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There are some writers who are done when they finish a draft because they've thought it through beforehand. Whereas I'll finish a first draft and I'm nowhere near done.

People are too prone to think that the actual is the limit of possibility. They believe that all that has been done is all that can be done.

Domesticity was meat and drink to Mouse, and she liked taking care of people. She had done it for so long that it had become a habit with her.

I have done film, television and theatre - all at a pretty substantial level - I don't think it's possible for American actors to do that.

As a reporter having covered him for eight years in the White House, I am sure the media could have done a better job if we had known the real Ronald Reagan.

I had never done any serious acting before, but I decided that it was a chance that I should take.

Thinking should be done beforehand and afterwards - never while actually taking a photograph.

Only what is thought, said, or done at a certain rare coincidence is good.

The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease. We are made to exaggerate the importance of what we do; and yet how much is not done by us!

A man's whole life is taxed for the least thing well done. It is its net result.

Each reader discovers for himself that, with respect to the simpler features of nature, succeeding poets have done little else than copy his similes.

You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.

To live a better life,--this surely can be done.

There are those who never reason on what they should do, but what they have done; as if Reason had her eyes behind, and could only see backwards.

Lo, when two dogs are fighting in the streets, With a third dog one of the two dogs meets; With angry teeth he bites him to the bone, And this dog smarts for what that dog has done.

Food might be more immediately important than history but if you don't understand what's been done to you - by your own people and the so-called 'they' - you can never get around it.

I love working in TV. TV is fast. You shoot it and it's done quickly.

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet - if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.

When I am in Africa, I realize I don't know much, have not seen much, and there's a lot to be done.

Bono actually gets a lot of substantial work done. The guy really does put a lot of things together and, while I'm not a fan of his music, I greatly applaud his humanitarian efforts.

But can a song stop a war? If Bob Marley and Bob Dylan couldn't do it, it can't be done.

For me, music was an age/time/place thing. One day I woke up and realized I was done. That was many years ago.

I see violence in myself; I've done some pretty violent things in my lifetime and I've been around some pretty severe violence all the way up to homicide.

I spend a lot of time alone so I get a lot done. I don't do much else but work, check things out.

I really enjoy the lattitude I have with being a private citizen. I can get a lot done. I am good with that.

The worlds in which we live at heart are one, The world "I am," the fruit of "I have done"; And underneath these worlds of flower and fruit, The world "I love,"--the only living root.

A word that has been said may be unsaid-it is but air. But when a deed is done, it cannot be undone, nor can our thoughts reach out to all the mischiefs that may follow.

If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.

Why do you have to retire at 65? Why can't you start at 70? You know, like wine. Why can't music be that way? My new band, we're playing stuff that's never been done before.

The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth? — Because one did survive the wreck.

Let us be Christians toward our fellow-whites, as well as philanthropists toward the blacks our fellow-men. In all things, and toward all, we are enjoined to do as we would be done by.

Men there are, who having quite done with the world, all its merely worldly contents are become so far indifferent, that they carelittle of what mere worldly imprudence they may be guilty.

I like my hands. They're certainly scarred up, but they're wormy. They're knuckly. They're hands that have done stuff, and they're not going anywhere.

I try not to look at my schedule for the week because I'll get so overwhelmed. Every day, there are multiple things to be done and 10 things I don't end up accomplishing.

I'm so used to being separate from the publication process. I turn in the book to the editor and then I'm done.

As a performer, I don't like to play the same thing over and over. I like to play it and let it go and move on. That's also why television hasn't really been something that I've done.

There is no man can take, there is no pool can slake, ultimately I am alone; ultimately I am done.

I just want to sleep and exercise and travel for fun. And relax. It sounds so ordinary, but I haven't done it for 20 years.

When my hair was shorter, I used to get it done every couple of days... but I got tired of that.

There is still work to be done, but that remains a crucial lesson, you cannot bring peace and security to people just by signing an agreement. In fact, most peace agreements don't last.

What Donald Trump has done is to make it possible for people who had racist, sexist, and all kinds of prejudices and bigotry to put them right out there.

I wanna be a president for everyone in America. That's my goal, this what I will do, that's what I've done in my past.

I'm just grateful my dad never got a contract with Donald Trump, because I don't know what we would have done.

[Donald Trump] held a number of big rallies where he said that he could not possibly have done those things to those women because they were not attractive enough for them to be assaulted.

Tunnels, our ports, our airports - they need work. And there are millions of jobs to be done.

Nobody should want to wake up on November 9th and wonder whether there was more you could have done.

For 40 years, everyone running for president has released their tax returns. You can go and see nearly, I think, 39, 40 years of our tax returns, but everyone has done it.

We know what Donald Trump has said and what he's done to women. But he also went after a disabled reporter, mocked and mimicked him on national television.

Maybe something new is even being done by people who see our generation as an enemy. That can create energy as well.

You are the best kind of killer, Cassel Sharpe, the kind that never has blood on his hands. The kind that never has to sicken at the sight of what he's done, or come to like it too much.