"If our web be framed with rotten handles, when our loom is well nigh done, our work is new to begin. God send the weaver true prentices again, and let them be denizens."
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"It's a lot of work to put a brand-new monologue and a brand-new show on the air and find comedy every single day. It's challenging and it's the hardest thing I have ever done, but it's the best-suited thing for me. The more relaxed I get and the more confident I feel, the more I get to play and be myself..."
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"Love is done when Loves begun, Sages say, But have Sages known?"
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"The things Nas' Illmatic was saying were sometimes hard realities but it was done on such a high level, I felt I could point to him as a representative. Someone who put my struggle and my worldview into poetry."
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"Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done."
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"All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were impossible. We didn't care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care."
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"What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done."
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"I've done so much songwriting and I know how to do it."
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"No one had ever done a swimming movie before so we just made it up as we went along. I ad-libbed all my own underwater movements."
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"The little done doth vanish to the mind which forward sees how much remains to do."
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"When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best."
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"Going to bed with Gertrude Stein, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Susan Sontag, or Margaret Thatcher: There are some things one prefers neither to do nor to have done."
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"I've been exploring a lot of different avenues with a number of very different and very, very exciting filmmakers and writers. That's been the trip. I like to find something very, very different from the last thing I did, which might be similar to something I've done before, but as long as it's different from the last thing I did, it keeps me entertained."
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"I am the people the mob the crowd the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?"
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"What else have I done nearly all my life than go hungry and go on singing?"
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"The production pushes and pulls you as much as the song does. It's almost more to do with the production value of how each bit was done as opposed to the actual track itself."
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"We get real picky about frequencies. Put it on a tape, start on tape, and it's kind of locked to how it sounds. Which would have been a very interesting thing to have done, but we were very aware that we wanted a bizarre kind of production value on the record."
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"The idea that you can ask one question and it makes the point - well, that wasn't how psychology was done at the time."
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"I get a lot of work done in my dreams and I don't want to take anybody else's work with me."
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"Somehow, stars have a lot of class if they are done right; they never have a shelf life."
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