"I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work."

Work, Character

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"I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work."

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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

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

Tony Scott, British Director

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

Charles de Gaulle, French Leader

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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."

Sherwood Anderson, American Writer

Work, Love, Envy, Horses

"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

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"The best way to begin genuine bipartisanship to make America stronger is to work together on the real crises facing our country, not to manufacture an artificial crisis to serve a special interest agenda out of touch with the needs of Americans."

John F. Kerry, American Politician

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"It works much like a marriage, an old marriage. You've got to work on it."

Dick Smothers, American Comedian

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"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

"People are still willing to do an honest day's work. The trouble is they want a week's pay for it."

Joey Adams, American Comedian

Work, People, Day, Trouble

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"I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality."

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"I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor."

Reading

"Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed."

Hope

"Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying."

People

"Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level."

Reality

"I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams."

Dream

"I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it."

Humor

"I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side."

Decision-Making

"I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue."

Writing

"My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor."

Humor