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"The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can."
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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

"Take your work seriously and yourself lightly."
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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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"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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"I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack."
England


"Like everyone else, I've had moments when I've felt that I've been losing my grip."
Losing


"I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated."
Ideology


"There's nothing like sitting back and talking to your cows."
Cows


"I really feel sorry for people who are, who divide their whole life up into 'things that I like' and 'things that I must do.' You're only here for a short time, mate. Learn to like it."
Life


"The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can."
Work


"Some of the things you read you get an immediate reaction to so I've stopped reading things now. I do worry about my family though. Some people do try some nasty things to get at them and try and get a reaction from them."
Family


"I have respect for beer."
Beer


"Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession."
Actor


"God bless America. God save the Queen. God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia."
God
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