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"I mean, I don't think I would call Claus to do an album of big band tunes. You know, just like arrangers write for the artist they have in mind; you have to keep in mind if you're going to work with Claus Ogerman. You invite him to do what he does."

"I mean, I don't think I would call Claus to do an album of big band tunes. You know, just like arrangers write for the artist they have in mind; you have to keep in mind if you're going to work with Claus Ogerman. You invite him to do what he does."

Diana Krall, Canadian Musician

Work, Artist, Mind

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"Telling lies does not work in advertising."

"Telling lies does not work in advertising."

Stanislaw Lec, Polish Poet

Work, Advertising, Lies

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"The first thing I have to do to erase my French accent is think that it is actually possible, whereas for the moment, I think it's not. I have a lot of work."

"The first thing I have to do to erase my French accent is think that it is actually possible, whereas for the moment, I think it's not. I have a lot of work."

Marion Cotillard, French Actress

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"I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?"

"I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?"

Anne Tyler, American Novelist

Work, Mother, Waiting, Writing

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"I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself."

"I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself."

Harrison Ford, American Actor

Work, Care, Play, Tennis

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"Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies."

"Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies."

Christopher Darden, American Lawyer

Work, Fun, Hard work, Writing

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"The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work."

"The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work."

Herbert Prochnow, American Banker

Work, Opportunity, Hard work, Trouble

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"However, intention needn't enter in, and if a reader sees things in a religious way, and the work is dogmatically acceptable, then I don't see why it should not be interpreted in that way, as well as in others."

"However, intention needn't enter in, and if a reader sees things in a religious way, and the work is dogmatically acceptable, then I don't see why it should not be interpreted in that way, as well as in others."

James Schuyler, American Poet

Work, Intention, Religious

53

"I also want the chance to work with some of the best actors in the business, because that's where you can learn so much by just being on a set and getting a feel for how they approach their role and how they work with you."

"I also want the chance to work with some of the best actors in the business, because that's where you can learn so much by just being on a set and getting a feel for how they approach their role and how they work with you."

Sarah Michelle Gellar, American Actress

Work, Business, Actors, Being

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"Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell."

"Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell."

Laura Ingalls Wilder, American Author

Work, Job, Man, Nothing

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"I work closely with the printer to get the final print the way I want it."

"I work closely with the printer to get the final print the way I want it."

Buffy Sainte-Marie, Canadian Singer

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"Never work with kids or animals."

"Never work with kids or animals."

Cat Deeley, English Celebrity

Work, Animals, Kids

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"I don't believe that wishing works. I think we get the things we work for."

"I don't believe that wishing works. I think we get the things we work for."

Brendan Fraser, American Actor

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"I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world."

"I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world."

Erykah Badu, American Musician

Work, Artist, Will, World

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"It has very little to do with my work, but if your image is not sexy enough, people won't listen. It's part of the game."

"It has very little to do with my work, but if your image is not sexy enough, people won't listen. It's part of the game."

Sting, British Musician

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"If you like a story that's totally different and won't know which way it's going... where it's go ing to end up and which way it's going to take you, then I think my work fits the bill."

"If you like a story that's totally different and won't know which way it's going... where it's go ing to end up and which way it's going to take you, then I think my work fits the bill."

Rob Walton, Canadian Athlete

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"Censors are energetic and righteous people but they just couldn't work a room like Abbe Lane."

"Censors are energetic and righteous people but they just couldn't work a room like Abbe Lane."

Audrey Meadows, American Actress

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"When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career."

"When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career."

Calvin Klein, American Designer

Work, Business, Home, Career

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"To live well is to work well, to show a good activity."

"To live well is to work well, to show a good activity."

Thomas Aquinas, Italian Theologian

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"Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it."

"Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it."

Jeremy Taylor, British Clergyman

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"I don't know who I touch and who I don't. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don't have any secrets. I don't know the reasons I've been so well received."

"I don't know who I touch and who I don't. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don't have any secrets. I don't know the reasons I've been so well received."

Adam Sandler, American Actor

Work, People, Growing up, Secrets

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"Directors work 10 times harder than anyone else. Get paid a quarter."

"Directors work 10 times harder than anyone else. Get paid a quarter."

William H. Macy, American Actor

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"I didn't have anything to do with being born to my mother and father. But I had a lot to do with Kristin Shepard's notoriety. I'm proud of the work I did on Dallas."

"I didn't have anything to do with being born to my mother and father. But I had a lot to do with Kristin Shepard's notoriety. I'm proud of the work I did on Dallas."

Mary Crosby, American Actress

Work, Mother, Father, Being

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"Your mind is what makes everything else work."

