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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."

"Love by the sweat of thy brow.Not through whispered words of hollow sound or lofty dreams ne'er substance bound that more than oft do run aground. Nay, love with mighty, blistered hands that turn the soil and carve the land. A bearer of toil and golden band. Be strong! A founder of the feast! Protective knight who slays the beast! For promises and vows aloud are naught but wispy veneer shroud like cobwebs, frail, the airy words and wooing fail. So work, my darling. Toil as proof. Thy loyal heart be drained of youth and yet beat on, incessant sound. Both feet take root within the ground, and service be thy kingly crown.Love by the sweat of thy brow."

"Your life content reduces with employment."

"A specialist's mind is a slave to his specialization."
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"I'm more interested in enjoying my life and looking after my family than being hugely successful."

"It's difficult to gauge that. With a bad guy you just know you're bad. To play a nice guy is harder - unless you are a very nice person like me of course."

"I talked to everyone about the project: actors and extras, members of the crew and passers by."

"It felt good doing a physical job, and going home each evening feeling like I had really done a day's work."

"I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it."

"There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm to happy being myself."

"It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor."

"I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history evokes such strong passions and emotions."

"The reason I wanted to be an actor is that I don't want to play me for the rest of my life and make money out of that."
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