- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Home Quotes
On comfort, safety and the pull of staying home.
These quotes look at home as both refuge and responsibility: the shock of no longer feeling safe in a place that once felt untouchable, and a quieter preference for staying in over going out. For more, see our Family quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had all the material for a long time, but I was just too busy. Sometimes we'd sit around at home and sing some of these songs at family things, and everyone always said I should record them.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember in second grade, everybody in the class had to come up with adjectives for each other, and I got shy. In a way, I force myself to perform, because if I didn't, I'd stay home rolled up in a ball watching 'The Real Housewives of Orange County' all day.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One Christmas I had no money, and so I went home and just, like, wrote a poem; I mean, I didn't write them, but I just handed out poems as Christmas presents. Like, 'Here's a Pablo Neruda poem that really made me think of you.'
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I live in Brooklyn, and I love all the hipsters and all the artisanal bacon you can get here now. I consider New York my home, and L.A. a place that I go. I always say I go with an empty sack and try to fill it with as much money as possible to bring back to New York.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I chose not to go home and struggle with the New York scene. My size sort of locked me out. I was too short for the stage. I would have been doing character roles, so I went to Los Angeles. There is a lot more happening out there. I also felt it was important to break away from my family.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get up, get coffee, and go into my home office. I check email and Twitter before I start work, but I have to try not to get too distracted.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
You might have, as a character, 30 pages of dialogue a day if you're what they call a 'front-burner story.' So you go home, you learn your lines for the next day, you get up, you're there at 7 in the morning, you do a quick rehearsal, you're on camera, you might leave, you know, at 7 at night and start the whole thing over again.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A telemarketer has as much right to force people to listen to a sales pitch as a door-to-door salesman has to force himself into a home.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
In baseball, you can hit 40 home runs on a single-A-league team and never get paid a thing. But in a hedge fund, you get paid on your batting average. So you go to the worst league you can find, where there's the least competition.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know this is going to sound corny, but I love my life. I love my baby, so I love getting to wake up with him. And I have the most amazing job, with writing that any actor would love and costars who I can't wait to see on Monday mornings. And I love coming home to my husband.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good wife is someone who thinks she has done everything right: raising the kids, being there for the husband, being home, trying to do it all.
- Go Home
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- Nov 07, 2020