"Your mind is what makes everything else work."

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American Athlete

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"I wanted to write a film and I thought the best way to do so was to train myself within the field... It was just like a cycle of people trying to make it, not making it, doing extra work, and it was pretty depressing in the end."

"I wanted to write a film and I thought the best way to do so was to train myself within the field... It was just like a cycle of people trying to make it, not making it, doing extra work, and it was pretty depressing in the end."

Michelle Rodriguez, American Actress

Work, Thought, People, End

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"As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work."

"As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work."

Katharine Hepburn, American Actress

Work, Nothing, Prizes

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"Moments are incredible, but in my fantasy mind I see a Globe company which is renowned throughout the world for what it does with pure storytelling. So that people come and say: it's not just the building, it's the only place you can hear this kind of work."

"Moments are incredible, but in my fantasy mind I see a Globe company which is renowned throughout the world for what it does with pure storytelling. So that people come and say: it's not just the building, it's the only place you can hear this kind of work."

Mark Rylance, English Actor

Work, People, Building, Company

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"Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth."

"Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth."

Adrienne Rich, American Poet

Work, Art, Truth, Honesty

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"The work will stand, no matter what."

"The work will stand, no matter what."

Meryl Streep, American Actress

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"Our nation's military and law enforcement personal work hard to protect us. We must thank them for their continued vigilance. Without their sacrifice we would less capable of protecting our nation."

"Our nation's military and law enforcement personal work hard to protect us. We must thank them for their continued vigilance. Without their sacrifice we would less capable of protecting our nation."

Leonard Boswell, American Politician

Work, Sacrifice, Law, Military

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"But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It's like anything else. It's a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever."

"But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It's like anything else. It's a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever."

Ron White, American Comedian

Work, Exercise, Now, Writer

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"I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay."

"I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay."

Clara Barton, American Public Servant

Work, Man, May, Nothing

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"When I decided I wanted to be an actor, I said I wanted to work with quality actors and directors."

"When I decided I wanted to be an actor, I said I wanted to work with quality actors and directors."

Puff Daddy, American Musician

Work, Quality, Actor, Actors

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"No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted."

"No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted."

Olive Schreiner, South African Writer

Work, Heart, Southafrican

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"I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range."

"I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range."

Edgard Varese, American Composer

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"At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable of doing interesting and complicated work, and so I have a new-found belief that other film-makers will see me in a different way, the way that Patty did."

"At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable of doing interesting and complicated work, and so I have a new-found belief that other film-makers will see me in a different way, the way that Patty did."

Charlize Theron, South African Actress

Work, Thought, Belief, Being

53

"Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure."

"Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure."

John Cale, Welsh Musician

Work, Knowledge, Successful, Fact

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"When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed."

"When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed."

Paul Klee, Swiss Artist

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"In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place."

"In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place."

May Sarton, American Poet

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"I've experienced several different healing methodologies over the years - counseling, self-help seminars, and I've read a lot - but none of them will work unless you really want to heal."

"I've experienced several different healing methodologies over the years - counseling, self-help seminars, and I've read a lot - but none of them will work unless you really want to heal."

Lindsay Wagner, American Actress

Work, Healing, Self, Want

53

"It's hard sometimes if you think a character should look a certain way and you're being pushed to do it differently. I've had fights over that. That's why it's so important that you work with good people."

"It's hard sometimes if you think a character should look a certain way and you're being pushed to do it differently. I've had fights over that. That's why it's so important that you work with good people."

Uma Thurman, American Actress

Work, People, Character, Being

53

"Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work."

"Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work."

Peter Marshall, Scottish Clergyman

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"I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'."

"I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'."

Howard Barker, British Playwright

Work, Being, World

53

"Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation."

"Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation."

Mary Harris Jones, American Activist

Work, Labor, Salvation, Struggle

53

"I also work with the regular orchestras in Munich, Germany and other similar orchestras."

"I also work with the regular orchestras in Munich, Germany and other similar orchestras."

Skitch Henderson, American Musician

Work, Germany, Orchestras

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"I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work."

"I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work."

William Shatner, Canadian Actor

Work, Hard work

53

"I think it's a mother's dream come true to see it work out that way. Not just the mother, but certainly parents, to know that their children have a very solid moral foundation and religious foundation."

"I think it's a mother's dream come true to see it work out that way. Not just the mother, but certainly parents, to know that their children have a very solid moral foundation and religious foundation."

Erika Slezak, American Actress

Work, Mother, Dream, Children

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"I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers."

"I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers."

Tahar Ben Jelloun, French Poet

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"Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost."

"Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them."

"Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them."

Chaim Weizmann, Israeli Leader

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