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Day Quotes


"I like 1977 because it is more primitive. If it were modern day, like one Universal guy was like wouldn't they just use their cell phone? I guess he did not read that it was 1977 in the script."
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"I guess if I wrote a book one day, it would be about hair."


"It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter."


"What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play."


"Well, for the My Generation album, there was nothing to be nervous about in them days. We used to take every day as it came. Every day was just a gig and I think we did the recording between gigs literally."


"And I always laugh at that, because I think I've always been doing what I want to do since Day 1."


"The first day of shooting I walk up to Christopher Walken, and I said, Should I call you Mr. Walken or Chris? He goes, "Call me Flash.""


"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."


"I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day."


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


"Once I was standing in line to buy a telephone and Senator Wirth was in line with me. The next day the New York Times reported that we'd both purchased telephones and what price we'd paid!"
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"As a kid I watched television 24 hours a day and loved every minute of it. The two shows that always make me laugh and are therefore my favourites are The Dick Van Dyke Show and Fawlty Towers."


"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."


"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."


"A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day."


"My name's Jennifer Ellison and one day I'm going to be famous!"


"Just the other day, my assistant was on the line with Calvin Klein. Golly, I usually shop at Sears."
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"One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head."


"I practice every day. I've been doing it since I was eight."


"If I'm walking very, very fast down Madison Avenue in the middle of the day, I'll say I'm stopped 10 times."


"Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends."


"I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road."
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