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Now I also discipline myself to do things I love to do when I don't want to do them

If the work is good, what does it matter? I'm doing it because I love it. Why not do as many things I love as I can? As long as the work is good.

I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.

Going to work is probably my favorite thing to do. I do that five days a week for probably ten hours a day, but it doesn't even feel like work and it shouldn't. When you enjoy a job so much like I do, it's not work, it's play.

I try to find a reason to laugh each day. Somehow, if you can incorporate laughter into your day, every day, it really helps. It's the little things in life that make me happy.

If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny thing is, from a language point of view, JavaScript has a lot in common with Python, but it is sort of a restricted subset.

On grass, it can be the small things that decide a match.

Research for fiction is a funny thing: you go looking for one piece of information, and find something altogether different.

It hurts when you have to smile and you don't want to smile, but the best thing to do is to smile.

I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.

There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.

When you're working with good people it brings good things out in you.

I make no apologies for loving the finer things in life or the men I choose to date. I don't feel bad about the person I am. Now, I do have an edge, rawness and realness, and I can tell you I'm going to keep that.

I've won some pretty cool things in my life and I have a lot of great titles.

You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world.

Becoming a mother is the best thing that's happened to me.

I have got better things to do in working with my athletes who I feel are going to be involved in 2012.

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Power is the ability to get things done

Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.

The funny thing is, I'm so used to not caring what anyone says, good or bad, that unfortunately even when people say good things I wish it made me feel good, but it doesn't.

One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

The blowback against a bailout of Lehman would have been fierce. It is often forgotten, but the prevailing wisdom the day after Lehman fell was that its collapse was a good thing.

When I perform, it's very personal. I'm sharing things I like, inviting the audience into my room.

I love going out and doing new things.

Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing,

I think America understands that energy security is a very important part of our national security. But if we are going to address energy security in a meaningful way going forward, we need to do it in a new manner. We cannot just be doing the same old thing.

An opening statement is like a guide or a road map. It's a very delicate thing.

The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you're always asked to do what you've already done.

Elizabeth I was my favourite monarch though, what an inspiration, she did great things for women.

Sometimes I think change is a good thing.

Just because I don't do bad things doesn't mean I don't have bad thoughts.

Hollywood infected my brain and I really valued the wrong things in life, but I changed dramatically.

The best thing that can happen in a relationship is when you are the same person you were before the relationship started. You are not hiding anything, and you still have a life of your own. The other best thing is sex - that is a super positive.

Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.

If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

Comedy is a very personal thing, and some people will find it funny, some people wont.

The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever.

There used to be an old thing where every team had a heavy bag in their locker room for people to punch, but again, it was more about conditioning because if you hit a heavy bag for a minute, it feels like your arms are about to fall off.

I love watching a good, freaky horror movie. I love it. It's one of my favorite things to do, to go and see at the cinema. Just to tune out and be freaked out.

Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.

Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.

I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.

I love buying things. I could be one of those crazy hoarders.

The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day.

I'm very lucky to work in so many different arenas of the entertainment industry and I do enjoy them all, but making music - original music - in the studio or live onstage is definitely my favorite thing to do.

I'm just the biggest klutz. That's the problem. I don't get hurt doing cool things.

To change, that is the most difficult thing to accomplish.

I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not.

Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.

having too many ideas is not always a good thing.

Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.

The funny thing is most people don't approach me because they are scared, and that's fine, I want to keep it that way. But the thing is if you're not scared or get over it you learn that sometimes what you're scared of is really what you shouldn't be scared of.

I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.

It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.

I think I have some interesting things to say and I don't think anybody out there is saying them.

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don't say things in life - they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing - which was redundant.

It's not going to be easy to change things.

So, I decided that whatever I was, wanted to do with my life, it would have to do, it would have to have something to do with the exploration and doing new things.

The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself,

The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It's dismissive.

I always have said that the most valuable thing I have isn't money; it's my time.

I went to go see 'Final Destination' which you have to be 17 and over to see and they're like 'Uh, we need to see your I.D.' Here's the really funny thing is that I actually had done my hair and makeup that day. If I don't do my hair and makeup I can understand it but I had actually made an effort to look older.

The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.

I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.

And the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite.

All I need is a camera and I'll make things happen

Well, one of the things I love about 'The Office' is that it has so much heart.

There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian.

Get out of your house and go see some live performance, for God's sake. There are people creating things just outside your window.

If you disagree with me, fine! Because that's the great thing about America, we can disagree!

Everything changes all the time, and unfortunately, everyone who knows what you do by buying records only hears a small amount of what's going on in your life.

That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation.

Going to the gym wouldn't be on my list of favorite things to do.

Great things that can happen when you're doing a movie.

There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them.

There was at time in my life where all I wanted was a relationship, and I thought that was the most important thing.

I can't play anywhere near like I used to, and I was a hot drummer. It doesn't bother me, because frankly, if you get to that point where you can't hold a drumstick properly, there are many other things in life which are far more important, like cutting a loaf of bread or a piece of cheese.

I'd love to be approached to do ordinary things more.

We moved to Baltimore, Maryland, in 1979, when I was five. The funny thing is that, even though Baltimore had one of the top murder rates in the country in those days, I grew up hearing about how dangerous New York was.

It's such a great thing to work with people and not have a plan.

Boxing was not something I truly enjoyed. Like a lot of things in life, when you put the gloves on, it's better to give than to receive.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

I love the absurd - kind of absurdist comedy, absurd things in life.

Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things.

What you do with it and things like that, but I basically chose this after I read it because I thought it was different and funny and unique and dark - things that I like to do.

There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a championship or losing a championship.

It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.

The extraordinary thing about my mother, she's so modest about me.

I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.

The funny thing is that people see one film like 'Racing Stripes' or 'Ice Princess' and all of a sudden, slip me into this category of 'that's what she's always involved in.

The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building I could not get any insurance anywhere in Canada.

Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it's all metal, but on the inside it's very delicate.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Things change when you give your life to serving God, and that can be scary.