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"I'd be perfectly happy never to have to answer anything again about how I work with Ethan, or whether we have arguments, or... you know what I mean? I've been answering those questions for 20 years. I suppose it's interesting to people."
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"When you are fully present and engaged in your workplace, you will demonstrate that you care about the success of your organization, are a team player, have a can-do attitude, and will go the extra mile to fulfill and exceed expectations."
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"It is good to work for your living."
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"12% of employees eat because they are hungry. 88% of employees eat because it is 1 o'clock."
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"Some people never stop working, especially the demanding type of person whom the world never seems to touch, the indomitable person whom is determined to make the world their own place."
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"I didn't want to give up my job and join the ranks of the Doing Fuck All brigade no matter how much money I had in the bank."
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"You can tell the number of hours spent on a work by counting the number of coffee rings on your desk."
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"Working overtime is an underpaid man's salvation."
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"The definition of 'Employment' by an employer, and, that by an employee, are seldom the same."
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"When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over."
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"One does not have the right to criticize until he can do the same work without being criticized."
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"You see a moral in them? Do we have morals?"
Morals
"Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age."
Age
"I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it's hard to parse how growing up in a Jewish community in Minnesota really affected it."
Community
"If the material is challenging, it forces you to challenge yourself when handling it."
Challenge
"The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they weren't really stars yet. Nicolas Cage was not a big star when we did Raising Arizona. A lot of these people were also virtually unknown, too, when we worked with them first."
People
"When you do a writing job for a studio, one of the things you want to do is satisfy the expectations of your employer. That's a little bit different than when you sit down and write something to satisfy yourself, because then you're the employer."
Expectation
"The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story."
Architecture
"The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again, when the actor interprets them."
People
"You're doing it to make the character as specific as possible, so that it's a specific individual that you're talking about, not that whole class of people."
People
"I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares?"
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