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Work Quotes
"I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy."
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"The parameters are such that I don't get offered a lot of work. I'm sure most directors hear my list of don'ts and say forget it."
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"But when you work with the director and the real person who is playing opposite you, it changes everything. You are almost in a working session. I was very comfortable, and that's maybe what helped me to get the part."
Work,
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"I think I felt that I was very well known for my figure and needed to keep that up for my work. And I regret all of it. I felt fraudulent and very shameful."
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"There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent."
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"It's rare that I come across actors who are willing to work as hard on the material as I am."
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"If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing."
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"That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing."
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"We must work to ensure that the Nevada Cancer Institute continues to receive the dollars necessary to make it a vibrant source of research and clinical assistance for cancer victims throughout the state of Nevada and the nation."
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"I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't."
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"Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor."
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"We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization for our work, and that is a difficult role. On the other hand, I get undue credit."
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"The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread."
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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."
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"What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other."
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"I prefer to work alone and do everything alone, even today."
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"The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take."
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"I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don't know why, but he did."
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"It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it both ways, if I was trying to cover myself in case it didn't work, then it would have been to no purpose."
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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."
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"It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race."
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"Scotty heard that I was thinking about quitting Apple because of his actions, so he called me into his office and asked what it would take for me to stay? I said, maybe if I could work on the Mac project, which Steve had just taken over from Jef Raskin."
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"But if we can work with people in other parties to get the right answer for the country we'll do that."
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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."
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"A problem was the lack of cooperation of the Afghan community itself. The women, though living in Iran, were under cover and not willing to participate in the film, and none of the ethnic groups were willing to work together or be together."
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"I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light."
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"If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it."
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"Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done."
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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."
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"Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from."
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