- 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
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cinco de Mayo is an important day. The Mexicans had to defend themselves from the French. It is historically significant, but it is not Mexican Independence Day.
- Plants
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- Nov 07, 2020
After about a month of living on my own, I began to feel it. I bought some plants. I remember I named one of them Penelope, and I would talk to her and water her every day. Apparently, I over-watered her, and she died. That's when I knew I needed a roommate. So I got one.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was around 9 years old, I was watching TV one day. I was looking at this commercial, with a kid in the bathtub playing with a rubber ducky or something, and I said, 'Where do those kids come from? How come they get to be on TV? I could do that stuff.'
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we say, 'Look, Donald Trump was a friend to hip hop back in the day; so was Bill Clinton,' It doesn't mean that because he was a friend to hip hop back in the day, that the same Bill Clinton wasn't at the lead of this mass incarceration of African Americans today.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like chance meetings - life is full of them. Every day, without realising it, I pass people whom I should know.
- Tired
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't sit for six hours a day in front of a computer or console like I used to. I like to work hard, to get tired. I pay attention to diet and training.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm trying to learn, as I'm in my 40s, to embrace what I've been able to achieve and be proud of it. And I know there's roles that I will want to play before I die, but I'm still just taking one day at a time.
- Fruit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Apples, grapes... any kind of fruit gives me the energy I need to get through my busy day.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need a day of the dead. That's a perfect celebration.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did gymnastics when I was growing up and to this day I can still do the splits.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before the day my grandmother shared her treasured letters with me, I honestly wasn't much of a fiction reader, let alone creative writer.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
One day, I'd like to get a quadruple double, points, assists, rebounds and blocks.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find it almost comforting to count calories, because it makes me conscious of what I'm eating. But on Super Bowl Sunday, I thought, 'Surrender to it. It's nacho time.' Then I ate nothing but Doritos all day.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd rather have a real South Dakotan who has lived in this state and made her living here instead of someone with a fancy East Coast law degree any day.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020