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"And as part of my activity there, he had indicated he wanted me to work with him on that and conduct the various technical tests. And so a few months later I moved from Southern California up to the Monterey Peninsula where I still live today."
John Sexton
"And as part of my activity there, he had indicated he wanted me to work with him on that and conduct the various technical tests. And so a few months later I moved from Southern California up to the Monterey Peninsula where I still live today."
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"You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was."
Katey Sagal
"You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was."
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"Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work."
Paula Nelson
"Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work."
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"People that have been interested in our work for awhile... those are the last people you want to disappoint."
Joel Coen
"People that have been interested in our work for awhile... those are the last people you want to disappoint."
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"I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out."
Famke Janssen
"I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out."
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"What is it they want from the man that they didn't get from the work? What do they expect? What is there left when he's done with his work, what's any artist but the dregs of his work, the human shambles that follows it around?"
William Gaddis
"What is it they want from the man that they didn't get from the work? What do they expect? What is there left when he's done with his work, what's any artist but the dregs of his work, the human shambles that follows it around?"
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"And trust, yes, which is important, but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people, and with that desire to get things as good as possible, I would say that I'm probably regarded as quite prickly to work with."
Jeremy Irons
"And trust, yes, which is important, but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people, and with that desire to get things as good as possible, I would say that I'm probably regarded as quite prickly to work with."
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"I work closely with the printer to get the final print the way I want it."
Buffy Sainte-Marie
"I work closely with the printer to get the final print the way I want it."
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"Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work."
Robert Caro
"Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work."
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"I loved working on Of Mice and Men. It was a wonderful group of people. John Malkovich is to me one of the best actors around right now-and a lot of fun to work with."
Sherilyn Fenn
"I loved working on Of Mice and Men. It was a wonderful group of people. John Malkovich is to me one of the best actors around right now-and a lot of fun to work with."
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"Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk himself, but what I've learned from his work."
Rainer W. Fassbinder
"Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk himself, but what I've learned from his work."
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"The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for 'undermining support for our troops.'"
Al Gore
"The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for 'undermining support for our troops.'"
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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."
Sting
"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."
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"My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another."
Sargent Shriver
"My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another."
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"I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character."
Michael Richards
"I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character."
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"Anything where people have to work together makes me cry."
Brenda Blethyn
"Anything where people have to work together makes me cry."
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"I think the most important thing I work on is just my mental approach to every day, my mental approach to the game. How to come in each and every day focused, doing what I want to do, I think that's just the biggest issue."
Paul Pierce
"I think the most important thing I work on is just my mental approach to every day, my mental approach to the game. How to come in each and every day focused, doing what I want to do, I think that's just the biggest issue."
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"It's tourists in New York. Everything is geared towards that. It's so hard on Broadway now for them to get people in there. They have to compete with so many other entertainments, so they have to bring a star in which puts people there out of work."
Delta Burke
"It's tourists in New York. Everything is geared towards that. It's so hard on Broadway now for them to get people in there. They have to compete with so many other entertainments, so they have to bring a star in which puts people there out of work."
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"I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level."
Robin Wright Penn
"I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level."
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"To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me."
David Bowie
"To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me."
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"The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings."
Paul Cezanne
"The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings."
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"Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity."
Peter Straub
"Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity."
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"When I work, I work very hard. So I look to work with people who have that level of dedication. And I depend on that from everyone. From the director to my crews that I work with."
Tom Cruise
"When I work, I work very hard. So I look to work with people who have that level of dedication. And I depend on that from everyone. From the director to my crews that I work with."
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"Go into something because you really like it, and then do it with a drive and enthusiasm so that it isn't work."
John Kluge
"Go into something because you really like it, and then do it with a drive and enthusiasm so that it isn't work."
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"My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the time. Sometimes comedy is not a bundle of laughs to actually do."
Anne Dudley
"My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the time. Sometimes comedy is not a bundle of laughs to actually do."
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"It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work."
E. F. Schumacher
"It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work."
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"I'm foremost an actor. I feel embarrassed being compared to the guys who really work at it. I fake it, I make believe I know all about it, which is what you're supposed to do as an actor."
Lloyd Bridges
"I'm foremost an actor. I feel embarrassed being compared to the guys who really work at it. I fake it, I make believe I know all about it, which is what you're supposed to do as an actor."
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"As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work."
Katharine Hepburn
"As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work."
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"In my heart of hearts, I know that whatever I do is going to have integrity, and I'm going to work really hard, and I know that fans are going to take to it."
Christy Romano
"In my heart of hearts, I know that whatever I do is going to have integrity, and I'm going to work really hard, and I know that fans are going to take to it."
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"So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?"
Jackie Cooper
"So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?"
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"I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work."
Hayao Miyazaki
"I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work."
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"I've been very lucky to work on a wide variety of projects, including two long-run and top-10 dramatic television shows. That is why it is so important to offer a helping hand to the next generation of young Latinos coming up behind me."
Jimmy Smits
"I've been very lucky to work on a wide variety of projects, including two long-run and top-10 dramatic television shows. That is why it is so important to offer a helping hand to the next generation of young Latinos coming up behind me."
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"No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with."
Victoria Principal
"No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with."
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"Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other."
Kevin Kelly
"Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other."
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"It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone."
Anthony Hopkins
"It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone."
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"Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together."
Napoleon Hill
"Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together."
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"He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock."
Sally Kellerman
"He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock."
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"If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor."
Christiaan Barnard
"If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor."
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"Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease."
Karel Capek
"Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease."
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"Normally when I work with bands I'm trying to refine and improve what's already there."
Jerry Harrison
"Normally when I work with bands I'm trying to refine and improve what's already there."
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"Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing."
Mark Haddon
"Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing."
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"On those, I've said it before, I work free. It's the waiting they pay me for."
Hector Elizondo
"On those, I've said it before, I work free. It's the waiting they pay me for."
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"It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a life, much more of a life, than on a drama."
Adam Arkin
"It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a life, much more of a life, than on a drama."
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"The important aspect shouldn't be whose administration it is, the important aspect should be how does the state of Wisconsin work, what can we do to move Wisconsin forward."
Scott McCallum
"The important aspect shouldn't be whose administration it is, the important aspect should be how does the state of Wisconsin work, what can we do to move Wisconsin forward."
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"Some missionaries are giants in the Spirit and pygmies in skills in the Spirit. Work hard to develop a balance. Your leaders, and you, should teach the skills to each other."
Richard G. Scott
"Some missionaries are giants in the Spirit and pygmies in skills in the Spirit. Work hard to develop a balance. Your leaders, and you, should teach the skills to each other."
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"I prefer a quartet, it makes everyone work harder."
Adrian Belew
"I prefer a quartet, it makes everyone work harder."
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"Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work."
Nicholas Johnson
"Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work."
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"You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance."
Lars von Trier
"You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance."
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"If I see an ending, I can work backward."
Arthur Miller
"If I see an ending, I can work backward."
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"So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work."
Wanda Jackson
"So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work."
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