"As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes."
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"The great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed."
"I've had a love affair with every movie I've ever done."
"The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it."
"The edge is a great place to be. Inside the box is too dark. Outside the box, there's no leverage. But on the edge of the box, you can get things done!"
"Just imagine how much you'd get done if you stopped actively sabotaging your own work."
"Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married."
"Now is my time. Everything I've done up to this point is just a warm up. This is where it all begins."
"She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well."
"When the day is done the most important thing is loving people and sharing love."
"Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches"
"What I've done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it."
"I have all the time in the world from life to life to do what is to do, to do what is done, to do the timeless doing."
"Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done"
"The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility - of being unable to undo what one has done - is the faculty of forgiving."
"She was witchy, yes, and in charge of a cauldron roiling with ideas and stories, but she always gave the impression that the stories, the ones she wrote and wrote so very well and so wisely, had simply happened, and that all she had done was to hold the pen. (On Diana Wynne Jones)"
"The innovator has for enemies all who have done well under the old, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new."
"In anger nothing right nor judicious can be done."
"Without your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and watch you, as they have done already."
"The most adventurous thing I've done is learn how to fly a helicopter in the Philippines. One night we landed on a beach and slept on it."