“I learned Hollywood is a small community, and you really have to be a part of the community to get anything done. Unlike traditional industries, where you can do things from afar with phone calls and e-mail, this town is really about being social. Because that's how trust gets built.” DoneSocialCan DoCommunityIndustryBuiltHollywoodTownsPhonesTraditionalMailPhone CallsAfarSmall Communities Author:Jeffrey Skoll
“I get noticed for different things I've done in different areas of town. If I'm in a rock club, it'll be Skid Row, if I'm in a mall it's the 'Gilmore Girls.'” IfsDifferentDoneGirlRocksAreasTownsClubsDifferent ThingsMallsGilmore GirlsSkid Row Author:Sebastian Bach
“You forget how many people watch TV until you come into a town like this. Everybody knows you, and I'm always humbled, especially when there are 500 little kids who all have their hair done like yours and want to be designers.” PeopleKnowsWantLittlesDoneKidsArtistForgetWatchesTvsLike YouHairTownsDesignerLittle Kid Author:Genevieve Gorder
“Earlier I`ve done hatever I could get my hands on to do for a living. I tried a couple of different things, but kitchen work was the best for me, because I took to a nomadic lifestyle before I started doing comedy. If you travel and get to a town and need a job, restaurants are always there.” IfsNeedsDifferentDoneHandsJobsComedyCoupleTownsLifestyleKitchenRestaurantsDifferent ThingsNomadic Author:Mitch Hedberg
“...an imagined town is at least as real as an actual town. If it isn't, you may be in the wrong business. Our words come from obsessions we must submit to, whatever the social cost. It can be hard. It can be worse forty years from now if you feel you could have done it and didn't. It is narcissistic, vain, egotistical, unrealistic, selfish, and hateful to assume emotional ownership of a town or a word. It is also essential.” IfsFeelsYearsMayRealHardDoneSocialEmotionalCostEssentialsTownsAssumingSelfishObsessionVainFortySubmitOwnershipHatefulNarcissisticOur WordsEgotistical Author:Richard Hugo
“I didn't have any looks, I didn't have any talent, and it was easy for me to say to the Lord, "I don't have anything." If you only knew where I came from ... this leetle-bitty town with no more than twelve hundred people in it. So ... anything I am today, He is the one who has done it [ellipses in source].” PeopleIfsLooksDoneTodayEasyLordTalentSourceHundredTownsTwelveIf Only You Knew Author:Kathryn Kuhlman
“I guess I haven't really done anything romantic for anyone. I think my boyfriend is more romantic than I am. I think little things like sending unexpected text messages, or when I'm out of town I send postcards. I think that's sweet... but probably not very romantic.” ThinkingLittlesDoneHavensSweetMessagesTownsUnexpectedLittle ThingsMy BoyfriendPostcardsVery RomanticText Message Author:Emma Roberts
“As a shy, introverted, scholarly child (long ago) I don't know what I would have done without libraries! My family moved often. I was always the new kid in town. The library always offered me my first and most important friendship: the place where I felt right at home. I still feel that way today, about libraries.” KnowsWayFeelsFirstsChildrenLongStillsImportantDoneHomeKidsTodayFeltMy FamilyTownsMovedLibraryShyLong AgoIntrovertedScholarly Author:Lois Lowry
“If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already. It is but a small matter whether you read with anyone or not. I did not read with anyone. Get the books, and read and study them till you understand them in their principal features; and that is the main thing. It is of no consequence to be in a large town while you are reading. I read at New Salem, which never had three hundred people living in it. The books, and your capacity for understanding them, are just the same in all places.” PeopleIfsBookMatterDoneThreeReadingUnderstandingHalfStudyHundredConsequenceCapacityTownsDeterminedLawyerFeaturesPrincipalSalem Book:The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln Source: The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln
“I've done festivals in the past where I'd be a guest, it was like, Wow, maybe someday I could play Town Hall - but that'll be a long way off. So it's very exciting.” WayLongDonePlayPastExcitingTownsSomedayHallsWowGuestsLong WayFestivalsMaybe Someday Author:John Mulaney
“There wasn't even a movie theater in the town. Nothing. Not even any fast food chains of any kind. Regardless, I knew that I was going to leave and become an actor, and be in film and television, and I've done it.” KindDoneFilmActorsTelevisionTheaterTownsChainsFast FoodMovie TheaterFood ChainFilm And Television Author:Kristen Hager
“But the great thing about shows now is since we've been doing (Comedy Death Ray), they have lightened up on their booking policies a bit more and are booking somebody who isn't famous and who hasn't been around ten years. It's great to see people who've done our show - the first big show they've ever done - now they can play around town.” PeopleYearsFirstsDonePlayShowsBigsBitsComedyPolicyTenTownsGreat ThingsRays Author:Scott Aukerman
