"Now, Tim has been really, really busy, and it's been my job now to kind of deal with everything. And trying to figure out how we balance that, logistically it's a nightmare. But these little jobs make it much easier"
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Calling it “logistically…a nightmare” is doing double duty. It’s funny in a dry, exhausted way, but it also names something audiences recognize: the tyranny of coordination, the work that doesn’t look like work because it’s calendars, calls, errands, and contingency plans. Sarandon’s choice to foreground “balance” suggests she’s not just describing tasks; she’s describing power, time, and who gets to be “busy” versus who gets to make busy possible.
Then comes the pivot: “these little jobs make it much easier.” It’s a line that could be read as gratitude for help, but it also hints at the modern coping mechanism for overload: outsource, delegate, atomize the chaos into manageable paid fixes. The subtext is less celebrity than contemporary partnership math - love measured in who handles the invisible admin, and relief arriving not as romance, but as small systems that finally hold.
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Sarandon, Susan. (n.d.). Now, Tim has been really, really busy, and it's been my job now to kind of deal with everything. And trying to figure out how we balance that, logistically it's a nightmare. But these little jobs make it much easier. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/now-tim-has-been-really-really-busy-and-its-been-99292/
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Sarandon, Susan. "Now, Tim has been really, really busy, and it's been my job now to kind of deal with everything. And trying to figure out how we balance that, logistically it's a nightmare. But these little jobs make it much easier." FixQuotes. Accessed February 1, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/now-tim-has-been-really-really-busy-and-its-been-99292/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Now, Tim has been really, really busy, and it's been my job now to kind of deal with everything. And trying to figure out how we balance that, logistically it's a nightmare. But these little jobs make it much easier." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/now-tim-has-been-really-really-busy-and-its-been-99292/. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.






