Done Quotes
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They say if somebody has done something you want to do, all you need to do is go out and copy them.
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Everywhere I go, the kids call me 'the book lady.' The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the 'book lady' title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I've done something good with my life and with my success.
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The idea of doing something that I've never done before, that presents a new challenge, that forces me to stretch in some way - that's kind of a perfect project for me, and especially something that has greater social, conversational ramifications. I mean what more could you want?
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Have fun. Do something nobody else had done before, or has done since.
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I have been fortunate. I have done so many things and enjoyed so many things and had such a great life, not to imply that it is ending, but that there aren't many things that I feel I have left undone.
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I've done a lot of dramedies in my career. You know, I started as a standup comic, and then the movies that I was doing, like 'Up Side of Anger' were kind of like - they're hard. They're hard to sell; they're hard to get made, you know.
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Bless his heart, I have respect for Mitt Romney, but I do not have respect for what he has done through this debt increase debate. He did this. He waited until it was a done deal that we would increase the debt ceiling, and more money would be spent, more money borrowed and then spent on bigger government. And then he came out and he made a statement, that he didn't like the deal after all. You know, you can't defer an issue and assume that the problem is going to be then avoided.
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"You are a boy," said Mr. Dombey, suddenly and almost fiercely; "and what you think of, or affect to think of, is of little consequence. You have done well, Sir. Don't undo it."
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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Above everything else I've done, I've always said I've had more guts than I've got talent.
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People call you "director," but it really should be "economic manager." Because everything is "Well, we can do another take here, but then you're gonna lose that shot over there." Or "The sun's going down, sorry, you're outta luck. We can't afford to." You know? And meanwhile, how do you get the performer's performance? I'm thinking the whole time all about "How can I get my day done?" And my performances are primarily a result of casting the right people at the right time in the right parts. And then I do little modifications.
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I'm a musician. Anything I've done as an actor has come from that.
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We need to do stuff we've always done, even though you might not like it.
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What Republicans have done in my view is that they are systematically dismantling a sense of community in America.
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You can't get blase about something you haven't done yet.
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If you're not grown up enough to understand that a trailer is not done by the director, then fine. Judge the movie from the trailer.
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If people in the end think that you can't do something in a way which is acceptable then it won't fly. The only way you get anything like this done is if people think, 'I understand why it is being done.'
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If you want a war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men are ever subject, because doctrines get inside a man's reason and betray him against himself. Civilized men have done their fiercest fighting for doctrines.
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When everything is said and done there is nothing left to do or say.
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Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
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The rebels did more in one night than my whole army would have done in one month.
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When you’ve done everything you can to train yourself for competition, you’ll sleep well when the tournament is over, win or lose.
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The courage of leadership is giving others the chance to succeed even though you bear the responsibility for getting things done.
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I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.
