my brother did the carving, and my sisters put the finishing touches on them, the gold leaf and all that.
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
We made drawings the size of a whole quarter of a room ceiling, which we would then send on to the model makers. I did this every day for two years. Even now I can draw cartouches with my eyes closed.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The economic and social decline of Zimbabwe is shocking and appalling. Life there is unrecognisable from that of the recent past. Each day is a struggle for basic survival.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always been interested in garbage: What it says about us. What in there embarrasses us, and what we can't bear to part with. Where it goes and how much of it there is. How it endures. What it might be like to work with it every day.
- Different Kinds
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find myself eating different kinds of chicken each and every day, even if it's by surprise.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were years in between of going to auditions pretty much every day and getting nothing.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realized on my first day on set of 'Miss Potter' that there wasn't going to be anything else that could make me as happy or feel as fulfilled as acting does.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't dream of joining Man City as a professional one day, or representing England, because I didn't know that was even possible.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I turned up for my first day training with England Under-19s super excited, and I just happened to bang my knee on the floor, and it just blew up. It turned out that I'd completely snapped it in half.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
The standard across Europe is set by Lyon. We're so far ahead of so many teams. In training every day it's 11 internationals v 11 internationals, so I'm having to defend against the world's best strikers every day.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have friends who don't even know I'm diabetic. I don't hide it, but it's the last thing I need to tell someone. I take my insulin with every meal and have kidney drugs twice a day, but that is, like, habit. That's how I deal with it.
- Nov 07, 2020
I came to the realisation, rather late in the day, that whatever your body's meant to be, it will figure itself out.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Vampire Academy' was a night shoot, so I got to know London in the darkness and had free time during the day. I saw a lot of theater while I was there.
- Dress
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I dress up for events, I prefer Marc Jacobs and Dior. But I dream about wearing Chanel one day.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020