“I was feeling that I was the in the dead-end circuit from 1980 to 1983, and I didn't know what else to do. I remember doing a show in some college town, in a tiny club, and afterward some fans came back. I thought I had done good gig and they were going to tell me that.” KnowsEndsDoneShowsFeelingsRememberFansCollegeTownsClubsTinyGigsCircuitsDead Ends Author:Iggy Pop
“I played Thersites and I remember we were also doing some places out of town before starting our run at The Old Vic in London and we were at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford and I walked on stage and I've got an opening speech that begins: "Agamemnon, how if he had boils?" And I went on and said: "Agamemnon..." And a woman in the front row just went 'tut'. I thought: "I've only done four syllables, give us a chance!" I got one word out and the audience were already tutting. It was worse than any heckle I ever had doing comedy. So, I'll stick to gnomes.” IfsGivingSaidDoneRunningRememberChanceAudienceComedyFourStageFrontsSpeechTownsSticksStartingLondonTheatreOpeningOne WordSyllablesGnomeAgamemnonGive Us A Chance Author:Matt Lucas
“[Pope Francis] has done this not through angry speeches, but through the powerful symbols and examples of embracing a badly deformed man, welcoming refugees to the Vatican, strolling through a shanty town in Rome, visiting a home for the elderly, washing the feet of prisoners on Holy Thursday, and going to a hospital for newborns.” MenDoneHomePowerfulFeetExampleHolySpeechTownsAngryWelcomeSymbolsHospitalsPrisonerRomePopeRefugeeElderlyWashingVisitingStrollingThursday Author:John I. Jenkins
“I’m writing this in part to tell you that if you ever wonder what you’ve done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or later, you have been God’s grace to me, a miracle, something more than a miracle. You may not remember me very well at all, and it may seem to you to be no great thing to have been the good child of an old man in a shabby little town you will no doubt leave behind. If only I had the words to tell you.” IfsMenWritingWellsMayChildrenLittlesDoeHas BeensDoneSeemsRememberBehindsWonderDoubtGraceMiracleTownsGreat ThingsNo DoubtOld ManSooner Or LaterGod's GraceRemember MeShabbyLittle Towns Book:Gilead: A Novel Source: Gilead: A Novel
“Just remember that you're on my list, Marcone. Soon as I get done with all the other evils in this town, you won't be the lesser of them anymore." Marcone stared at me with half-lidded eyes and said, "Eek.” SaidDoneEyeRememberEvilHalfTownsListsDresden Author:Jim Butcher
“She collapsed at the bottom of the trail, at the edge of the ghost town. Dekka sat on Edilio and pressed down on the wound. The force of the blood was weaker now. She could almost hold the blood back now, not a good thing, no, because it meant he was almost finished, his brave heart almost done beating. Dekka looked up straight into the glittering eyes of a coyote. She could sense the others around her, closing in. Wary but sensing that a fresh meal was close at hand.” HeartDoneHandsEyeForceBloodTownsBraveGood ThingsBottomEdgesFinishedWoundsGhostSatMealsTrailsClosingCoyotesSensingBrave HeartGhost TownAlmost Done Author:Michael Grant
“I've tried everything. I've done therapy, I've done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.” DoneRunningRomancePiecesColorTownsTherapyBuyingPsychicsAurasRibbonsProzac Author:Jim Carrey
“And on the last day, the bad days become so difficult to recall, because one way or another, she had made a life here, just as I had. The town was paper, but the memories were not. All the things I’d done here, all the love and pity and compassion and violence and spite, kept welling up inside me.” WayMadeDoneLastsDifficultMemoriesCompassionViolencePaperTownsPityOne WaySpiteRecallsBad DayLast Day Book:Paper Towns Source: Paper Towns
“Done laid around, done stayed around This old town too long And it seems like I've got to travel on” LongDoneSeemsSongTowns Author:Bob Dylan
“If I am still doing what I'm doing and I still have respect in this town, haven't done anything completely and utterly stupid, then I'll be happy with myself.” IfsStillsDoneHavensStupidRespectTowns Author:Jeremy London
“We can't wait around for Superman to come in here and save the town, save the team. It's up to us to get it done.” DoneWaitingTeamTownsGet It Done Author:Jermaine O'Neal
“I think that there's a tendency in this town to try to selectively pick snapshots, when the broader reality is that we have a record of results and that we're getting things done for the American people.” PeopleThinkingTryingDoneRealityResultsRecordsPicksTownsTendenciesThings DoneSnapshotsGetting Things Done Author:Scott McClellan