You Can Do It Quotes - Page 9

• Even though you have pain in your legs, you can do it. Even though your practice is not good enough, you can do it.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Pain, Practice, Not Good Enough

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• Auditioning is a horrible experience because you know you are being absolutely scrutinized and judged. There are days where you can do it and days where it's just not happening, and I feel like that's how it is with all artists; you have some days it kind of works.

  Kelly Reilly

  Artist, Kind, Horrible

  "Futures: ‘Flight’ Breakout Kelly Reilly on Auditioning Opposite Denzel Washington and Why She’ll Never Fly With Robert Zemeckis". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. December 06, 2012.

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• The secret to doing anything is believing you can do it.

  Bob Ross

  Believe, Secret, Can Do

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• When something feels really big, too big to handle, just go very small. Just go real small, just look at the person next to you and look in their eyes and meet the person next to you, find out their name, change one person's life and make one call, write one letter, give one dollar. Whatever small thing feels like what you can do - it changes the course of the ship and that is all it is.

  Amy Poehler

  Real, Eye, Writing

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• Treasure nothing, be willing to throw out anything. The story you just wrote that you are proud of should not be coddled and worshipped. You can do it again. If your house burned down with all your work inside it, you would still be the writer you are, and you would continue to be worth something.

  J. Robert Lennon

  House, Treasure, Proud

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• I had a friend in college who loved to say: 'If you can dream it, you can do it.' It became my mantra. I assumed it was a pearl of wisdom from some great thinker, a philosopher perhaps, like Descartes. It turned out to be Walt Disney, which in no way diminishes the wisdom of the advice. Anyone who can build a Magic Kingdom deserves to be listened to.

  Michele Gorman

  Dream, College, Magic Kingdom

  Michele Gorman (2010). “Single in the City”, p.17, Penguin UK

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• You go to school to figure out who you want to be and how you can do it, and [maybe] I should have, because the films would probably be technically better.

  John Waters

  School, Should Have, Want

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• I want to show kids, look where I came from. You can do it too if you believe and are willing to work hard.

  Sheryl Swoopes

  Leadership, Sports, Believe

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• I feel like every role that you take there's a part of you that obviously feels like you can do it. I don't know if perfect is the right word because I don't believe in perfection and I don't think it exists but I think striving to do something well is in every single part.

  Mila Kunis

  Believe, Thinking, Perfect

  "Mila Kunis Interview, Black Swan". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. November 2010.

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• A jet plane cannot mow the lawn, but it can fly to distant destinations. Don't worry so much about what you can't do; just do what you can as only you can do it.

  Dan Millman

  Motivational, Worry, Jet Planes

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• When you take on the idea of playing someone like Jimmy Bulger, it's a radically different process because you're going into make-up. The only way you can do it is to come out of make-up looking like the guy. If you don't look like the guy, it's going to bug you, all day.

  Johnny Depp

  Ideas, Guy, Different

  "Johnny Depp on His Varied Career, Jack Sparrow, and “Torturing” Leonardo DiCaprio". collider.com. February 6, 2016.

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• I've been asked why does Ireland produce so many great musicians, and the answer is it doesn't. When you count the great musicians Ireland has given the world in the last 20 years, you can do it on one hand.

  Roddy Doyle

  Hands, Years, Musician

  "Sexy Dublin? It's a con" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2004.

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• If you do all that work of figuring out exactly how writing is done, then it's available to you at anytime, and you can build on it. It's like the difference between shooting one hoop and having it go in by accident and saying later, 'I shot a basket,' - and practicing so much you can do it whenever you want.

  Mark Salzman

  Writing, Differences, Done

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• I think that the Oscar gives you some kind of guts or something, it gives you the illusion that you can do it. It's good for business.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Thinking, Giving, Oscars

  "Benicio del Toro Interview THE WOLFMAN". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 6, 2010.

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• I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.

  Jackie Collins

  Dream, Real, Writing

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• I think if you're able to make the music you want and you can do it in the right kind of context, you don't have to be a circus ringleader to be successful.

  James Iha

  Successful, Thinking, Want

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• So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport.

  Upamanyu Chatterjee

  Writing, Airports, Paper

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• I don't think you can be a good listener unless you're a good listener. I think it's something that you really have to do, and if you really do it, then you can do it. If you don't do it, then you can't do it.

  Dick Gephardt

  Thinking, Good Listener, Can Do

  "Chameleon" by Richard Blow, www.motherjones.com. September/October 1994.

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• Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read your work and rave about your use of dialect, go for it. But be positive that you do it well, because otherwise it is a lot of work to read short stories or novels that are written in dialect. It makes our necks feel funny.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Being Positive, Dialect

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• Gather knowledge about the craft of writing. Immerse yourself in the art of it. Then write. Write yourself silly. Write yourself mad. Write yourself blind. Trust the excitement that builds within you when the idea is good and the writing is superb. You can do it, but that's the hell of it as well as the exultation of it. You have to do it.

  Elizabeth George

  Art, Silly, Writing

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• I think you know what? You've got to believe in yourself. You can do it.

  Juan Williams

  Believe, Thinking, Knows

  "Who's responsible for the fall of Ramadi: Iraq or the US?". "The Five" with Dana Perino, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Juan Williams, Eric Bolling, and Greg Gutfeld, www.foxnews.com. May 19, 2015.

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• It's hard for me to believe that just my words on the page are enough. I ought to be out physically keeping abortion safe and legal, restoring the Fourth Amendment, getting clean water back into Kentucky since the Bush Administration has allowed strip miners to fill it all up with slag. The list is endless. Bring it down. Make it small. Make it one thing that you can do. It's very hard for me to remember that.

  Sara Paretsky

  Believe, Kentucky, Water

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you're doing something else or not. You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But, if you want to be a movie star, you've got a tough road ahead of you.

  Alan Arkin

  Stars, Community, Acting

  Source: collider.com

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• So, if you haven't picked up some tips during an apprenticeship like that, you shouldn't be directing. It doesn't mean you can do it, but it loads you up with information.

  Colin Firth

  Mean, Information, Apprenticeship

  "Then She Found Me - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• If I can do it, little old me, you can do it. Trust and believe.

  Bobby Green

  Believe, Mma, Littles

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