"I've always kind of done exactly what my instincts said."
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"I've never really done anything to create what has happened. It creates itself. I'm here because it happened. But I didn't do anything to make it happen apart from saying 'Yes'"
"Success always takes help. Failure is done alone."
"One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen."
"You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you."
"Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years."
"All the work I've done in my life will be obsolete by the time I'm fifty."
"If I'm not prepared, I don't feel confident. It's something that you can have control of. You deserve what it is you're going after as long as you've done the work that needs to be done to prepare for it. You can't just have your hand out!"
"The word reality scared me. I just looked at reality as everybody follows me around with a camera, and I'm not that kind of person. I fought for my privacy in England. And I didn't see another way it could be done."
"Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?"
"You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there."
"I'm no politician but I do feel that a lot of damage was done because of misguided principals and America is still suffering from it."
"Celebrate my death for the good times I've had, For the work that I've done and the friends that I've made. Celebrate my death, of whom it could be said, "She was a working class woman, and a red.""
"There are lots of artists in the world. But there's only one you. And the only person who has your point of view is you. If you decide not to make things, all you've done is deprive the world of all the stuff that only you could have brought to it."
"And when all is said and done, there is no greater success in the world than just being happy."
"Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done! [Apocryphal]"
"I have a terrible memory because I'm not interested in the past. It's done, it's done."
"Let us remind ourselves that our work is far from complete. Where there is poverty and sickness, including AIDS, where human beings are being oppressed, there is more work to be done. Our work is for freedom for all."
"I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten."
"If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of the main bulwarks of individual freedom, then he had better become a socialist and have done with it."