"If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare."

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"If you need an alarm clock, you need a new job."

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"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."

Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady

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"Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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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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"Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

Work, Body, Rights, Man

"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."

John Irving, American Novelist

Work, Preparation, Planning, Writing, Observation

"Speaking about work isn't working."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Not only is women's work never done, the definition keeps changing."

Bill Copeland, Australian Athlete

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"The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"You can be the most productive and most effective, but politics show up as ego, jealousy and sabotage from bosses who can't perform."

Richie Norton, American Author

Work, Productivity, Ego, Politics

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