Done Quotes

Sometimes a loss is the best thing that can happen. It teaches you what you should have done next time.

This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.

Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.

I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side. When I got to college, as I was walking across campus one day, I ripped off a little flyer for this sketch-comedy group. It ended up being one of the greatest things I've ever done.

I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.

I've done my time in being broke in Indonesia. Eating Goat soup. Australia's a developed country, you've got a lot of taxes, rents are high and its quite difficult to survive as an artist especially when you are just coming up.

I had six silly tattoos done when I was young and I bitterly regret them. I've thought about laser surgery, but that leaves a scar, so I'm just leaving them.

Nudity, in the right way, can enhance a film or a TV program or a TV commercial. If it's done tastefully it can make it more of an interesting product.

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they've done - and this is especially true in the cultural realm.

The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.

In between that time, I've done book narrating, you know, books on tape for Dove Audio.

I've done seven shows at the Palladium - long running shows I'm talking about.

They're talking about a movie I don't want to hold to that because in this business you can talk about things for years before they get done - god knows if the financing would happen.

The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.

Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

Numb is the new deep, done with the old me, and talk is the same cheap it's been.

I have heard talk and talk, but nothing is done.

If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it. And that's a great way to shirk accountability for it with the public.

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.

I have nothing against people having work done, it is when I hear tale of girls of 16 queuing up to get bigger breasts, that is when I despair.

I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface.

Well, we're in show business, and I have been making a living in this business a long time and inevitably it means taking what it is that you've done and hopefully you're showing it to a lot of people who like it.

At the moment I am taking a very careful look at some of the work which we have done in the past.

It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good.

And taking more money out of the private economy and having the government perform as it has poorly done with the stimulus I don't think is the right way to go.

We have to deal with the world as we find it. The world of what it takes to get this done.

It depends who the director is you know, I mean Ken Loach for instance. I've done up to 32 takes with him.

I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.