Doing Quotes
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I tell them how what matters is becoming the best you can be at whatever you're doing.
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So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.
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I'm absolutely doing what I enjoy.
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My focus has been and will continue to be on doing my job.
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I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
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I've really enjoyed doing 'Annie Get Your Gun' and loved Neil Simon stuff like 'Chapter Two.'
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Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!
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When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.
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I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.
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Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.
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It's not that I'm opposed to doing a big-budget action movie. But it has to be the right project.
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You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'
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It was kind of good that I wasn't doing the Hollywood high life and stuff like that when I was 18, 19, 20, 21.
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My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet.
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If you're not doing something different, you're not doing anything.
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I need to have a reason why I'm doing something. Otherwise I'm lost.
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Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
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Enjoy doing nothing, and you can enjoy doing anything. Enjoy having nothing, and you can enjoy whatever you have.
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Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.
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If you go down as a comedian's comedian, that's basically meaning other comedians are hopefully feeling that you're doing okay.
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I don't think I'm as bad as I'm made out to be. I did things in Philadelphia, but I don't have any intention of doing those things in St. Louis.
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Green policy is about triggering a shift to a cleaner way of doing things. To be effective, it needs to incentivise the right behaviour, for example through tax breaks, and that needs to be paid for by disincentives on polluting behaviour.
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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
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I fell through a stage once. I was doing a truly African dance, and all of a sudden, I hit the ground with my foot and went straight through the stage. I guess they didn't have much money, so the floor was kind of rotting.
