"It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing."

Work, Actors

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"It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing."

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"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."

Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady

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"A good work ethic is not so much a concern for hard work but rather one for responsibility. There have been a great many men and women who have in fact used work or hustle or selfish ambition as an escape from real responsibility, an escape from purpose. In matters such as these, the hard worker is just as dysfunctional as the sloth."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"Ruth Cole was a novelist, novelists are not at their best when they go off half-cocked. She believed that she would prepare what she was going to tell the police - preferably in writing."

John Irving, American Novelist

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"Speaking about work isn't working."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it."

Henry Rollins, American Musician

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"One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work."

Calvin Coolidge, American President

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"Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"The fact that you are true child of God doesn't mean you will find gold on the floor when sweeping. You got to dig up the gold!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it."

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"I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving."

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"As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less."

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"Black history is American history."

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"Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up."

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"There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume."

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"Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero."

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"And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in."

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