"My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts."

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"The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up."

Greta Scacchi, Italian Actress

Work, Years

"I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, "Does this suck?" and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, "I'm on fire, I'm amazing!" and I don't think that's the way to work."

David O. Russell, American Director

Work, Fire, Humility, Saying

"The world is sick of big IT things that don't work."

Tony Scott, British Director

Work, World

"Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone."

Charles de Gaulle, French Leader

Work, Men, Action

"I've never looked at my career in terms of, What haven't I done that I want to do? I just generally find a story that I think is a good one and go to work."

Kurt Russell, American Actor

Work, Career, Want

"With Fellini, the fear dropped out of my work because it was such a happy experience... hanging out with Fellini, having pasta on the set with Fellini, and going out with Fellini!"

Terence Stamp, British Actor

Work, Experience, Fear

"To work is to feel alive."

Tony Bennett, American Musician

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"When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out."

Iris Chang, Chinese Historian

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"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."

Harri Holkeri, Finnish Politician

Work, Hope, Nations, United

"While listening, to things like western swing, for instance, I'd work something out in my head, then play it on my National; not the same song, but one that captured the feeling of the original tune."

Mark Knopfler, British Musician

Work, Feeling, Listening, Play

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"Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul."

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"In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: 'Is there someone new?'"

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"I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women."

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"I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness."

Time

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"The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up."

"I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, "Does this suck?" and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, "I'm on fire, I'm amazing!" and I don't think that's the way to work."

"The world is sick of big IT things that don't work."

"Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone."

"I've never looked at my career in terms of, What haven't I done that I want to do? I just generally find a story that I think is a good one and go to work."

"With Fellini, the fear dropped out of my work because it was such a happy experience... hanging out with Fellini, having pasta on the set with Fellini, and going out with Fellini!"

"To work is to feel alive."

"When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out."

"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."

"While listening, to things like western swing, for instance, I'd work something out in my head, then play it on my National; not the same song, but one that captured the feeling of the original tune."

Explore more quotes by Edna O'Brien

"Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul."

"In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: 'Is there someone new?'"

"I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women."

"I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt."

"The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed."

"Writing is like carrying a fetus."

"I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness."

"Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire."

"My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts."