Done Quotes

• I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away. That's why I tend to work with the same people; I really befriend them.

  

  John Hughes
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• And if any work that I have done should have value beyond my own lifetime, I believe it will be the happy labors of the decade 1869-1878.

  

  William Jackson
  • Believe
  • Values
  • Lifetime

• I have done a lot to rehabilitate my reputation.

  

  Kevin Mitnick
  • Done

• I am fairly concise when I work and I work quickly because I think work is done better in a high gear than done our in a gear when everyone's exhausted. Get focused, do it!

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • Work
  • Done
  • High

• I think South Korea was one of the best shows I've ever done in my whole life. The people there were crazy. It was literally Beatlemania.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • People
  • Life
  • Crazy

• What the internet has done is destroy film criticism. I would never have guessed that the profession of film criticism would be going the way of the dodo bird.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Criticism
  • Bird
  • Would Be

• Go is one of my favorite things that I ever did. Not that I critique myself, but sometimes I'll be passing by the television, and I'll say, "Meh, maybe I would have done that a little different." I can't help [but] do that. But Go was one of those things - I really loved working with Doug Liman. Detective Burke in Go is one of those roles that's about everything I like to do. I love parts like that. And Go seems to be the thing that rolled it all into one.

  

  William Fichtner
  • Different
  • Sometimes
  • Helping

• I started writing rather late in the game. I was fascinated about the story about how Bob Dylan, for 'Nashville Skyline,' wrote between takes. So I'd try to sing new songs off the top of my head. I had rather less than spectacular success on that. But a lot of my songs were done that way.

  

  Leon Russell
  • Writing
  • Game
  • Success

• When I came in, Haiti was not governed by Haitians anymore. Probably mostly by NGOs. And that has done what to Haiti? It has weakened our institution.

  

  Michel Martelly
  • Done
  • Institutions
  • Haiti

• I bobbed and weaved through my career. And in hindsight, though I'd like to say it was a plan - it was not - the bobbing and the weaving gave me a broad base from which to become an executive who could say, 'OK, I've done this, and I've done this, and I've done this.' And nobody could BS me, because I'd done most of it.

  

  Bonnie Hammer
  • Done
  • Career

• Obama sees himself as such a huge change that he can be cautious about other societal changes. But what he doesn't realize is that legalizing gay marriage is like electing a black president. Before you do it, it seems inconceivable. Once it's done, you can't remember what all the fuss was about.

  

  Maureen Dowd
  • Remember
  • Black
  • Marriage

• I suppose being a bit of an antisocial weirdo definitely honed my skills as a soloist. It gave me a lot more opportunities to solo lots of easy routes, which in turn broadened my comfort zone quite a bit and has allowed me to climb the harder things without a rope that I've done now.

  

  Alex Honnold
  • Done

• I'm an aggressive woman who gets things done, and that's the way it is, and I've never been embarrassed about the fact that I am pushy.

  

  Christine Quinn
  • Done

• The president has a right to discuss his national security policies with the public. But that should be done in the light of day without endangering our sources or methods. The public has no need to know details about intelligence assets or special operations units. Such disclosures endanger those who protect us.

  

  Peter T. King
  • Done
  • Light

• A lot of people saved IBM. Yes, I was the leader of that team, but I could never have done it without a group of IBMers helping me.

  

  Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
  • People
  • Done
  • Team

• If I've operated on 8,000 brain tumours, if 7,999 patients were satisfied, if I'd done the right thing, if I have funded research like I have, if I've raised millions of dollars like I have, and yet there was one patient out there who was unhappy, I think it's a price that you pay. The good would overcome that one bit of bad.

  

  Charles Teo
  • Brain
  • Overcoming
  • Patient

• I'm not a person who worries too much about what I've done.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Done
  • Worry
  • Persons

• I wrote 'Mr. In-Between' very quickly when I was about 23. I wrote the penultimate chapter, then realised I'd done something which was written to the best of my abilities. I panicked. I hesitated to finish the final chapter and went into withdrawal for three years. I decided to pick it up again after I went drinking with author Tim Binding.

  

  Neil Cross
  • Up
  • Author
  • Drinking

• I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting.

  

  William Shatner
  • Fun
  • Interesting
  • Company

• It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Great
  • Done
  • Nature

• To be at the apex of the executive branch and understand that there are lot of moving pieces and the importance of working with Congress to get things done - I think that gave me a unique perspective as a young person.

  

  Elise Stefanik
  • Moving
  • Unique
  • Perspective

• Recording - once something's done, it's done, there's not much you can do about it. It's out there and you just have to pray to the gods.

  

  Eric Burdon
  • Done

• He's going to make sure it's done. It's always calm, but he had that look.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Done
  • Calm
  • Sure

• Every piece of entertainment is made with the idea that 'This is going to be terrific' and 'This is the best thing I've ever done' and then it hits the public and then the public tells you whether it's good or bad.

  

  William Shatner
  • Ideas
  • Made
  • Pieces

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