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"If you need an alarm clock, you need a new job."
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Personal Development
"The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work."
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Personal Development
"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."
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Personal Development
"Maybe you don't work for seven months a year, but you'll work again. It may be a piece of garbage, so you wear hip boots."
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Personal Development
"I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work."
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Personal Development
"So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work."
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Personal Development
"The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being."
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Personal Development
"So many people think they need to have serious equipment. In the magazines and the media, they see all this stylish stuff, especially on TV, and they think, That's what I need to make it work. You don't. I'm attempting a little bit of liberation here."
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Personal Development
"I've never been one who agonizes over my work."
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Personal Development
"The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well."
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"For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead."
Now
"The picture has made its million back in four months; I have been overwhelmed by letters, hundreds of them, literally, begging me in my next production not to swing over the shallow trash of mother love, father love, sister love, brother love."
Love
"In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture."
Hollywood
"Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me in stern reproof."
People
"Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right."
Sympathy
"I am just old-fashioned enough to prefer long hair."
Hair
"Fay has spirituality too, but she also has that very real sex appeal that takes hold of the hearts of men."
Men
"I could not work with a girl who did not have a spiritual quality."
Work
"I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food."
Food
"If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead."
Man
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