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Work Quotes


"If you're sitting in the audience, you probably can't see the preparation and work that goes into creating a great scene or a great part, but I can assure you that a good film depends on lot of different things falling perfectly into place."


"It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people."


"You are faced with the choice: either my integrity remains intact and this is the work that ends up on the screen, or I have to leave, and I have to be known to have left."


"Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the task. After all, if you don't like action and excitement, you don't go into police work. And, what the hell, I figured, nobody lives forever!"


"God made integers, all else is the work of man."


"Unless you have a sense of values that's shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values, the organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn't work very well."


"To imagine yourself inside another person... is what a storywriter does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose."


"So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work."


"For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work."


"The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out."


"The United States armed forces and coalition troops deserve recognition and support for their work to remove Saddam Hussein from power, and ensure the safety and security of the American people, civilians abroad, and the people of Iraq."


"What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up."


"It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons."


"My philosophy is very simple. To feel young, you must work as long as you can."



"In fact, at Olympic National Park in my district, they 3 years ago had 130 summer employees they brought in for temporary work. This summer they have 25 because they cannot afford more."


"The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work."


"To me, the psychology behind the character is critical. So I work very hard to get into the mind of the man that I'm going to be playing, because number one, I want to understand why he's doing what he's doing. It's essential, it's absolutely essential."


"I struggled many times when maybe it didn't look like I was struggling, and I had to work hard every day."
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