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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."
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"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."
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"Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow."
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"And it took me about 11 years to get a record deal, and I just had to work around and come to terms with the fact that what I was doing was going to be different, and I just had to wait until somebody was ready to jump on the bandwagon."
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"The world is sick of big IT things that don't work."
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"I think I've matured to a great extent. I think that I want different things now. That it's not about the celebrity status that you receive because you're doing the next hot movie. It's about doing good work."
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"I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I can't do a lot of casting. I can work a jig or a worm. But not for long, especially if the big ones are biting. Those big bass will make it hurt after a while."
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"Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone."
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"I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them."
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"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."
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"Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery."
Sympathy

"I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes."
Income

"Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule."
Government

"Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking."
Education

"A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute."
Heart

"Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity."
Emotional

"My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language."
Literature

"The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event."
Performance

"Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius."
Genius

"The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise."
Choice
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