"I remember lying in bed, thinking I wanted to die on the spot. I would say, 'Please don't let me wake up. I can't face another day.'" - Alec Baldwin, about how he felt about living with his ex-wife Kim Basinger
Alec has avoided a very common error in diction. The verbs "lay" and "lie" are commonly confused, but Alec correctly chose to use the present participle of the intransitive verb "lie" ("lying") to express that he was reclining in bed. Alec did not say, "I remember laying in bed," which would have been incorrect because "lay" is a transitive verb that means "to place."
Very nice, Alec!
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