- 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
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my first start-up, I had an initial advertising budget of $5 per day total. That would buy us 100 clicks per day. At $5 per day, marketing people scoffed and said that is too small to matter. But if you think about it, to an engineer, 100 real humans everyday giving your product a try means you can really start improving.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cooks build muscles; we can stand all day long on our feet and not feel the pain.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every day, in every city and town across the country, police officers are performing vital services that help make their communities safer.
- Pessimist
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously, losing a parent is very difficult. I miss my dad every day, but I know he would be proud to see me continuing to swim and going for another shot at the Olympics.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the army, we do two things every day. We train our soldiers, and then we grow them into leaders, because frankly, we don't hire out. We grow our own leaders.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
My perfect day is constantly changing. Right now, it would be to lie around in a hammock reading with a portable phone and a table of food next to it. I would spend all day there. And that's all that I can possibly come up with on the spur of the moment.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
To this day I over prepare. I draw storyboards for every scene - chicken scratches so crude that they amuse and horrify the crew. I send out shot lists, act out the scenes, and search for a theme that I can relate to. It's my favorite time of the process.
- Economics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps one day earthquakes, hurricanes and financial crashes will all be predictable. But we don't have to wait until then for seismology, meteorology and economics to become sciences; they already are.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Congressmen spend between five and seven hours a day on the phone, begging for money.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're doing an hour-long show, you're working movie hours, doing a 12-15-hour day. We work three or four hours a day, and get every third or fourth week off to give the writers time to write. It's the cushiest job in Hollywood.
- Grace
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like playing a character every day. I like having something to go back to. I always enjoyed that with 'Will & Grace.' I like the camaraderie. I like having a crew that I know and I can work with every day.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020