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No one had ever done a swimming movie before so we just made it up as we went along. I ad-libbed all my own underwater movements.

I've done so much songwriting and I know how to do it.

I know there are things I did in education that will never be reversed. I have not done that in film yet because I have only been here for about nine months.

I think we are in the process of getting the word out, and we haven't done very well yet. But we are trying.

I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad.

I feel like I haven't done anything. What have I done? I've just made a few records.

I actually like doing commercials. I don't like doing them to the exclusion of everything else, but I like doing them. The 30-second format is very hard. I sometimes call it American Haiku. And I think some of the commercials I've done are not so bad.

Philip Glass once told me, "They can always copy what you've done, but they can't copy what you're going to do."

There's not much to be done about the impossibility. One must instead get rid of the desire.

Sometimes they reasoned thus: "The Messiah ought to do such a thing, now Jesus is the Messiah, therefore Jesus has done such a thing." At other times, by an inverse process, it was said: "Such a thing has happened to Jesus; now Jesus is the Messiah; therefore such a thing was to happen to the Messiah."

All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were impossible. We didn't care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care.

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.

I have to avoid things like 'World of Warcraft' or 'Minecraft', otherwise I'd never get any work done.

You're in the right place at the right time, and you care enough to do what needs to be done. Sometimes that's enough.

Everything I have done, every change I have made to that circus, every impossible feat and astounding sight, I have done for her.

If you go off into general-interest magazines, often women are being shoved aside into various ghettos that perpetuate the problem. Women's interests are specialized, they're secondary; they're somewhere over to the side of the serious work that's being done. Throughout history, there have been ladies' magazines, ladies' journals, and for years there have been women writers who would refuse to participate in women-only sort projects because of that stigma.

The things Nas' Illmatic was saying were sometimes hard realities but it was done on such a high level, I felt I could point to him as a representative. Someone who put my struggle and my worldview into poetry.

The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.

Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have.

What I've done for the last ten years is develop high profile entertainment properties for animation, so it's kind of funny to be able to create my own book to already know how I'd want to develop it for animation and live action.

Reading allows us to learn, see, do things that we could never have done with our own knowledge.

I'd never been to Africa. This really was my first film [The Lost World]. I'd done 10 years of stage. I'd done a little bit of television. But this was my first film.

I'd done a pilot [of Townies] with Caroline Rhea [Pride & Joy] that didn't go anywhere.

I think we all realize that anyone can - and has - gotten AIDS. So there's obviously still a lot to be done.