"A lot of scientists hate writing. Most scientists love being in the lab and doing the work and when the work is done, they are finished."
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"The act of writing itself is done in secret, like masturbation."
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"I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a book — something in which the reader can get happily lost, if the tale is done well and stays fresh."
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"The Overlook was still not done with him. Written on the mirror, not in lipstick but in blood, was a single word: REDRUM"
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"If somebody has done it before, that is enough reason to knock an idea off the table"
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"Just because it may take longer, Doesn't mean your dream won't get done."
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"The Red Comyns had always done well behind the throne. The king was but an instrument, as his father used to say. They were the musicians."
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"Nothing I do is done by popular demand."
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"I've put an umbrella in my mouth and opened it. I sat in a lemon-meringue pie. I've done terrible things to my dog with a fork."
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"It is the perfect wrong time for Jeremy to do to Mirabelle what she had done to him - call him up for a quick fix - because;, in a sense, she is now betrothed. Her first date with someone who treated her well obligates her to faithfulness, at least until the relationship is explored."
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"It's like painting the same blank canvas over and over and over and over and over. Once the concept is known, you don't need to see two. And that was in the back of my head, that I was really done artistically with what I had created or pastiched."
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"I choose a project based on whether it feels worthwhile working on when it comes to me. But secondly I choose it if it sounds like fun. Projects are determined by just how they strike me at the moment, as they have done throughout my whole life."
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"My favorite record I've ever done is Rock Salt and Nails. It was recorded in '68-'69 and released in '69. There's something about that record I really like."
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"I just feel that when all is said and done, I am not insane."
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"As a director myself, you want to have colleagues and collaborators that respect your authority as the director. I'm very comfortable with that, and I've done a lot of work in second unit."
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"There's an awful lot of work being done that no one ever sees, or that is only seen in the gallery world. I feel that the public are losing touch with the great stuff that's being done in photography."
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"If a woman's work is never done, she should start earlier."
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"Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats."
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"They've done away with those committees. That shows the success of what the Soviets were able to do in this country."
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"If you owe the bank $10,000 you have a problem. If you owe the bank $10,000,000 they have a problem. After all is said and done, more is said than done. Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them."
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