"I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people."

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"I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people."

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"I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because then there's no work and no potential of work."

Work, Community, Potential

"The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits."

Positive,

"You have this disturbing reality that there are a lot of people who would rather say, 'I'm on strike' than 'I'm unemployed.' And those are the people who vote for strikes."

People, Reality, Vote

"It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim."

Movies, People, Beach, Pretty

"When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, 'Who are these people? Why should we watch them?"

History, People, Advertising, Focus

"The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in."

People, Character, Effect, Writing

"Everybody knows things are not the same. The people running the TV end of a major vertically integrated company know how much money a successful show can make."

Money, People, Successful, Company

"Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off."

Comedy, Drama, Programming

"There are other options out there, after all, like read a book, go on the Internet, rent a movie."

Internet, Options

"It's show business. No show, no business."

Business,

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"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"The world system is employment."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Police officers are poorly paid for a very stressful job that has them in very high powered radio frequency (RF) fields and in a daily environment that may result in them being assaulted, maimed or killed."

Steven Magee, British Author

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"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Do not be weary to make money."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Work, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Power

"Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"Be robust enough to work more than a robot!"

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Work, Effort, Strength