"In the past, if I didn't work, I didn't eat but now I feel I can not work and I won't starve."

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"In the past, if I didn't work, I didn't eat but now I feel I can not work and I won't starve."

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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."

Greta Scacchi, Italian Actress

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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."

David O. Russell, American Director

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"Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone."

Charles de Gaulle, French Leader

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"I've never looked at my career in terms of, What haven't I done that I want to do? I just generally find a story that I think is a good one and go to work."

Kurt Russell, American Actor

Work, Career, Want

"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!"

Terence Stamp, British Actor

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"To work is to feel alive."

Tony Bennett, American Musician

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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."

Iris Chang, Chinese Historian

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

Harri Holkeri, Finnish Politician

Work, Hope, Nations, United

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

Henry J. Kaiser, American Businessman

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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."

John H. Speke, British Explorer

Work, Rest

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"All these portrayals we see of knights fighting must be absolute rubbish because knights in armour could literally have only had two or three blows and then they'd have had to sit down to have a cup of tea."

Fight, Fighting, Tea

"I'm very organized and tidy in my home life and I generally do something myself rather than farm it out to somebody else. I don't have an assistant or anything because I think I can do it myself."

Home, Life

"In the past, if I didn't work, I didn't eat but now I feel I can not work and I won't starve."

Work, Now, Past

"Because I had children relatively late - in my 40s rather than in my 20s - it wasn't anything I ever knew that I would do. It kind of happened to me: I met the right woman and we had children. It was a revelation because it suddenly makes me realize, 'Oh, I get it. Now I know what to do with the rest of my life.'"

Life, Children, Now, Rest

"My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn't around from the time that I was a baby, so I was not the product of a family, but a product of observation - of watching what went on around me, of watching who I liked, what I didn't like, what I thought was good behavior and what I thought was bad behavior and tailoring myself accordingly."

Father, Dad, Time, Family, Mother

"You sign for a sequel for everything these days, just in case, options. In the past, you avoided them like the plague because it meant somewhere down the road you couldn't take a job because you had to do a sequel. Now it's a feature of pretty much any feature you do."

Job, Now, Options, Past

"If you think about Shakespeare, you remember Richard III and Macbeth before you remember Ferdinand, whose role is just to fall in love and be a bit of a wimp. I love the baddies. More important, though, is making the baddies somehow, weirdly, understood."

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"The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting."

Idea, Acting

"And I think in your 40s, you land a little bit, physically and mentally, you arrive at a place where you feel you've learned some stuff. Having children at that point meant I had something very useful to do for the next 20 years."

Children, Land, Years

"I had this extraordinarily bizarre moment when, two Fridays ago, my missus gave birth to our second child at 11am and by the same time the following day I was sitting around a table with Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio in Rabat in Morocco, rehearsing a scene we were going to shoot the next day."

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