W Quotes
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“What's done is done. The joy is in the doing.”
“What's done is done. You've got to move on. I don't want to say anything bad about the mother of my children.”
“What's done to children, they will do to society.”
“What's done to the children is done to society.”
“What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott. New Edition. With Numerous Additions. [The Preface Signed: P. A. N.]
“What's doubly, possibly triply weird about the [Donald] Trump claim is that I said something really hateful and offended an entire class of people, and in a case that actually has nothing to do with race he should still be conflicted out.”
“What's down below is in the past
Like last night's crickets, far below.”
Source: Selected poems
“What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!”
“What's dry?' 'Good question. Next question!”
“What's emerging is a new synthesis of science, spirituality and leadership as different facets of a single way of being.”
Source: Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society
“What's endlessly complicated in thinking about women's gymnastics is the way that vulnerability and power are threaded through the sport.”
“What's enjoyable for me, as an actor, is to do as many different things as possible.”
“What's even worse than a flute? - Two flutes!”
“What's everybody's business is nobody's business.”
Source: A White Heron and Other Stories
“What's exciting about being an artist, still, and what I'm really finding is awesome is that you can do it until you drop. I don't care how many lines I have on my face - I'll keep doing it!”
“What's exciting about the Bay Area, is that people are not waiting for permission from the industry to make movies - unlike Los Angeles or New York, where you can get stuck into that desire of raising a big budget, or working with the studios.”
“What's exciting about using our mind is that we can short circuit all the excuses thrown up by our fears.”
“What's exciting about watching a movie, when it's finished, is you sometimes you don't recognize yourself, and that's when I'm really proud.”
“What's exciting is there's a curtain that divides the audience from this other world. You want to see behind.”
“What's exciting to me is the live show medium itself; it's the last untouchable medium. I don't think it will ever go away. It has gone on from the beginning of time with little performances around a campfire, I'd imagine, like cavemen doing some chants, rhythm, and sounds, beating on things.”
“What's exciting to me now is the idea in participating in a landscape of moviemaking that's completely different - the way you can make a movie with a 5D or something and what's going to come out of that. Especially the generation under us who grew up with the internet. When they are making films in the next ten years, they're gonna be so different from what we've seen before because their whole worldview is so different.”
“What's exquisitely weird about the Donald Trump/Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel formulation is that this isn't even a case about race.”
“What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.”
Source: An essay on man ... Enlarged and improved by the author ... With the notes of William, Lord Bishop of Gloucester
“What's fascinating . . .is that you could now have a business that might have been selling for $10 billion where the business itself could probably not have borrowed even $100 million. But the owners of that business, because its public, could borrow many billions of dollars on their little pieces of paper- because they had these market valuations. But as a private business, the company itself couldn't borrow even 1/20th of what the individuals could borrow.”
“What's fascinating about acting is that you put yourself in somebody else's mind or in their shoes.”
“What's fascinating about D.C., the exteriors are these elaborate structures, this gorgeous architecture and beautiful stonework, and then you go inside and it's crap-looking - apart from the White House, which is beautiful.”
“What's fascinating is where they come from in the world. People in Bangladesh, a chap in a fire-base in Tikrit in Iraq. Chap in an Irish pub in Dublin. And lovely to think this literary network - or rather network of readers - is well spread out.”
“What's fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.”
“What's fascinating to me is that in rich-kid schools, it's better to be gay. No one is discriminated against because they're gay in a rich-kid school. But in poor-kid schools, it's often not the same. So being gay is a class issue now.”
“What's female beauty, but an air divine, thro' which the mind's all gentle graces shine? They, like the sun, irradiate all between; the body charms because the soul is seen.”
“What's for dinner is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“What's four years in our long American history? Remember when I asked that wheelchair-bound politician to "stand up." It turns me off when people say Donald Trump is authentic. Just because he says "Mexican rapists." What about me? I am the real deal.”
“What's frustrating as an actor, when you want to work hard, you can only work once that phone rings and then you can only work until the production wraps. Then you have to find another job.”
“What's frustrating more than anything is when chefs start to cut corners and believe that they are incognito in the way they send out appetizers, entrees, and they know it's not 100 percent, but they think the customers can't spot it.”
“What's fun about the story development at Pixar is it's a journey. You don't just write a script and then that's the movie you make. It's just constant evolution and being open to that and that collaboration with the voice actors and with the artists and animators at Pixar.”
“What's fun for other people may not be fun for you- and vice versa.”
“What's fun is watching actors of that calibre bring them to life. It's incredible. Christian Bale spent a day with the character he plays and after my year of being with him I couldn't have generated the same view of him. They have a different way of looking at people, it's fascinating to watch.”
“What's funny about Jesus' Son is that I never even wrote that book, I just wrote it down. I would tell these stories and people would say, You should write these things down.”
“What's funny about my group of friends is that none of us ever went to the same school. None of us lived in the same part of town.”
“What's funny about my voice is, no matter what I sing, I sound like I'm really sad. I don't even mean to do it, it's just something my voice has. I think that's one of the reasons why Okkervil has been dubbed as really mopey - I have this tone to my voice that sounds like that.”
“What's funny about that is when I was writing Twilight just for myself and not thinking of it as a book, I was not thinking about publishing, and yet at the same time I was casting it in my head. Because when I read books, I see them very visually.”
“What's funny about that office is it's entirely dependent on how close you are to the president, because the president decides what your role will be. If you get on with the president, that's great; if you fall out with the president, power can go away.”
“What's funny for me is that I made a lot of the music I make with intentions of it being a song you listen to, to chill out.”
“What's funny is my husband doesn't have any tattoos at all, so he must be the very conservative one.”
“What's funny is that male strippers don't wear thongs anymore. They wear flat backs.”
“What's funny is that people think, "Well there has to be something more than wrestling, because wrestling has such an absurd quality to it." But if you tell a love story, people don't ask what else is in there. They say, "Oh, it's just a love story." All stories have many levels, but these ones show their hand and say, "You might want to look a little deeper."”
“What's funny is that the idea of popularity - even the use of the word 'popular' - is something that had been mostly absent from my life since junior high. In fact, the hallmark of life after junior high seemed to be the shedding of popularity as a central concern.”
“What's funny is that there's a lot of great Australian actors in American movies but you don't often hear them do their Australian, original accent.”
“What's funny is that with my comedies I don't believe they're my best screenplays necessarily. They're just the ones that I wrote that I knew I could get financing, you know? I believe my other films could be better, but right now they're not being made. But they will eventually.”
“What's funny is we were doing some fire at work the other day and it was reminding me of all the firework I got to do as Havok, because a lot of that was as practical as you could get.”