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Work Quotes
"But I don't work out. I pay people to do that for me."
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"The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before."
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"And I think a good writer's gonna make it interesting. From the first paragraph it will all be interesting. Just work at it and work at it and work at it."
15
"It's not that, you know, when a relationship doesn't work and there are issues, you have to somehow work it out if there are children involved."
15
"It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him."
Work,
15
"The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work."
15
"You have to work with the auto industry, the oil companies, you have to work to develop renewable fuel, whether it's solar or different kinds of fuel or whatever."
15
"I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in."
15
"The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you."
15
"When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?"
15
"If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger."
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"Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now."
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"I heard this when I was in the Air Force: "There's never enough time to do the job right, but always enough time to do it over."
15
"It's a big error to think that because you like somebody's work, you're going to like him."
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"Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission."
Work,
15
"A show is exhausting when it stinks. It's exhausting when you have to work overtime to make something work."
Work,
15
"The perks of working in Japan are that you might go for two weeks every three or four months, so you do work an abbreviated schedule. But you really make up for the abbreviated schedule by how hard you have to fight, how much you've got to be in shape."
15
"Very often out of adversity that's when the best work comes."
15
"I am all right when I work. I am not superficial and I am not ungrateful."
15
"The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story."
15
"It's developing a relationship with actors that makes it work."
14
"I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy."
Work,
14
"Saturday Night Live is such a comedy boot camp in a way, because you get to work with so many different people who come in to host the show and you get thrown into so many situations and learn how to think on your feet, so filmmaking actually feels slow, in a good way."
14
"Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved."
14
"Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from."
14
"As the work proceeded we found that the western end of the cutting receded under the slope of the rock, and thus was partly roofed over by the overhanging rock."
14
"I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work."
14
"This is a job and Survivor is a game show. So, this is something to take seriously and work really hard at."
14
"It's important to determine which surroundings work best for you, and then build that environment to suit your needs."
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