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Work Quotes
"You're blessed if you have the strength to work."
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"So when bands work with me and it's 10 o'clock, usually you'd have to be getting out of the studio, we could go on until 2 in the morning cause it's my place!"
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"When you find something where you can give people a message and still make it an exciting movie, you get very, very excited about something. You probably even work harder than you normally do."
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"Actors have to be there and do the work, and that's enough."
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"You know, I'm confident before I go out and play a match that I know, you know, I've put in the work and like I feel confident that I am going to go out there and play well."
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"There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it."
Work,
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"I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place."
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"Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are going to be. When I was moving around with the lens, I discovered things that the naked eye would not have."
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"Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary."
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"New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work."
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"It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it."
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"After a couple of failed attempts, I came up with a weird tuning where I was dropping the G string down a step so that it became a seventh, and it got me to a place where I could play all these figures fairly easily. It was not an easy thing to work out."
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"Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work."
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"It's a big error to think that because you like somebody's work, you're going to like him."
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"Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight."
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"I think actually what I'm going to do when I'm done and take my next vacation, is I'm going to go over and start unions in Japan. I'm going to unionize Japan. Because the way they work those crews is so criminal. There's no overtime, so they can just keep going."
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"People say you have to work on your resentments. Yeah, no, I'm gonna hang onto them and they're gonna fuel my attack."
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"I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that."
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"Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again."
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"I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films."
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