- Keep Going
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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
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been without a math teacher for six months. They were so excited to learn math.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to overplay the diary's significance, but it's a really helpful batting aid. It's not an obsession because I don't spend more than 10 or 20 minutes writing a day - and not necessarily every day. I might write in it three days in a row and then not the next four. It depends on the situation.
- NHS
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not going to go mystery shopping in the NHS because we have a million people every day using it and rating its facilities.
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shooting in Hong Kong, you can do whatever you want, even change the script every day. In Hollywood, you have to have a lot of meetings.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you are an actor every day kind of morphs into one as there is no set structure to my job.
- Fruit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether I'm on or off the field, I know the importance of getting enough sleep and starting the day with a wholesome breakfast like oatmeal made with milk and fruit.
- Travel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Nike Fuel Band is interesting - it measures your movements and how far you've walked and how hard you've worked that day. I prefer using when I travel. It's a fun way to see how far I've walked - how many steps I've taken when I'm walking around different cities.
- Business Model
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- Nov 07, 2020
Groupon as a company - it's built into the business model - is about surprise. A new deal that surprises you every day. We've carried that over to our brand, in the writing and the marketing that we do, and in the internal corporate culture.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pretty much the day I stopped being laureate, the poems that had been few and far between came back to me, like birds in the evening nesting in a tree.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
The polls tell us something, but they don't tell us everything. They don't tell us how people are going to show up on Election Day.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am quite happy that I can still walk down the street every day in a pair of jogging bottoms and my woolly hat, and no one knows who I am. That's nice.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020