- Good
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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm glad to have grown up in the countryside and played, and had to use my imagination rather than a TV and had to learn to act the hard way, to have dealt with the rejection. It's a life as well as a job, at the end the day, we all have to work for a living, but we have to have a life as well.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just to be able to say you're No. 1, you are the best golfer on the planet, just for one day, would be the best thing ever. Knowing that you were the best in the world would be pretty neat.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
With hacky sack, somebody brought one to recess in sixth grade and it kind of all went downhill from there! The same with the yoyo's! One kid brought a yoyo one day and people started getting them. I just kept at it and found that I really loved it.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
The office during the day has become the last place people want to be when they really want to get work done. In fact, offices have become interruption factories.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent a day in a neck brace on a hospital trolley after falling from a horse and cart in Ireland. All the nurses thought I was a traveler, which made me laugh. Who else comes into a hospital saying they've fallen off a horse and cart?
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always liked the idea that Thor was the god who'd wake up every day and look at that hammer and not know whether he was going to pick it up. Only the worthy can lift the hammer of Thor, and I love the idea of a god who was always questioning his own worthiness.
- Sitting
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can imagine sitting in a room for three days talking about comic books, eight hours a day. It gets wacky and very nerdy. It also gets contentious at times.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Especially those first few years of my comic book career, I had no idea what was going to happen the next day.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love characters who are kind of haunted by their pasts, who struggle on despite their flaws, knowing that, at the end of the day, they're not going to shuffle off to those pearly gates.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Technology can be useful to organise a large number of people online and offline against the common goal of getting a particular dictator out of power. But at the end of the day, somebody still has to run for president with a different last name and deliver for the population.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
My job is to put as many ideas out there as possible every day. Some of them will get traction, some won't - some of them shouldn't.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020