Can Do Quotes - Page 18

• I can do a limited amount of things and that's what I do and I feel comfortable doing it and I have no particular desire to do anything else as an actor.

  Woody Allen

  Desire, Actors, Feels

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

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• As long as I can do something that I am passionate about and that I can really enjoy and the audience can enjoy. That is where my enthusiasm comes from.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Long, Passionate, Enthusiasm

  "Dwayne Johnson Talks Race to Witch Mountain". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. August 4, 2009.

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• I know certain roles are important to me. I know that I really want to play them. I know I can do a good job. But I can never put into words why.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Jobs, Play, Important

  Interview with Jodie Foster, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 12, 2010.

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• I wake up every morning excited. Rather than become complacent or overwhelmed, I've made a choice for life - and I can do something about it.

  Gary Holland

  Morning, Commitment, Choices

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• A piece of drapery is like a necktie, hot stuff to paint, and one of the easiest things for a painter to kid himself into thinking he can do. Don't be fooled by the color. Go after the shape and character. Hew the forms together with colored tones.

  John French Sloan

  Character, Kids, Thinking

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• An actor can do a play on Broadway for three years. Every night he's expressing the same emotion in exactly the same way. He has developed a technique to convey those feelings so that he can get the ideas across. Or a musician may not want to play that damn music at all, but he has a booking and has to do it.

  Richard Estes

  Night, Years, Play

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• I crave the freedom of knowing that if I want to do something, I can do it. It's important that I live in such a way that I can maintain a direct response to ideas.

  Errollyn Wallen

  Ideas, Knowing, Important

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• I want to make paintings full of colour, laughter, compassion and love. I want to make paintings that will make people happy, that will change the course of people's lives. If I can do that, I can paint for a hundred years.

  Norval Morrisseau

  Laughter, Communication, Compassion

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• The study of art is a lifetime matter. The best any artist can do is to accumulate all the knowledge possible of art and its principles, study nature often and then practice continually.

  Edgar Alwin Payne

  Art, Knowledge, Practice

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• if you want to be a little bit solitary and work very hard, you can do it more easily in New York than in a town like Paris or London. Because you depend so much for human relationships here on the phone. If you don't answer your phone, you are quite a lonely couple.

  Arman

  Lonely, New York, Couple

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• At its edges, a painting makes its surrender to reality. The ways in which it can do so are endlessly revealing, as infinite as the potential forms of painting itself.

  Andrew Graham-Dixon

  Reality, Way, Painting

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• The teacher must herself be excited if she is to sell her goods. And she can do an exciting job in stirring the student without herself knowing all the answers.

  Julius Sumner Miller

  Teacher, Jobs, Teaching

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• Do anything you wanna do—but from [the heart]. Music is a thing from the heart, from the soul, just like anything else you do, man. And you can be the best, you can be what you wanna be. That’s right! You can do what you wanna do. I believe—I’m a blues player. I never been a millionaire, but let me tell you something—I think I am. Cause I got this. I’ve got what it take. And I don’t care if you don’t believe me, man, but I know you do. Because this is what it’s all about. Anything you do, if you wanna do it and you love it, you rich. You a millionaire, man.

  Hubert Sumlin

  Believe, Heart, Player

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• I am severely dyslexic, so I'm not the person who can do a lot of typing, writing and mathematics. I don't excel in anything except in things that had to do with creativity and things with my hands. I like to build things and take things apart.

  Raha Moharrak

  Writing, Creativity, Hands

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• That's what's wrong with the people in this world; they believe they can do well by just getting by when they need to aim for the highest.

  Keith Anderson

  Believe, People, Needs

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• Faith is lifeless unless you act on it. T.L. Osbourne says: “When the promises of God are believed and acted upon they become the power of God”. We can do all the things we have previously talked about about: desire, decision, prayer, speaking faith, seeing the answer, but if we don’t act our faith it is all to no avail.

  Phil Pringle

  Prayer, Decision, Promise

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• Two drowning people can't save each other. All they can do is drag each other down.

  Carsten Jensen

  Two, People, Drowning

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• Men constantly miscalculate what they can do in a day, and grossly underestimate what can be achieved in a year.

  Chris Murray

  Men, Years, Underestimate

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• The most revolutionary thing you can do is get to know your neighbors.

  Karl Hess

  Revolutionary, Neighbor, Knows

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• You don't know what God can do with your broken pieces until you give God your broken pieces.

  Nick Vujicic

  Broken, Giving, Pieces

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• I'm really lucky because I found myself in a position where I can do whatever I want to do. I can make records, produce records, make movies, or I can do nothing. I'm not a slave to the dollar.

  Robbie Robertson

  Dollars, Lucky, Records

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• I personally believe that the writing of personal and family histories will do more to turn the hearts of the children to the fathers and the fathers to children than almost anything we can do

  Hartman Rector, Jr.

  Children, Father, Believe

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• Coming from a big family, I learned a lot. Things don't have to be perfect. You can do okay with 'almost.'

  Hollis Stacy

  Perfect, Big Families, Bigs

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• Once you accept, truly accept, that stuff will happen to you and there is nothing you can do about it, stress miraculously leaves your life.

  Srikumar Rao

  Stress, Stuff, Accepting

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• In the eighty or ninety years I have given to this subject, trying to trace out the meanderings of their twisty little minds, the only thing that I have learned for certain about women is that when a gal is gonna, she's gonna. All a man can do is cooperate with the inevitable.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Women, Years, Mind

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