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The King is dead, rock is done. You might be through, but I've just begun.

I still like to keep tapes of the few minutes before the final take, things that happen before the session. Maybe it's superstitious, but I believe if I had done things differently - if I had walked around the studio or gone out - it wouldn't have turned out that way.

If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done.

The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done.

From this outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living. Did all dying people feel this way, as if they had never lived? Did life seem that short, indeed, over and done before you took a breath? Did it seem this abrupt and impossible to everyone, or only to himself, here, now, with a few hours left to him for thought and deliberation?

I feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago. For a little while I'm not afraid. Maybe it's because I'm doing the right thing at last. Maybe it's because I've done a rash thing and don't want to look the coward to you.

Notoriety and a fat bank balance must come after everything else is finished and done.

The great thing about my life is that everything I've done is a result of what I was when I was 12 or 13.

The minute you feel like there's nothing left to learn, whether it's with your career or life, you're done.

In high school, I was on the youth advisory council for the Mayor's Office of Los Angeles, and that was kind of my first experience in the bureaucratic system. We tried to get things done, and nobody was really interested in getting anything done.

I don't think that there's been one example in history where somebody has openly talked about their personal life and it's done them any good.

originality" is everyone's aim, and novel techniques are as much prized as new scientific discoveries. [T.S.] Eliot states it with surprising naïveté: "It is exactly as wasteful for a poet to do what has been done already as for a biologist to rediscover Mendel's discoveries.

The best of causes ruins as quickly as the worst; and the road to Limbo is paved with writers who have done everything I am being sympathetic, not satiric for the very best reasons.

One way to avoid what has already been done is to be true to yourself.

When you get old, everything changes - your body changes, your family changes. You can't do what you've always done, anymore. And, either you can complain about things changing - or you can be content. Instead of complaining, you can say: "Oh, yesss! Look at all this change!" You can welcome it.

We are Fragile, everyone. We all long for something more. Things are said and things are done and the pieces hit the floor. See how fragile.

The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties. Else, I know not how, in our world, any good would ever get done.

Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for myself.

The thing done avails, and not what is said about it.

Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.

What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.

If you're just sitting around home it's just too easy to sit around and smoke pot all day and never get anything done.

You just can't get anything done. You can't get hearings, you can't get legislation, you can't get responses by the regulatory agencies - you can't get anything done. I'm a realist. I don't work harder and harder to get less and less.

The main question raised by the thriller is not what kind of world we live in, or what reality is like, but what it has done to us.

Remember always that the ultimate value is meditation, so anything you do, do meditatively; and all things can be done in a meditative way.