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"The real intimidating stuff is the scene where you show up for the first day. You kind of square off, and that is where you look each other in the eye."

"The real intimidating stuff is the scene where you show up for the first day. You kind of square off, and that is where you look each other in the eye."

Ron Livingston, American Actor

Day, Eye, First

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"Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news."

"Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news."

Ethel Waters, American Musician

Day, May, News, Today

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"Rounder Records decided to call the album Move It On Over, much to my chagrin but they knew what they were doing. It took off and to this day I can't figure out why."

"Rounder Records decided to call the album Move It On Over, much to my chagrin but they knew what they were doing. It took off and to this day I can't figure out why."

George Thorogood, American Musician

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"If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day."

"If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day."

Robin Wright Penn, American Actress

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"The guys have told me not to quit my day job."

"The guys have told me not to quit my day job."

Garth Brooks, American Musician

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"I have a bag with a toothbrush and toothpaste and all the things I might need during the day. I call the bag my trailer. Sometimes you don't have a trailer, so that's my trailer."

"I have a bag with a toothbrush and toothpaste and all the things I might need during the day. I call the bag my trailer. Sometimes you don't have a trailer, so that's my trailer."

Laura Linney, American Actress

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"I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day."

"I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day."

Richard Pryor, American Actor

Day, Prison, Talk, Taxes

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"Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s."

"Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s."

Ted Rall, American Cartoonist

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"At the end of the day, they're happy if you do the obvious songs towards the end of the set and you've got to try and make yourself happy by doing certain songs at the front end of the set."

"At the end of the day, they're happy if you do the obvious songs towards the end of the set and you've got to try and make yourself happy by doing certain songs at the front end of the set."

Rick Allen, American Musician

Day, End, Obvious, Songs

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"My motto is: Live every day to the fullest - in moderation."

"My motto is: Live every day to the fullest - in moderation."

Lindsay Lohan, American Actress

Day, Moderation

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"I am so thrilled to be nominated for something I loved working on every single day."

"I am so thrilled to be nominated for something I loved working on every single day."

Judi Dench, English Actress

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"I like strong girls, as long as they don't get snappish. And furthermore I think it important that you are good buddies and she does not get angry when you don't have your day."

"I like strong girls, as long as they don't get snappish. And furthermore I think it important that you are good buddies and she does not get angry when you don't have your day."

Jonathan Brandis, American Actor

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"I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit."

"I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit."

Harold Ramis, American Actor

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"At the end of the day you have to keep emotions away."

"At the end of the day you have to keep emotions away."

Lakshmi Mittal, Indian Industrialist

Day, Emotions, End

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"I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory."

"I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory."

Marie Curie, Polish Scientist

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"And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary."

"And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary."

Erykah Badu, American Musician

Day, Mind, Now, Reason

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"It's hard when you see a scene where it's raining, and we have the rain machine, and you see it for 5 minutes, but that scene takes all day to shoot, and you do it with rain, and the dry off, and go back and do it again."

"It's hard when you see a scene where it's raining, and we have the rain machine, and you see it for 5 minutes, but that scene takes all day to shoot, and you do it with rain, and the dry off, and go back and do it again."

Morris Chestnut, American Actor

Day, Machine, Rain

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"Sometimes I just wish I had a day off. I really need to clean my room."

"Sometimes I just wish I had a day off. I really need to clean my room."

Hilary Duff, American Actress

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"No one has their own identity like the Ronettes did back in the day."

"No one has their own identity like the Ronettes did back in the day."

Ronnie Spector, American Musician

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"I'm a heavy smoker. I go through two lighters a day."

"I'm a heavy smoker. I go through two lighters a day."

Bill Hicks, American Comedian

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"Every day on set, there was something to watch and learn."

"Every day on set, there was something to watch and learn."

Shawn Ashmore, Canadian Actor

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"I think one day I want to be on the other side of the camera-maybe directing."

"I think one day I want to be on the other side of the camera-maybe directing."

Mary-Kate Olsen, American Actress

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"After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake."

"After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake."

Elvis Presley, American Musician

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"But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself."

"But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself."

Patrick McGoohan, American Actor

Day, Evil, Fight

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"I worked every day there, so I knew all the details. But I needed only some proof. So the proof was photos."

"I worked every day there, so I knew all the details. But I needed only some proof. So the proof was photos."

Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli Scientist

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"I was at sea the other day and loads of meat floated past. It was a bit choppy."

"I was at sea the other day and loads of meat floated past. It was a bit choppy."

Tim Vine, British Comedian

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"I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket."

"I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket."

Laura Dern, American Actress

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"The hardest thing is trying not to correct everything on the Internet. It'd be night and day - wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. So you just have to say, 'All right, I'll take it, bring it on.'"

