- Group
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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
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: 'I'm not going to do jokes about anything crude because I'm bigger and better than that.' But then, I don't know... It makes me laugh, so I started doing it.
- Start
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you start doing a lot, you don't ever want to stop working. It feels weird if you're not doing something.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of doing stand-up is to get things off your chest. It's a bit like being in a psychiatrist's chair - but more enjoyable.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love stand-up, but the process of writing is a little more lonely. I want to keep doing both, though.
- Dedication
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- Nov 07, 2020
He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.
- Golf Courses
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mostly I built golf courses the way I played golf, which was left-to-right. But I learned very rapidly that people wanted to see more than just the way I played golf and that I had to balance up what I was doing, right-to-left, left-to-right, etc.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other.
- Military
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having committed ourselves to Iraq, we must prevail, and to prevail, we must fund all of the requirements for our military. We must do it adequately and promptly, and the administration is doing neither.
- Fat
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
One trap you can fall into when playing someone iconic is to end up doing everything in an iconic way, no matter how pedestrian or mundane that thing is.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have a sufficient political class, and the military doesn't have to get involved in high national office. The days of doing that, post-Civil War and post-World War II, are gone.
- Suffering
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- Nov 07, 2020