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Hesiod

"Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame."

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"Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame."

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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."

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"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."

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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!"

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"To work is to feel alive."

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"When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out."

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"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."

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"When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt."

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"The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections."

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