- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doing Quotes
On action, effort and the discipline of doing the work.
These lines describe doing in its many forms: the overlap between film and television production, the uncertainty built into research, and committing to work you believe in even without much recognition. For more, see our Action quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Blue
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Memoryhouse' came out, and there wasn't a single review and zero sales, and after about a year, it was deleted. So I recorded The 'Blue Notebooks' on a little indie label, and my attitude was, 'Well, if nobody is listening, I might as well keep doing what I'm doing'.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
It feels like when novelists say they find their characters are doing things they never thought they'd do, the material comes alive, and that's how I feel making music.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love finding and doing new things and trying stuff out; that's my favorite thing to do.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a handyman in an office building across from Penn Station for two entire summers while I was still in school and the summer after. I had to wear a big, gray jumpsuit kind of thing that had the name of the company in a big patch on my chest, and I was sent to fix things and didn't know what I was doing.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up with the movies of Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire and Judy Garland - these are the kinds of shows and the kinds of numbers in shows that I dreamed of being in and doing when I was a kid.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
For basically three years, I was doing 'Catfish' and 'We Are Your Friends' at the same time - it was like straddling two very long-term creative marriages. And when you're in a long-term creative commitment, you tend to daydream and fantasize about smaller creative flings that you want to have.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have my struggles. But I'm doing whatever it takes to be an artist, to be the best technical jumper I can be, the best spinner I can be. Nothing is easy about that. But I'm doing whatever I can to be the best.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, one of the biggest designers is Azzedine Alaia. Everything he is doing is fantastic.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
Based on my experience, it's considerably difficult to force a donkey into doing something it perceives to be dangerous for whatever reason.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020