- 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
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has to be really interesting for me to perform the same role for 365 days non-stop. It becomes taxing for an actor to perform the same character for 12 hours every day, and then, after a point, there's no growth.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
We want to develop a technology that's globally applicable, that's not customized for a specific city or a specific country. The only way to do that is to be able to test every day in a diversity of environments.
- Coffee
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wake up fairly early every day, by 8, for sure. Sunday is a lighter writing day than the weekdays, but I still wake up and write for about an hour, beginning right around 8. I definitely have coffee first, and then I start writing. I do think it's kind of hard to get the right level of concentration without coffee.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning and consequence in the smallest details of a day.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Recreating the experience of, say, bereavement in my own head is pretty rough. I was used to switching off from emotions every day of my working life as a journalist, but in fiction, you have to feel it 100%, or else it's a flat experience for the reader.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always knew that I wanted to do voiceovers as part of my career. I just kind of didn't expect it to take off the way it did. I couldn't be happier. I love the chance to play so many different characters every day.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obamacare was passed months before my first day at Komen.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like everyone else, I want to go on dancing forever, but I know the day is going to come when I will have to be doing something else.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look fashionable every day. And the pendulum swings between more, or less, edgy when I'm with bankers.
- Diligently
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- Nov 07, 2020