- Will
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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
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past, modeling influences were largely confined to the styles of behavior and social practices in one's immediate community. The advent of television vastly expanded the range of models to which members of society are exposed day in and day out.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I probably learned, being in 'Taxi Driver' before I made my first film, I would come to the set every day just to watch how that film came about. It's like a graduate course: it's terrific. You talk to the cinematographer during the breaks. You ask the electrician why they are doing this.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I come into the office, the first thing I do is I plan out what I want to accomplish that day. I write it down in my notebook and make sure I accomplish it before I leave that day.
- Science
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you go to planetary science meetings and hear technical talks on Pluto, you will hear experts calling it a planet every day.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I get up in the morning, I have to decide what I'm going to have for dinner or I can't get through the day.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not. And if we can't unplug from that machine, eventually we're going to become mindless.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves. And sometimes they can be really revealing.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London.'
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020