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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
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''Doing your own thing'' is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.
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''Now'' is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream. You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.
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''We are always doing,'' says he, ''something for posterity, but I would see posterity do something for us.''
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'We are always doing,' says he, 'something for posterity, but I would see posterity do something for us.'
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A good career is a long-lasting career. When you're there in every competition doing a good job you're a part of an elite, and that's the most important thing.
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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.
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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.
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A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.
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A lot of people, some of them close to me as well, have said that I sacrificed myself by doing what I did in bringing Terry on board. I didn't see it that way.
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A lot of student directors used to pick other students to be in their graduate films, so. I ended up doing a couple of them just for fun. Eventually, I got an agent through a friend and I did some commercials; then I got Knots Landing.
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A lot of times I think people, when they're doing a movie that's a family movie, they're worried about this being too esoteric or too dark or too weird.
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A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.
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A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
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A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
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A politicians willingness to listen to good advice rises in inverse proportion to how badly he thinks he is doing.
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A prince or general can best demonstrate his genius by managing a campaign exactly to suit his objectives and his resources, doing neither too much nor too little.
On War (1832) -
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.
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A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something.
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