"The job isn't done until you've blamed someone for the parts that went wrong."
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"I'm pathetic when it comes to the Internet and getting stuff done."
"The work that is done in love loses half its tedium and difficulty."
"Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was wanting."
"The most effective way to find ourselves enslaved will not be done openly. If weakened we will sink gradually. I ask, who are the militia? They consist of the whole people, .... except a few public officers."
"If you have any duty which must be done, and it seems disagreeable, do it promptly and have it over."
"No man has done everything he can who has done only his best."
"Some of the supporting roles that I've done as an actor, I took them because I knew that I would get to watch some of the leading guys in the movies, and also I'd get to work with them."
"You hate to see yourself do one draft of a script and then have somebody else come back in and change what you've done."
"Remind people who they are instead of just complimenting them on what they've done."
"I've done it with all my films. I always keep an eye on the first time I show it because... I don't know. Neurosis."
"I found Jumpy on YouTube. I wrote a movie about a guy with a dog and was like, "What have I done? This is going to be a nightmare. We're a small movie and we're never going to be able to do this.""
"The downstream effects are unknown. Do your best and hope for the best. If you're improving the world-however you define that-consider your job well done."
"If I stopped having passion, I'd be done."
"The words, when they came to my heart, were so gentle, and familiar -- and so very sad: What is this you have done?"
"Although I always said that I wanted to be a writer from childhood, I hadn't actually done much about it until I came to London."
"How much wrong have we done unintentionally, meaning the best"
"I think whenever you lose somebody close to you, there's always a part of you that wishes you could have done something differently."
"If they want to take all the belts, they can take them, but they'll never take what I've done and my achievements."
"I admire Grover Norquist. I think hes done a lot of good."