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"While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I would think that's true about many of us."
Thom Gunn
"While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I would think that's true about many of us."
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"Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected."
William Glasser
"Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected."
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"The potential elite runner must realize that hard means hard, easy means easy and they must patiently seek out what combinations work for them. They have to learn to be persistent and patient with their training and racing."
Frank Shorter
"The potential elite runner must realize that hard means hard, easy means easy and they must patiently seek out what combinations work for them. They have to learn to be persistent and patient with their training and racing."
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"In sports, people reach their peak very early. You have to move on. I don't know if I will ever surpass what I did at the Olympics, but I'm still doing the work I always wanted to do."
Greg Louganis
"In sports, people reach their peak very early. You have to move on. I don't know if I will ever surpass what I did at the Olympics, but I'm still doing the work I always wanted to do."
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"This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted."
Martin Lewis Perl
"This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted."
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"Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work."
Oksana Baiul
"Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work."
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"I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible."
Todd Gitlin
"I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible."
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"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work."
Peter Drucker
"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work."
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"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes."
Henry J. Kaiser
"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes."
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"And then what makes the work interesting is if you choose the right questions."
Bruce Nauman
"And then what makes the work interesting is if you choose the right questions."
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"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
Michael Jordan
"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
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"It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway."
Danny DeVito
"It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway."
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"I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas."
Anne Stevenson
"I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas."
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"I did get to work with Anthony Hopkins on 'The Human Stain.' If I ever manage to accomplish a quarter of what he's achieved, I'll have had one hell of a career."
Lindsay Lohan
"I did get to work with Anthony Hopkins on 'The Human Stain.' If I ever manage to accomplish a quarter of what he's achieved, I'll have had one hell of a career."
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"Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano."
David Bowie
"Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano."
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"I think it's important to do great work."
Kyra Sedgwick
"I think it's important to do great work."
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"I've been grateful enough, smart enough to take the work with Ian McKellen in Gods And Monsters."
Brendan Fraser
"I've been grateful enough, smart enough to take the work with Ian McKellen in Gods And Monsters."
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"Even if I don't have a job, I work on plays and scenes."
Jeff Goldblum
"Even if I don't have a job, I work on plays and scenes."
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"It was hysterical going to work. I would just walk in and think, 'What in hell? Am I here? What's going on? I'm going to wake up in a minute. I'm in a dream.'"
Jacqueline McKenzie
"It was hysterical going to work. I would just walk in and think, 'What in hell? Am I here? What's going on? I'm going to wake up in a minute. I'm in a dream.'"
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"Our son is in school now. You know, he's six-and-a-half and so a big chunk of the day is taken up by school. So I'm hoping that I'll be able to certainly take him to school in the morning, maybe pick him up in the afternoon and come back to work."
Connie Chung
"Our son is in school now. You know, he's six-and-a-half and so a big chunk of the day is taken up by school. So I'm hoping that I'll be able to certainly take him to school in the morning, maybe pick him up in the afternoon and come back to work."
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"Discipline, work. Work, discipline."
Gustav Mahler
"Discipline, work. Work, discipline."
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"Work cures everything."
Henri Matisse
"Work cures everything."
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"It seems we always exceed even our own expectations-after a lot of hard work, though!"
Roberta Williams
"It seems we always exceed even our own expectations-after a lot of hard work, though!"
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"I'm not a huge fan of my work."
Tea Leoni
"I'm not a huge fan of my work."
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"The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive."
Thomas Sowell
"The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive."
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"I'd like to do some more classical work if I do some more theatre."
Sarah Sutton
"I'd like to do some more classical work if I do some more theatre."
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"In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is hard."
Rocco DiSpirito
"In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is hard."
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"The visible things that have come from the group have been the Plan 9 system and Inferno, but I hasten to say that the ideas and the work have come from colleagues."
Dennis Ritchie
"The visible things that have come from the group have been the Plan 9 system and Inferno, but I hasten to say that the ideas and the work have come from colleagues."
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"When you enjoy what you do, work becomes play."
Martin Yan
"When you enjoy what you do, work becomes play."
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"We have got to work on keeping these children engaged with the world."
Temple Grandin
"We have got to work on keeping these children engaged with the world."
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"This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."
Bette Davis
"This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."
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"I really wanted to work and become independent."
Victoria Abril
"I really wanted to work and become independent."
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"Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that."
Paul Simon
"Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that."
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"Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work."
Robert Caro
"Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work."
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"Between 9am and 3pm is when I work most intensely."
Carol Ann Duffy
"Between 9am and 3pm is when I work most intensely."
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"It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me."
Franz Liszt
"It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me."
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"Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk himself, but what I've learned from his work."
Rainer W. Fassbinder
"Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk himself, but what I've learned from his work."
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"Circumstances can be very important. Find the right people to work with."
Steve Lacy
"Circumstances can be very important. Find the right people to work with."
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"I took a little break - I was coming back to work and the last thing I was going to do was take a step backwards, so I knew that if I was going to take a feature it was going to have to be taking a step forward."
Nia Long
"I took a little break - I was coming back to work and the last thing I was going to do was take a step backwards, so I knew that if I was going to take a feature it was going to have to be taking a step forward."
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"I'm not in the loop; I don't know any actors, really, just the ones I work with."
Denzel Washington
"I'm not in the loop; I don't know any actors, really, just the ones I work with."
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"I feel I have to work hard to nurture whatever talent I have as an actor. I feel like it's not natural to me. So I don't take it for granted... What I think is my natural ability - which is writing - I think I totally take that for granted."
David Duchovny
"I feel I have to work hard to nurture whatever talent I have as an actor. I feel like it's not natural to me. So I don't take it for granted... What I think is my natural ability - which is writing - I think I totally take that for granted."
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"It's tourists in New York. Everything is geared towards that. It's so hard on Broadway now for them to get people in there. They have to compete with so many other entertainments, so they have to bring a star in which puts people there out of work."
Delta Burke
"It's tourists in New York. Everything is geared towards that. It's so hard on Broadway now for them to get people in there. They have to compete with so many other entertainments, so they have to bring a star in which puts people there out of work."
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"No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it."
Gary Wright
"No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it."
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"I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange."
Martin Lewis Perl
"I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange."
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"My personal philosophy would be don't whine, don't let opportunities pass you by, be willing to work hard, and remember that you don't know as much as you think you do, ever."
James Marsters
"My personal philosophy would be don't whine, don't let opportunities pass you by, be willing to work hard, and remember that you don't know as much as you think you do, ever."
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"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
Emile Zola
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
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"Apparently I work for free, look at some of the independent films I've done."
Patrick Warburton
"Apparently I work for free, look at some of the independent films I've done."
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"It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone."
Anthony Hopkins
"It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone."
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"Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made."
Andy Goldsworthy
"Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made."
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"I just want to act. I just want to do the work."
Alison Lohman
"I just want to act. I just want to do the work."
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