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Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.

I thought my book was done, then we went to Hawaii and the whole last chapter happened.

You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike the popular cliche that pressure is exerted, or that maybe an unwilling source is done away with.

You know, I've never done karaoke, ever. It makes me nervous - I think it's the lack of the guitar and just a microphone.

I wouldn't have dared ask God for all that He's given me. I couldn't have done it on my own. I thank God every day for what I have.

I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest against everything that is said, and everything that is done.

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.

I don't enjoy anything while I'm doing it. I enjoy having done things, though.

I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do.

For, as I suppose, no man in this world hath lived better than I have done, to achieve that I have done.

God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.

Research shows you get multiple tasks done faster if you do them one at a time. It also decreases stress and raises happiness.

Camping is something I've done all my life.

I do not inveigh against higher education, I simply maintain that the sort of education the colored people of the South stand most in need of, is elementary and industrial. They should be instructed for the work to be done.

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia

Sure, I could of done it different... put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul.

I'm not ashamed of anything that I've done because when I did it, I was passionate about it and I was doing it for a reason.

Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.

I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.

So though there are many things I would have done differently, I submit to God's sovereignty and His purpose in my life and I thank Him that He brought me the way He brought me and gave me what He gave me when He thought I could handle it.

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job.

And I did Batman, too. I did Mr. Freeze. I get more mail for him than anything I've ever done.

The Nigerians have been very instrumental in preserving stability in Sierra Leone. They have done this at considerable cost in dollars and Nigerian lives. The US should encourage Nigeria to stay in Sierra Leone.

I always got my work done before playing.

The other part of outsourcing is this: it simply says where the work can be done outside better than it can be done inside, we should do it.

If there was any one achievement, it would be that we've have done it on our own terms.

I don't care. I feel like if we don't make a trade, we have to get it done with what we've got.

I feel that the most rewarding thing I have ever done in my life is to be associated with UNICEF.

Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television... I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.

He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done.

Final Destination was the closest thing I've done to a teen movie but it certainly had an edge to it.

Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.

I'd have to be superman to do some of the things I'm supposed to have done, I've been at six different places at six different times.

Sports and music are the same thing to me. When done wrong, they are really frustrating; when done right, they can change your day.

In a recession, you must be able to call into question everything you've done before.

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion.

I think that everything I've ever done at some point is part of someone else's legacy.

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

The worst violence we can do to each other often is psychological, especially in families. I dwell a lot on domestic danger. Thats the backdrop of most of my novels - what kind of damage is done without ever lifting a finger.

Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.

This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.

I love animals and I love to see movies with animals that are done respectfully, you know?

All I can say is I've been lucky with my body. Well done, little body. I praise it and say, 'You're very good.'

After all the work I've done, why should I suddenly be treated as a bona fide actress?

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.

I have principles in my professional and personal life as to how things are done.

Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest.

We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.

Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.

Whether you hear me come out with another album or whether you hear any one of the Clan members, we're always going to involve everybody. When I look at 'Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Part II,' I look at that as a Wu album. You feel me? Even though it was my brand and my thing that I done, I had my dudes on it.

I admire Grover Norquist. I think hes done a lot of good.

None of the things I have done would have been accomplished without a true team effort.

I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism

Where the material is, that's where you go. I'm a workman: I go to work. I've done movies for nothing, literally nothing; I did 'Last I Heard' for next to nothing.

I never actually plan sequels. They demand to be done.

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus.

Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'

Everything I've done I've done with enthusiasm and passion.

I don't know what the future holds. I just try to do roles that I haven't done before.

I am looking forward to getting to do things I have never done before.

My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.

Basically, at some point, one day maybe you can expect to hear some of my music. I haven't really done that yet because my younger brother is a musician and really talented and I want him to come out with his music first.

I've done that kind of stuff in records, where you start going back and you want to just redo everything, destroy everything, because you think it all sucks and you can do it better.

Although I always said that I wanted to be a writer from childhood, I hadn't actually done much about it until I came to London.

I think whenever you lose somebody close to you, there's always a part of you that wishes you could have done something differently.

I've done a whole lot of things. I've had the pleasure of introducing two presidents, several senators and congressmen.

I may not have proved a great explorer, but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success.

One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Our thoughts really do create our lives. They've done a lot of research showing if you're an optimistic, positive person you will be a healthier person than if you're a sad, depressed, negative person.

In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Congress did in the campaign finance law, may be the single most self-denying thing that Congress has ever done.

I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and tapping on the guitar and pulling off strings and doing all this weird stuff that no one had ever done before.

All of the good stuff is going to be done in the future. The stuff we are doing now is crummy compared with what will finally mature.

I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself

Broadway is one of the hardest things I've ever done.

I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong.

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder to shoulder. There was no more to be done for him and I left him to his rest. I have never mended that hole in my sleeve.

If I didn't have to do it, I wouldn't have done it. If I had a million bucks in the bank, I wouldn't have done Playboy.

Readers have actually changed the way I've done things, changed the course of my career even, about four or five times. Just from reader feedback.

Nicolas Cage is a great actor and he's done some good action movies too.

Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way - how many pleasing things are done for you.

You've done it in the simulator so many times, you don't have a real sense of being excited when the flight is going on. You're excited before, but as soon as the liftoff occurs, you are busy doing what you have to do.

In a single generation, the Internet has given to virtually every person on the face of the earth the ability to communicate with fellow human beings on virtually any topic, at any time, and in every nook and cranny on the globe. This magnificent invention has done this without succumbing to government control.

Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.

When I was first introduced to CrossFit, I found it to be the hardest workout that I'd ever done. It wiped the floor with me, and I fell in love with it immediately. The results that I have seen in my strength and physicality have been unparalleled to any other things I have ever done in my more than 20 years in the fitness business.

I've danced my whole life. Martial arts is just fun for me, it's all choreographed a bit like dance. I have done Muay Thai and Wushu, which is cool because it's very fluid dance. I also do Tricking. It's kind of like Taekwondo with the big kicks and flips and showier aspects of martial arts.

I'm an accumulation of every single thing I've done, good and bad.

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

After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines.

I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things.

I have done so much for hip-hop and 'til this day, I haven't received any awards or any recognition for it.

I really wish we could stay longer in the countries we visit, but I've been lucky to have visited most of them before, because I've done a tremendous amount of travel.

I did the pilot, and when they came through and said they were going to put it on the air, I had already some dates in the book with my band and so on. So Barry did the first one, he may have done a few more than the first one in the series, and I took it up from then.

Performing on stage is what I've done since I was a kid and it's where the passion that has started from the very beginning for me, and that's what I'm going to enjoy.

The problem for Rome, then, is how and when the intervention should be done with a sense of the possibility of going too far in limiting the freedom of theologians. This is not an easy time - neither for Rome nor for the theologians.