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One of the reasons so many nonfiction books are so boring is because what they've done, very diligently, is fulfill the terms…

— Geoff Dyer

And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride.

— John Ruskin

I write and have done so primarily for personal pleasure.

— Franz Wright

You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike the popular…

— Markus Wolf

Some children do what they’re told to do; some children do what they’re told not to do; all children do what they’re…

— Iyanla Vanzant

I'm writing and putting together my next few things. Even during the Red Army process, I've been writing and developing things, so…

— Gabe Polsky

Society was calling to its accomplished child to come, to be taken care of, to be instructed, to be judged, to be…

— Joseph Conrad

'Smurfs' just seemed like a great way to represent a young father to be, guy in a marriage, work in conflict, and…

— Neil Patrick Harris

I've always worked really hard, and the hardest thing I've ever done is have kids!

— Gwen Stefani

The beauty of ideas is that they are like waves in the ocean and they connect with things that came before them,…

— Jim Jarmusch

I have not become the artist I believe I am. I want to become a stadium act. I'm not done at all.

— Jimmy Cliff

What we need most right now, at this moment, is a kind of patriotic grace - a grace that takes the long…

— Peggy Noonan

For me, my career has never been about what I've done. But it's been about becoming, achieving, and pushing myself further.

— Rodney Crowell

I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday... I look back on my life as a…

— Grandma Moses

I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the…

— Jacqueline Bisset

As you look back in history, we [the United States] have done wonderful things, the Marshal Plan is the most obvious. After…

— Michael Beschloss

There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither…

— Theodore Roosevelt

If you want to be successful, find someone who has already done it and do it the same way they did.

— Brian Tracy

So [Republicans] packed all the Democrats into districts, very Democratic districts. What that's done is made our party urban, more liberal, and…

— Collin Peterson

This kind of thing always amazed Ginny--people who just walked away from institutions. People who left school when they didn't see the…

— Maureen Johnson

When you get to a point where you're not beholden to a record company, then it's up to you to say, 'OK,…

— Mike D

I was born with this love for music, and I say 'born with' because I don't really remember a day waking up…

— Hunter Hayes

I've done nudity. I'm an exhibitionist. It doesn't matter.

— John Turturro

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the…

— Bernard Baruch

Only then does he realize what he has done to Mirabelle, how wanting a square inch of her and not all of…

— Steve Martin