Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it. – John Henry Newman
Because I’ve done a lot of television, I’m sort of a generalist. I’m not a pastry cook, but I’ve had to learn a certain amount about it. I’m not a baker, though I’ve had to learn how to do it. I’m sort of a general cook. – Julia Child
You try to be yourself, do only what you’ve always done and like to do, and right away, you’re tagged as an oddball. – James Dean
I think what we should have done is integrate the web site with the magazine much earlier in the process. – James Daly
Now that I’m older, I like almost anything that’s done well, even surf music and instrumentals; I really enjoyed the interviews with the Ventures in your magazine. – John Fogerty
I shall always be proud of what I’ve done, regardless of what you journalists or anybody can say. – Joyce Banda
The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you’re always asked to do what you’ve already done. – Jeremy Irons
Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride. – John Ruskin
People might say, ‘Jimmy Cliff, you’ve done a lot, achieved a lot. What more can you want?’ – Jimmy Cliff
Barack Obama became president, and he abandoned Iraq. He left, and when he left Al Qaida was done for. ISIS was created because of the void that we left, and that void now exists as a caliphate the size of Indiana. – Jeb Bush
There’ll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done. – James Taylor
I write and draw from the gut. I often don’t know what my stories are about until they’re done. – Jeff Lemire
By the time I sit down ready to write, I’ve done a lot of longhand and a lot of note collecting along the way. – Jill McCorkle
I don’t tend to be a nitpicker when I’m watching movies, so as long as something is true to the spirit of the original, that’s very much what we got for. You try to never do something that the original author wouldn’t have done themselves. – Jane Goldman
Shock can kill you. Shock is terrible. But what you’ve got to do is live in the present, which is what I have always done. – Iris Apfel
I’ve actually done events at radio stations where I feel like I’ve had to give a little talk in behalf of television as a medium. – Ira Glass
Usually, I would mistrust a book if it took that long to write. Usually, if it isn’t done in two years, I suspect there’s something wrong and throw it away. – John Burnside
Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done. – James Fenton
There is a lot of scepticism today as to whether memoir is real. But when fiction is done at a certain level there is scepticism as to whether it is really fiction. – Junot Diaz
Landscape architecture is basically geodesign; it’s designing geography. And yet geodesign is not only done by landscape architects, it’s done by some of the world’s largest corporations. – Jack Dangermond
Anything that’s done to address unemployment in terms of massive stimulus spending is going to exacerbate deficits. And anything that’s done to address deficits in the short-term is going to exacerbate unemployment. – Indra Nooyi