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Day Quotes


"Miserable is a good thing, though. If you start the day miserable, nobody else can screw up your day."
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"Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is."


"He knows I rip him off every day. He's the godfather for me. Nobody can say they aren't influenced by what Stevie Wonder has done."


"When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes 10 hours a day, your mind starts going to strange places."


"Well I was out in the garden moving rocks on the day of the Emmys. I was just playing in the dirt."


"Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with Give us pasta with a hundred fillings."


"If you are you, 24 hours a day, then you do not have to remember who you are supposed to be in different situations - something that I imagine could be troublesome."
Day,


"I bounce off four walls, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, because I only sleep those four hours a day."


"For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it."



"In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them."


"You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it."


"I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: It is to look at each day for the evil of that day and have a go at it, and that is why I have never failed to have an acute interest in each morning's letters."


"Nathan Lane always wanted to play Oscar. When he came in the first day, he already knew his lines. He said he'd known them since he was 18."


"Nor do I think that any other nation than this of Wales, nor any other language, whatever may hereafter come to pass, shall on the day of severe examination before the Supreme Judge, answer for this corner of the earth."


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


"It's a great way to start the day, hearing you've been nominated for an Emmy. It's just thrilling."


"Whenever I don't' have to wear makeup, it's a good day."


"Apparently the new high-tech Star Wars toys will be in stores any day now. The toys can talk and are interactive, so they can be easily distinguished from Star Wars fans."


"There'll be moments when I'm out in the prison yard, chatting with the cast and the crew, getting ready to shoot a scene. And then I'll remember if I were actually an inmate, I'd only be out there an hour. The other 23 hours of the day, I'd be in my cell. It's kind of a downer."


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


"The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail?"


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