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I enter myself in races. I did a triathlon, and I have done a marathon a couple of times.

I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a book — something in which the reader can get happily lost, if the tale is done well and stays fresh.

The Overlook was still not done with him. Written on the mirror, not in lipstick but in blood, was a single word: REDRUM

The act of writing itself is done in secret, like masturbation.

A lot of scientists hate writing. Most scientists love being in the lab and doing the work and when the work is done, they are finished.

I've always been a bit of a sound freak in the movies I've done.

It's a great privilege just to be in a film not because you're some packaging that some agent has done with the studio exec: "We need a John Travolta film."

Originality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done.

Only at the end of the last stroke of paint, you can begin to wonder what needs to be done next.

The busier you get, the more you get done.

You don't want to line up on the blocks and know you have not done everything you possibly can.

I was actually abandoned by wolves and then raised by Republicans.

I was a lawyer for 10 years, and when youre in law, things really have to get done, or somebody sues you. Its a great trick.

Camping is something I've done all my life.

Never is a historic deed already completed when it is done but always only when it is handed down to posterity. What we call "history" by no means represents the sum total of all significant deeds.... World historyonly comprises that tiny lighted sector which chanced to be placed in the spotlight by poetic or scholarly depictions.

I've been asked this question about playing the baddie so many times. When I read the script, I said, 'Of course this guy has done terrible things, but he's a human being first,' and that's what I'm attracted to in a part like this. It doesn't make any sense if all of a sudden the guy is horrendously bad and that's it. You can't relate to him or understand him.

A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh plays, and on Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo' movies.

I don't expect every movie to be done exactly the way I would have done it.

Have Liverpool done too much tinkering and tailoring with the system?

Wrestling school was probably one of the hardest things I've ever done. It just killed me.

Lyrics are tough for me and I never feel like they're quite done.

There are literally endless options and possibilities, and often no clear or obvious path in how to make that choice, and nobody to tell you to go this way or that. But somehow, it works itself out if you trust in the process, which is often easier said than done.

When I'm told something can't be done, I am inevitably attracted to that particular challenge.

People sometimes forget all the films that we've done. They remember the likes of 'Malcolm X' and 'Do the Right Thing.' But I've been working since 1986. From the beginning, I was determined to not just be a flash in the pan. I've got to keep up with Woody Allen. He's lapping me.

Putting the budget ahead of the policy is the wrong way to do it. It's too often the way it's done in Washington.