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Work Quotes
"So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work."
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"I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double."
Work,
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"I start with actors that I know personally or I know their work, and there are things about their work or their presence or their own personality that make a character, that exaggerates some qualities and suppresses other qualities. It's always a real collaboration for me."
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"Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an "ethic.""
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"I can say unequivocally that the boycott does not work. It's never complete enough to have impact unless it's backed by force, and I don't think anybody in America seriously proposes that."
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"I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea."
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"Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like."
Work,
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"From my point of view, there is a lot of joy in stage work."
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"Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak."
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"My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportation and industrial facilities in orbit. And this led to various sorts of work in space development."
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"Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it."
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"I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished."
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"My relationships with my loved ones always take precedence over work."
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"I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work."
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"I had always fancied a go at the comedy and when it started to go reasonably well and the opportunity arose for me to move into it full time, I just couldn't turn it down. I just took the risk, and I just wanted to see if it would work and thankfully it did."
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"The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%."
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"I think theatre helped, only because it was acting experience. I got to work with a lot of directors."
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"Watch every detail that affects the accuracy of your work."
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"For me, my role is about unleashing what people already have inside them that is maybe suppressed in most work environments."
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"I play a curator, the most American part you can think of. My work is to protect the Declaration of Independence. I work at the National Archives in Washington."
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"The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green."
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"Not only the Archivist alone but all who work for NARA are designated custodians of America's national memory."
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