Doing Quotes
On action, effort and the discipline of doing the work.
These lines describe doing in its many forms: the overlap between film and television production, the uncertainty built into research, and committing to work you believe in even without much recognition. For more, see our Action quotes.
If you can serve everyone who visits you, you must be doing well in business.
I didn't see myself as a woman doing film but as a radical film-maker who was a woman.
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Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.
I don't think the way to succeed is by doing something aggressive. Aggression is weak-minded.
Action Quotes
I get a lot of dark scripts now. I don't wanna be stuck doing movies like American Pie. For someone my age, once you get started doing them, it's hard to get out.
I'm a DJ, but I'm also a ridiculously high-grossing musician due to doing productions.
People always say, 'How is it to be so successful?' I'm not successful yet. Richard Branson is successful. That's successful. Michael Jackson was successful. U2 was successful. I'm just a guy, doing okay. But I'm a happy guy doing okay.
I remember when I was younger, I read that Jay-Z was 33 and I was just like, 'Damn! This dudes really still goin for it?' It's just so rare that you see any rapper over 30 doing anything interesting.
Doing something like 'Bushwick,' a lot of people need to agree that the piece is working with what's going on on the screen. So it's a lot of tweaks and re-works, just kinda moving pieces around and getting things to...
Doers Quotes
Having some decent musicians around you only expands what you can do production-wise, but I make rap - I can't really see myself doing much else.
I have an odd fetish with nails. I was always doing beauty blogs about nails, and it would be on Fridays called 'Friday's Fingertip Fetish.' It became so popular that a nail polish company approached me, and Fingertip Fetish was...
Everybody's got their ways of doing things and for me I've got to stay fresh, fly and flashy. So I'm going to make sure I'm fresh, fly and flashy in the ring too.
It looks better when you do your own stunts, because seeing somebody's face when they're doing them is fun for the audience.
I like presents that a man has spent time on, doing them himself, like a card or anything that is made by hand and from the heart.
Doin Quotes
A lot of people record on a laptop and use plug-ins, which might be OK for the kind of music that they're doing. But for the kind of music that I'm doing, that just doesn't work. I can't cut corners;...
Change the sound. Make people rethink what they're doing. That's what I really wanna do.
When I started publishing my work, one of the biggest surprises to me was the recurring question about my background and why I wasn't doing more stories about Asian-Americans.
To me, one of the big fears of doing a big huge graphic novel is locking yourself into one style and getting halfway through it and going, 'Oh I made the wrong choice,' which is a recurring nightmare I have.
I think that artists, at a certain point, can either become defiant and say that the audience is wrong, readers don't get them, and they're going to keep doing it their own way, or they can listen to the criticism...
Doing Good Quotes
Ninety percent of the time when I'm working, there's this very palpable sensation that I'm doing everything wrong and should just give up.
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Also see our Doing Good quotes for a values-driven angle, or Doers quotes celebrating people who take action.
