- Lord
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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
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.
- Each Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I text nonstop, and I love emoji. I'm also on the phone quite a bit for work - probably more than 10 calls per day.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
God is my best friend. I talk to God every day. And no one can tell me how to talk to God - not no imam, not no priest, not no rabbi, no pastor.
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
By 1976, I was, like, Gonesville. I practically lived at the Troubador for several years. When Bette Midler was there for six weeks, I went every day for both shows. I sat there mesmerized. The only person who went as much as I did was Cher.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get called 'Memphis Eve,' but my first name is Eve. I know Memphis is in there somewhere, but on my passport I'm 'Eve Sunny Day Hewson.'
- Nov 07, 2020
As a writer, you sit around a computer all day, and it's too easy to open another tab and keep Rotten Tomatoes there.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Put simply, behavioural economics argues that human beings' decision-taking is guided by the evolutionary baggage which we bring with us to the present day. Evolution has made us rational to a point, but not perfectly so. It has given us emotions, for example, which programme us to override our rational brain and act more instinctively.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now I can broadcast to an audience of several million people on the 'Today' programme. I can talk about the day's news. But on radio, believe it or not, we have notes and scripts. And while we might ad lib the odd wryly amusing asides, they come at the frequency of a suburban bus. About one every 90 minutes.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even though disciplined sleeping habits and the adrenalin of live radio ensures that we are very awake while on duty, there is evidence of a phenomenon called circadian desynchronosis which causes one's brain to function slowly at those times of day when it thinks it should be asleep, regardless how wide awake the body is.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It's the term used by American retailers to describe the day after the Thanksgiving Holiday, seen as the semi-official start of Christmas shopping season.
- Mouth
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- Nov 07, 2020