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"That's one of the things Yardem used to tell me that actually made sense. He said that you don't go through grief like it was a chore to be done. You can't push and get finished quicker. The best you can do is change the way you always do, and the time comes when you aren't the same person who was in pain."
"The Wrong we have Done, Thought, or Intended Will wreak its Vengeance on Our SOULS."
"That's one of the things I love about being a songwriter first, last and always, because whether I do it or not, if someone does a great job on it, my work is done."
"Eventually you stop paying attention to your own feelings when there's nothing to be done about them."
"I've done 10 or 11 pilots for network television, which is ridiculous."
"This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn't engage anybody."
"I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits."
"People can copy what you've done, but they can't copy what you still want to do."
"If I had wanted to ice the little toad, I would have done it a long time ago."
"Leadership is the ability to get a person to do what you want him to do, when you want it done, in a way you want it done, because he wants to do it."
"We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of living is luxurious by any measure."
"When someone gets a success, and we, too, have done good work and sometimes even better work than the person who has just triumphed, we wonder: Why did success pass me by?"
"You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That's magical. He's done a great thing."
"Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories."
"I was kind of a little disappointed when they started building a competition between Marty (Martin Scorsese) and me. I have the greatest respect for him and all the films he's done over the years."
"I've never done anything by halves."
"Don't hit the person across from you with bits of toast, And don't, when dinner is nearly through, say 'Who's the host' It isn't done."
"If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to exalt virtue?"
"But you know you haven't done it all because you know everything keeps evolving and changing; and you know you can evolve with it if you grow and develop as a human being."
"I'm just going to go out there knowing my teammates are depending on me to get the job done. I've got to go out and get it done, no letting down."