"The hardest thing is trying not to correct everything on the Internet. It'd be night and day - wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. So you just have to say, 'All right, I'll take it, bring it on.'"

George Clooney, American Actor

Day, Internet, Night, Right

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"I'm not really a heavy smoker any more. I only get through two lighters a day now."

"I'm not really a heavy smoker any more. I only get through two lighters a day now."

Bill Hicks, American Comedian

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"Growing up I felt like my nose was big. I was always like, 'I'm going to get a nose job one day'. I'm glad I didn't."

"Growing up I felt like my nose was big. I was always like, 'I'm going to get a nose job one day'. I'm glad I didn't."

Ashlee Simpson, American Musician

Day, Growing up, Job

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"But to this day I am convinced that the real reason we met was because Alexander is from Nebraska, and he was completely fascinated that I was about to go off and make a movie with Brando - perhaps the most famous Nebraskan of all."

"But to this day I am convinced that the real reason we met was because Alexander is from Nebraska, and he was completely fascinated that I was about to go off and make a movie with Brando - perhaps the most famous Nebraskan of all."

Thomas Haden Church, American Actor

Day, Famous, Reason

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"The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer."

"The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer."

Christopher Darden, American Lawyer

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"The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail."

"The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail."

Phil Collins, English Musician

Day, Detail, London, Project

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"My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor."

"My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor."

Victoria Pratt, Canadian Actress

Day, First, Job

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"And I never ask what I'm doing the next day. I don't want to know what I'm doing tomorrow. It's much too overwhelming. So I just go day by day, without knowing."

"And I never ask what I'm doing the next day. I don't want to know what I'm doing tomorrow. It's much too overwhelming. So I just go day by day, without knowing."

Jennifer Lopez, American Musician

Day, Tomorrow, Want

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"I developed my style by pickin' a lot of cotton, plowin' that ole mule every day. I just got the rhythm, and any rhythm I need I know where it is; I know where to find it."

"I developed my style by pickin' a lot of cotton, plowin' that ole mule every day. I just got the rhythm, and any rhythm I need I know where it is; I know where to find it."

John Hunter, British Surgeon

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"I'm supposed to say, Bill O'Reilly, that's immoral - click - and then walk back in and book his A block the next day and have a fine day and everything be kosher? I don't think so."

"I'm supposed to say, Bill O'Reilly, that's immoral - click - and then walk back in and book his A block the next day and have a fine day and everything be kosher? I don't think so."

Andrea Mackris, American Celebrity

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"At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day."

"At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day."

Jhonen Vasquez, American Cartoonist

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"We had a day off here yesterday and I just sat in my room and played."

"We had a day off here yesterday and I just sat in my room and played."

Leo Kottke, American Musician

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"I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day."

"I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day."

Dean Martin, American Actor

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"The day on which I received confirmation was a distressing one to me."

"The day on which I received confirmation was a distressing one to me."

Maria Monk, Canadian Celebrity

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"You were there all day long, 12 hours a day. So there was none of this, 'I'm going back to my trailer, my trailer's bigger than your trailer,' that kind of Hollywood nonsense."

"You were there all day long, 12 hours a day. So there was none of this, 'I'm going back to my trailer, my trailer's bigger than your trailer,' that kind of Hollywood nonsense."

John C. Reilly, American Actor

Day, Hollywood, Nonsense

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"After doing One Fine Day and playing a pediatrician on ER, I'll never have kids. I'm going to have a vasectomy."

"After doing One Fine Day and playing a pediatrician on ER, I'll never have kids. I'm going to have a vasectomy."

George Clooney, American Actor

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"I practice every day, I warm up before I play."

"I practice every day, I warm up before I play."

Travis Barker, American Musician

Day, Play, Practice

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"I think I turned to writing really just to wake up in the morning and be a musician and to have something to do, and feel like a musician every day even if I wasn't working."

"I think I turned to writing really just to wake up in the morning and be a musician and to have something to do, and feel like a musician every day even if I wasn't working."

Lesley Gore, American Musician

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"She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day."

"She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day."

David O. Selznick, American Producer

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"Smack your child every day. If you don't know why - he does."

"Smack your child every day. If you don't know why - he does."

Joey Adams, American Comedian

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"If the first lady is concerned about this Internet cycle, what would she have done during the heyday when there was 12, 13 editions of a paper in one day? What would she have done with that news cycle?"

"If the first lady is concerned about this Internet cycle, what would she have done during the heyday when there was 12, 13 editions of a paper in one day? What would she have done with that news cycle?"

Matt Drudge, American Celebrity

Day, First, Lady, Internet

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"You just have to stoke that furnace throughout the day."

"You just have to stoke that furnace throughout the day."

Marilu Henner, American Actress

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"Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it."

"Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it."

Debbie Harry, American Musician

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