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Work Quotes
"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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"I had always fancied a go at the comedy and when it started to go reasonably well and the opportunity arose for me to move into it full time, I just couldn't turn it down. I just took the risk, and I just wanted to see if it would work and thankfully it did."
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"To work with a director that has emotional commitment and passion toward the characters, and the piece, and the experiences, it only enriches your work."
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"There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward."
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"If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely."
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"For me, my role is about unleashing what people already have inside them that is maybe suppressed in most work environments."
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"It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison."
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"When you work in TV, it's such a group effort, it's not about you."
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"I'm not in retirement. I just don't want to work so much, and I don't get that many offers any more."
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"If people aren't in sync, things won't work out well."
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"There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance."
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"The thing with me, I can't talk about my work. I find it very difficult."
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"My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won."
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"My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful, but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful."
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"Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound."
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"So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work."
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"I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there's no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that's standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal."
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"You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day."
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"It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day."
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"Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials."
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"I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without."
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"The people that make this country work, the people who pay on their mortgages, the people getting up and going to work, striving in this recession to not participate in it, they're not the enemy. They're the people that hire you. They're the people that are going to give you a job."
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"A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone."
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"Corn ethanol can help in the short term, but it has serious limitations, and none of this is going to work if we don't dramatically improve the efficiency of our cars and trucks."
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"I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board."
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"What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake... spiritually driven work constitutes the core of a photographer's contribution to culture."
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