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Work Quotes


"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."


"You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was."


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


"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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"My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another."


"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."


"Anything where people have to work together makes me cry."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings."


"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."


"Go into something because you really like it, and then do it with a drive and enthusiasm so that it isn't work."



"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."


"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."


"So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?"


"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."


"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."


"Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together."


"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."



"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."


"Normally when I work with bands I'm trying to refine and improve what's already there."


"Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing."


"On those, I've said it before, I work free. It's the waiting they pay me for."


"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."


"Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work."


"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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"So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work."
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