- Contracted
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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
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tried snowboarding at 14, and I absolutely fell in love with it. I snowboarded every day off I had, every weekend I had off of school, every holiday we had off from school, and it became a huge part of my life, not just what I love to do, but really just kind of who I was.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't typically work that late into the night in a studio, I'm more productive during the day.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first sat down with my oncologist the day before Thanksgiving, and she told me I would need 8 rounds of chemo, one of my first questions admittedly was: 'Will I lose my hair?' It sounds shallow, I know, but it was a very scary image to me.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm so fortunate in that I've never had another job to pay a bill but acting, since the day I got out of high school.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll never forget the day I realized I wasn't quite the Ford model I thought I was.
- One Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I notoriously get the hiccups. When I get the hiccups, I get it numerous times in one day.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write because I know that one day I will die, and thus I should experience as many deliberate observations, careful thoughts, wild ideas, and deep emotions as I can before that day occurs.
- Nov 07, 2020
My writing often contains souvenirs of the day - a song I heard, a bird I saw - which I then put into the novel.
- Coffee
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification for using it to avoid my own writing. I finished it - weeping - a day later, and I've been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since.
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- Nov 07, 2020