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"I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist."
Pam Grier
"I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist."
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"That and the fact that I knew that nobody was going to publish my work at Dark Horse or DC or anywhere."
Rob Walton
"That and the fact that I knew that nobody was going to publish my work at Dark Horse or DC or anywhere."
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"When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing."
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
"When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing."
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"In sports, people reach their peak very early. You have to move on. I don't know if I will ever surpass what I did at the Olympics, but I'm still doing the work I always wanted to do."
Greg Louganis
"In sports, people reach their peak very early. You have to move on. I don't know if I will ever surpass what I did at the Olympics, but I'm still doing the work I always wanted to do."
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"I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work."
Henry Rollins
"I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work."
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"The best part is it's a dream come true. I've always wanted to be a working actor, and the good part of it... it's all good! I work long hours, but it's amazing. They pay me. That's amazing! I get to kiss Keri Russell, and that ain't too bad."
Scott Foley
"The best part is it's a dream come true. I've always wanted to be a working actor, and the good part of it... it's all good! I work long hours, but it's amazing. They pay me. That's amazing! I get to kiss Keri Russell, and that ain't too bad."
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"Um, and I'm also very proud of my work on George of the Jungle 2."
Julie Benz
"Um, and I'm also very proud of my work on George of the Jungle 2."
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"The actual producing, mixing, and mastering is hard work, harder than what I do."
Mandy Moore
"The actual producing, mixing, and mastering is hard work, harder than what I do."
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"It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves."
Bill Watterson
"It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves."
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"There is nothing wrong with wanting pay for work, or seeking to maximize one's income, as long as one does not use means that are destructive."
Richard Stallman
"There is nothing wrong with wanting pay for work, or seeking to maximize one's income, as long as one does not use means that are destructive."
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"Bad guys don't think they're bad guys. Hitler probably thought he was a wonderful guy doing some wonderful and righteous work for Germany."
Martin Landau
"Bad guys don't think they're bad guys. Hitler probably thought he was a wonderful guy doing some wonderful and righteous work for Germany."
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"I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work."
Jane Badler
"I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work."
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"I have never planned anything. I have been doing this job for over 50 years. I have been paid to work with some wonderful people and it has been a huge gift, to me."
Donald Sutherland
"I have never planned anything. I have been doing this job for over 50 years. I have been paid to work with some wonderful people and it has been a huge gift, to me."
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"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
Michael Jordan
"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
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"I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces."
Maurice Ravel
"I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces."
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"The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work."
Mark Shields
"The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work."
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"I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of "work," because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep."
Andy Warhol
"I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of "work," because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep."
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"The Phil Spector that I would meet has always been a nice, quiet, little guy who's very serious about his work; obviously you can tell that because each and everything he's ever done has always been charted."
Ben E. King
"The Phil Spector that I would meet has always been a nice, quiet, little guy who's very serious about his work; obviously you can tell that because each and everything he's ever done has always been charted."
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"Everybody is just at the start of this huge process of trying to unravel what's going on with the 4,400, where they've been and why they're back and what they're trying to do with us in the present. And we're trying to work out what messages they're sending us."
Jacqueline McKenzie
"Everybody is just at the start of this huge process of trying to unravel what's going on with the 4,400, where they've been and why they're back and what they're trying to do with us in the present. And we're trying to work out what messages they're sending us."
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"He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work was recovered too, and it is still spoken of, when it is noted, with high regard, though seldom played."
William Gaddis
"He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work was recovered too, and it is still spoken of, when it is noted, with high regard, though seldom played."
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"I do like to work on a Marvel method, so if I've got the opportunity, and the writer is happy to do it, I like to have a writer detail what happens on a page, but not saying what happens in every scene."
David Lloyd
"I do like to work on a Marvel method, so if I've got the opportunity, and the writer is happy to do it, I like to have a writer detail what happens on a page, but not saying what happens in every scene."
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"Some months ago, while I was preparing a new work, I told a young cinema executive my intention of including in a soundtrack two themes from Bach. But when he asked me which has been the last hit from that Bach?, then I knew that I had no longer place in cinema."
