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Daily Inspiration Quote by Mary Hart

"There are days like any normal human being where I wake up and I don't feel like going to work"

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It lands with the faint thud of an anti-glamour confession: a famous television entertainer admitting she sometimes just... doesn’t want to go in. Mary Hart’s line works because it’s aggressively ordinary, a small act of demystification in an industry built on polish, pep, and the illusion that charisma is effortless. The phrase “like any normal human being” is doing the heavy lifting, a preemptive defense against the audience’s suspicion that celebrity operates outside the laws of fatigue, boredom, and dread.

The subtext is strategic humility. Hart isn’t merely sharing a mood; she’s protecting relatability, the crucial currency for a host whose job depends on being welcomed into living rooms. In a culture that treats entertainment as both fantasy and service work, she threads the needle: she acknowledges the privilege of her position while insisting on her membership in the workforce. That tension is the point. The job may come with lights, stylists, and access, but it’s still a job that demands performance on schedule.

Contextually, the quote sits comfortably in the era of talk-show intimacy and press-friendly candor, when “being real” became part of the brand. It also prefigures today’s more open conversations about burnout: not as a grand tragedy, but as the banal, recurring friction between a public-facing persona and a private self that occasionally wants to hit snooze.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Hart, Mary. (2026, January 16). There are days like any normal human being where I wake up and I don't feel like going to work. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/there-are-days-like-any-normal-human-being-where-105212/

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Hart, Mary. "There are days like any normal human being where I wake up and I don't feel like going to work." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/there-are-days-like-any-normal-human-being-where-105212/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"There are days like any normal human being where I wake up and I don't feel like going to work." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/there-are-days-like-any-normal-human-being-where-105212/. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.

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Mary Hart (born November 8, 1950) is a Entertainer from USA.

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