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"Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials."
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"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."
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"A good work ethic is not so much a concern for hard work but rather one for responsibility. There have been a great many men and women who have in fact used work or hustle or selfish ambition as an escape from real responsibility, an escape from purpose. In matters such as these, the hard worker is just as dysfunctional as the sloth."
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"Ruth Cole was a novelist, novelists are not at their best when they go off half-cocked. She believed that she would prepare what she was going to tell the police - preferably in writing."
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"Speaking about work isn't working."
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"The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary."
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"I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it."
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"One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation."
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"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work."
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"Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work."
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"The fact that you are true child of God doesn't mean you will find gold on the floor when sweeping. You got to dig up the gold!"
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"I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine."
Islands
"I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now."
Now
"I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces, which I enjoyed very much."
School
"Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s."
Intellectual
"I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom."
Wisdom
"If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong."
Work
"During the time I was on The Hardy Boys, I was also watching other people's careers. I thought the next step was to be a movie star. I kept saying no to projects, and offers stopped coming in. I was no longer hot."
Time
"My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture."
Architecture
"I used to a lot. I used to go dancing."
Dance
"The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me."
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