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"I believe I'm doing the right thing in trying to step away from that and to take chances and work on little independent films and do stuff like that wild dance scene."
Patrick Warburton
"I believe I'm doing the right thing in trying to step away from that and to take chances and work on little independent films and do stuff like that wild dance scene."
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"There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true."
Ian Hart
"There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true."
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"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."
Tobey Maguire
"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."
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"It's still difficult for me to watch my work."
Sheryl Lee
"It's still difficult for me to watch my work."
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"I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years."
Anna Held
"I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years."
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"I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful."
Annie Leibovitz
"I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful."
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"People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get."
Frederick Douglass
"People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get."
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"If they're willing to pay you what you think you're worth for it, that's why an actor goes to work. A lot of times they want to pay you a lot for a picture you don't want to do."
Kurt Russell
"If they're willing to pay you what you think you're worth for it, that's why an actor goes to work. A lot of times they want to pay you a lot for a picture you don't want to do."
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"It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people."
Stanislav Grof
"It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people."
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"I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries."
Bette Davis
"I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries."
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"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."
Trevor Nunn
"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."
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"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!"
Eliot Ness
"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!"
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"Because, you know, it's never a hard work when you enjoy yourself. Look, I've been here since 57 years, and I don't have to explain why I've stayed so long. I always enjoyed it."
John Hench
"Because, you know, it's never a hard work when you enjoy yourself. Look, I've been here since 57 years, and I don't have to explain why I've stayed so long. I always enjoyed it."
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"It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands. - at the Battle of Copenhagen."
Horatio Nelson
"It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands. - at the Battle of Copenhagen."
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"Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work."
Paul Simon
"Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work."
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"God made integers, all else is the work of man."
Leopold Kronecker
"God made integers, all else is the work of man."
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"I'm really excited that I'm able to work again."
David Gest
"I'm really excited that I'm able to work again."
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"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."
Alan Cranston
"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."
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"I'd like to just work - steadily work - and do parts that I enjoy doing."
Ethan Suplee
"I'd like to just work - steadily work - and do parts that I enjoy doing."
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"An actors' tribute to me is in his work."
Lee Strasberg
"An actors' tribute to me is in his work."
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"I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's not worth working with them!"
Patrick Stewart
"I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's not worth working with them!"
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"Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness."
Thomas Carlyle
"Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness."
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"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."
Eudora Welty
"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."
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"Look I eat really well and I work out, but I also indulge when I want to. I don't starve myself in an extremist way. You're not taking away my coffee or my dairy or my glass of wine because I'd be devastated."
Jennifer Aniston
"Look I eat really well and I work out, but I also indulge when I want to. I don't starve myself in an extremist way. You're not taking away my coffee or my dairy or my glass of wine because I'd be devastated."
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"So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work."
Stephen Sondheim
"So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work."
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"Seems to me that this business, for actors anyway, is not so much about whether or not you do good work. It's about whether or not you get the chance to do good work."
Hugh Laurie
"Seems to me that this business, for actors anyway, is not so much about whether or not you do good work. It's about whether or not you get the chance to do good work."
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"I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside."
Anne Tyler
"I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside."
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"I think probably, the makeup artists don't really know how long it's going to take until they really work with your face and they kind of mold it and build it as they're going along."
Andrea Martin
"I think probably, the makeup artists don't really know how long it's going to take until they really work with your face and they kind of mold it and build it as they're going along."
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"I wouldn't say anything I ever did in film would be something I'd use the word proud about. I've done better work in the theater."
John Malkovich
"I wouldn't say anything I ever did in film would be something I'd use the word proud about. I've done better work in the theater."
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"For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work."
Jessica Savitch
"For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work."
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"The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out."
Solomon Burke
"The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out."
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"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."
Mark Kennedy
"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."
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"I've figured out what to do so far, but it's always the next thing you come to where the man with the bucket of ice cold water is waiting - whoosh! in your face. That's why you work with directors who know what to tell you to do."
Judi Dench
"I've figured out what to do so far, but it's always the next thing you come to where the man with the bucket of ice cold water is waiting - whoosh! in your face. That's why you work with directors who know what to tell you to do."
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"What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up."
Barbara Kruger
"What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up."
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"I have done every job in the Theatre apart from wardrobe. I was out of work more times than I was in it."
Richard O'Brien
"I have done every job in the Theatre apart from wardrobe. I was out of work more times than I was in it."
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"It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons."
Laurie Anderson
"It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons."
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"My philosophy is very simple. To feel young, you must work as long as you can."
Dino De Laurentiis
"My philosophy is very simple. To feel young, you must work as long as you can."
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"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."
Norm Dicks
"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."
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"Give yourself something to work toward - constantly."
Mary Kay Ash
"Give yourself something to work toward - constantly."
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"After developing a primitive theory (1968) I therefore did not pursue this subject. However, the work was taken up by others and in 1974 the first experiments were done in the ISR."
Simon van der Meer
"After developing a primitive theory (1968) I therefore did not pursue this subject. However, the work was taken up by others and in 1974 the first experiments were done in the ISR."
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"How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think."
Agatha Christie
"How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think."
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"This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man."
Edouard Manet
"This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man."
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"Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete."
Raoul Vaneigem
"Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete."
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"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."
Francis Ford Coppola
"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."
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"A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel."
Jose Marti
"A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel."
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"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."
Andre Braugher
"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."
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"I can't miss a night's work and let my public down."
Patsy Cline
"I can't miss a night's work and let my public down."
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"I struggled many times when maybe it didn't look like I was struggling, and I had to work hard every day."
Ryne Sandberg
"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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"People work harder when conditions are worse."
Jeff Goldblum
"People work harder when conditions are worse."
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"Work isn't really work for me."
John Kluge
"Work isn't really work for me."
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