Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
~ Martin Luther King
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
I was doing a Broadway musical called 'Smile' with Howard Ashman and Marvin Hamlisch in 1984/5 when it abruptly closed. Howard was in the middle of pre-production for 'The Little Mermaid,' so he kindly invited all the girls in our cast to audition for the film.
~ Jodi Benson
I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admire is probably a childless life, possibly a marriageless life, certainly a travelling life - I'm in awe of how much D.H. Lawrence managed to get around. But that's never been something I'm capable of doing.
~ Rachel Cusk
As it is, I have a limited range as an actor - light comedy. I have never been a fan of romantic comedies, and yet that is what I have ended up mostly doing.
~ Hugh Grant
My overall quest is always to do something that's somehow different from whatever it is that I just got done doing. If that can include occasionally playing an older guy who has a romantic side and a romantic relationship, than that's a real treat.
~ J. K. Simmons
I will never say never, but I will say never to doing the more typical romantic comedies. You know, unless I'm getting audited and I'm on the street and I desperately need some dough and that's the only thing that I'm getting.
~ Christian Bale
I'm a fan of daytime drama; I totally get it. When we are doing scenes that are romantic or will get the audience riled up, I feel like I'm a fan in the room going, 'People are going to be so mad right now!'
~ Alison Sweeney
I'm not really interested in doing a traditional romantic comedy where everything ties up neatly.
~ Leslie Mann
I did a film called 'Puccini for Beginners,' which was a romantic comedy, and I always wanted to do more, but I kept doing drama.
~ Elizabeth Reaser
I'd always been quite wary of doing a romantic comedy. They all seem the same to me.
~ Jim Sturgess
I was commissioned to write some romantic fiction, and I really liked doing those, and they were very instructive in terms of building characters and plots. But it never felt right for me.
~ Paula Hawkins
As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot.
~ Sanjay Dutt
I enjoy doing romantic stories. I've done a lot of them.
~ Joe Lando
Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.
~ Joyce Brothers
Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
~ Arthur Ashe
The most important thing is being passionate about what you're doing and always give it your all. That is the key to success.
~ Charlie White
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
~ Jim Rohn
You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
~ Dale Carnegie
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
~ Napoleon Hill
The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made me feel that maths was in tune with the other things I liked doing.
~ Marcus Du Sautoy
There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like doing what people expect me to do.
~ Dave Grohl
I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.
~ Jenny Eclair
I've written for the last 15 years on TV shows, but now I'm doing the new Charlie Sheen program, 'Anger Management.'
~ Brian Posehn
I wanted to get really fit. I wanted to lose some weight. So I've been doing Pilates and yoga, trying to lean out my body so I won't be bulky.
~ Serena Williams
Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
~ Ice-T
Why should we change onstage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way.
~ Cliff Burton
With all the highs and lows I've had in my life, I wouldn't change anything. So no, I don't, this is what I'm supposed to be doing.
~ David Coverdale
After hundreds of auditions and nothing, you're sitting home and wondering, 'What am I doing?'
~ Demi Lovato
One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film's defining moments.
~ Roger Ebert
China has leapfrogged into this information age, and Web users have grown very significantly, which knocked down the cost of doing the environmental transparency.
~ Ma Jun
This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
~ Natalie Jeremijenko
You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
~ Art Buchwald
If they lose their legal basis for owning a .cn domain, google.cn would cease to exist, or if it continued to exist, it would be illegal, and doing anything blatantly illegal in China puts their employees at serious risk.
~ Rebecca Mackinnon
I've become so earthy. And I never was earthy. I'm doing all kinds of different roles which are not at all like the intellectual and the legal mind of Ben Stone.
~ Michael Moriarty
Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal.
~ Jon Johansen
Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.
~ Ralph Peters
We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that.
~ Pat Travers
I'll never have a wedding. I don't want to marry just to do what everybody else is doing.
~ Mr. T
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
~ Pope John Paul Ii
