- Painting
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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
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
We lost our jobs at 'Heart and Lights' at one-o'clock that day. At two-o'clock, I got the call from Telsey telling me I was cast in 'Hamilton.'
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Death Row is the same every day - breakfast at 3 A.M., lunch at 10 A.M., dinner at 3 P.M.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to Paris, I went to France, I went to England, I went to Ireland. In my mind, I can go wherever I wanted to go. I left death row every day.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being in a five-by-seven every day for 365 days a year is more than what the average man could stand. You weren't built to be in a cage that long.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
America should be ashamed to say they have the best justice system in the world when, every day, race plays a part in who goes to prison, who don't go to prison.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing I always laugh about is we tried for years to make successful television. And at the end of the day, we never had a show run as long as our run at Marvel.
- Devoured
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were film geeks. We devoured everything: really obscure art films, foreign films. We were the kind of guys that lived at the Cinematheque. But at the end of the day, your favorite movies are like everybody else's favorite movies. Because those are the movies that become a touch point where you can connect to other people.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette.
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.
- Sleep
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- Nov 07, 2020
I start work at 7 A.M. and write all day, seven days a week. If I don't write, I can't sleep.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would write 100 jokes a day. Most of them were terrible. But I just said, 'I'll write more than everybody else, and that's how I'll get better.'
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a boy, I was a worrier, and so was my son, Joe. I used to tell him that worrying meant he had an imagination and that one day he'd be pleased.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the day I work standing up, as I once read somewhere that it's the best position for the back.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One day, I found my dad's dressing-gown in an old suitcase, and it transported me back to when I was five and thought he was a god or a superhero who could do anything. After that, I wrote my first positive book about fathers, about my dad.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020