- Nation
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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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- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reader feels as if he is in Chongjin, where starving people ate the bark off trees; or atop Mount Taesong with the elite of Pyongyang, whose existence is a mix of sadism and whimsy; or with the masses who are bombarded day and night with the propaganda of North Korea's alternate reality.
- Age-Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations, mental illness clouds our judgment.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think when you're a director, it's hard to do something unless you're absolutely over-the-moon in love with it. The audience, they spend 90 minutes with it, but for you, it's anywhere between a year and a half to three years of your life, every day, working on it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do.
- Better Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
In college, my idea of a productive day was to start writing at 7 A.M. and not leave my chair until dinnertime.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
All day long you write little ideas on the piano and the guitar, but sometimes all you have to do is come in, set up the mic, press record and start the process.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the guy who didn't get a cool little apartment. I took one for the team. I liked having the place we could make noise in, the place that could be the center of the music. I sat down and calculated it one day, and over the years, I've had something like 38 roommates.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ability to work every day was a big part of L.A.'s effect on my process and the band coming out from Philly once a month.
- Celebrity
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- Nov 07, 2020
My celebrity has held steady since the day I began acting. I don't view it as celebrity. I'm just a worker.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from the day I began trying to write songs. I've always had a lot to say. I'd always written poems.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would make hockey movies: I would edit together Flyers games and do highlight reels of goals or fights, which I still have to this day.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to eat a whole chicken, every day, for lunch. I did that for four years. But it got tiring - go to the store, buy it, eat it. It's a mess.
- Nov 07, 2020
To win a major championship - I think, at the end of the day, that's what a golfer's career is based upon.
- End Of The Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't escape culture. You can learn about it. You can criticize it. You can try to move it slowly. But at the end of the day, you can't actually opt out of the culture that you're in.
- Bets
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- Nov 07, 2020