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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.
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- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I refrain from lots of things I love, like cheese and carbs. I eat plenty of greens every day, my favorite being watercress.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Email knocks me off my game. It's just for the morning commute and end of the day. Some might think I'm slow to respond, but those who need to reach me know to send me a text during those hours.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I start the day just with the family. I don't check emails until my commute, and I make sure my phone isn't close to me until I'm out the door.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working at a fulfillment center is definitely not the most glamorous job. I know because, in the early days, that's what I did, day in and day out. I had a tape gun in my hand, and I taped boxes.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of trying to write sketches the same way we did on Saturday Night Live every day would be damn near impossible.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's incredible. Twenty-three minutes on the air, and I've got to shoot for twelve, fifteen hours a day. What the hell's that?
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started 'Still Missing,' I had a few key plot points in mind, which I played around with mentally for a couple of months, then one day I just started writing. Not having an outline led to some cool plot twists, but also many rewrites! A lot of the plotting happened on subsequent drafts.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each day when I'm walking with my dog through the damp forest, I'm thinking about the atmosphere, and it often works its way into my next scene somehow.
- Nov 07, 2020
In this day and age, you can write anywhere in the world. You can really live anywhere and have the same career.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
They have a new division where you have to be at least 80 years old. You play three days for a million dollars, one hole a day, and if you can remember what you shot, you win!
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to do something good every day of my life, and I wanna leave the earth better than I found it.
- Plant
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never had a childhood. I started working when I was 7 years old. I got $1 a day getting water for the workers at the sugar cane plant.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a period of 17 years - from the age of 9 until I was 25 years old - my mother never spent a day free from domestic difficulties.
- Exercise
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to exercise, it's really hard for me to have a weekly routine because my schedule changes daily. But I try to go jogging as much as possible - when I'm in L.A., I do it every day.
- Pasta
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was at lunch with some friends one day, and we looked down at our table - blond pasta, blond pizza - and then someone joked, 'Blonde salad,' and it stuck.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, each day begins and ends with wanting to learn a little more about the secrets of spider silk.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020