"I recognize that no matter how old I get, how many records I've done, or what the public perception of me is, there are still exciting things that I haven't done."
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"I realized that kids everywhere go for the same stuff; and seeing as we'd done it in England, there's no reason why we couldn't do it in America too."
"'Oh! Darling' was a great one of Paul's that he didn't sing too well. I always thought I could have done it better-it was more my style than his. He wrote it, so what the hell, he's going to sing it."
"Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive, and there's just no shortcut - you just have to do it."
"The thing is, we've changed our style but we've never changed the actual roots of what we've done."
"Must the hunger become anger and the anger fury before anything will be done?"
"All commandments that I give must be obeyed unless they are revoked by me or by my authority and how can I revoke an everlasting covenant for I the Lord am everlasting and my everlasting covenants cannot be abrogated nor done away with but stand forever."
"If you do not magnify your calling, God will hold you responsible for those who you might have saved-had you done your duty."
"I condition myself to believe that once the scene is done, once the movie is done, my job is done, and whatever happens after that is none of my business."
"I think it was impossible not to come upon a lot of confabulation simply because any good scholarship that has been done since [Buckminster Fuller] death has really delved in that."
"I've done everything I've done in America with the limitations I have."
". . . if there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done by pessimism; optimists will never change the world for the better."
"The day before is what we bring to the day we're actually living through, life is a matter of carrying along all those days-before just as someone might carry stones, and when we can no longer cope with the load, the work is done, the last day is the only one that is not the day before another day."
"When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time."
"The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein."
"I am never happy with what I do, so I try not to watch stuff that is filmed with me in it because I am always like, "Oh, I could have done that a little bit better," or, "I could have done that differently - that riff could have been a little better.""
"The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people, which is best done by fiction."
"To claim - to claim repeatedly - that you are innocent of what it is claimed by others that you have done, or might have done, or are in some quarters strongly suspected of having done, is never enough unless others, numerous others, will say it for you."
"I do what I want to do. It was a brash statement of(her)girlhood. Now she was an adult, the boast seemed quaint. For rarely do you know what you want. Even after you've done it you can't say clearly if that was what you'd wanted or just something that happened to you, like weather."
"The secret of being a writer: not to expect others to value what you've done as you value it. Not to expect anyone else to perceive in it the emotions you have invested in it. Once this is understood, all will be well."