"Honestly, I don't feel pressure to live up to anything I've done because I tend to not listen to my work once a year passes."
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"If you just change one person's life, you feel like you've done something. But if you can change a whole lot of them and get them looking at themselves differently, it's amazing."
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"Most of the world's work is done by people who don't feel very well."
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"Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us."
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"The problem with taking offense is that it's really hard to figure out what to do with it after you're done using it. Better to just leave it on the table and walk away. Umbrage untaken quietly disappears."
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"What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all."
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""I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher." That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done."
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"I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history – true or feigned– with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author."
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"I loved Spencer Tracy. I would have done anything for him."
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"Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over."
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"There is never any fair and thorough discussion of heretical opinions... The greatest harm done is to those who are not heretics, and whose whole mental development is cramped and their reason cowed, by the fear of heresy."
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"I never notice what is said about me. I am credited with things I have never done, and abused for them. It would be idle to attempt to contradict newspaper talk and street rumors."
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"Thank God I have done my duty."
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"I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day."
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"The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making. Yet pleasure in the work can’t be achieved unless you know you have put all of your strength into it and have done your best to make it come alive. A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew."
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"If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it."
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"Good programmers stay open minded to that even though there is no obvious way to improve what they've done they... they keep looking and they listen to what other people have to say."
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"There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done."
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"Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done."
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"The challenge with being an initiator of projects is that you are never, ever done."
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