Doing Quotes
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One of the problems is that kids who don't read - who are not doing well in school - they know they're not doing well. And they want everyone to be in that same category.
Walter Dean Myers -
Can you comprehend everything in the four directions and still do nothing?
Lao Tzu
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The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
Edith Wharton -
We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.
Watkin Tudor Jones -
Lots of TV shows say that they are like doing a movie every week, but 'JAG' truly was a huge show. Lots of once-in-a-lifetime opportunities, like being launched off an aircraft carrier and being welcomed by military bases all over California.
Patrick Labyorteaux -
Doing what you want to do is easy. Doing what you have to do is hard.
Larry Elder -
I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.
Kate Atkinson -
I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.
Randeep Hooda
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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!
Larry Niven -
I started out doing theater when I was really young, and I completely fell in love with it. I knew that this was what I wanted to do.
Tara Lynne Barr -
I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.
Fiona Apple -
I know I'm never going to be as successful as my dad, but I get bored doing nothing. I couldn't go from vacation to vacation and have no motivation.
Tamara Ecclestone -
You can't destroy America by destroying our elite. Think about America's elite. Think about it down through history. Destroy our elite, and about half the time, you're doing us a favor.
P. J. O'Rourke -
When I started doing standup when I was 17, I was talking about being Indian and specifically ethnic jokes. Straightforward stuff that was fairly ignorant that I knew would get the laugh. It wasn't flipping stereotypes; it was using them.
Hari Kondabolu
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Back then, I was doing more of my impression of what a comic is supposed to do.
Wanda Sykes -
I have this burning desire to get out there and do my best. It's as if I'm keeping it all in a little bottle, and it's all going to come out when I do the best I'm capable of doing.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee -
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.'
Damian Lewis -
There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the likes of Jurassic Park. There are none, nor will there ever be one. That ain't about to happen!
J. J. Johnson -
The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches.
Oscar Robertson -
Shane McAnally is a really good friend of mine. He's one of the first guys that really embraced what I was doing with an open mind.
Sam Hunt
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There are a lot of new opportunities that are poking their head up in my future. I've been very fortunate that way, but for right now, what I like is what I'm doing.
Gavin MacLeod -
When I first started doing comedy years ago, I used to be the biggest Michael Richards fan. I used to love this dude. He was on a TV show called 'Fridays,' and man, he was tall and lanky - and I was tall and lanky. I love physical comedy, and he was a physical comedian, and I said, 'Man, I love this guy.'
J. B. Smoove -
I don't have one role that I'm particularly fond of doing, and I don't really look for it to differ all the time, but I will try anything and do anything. If it's a role I connect with, I'll go for it, no matter what's involved.
Mae Whitman -
At a shoot, I'm really aware of everything. When they do makeup, sometimes I can't see what they're doing, but I can feel it. I know what I look like, even when I can't see what they've done. I know how to compose myself.
Kate Moss