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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
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of the day, there is still one function of journalism that cannot be computerized, and that is reporters. You're always going to need reporters.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
24 isn't like other shows, where you set the look once and you're done. The show started at midnight, then moved to a pre-dawn look, and now we're at dawn and we're warming up the day.
- Appointments
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are not living in the same area when you are looking for property, it is a nightmare because you come down for a day or two, have appointments to see places, and have to be able to make instant decisions before flying off to St. Louis or somewhere.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Considered purely as effects-driven filmed drama, 'The Day After Tomorrow' checks in somewhere in the middle of one of Hollywood's most absurd and least lamented dead genres, the disaster pic of the '70s. It's a little better than 'Earthquake' but not as good as 'The Towering Inferno,' because it doesn't star Steve McQueen and Paul Newman.
- Fireplace
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never waited for my Irish Cream coffee to be the right temperature, with a storm happening outside and my fireplace crackling... I wrote every day, at home, in the office, whether I felt like it or not. I just did it.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the day's writing has been particularly good or particularly bad, a glass of scotch will be involved.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Initial reports are encouraging. In the end of the day, it's going to be deeds, not words, that matter.
- One Day
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- Nov 07, 2020