"First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy."

Work, Comedy, First, Silly

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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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"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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"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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"We try, when we wake, to lay the new day at God's feet; before we have finished shaving, it becomes our day and God's share in it is felt as a tribute which we must pay out of 'our own' pocket, a deduction from the time which ought, we feel, to be 'our own'. A man starts a new job with a sense of vocation and, perhaps, for the first week still keeps the discharge of the vocation as his end, taking the pleasures and pains from God's hand, as they came, as 'accidents'. But in the second week he is beginning to 'know the ropes': by the third, he has quarried out of the total job his own plan for himself within that job, and when he can pursue this he feels that he is getting no more than his rights, and when he cannot, that he is being interfered."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Our boss has been so successful he deserves to retire so that he can spend more time . . . with his servants."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated to labor, and the labor was its reward. Who was the labor for? What would be its fruits? These were irrelevant and idle questions."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"I don't want to go to work and get into bed with someone else, not even Tom Cruise. It's not like I enjoy it."

Cameron Diaz, American Actress

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"Well, listen, you know, the Czech saying is, you know, when you are drowning you are grabbing even a little twig. That's what all Czechs were doing, grabbing for... with the hope for this little twig."

Hope, Saying

"And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what this person says or how this person think(s), you know."

Control, Committee

"You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler."

Politics, Englfrance

"First of all, whoever didn't want to be a member of this association or the other association, was branded, you know, like a dangerous individualist, you know, infected by the Western decadence, you know. So everybody joined."

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"Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know."

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"Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters."

Life, Company, Years

"I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know."

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"First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy."

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"Now, after the communist take-over in 1948, the amount of feature films produced dwindled to three a year, while the school was, you know, every year another three, four, five students."

Now, School, Students

"People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man."

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