Maurice Jarre
"Some months ago, while I was preparing a new work, I told a young cinema executive my intention of including in a soundtrack two themes from Bach. But when he asked me which has been the last hit from that Bach?, then I knew that I had no longer place in cinema."
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"I remember thinking, I want to work for the camera."
Brendan Fraser
"I remember thinking, I want to work for the camera."
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"I think in terms of the work we're doing now a lot of the UI cleanup... I see it getting much prettier."
Shawn Fanning
"I think in terms of the work we're doing now a lot of the UI cleanup... I see it getting much prettier."
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"And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard to get through the day, and I'll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over."
Delta Burke
"And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard to get through the day, and I'll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over."
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"I coach a few guys and they work very, very hard, but in our day we did it because we just loved it."
Linford Christie
"I coach a few guys and they work very, very hard, but in our day we did it because we just loved it."
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"I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little."
Maurice Ravel
"I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little."
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"The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted."
Samuel Smiles
"The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted."
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"And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true."
Keanu Reeves
"And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true."
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"The key to successful missionary work is a close relationship between the missionaries and the members. Creating an environment in working with members that will bring more into the Church."
Richard G. Scott
"The key to successful missionary work is a close relationship between the missionaries and the members. Creating an environment in working with members that will bring more into the Church."
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"If I didn't want to work for a couple of years, I wouldn't have to-it's a great feeling, to know I'm doing it because I want to do it."
Tracey Emin
"If I didn't want to work for a couple of years, I wouldn't have to-it's a great feeling, to know I'm doing it because I want to do it."
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"I am flattered that they think that many people would enjoy my work. I don't approach any genre a different way than I may approach another one. I treat every role I do like a role worthy of applying whatever kind of tactic, process and talent I have."
Vin Diesel
"I am flattered that they think that many people would enjoy my work. I don't approach any genre a different way than I may approach another one. I treat every role I do like a role worthy of applying whatever kind of tactic, process and talent I have."
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"I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure."
Patrick Stewart
"I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure."
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"A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone."
Jane Harrison
"A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone."
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"He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward."
Harry Emerson Fosdick
"He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward."
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"When we finally came to start work on this, the joy was it was only Joel and I, we didn't have to answer to anybody, and we didn't have to submit a screen play or anything like that. We just wrote it and then made it."
Andrew Lloyd Webber
"When we finally came to start work on this, the joy was it was only Joel and I, we didn't have to answer to anybody, and we didn't have to submit a screen play or anything like that. We just wrote it and then made it."
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"For years and years I have done the work I was born for."
James Larkin
"For years and years I have done the work I was born for."
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"I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else."
Neil Young
"I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else."
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"It's very much like filmmaking always is-you're always asked to do something that you're not sure you know how to do. So you make an educated guess as to what you think will work and you hope between that and plan B, that you can end up with a product that's really good."
John Dykstra
"It's very much like filmmaking always is-you're always asked to do something that you're not sure you know how to do. So you make an educated guess as to what you think will work and you hope between that and plan B, that you can end up with a product that's really good."
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"A big part of who I am is just the way I was raised. Nobody is better than anyone else, and if you really work hard, you might get lucky and get what you want."
Martina McBride
"A big part of who I am is just the way I was raised. Nobody is better than anyone else, and if you really work hard, you might get lucky and get what you want."
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"If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store."
Natalie Wood
"If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store."
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"I can't tell you how hard I worked the last year. In fact, I worked so hard that I know I can't maintain that same work level in 2001, so I've got to quit something."
Christopher Darden
"I can't tell you how hard I worked the last year. In fact, I worked so hard that I know I can't maintain that same work level in 2001, so I've got to quit something."
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"What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project."
Gwendolyn Brooks
"What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project."
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"I could play everything but could never take a lead. My brain just doesn't work like that."
Kip Winger
"I could play everything but could never take a lead. My brain just doesn't work like that."
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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."
Harrison Ford
"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."
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"I'm not a light-hearted person, so I can't think light-hearted at work."
Eric Bogosian
"I'm not a light-hearted person, so I can't think light-hearted at work."
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"The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles."
Ronald Fisher
"The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles."
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"The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread."
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
"The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread."
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"I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work."
Joshua Lederberg
"I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work."
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"An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight."
Hilaire Belloc
"An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight."
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