"It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone."

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"It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone."

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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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"I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue."

Direction,

"I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette."

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"It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone."

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"I'm always cast in these strange men... that's not me, really."

Men,

"I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don't know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don't think you need all that stuff."

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"And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it."

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"I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen."

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"I've got a great sense of humor."

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"Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought."

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"Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script."

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