- Earth
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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
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on Earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up - that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think every day there is some new actress comes out and inspires me to do something else... like Hilary Swank. After she did Boys Don't Cry, I felt this yearning to go out and be even half as good as she was.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
To go from Girl, Interrupted, where I had to cry every day, to a TV show like West Wing where I get to laugh and joke around every day, has been a welcome relief.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
The darker, more complex and emotional the part is, the easier it is for me. But I don't take any of that stuff home with me at the end of the day.
- Criminal Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been beset night and day at Alton. And now, if I leave here and go elsewhere, violence may overtake me in my retreat, and I have no more claim upon the protection of any other community than I have upon this.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I live a life very similar to my characters in that I live a full-blown summer fantasy from June to September. I go to the beach and work there every day.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
I may not want to write every day, but I have no choice - there are deadlines to meet.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have long maintained that each of us has three chances a day to be happy: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
Five hundred words a day is what I aim for. And I don't go on to the next chapter until I've polished and polished and polished the one I'm working on.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's fear in everything, but we can't just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we'd become paralyzed by them.
- Nov 07, 2020
The trouble with that movie is that you had to see Chinatown the day before you saw The Two Jakes.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020