Done Quotes

I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.

So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next stop would be a Shakespeare, or an Ibsen, or a play by a brand new writer who had never done anything in the theater before.

If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer.

But if you have a point of view and you're an artist or a writer, it's kind of crazy to not take advantage of that, especially if you can do something that's entertaining as well. I've done a number of things like that over the years.

But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer.

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up.

My deal was that they would use a full-length picture of me in my underwear and a full-length picture of me all done up, and they would write about how long it took and how much it cost, because that was the whole point. It was very liberating.

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done.

It just happens I write fast and always have done.

All these things that enter your head are assignments. You write them up and then throw them out there and if someone wants to do it, your assignment is done.

It's good to go out and entertain these people, and you've got them on the edge of their seat, they're standing up. Then you know that you've done your job, you've entertained them. My way of entertaining them is going out and wrestling. Everyone's got their different ways.

We taped all this and then got it transcribed and picked the best lines or ideas or ways to take a scene. I've done that many times, and it can improve the script but also wreck a perfectly good scene.

Normally, you go into the recording studio, make a record and then take it on the road and you think... wow... I could have done THIS to it, or something.

In London there was an article about all these girls bending it like Beckham, and in India there's this big wave of girls playing football. Wow! I can't believe a movie's done this!

If I'm not afraid when I'm reading a script, that means I know I've done it before. If I read something and think, Wow, I can't play this part, then I want to play it more.

My suspension was a long-planned move... and was done to protect would-be convicts in Romanian politics.

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.

Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.

If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.

He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.

I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists.

I have done songs here and there. But I have never scored a film. That is something I would like to do at some point.

It's sort of a meat market, the whole awards thing, and I don't think you can predict it anymore - who's going to like what you've done, if it's worthy or not. And hopefully, that's not why you make a film, because if you're distracted by that, or only striving for that, you don't do it justice.

I've been exploring different options for when I'm done skiing. I have the Turtle Ridge Foundation, which is helping a bunch of worthy causes around the Northeast. I've also started SkiSpace, which is an online social network that basically deals with all things based around any snow sport.

That moment was very important because it was political. That's what has to be done, so they struck a deal. She figures his is a well-thought-out motivation that she felt was worthy trade-off. The motivation here is survival, and she has to think like a leader.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.