- 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
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
When in doubt, look at what everyone else is doing.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing songs and lyrics is not that different from doing the 'Times' crossword every morning. They both give you a good mental workout.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.
- Empathy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's kind of funny that I've been branded as the empathy lady when, really, what I'm doing is questioning and interrogating empathy.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have younger friends who don't work, and they aren't doing so well. My secret is to keep going, keep working.
- Funny Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actually, the funny thing is, after all these years, I've got all these new songs to learn for the show we're doing at Joe's Pub, so it's kind of fun to get down and rehearse new things, and also rethink some of the older songs, how we're going to do them.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
It wasn't sexual in its element. I wasn't being exploited. I was doing what happened. It was very challenging because I played Phyllis from 15 years old to 53 when she died of breast cancer.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our task was doing maintenance and repairs to keep the station in a good state for the return of the shuttle flights and resumption of major ISS construction.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know if I'm an impressionist or an expressionist. You can call me an American first... I've been labeled doing neimanism, so that's what it is, I guess.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love doing concert music.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My heroes are guys like Frank Capra and Elia Kazan and Coen brothers and Terry Gilliam, more so than a lot of bass players at this point in my life. So I've always been an old-film nut and have very much enjoyed doing videos over the years.
- Ahead
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm doing physics because I'm curious about how it works - full speed ahead, damn the torpedoes, don't worry about whether somebody is going to be able to do an experiment next week, just figure it out.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020