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Work Quotes
"Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'."
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"The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first."
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"I've always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. Always pulled them apart - couldn't put 'em back, but always extremely interested in how things work."
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"I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious."
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"I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me."
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"We ought not to be looking for something spectacular but rather develop a plan in conjunction with the White House to work our way out of this problem over the next six weeks."
Work,
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"In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but I see two major projects that are wildly, wildly successful: Mozilla and OpenOffice, and those two programs are cross platform."
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"Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent."
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"So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot."
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"I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done."
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"If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God, he will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands."
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"In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head."
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"It's a shame to call somebody a 'diva' simply because they work harder than everybody else."
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"I guess there are very few actors that I've worked with that I would like to work with again. You never think you'll have that chance and, if we didn't do Italian Job together, there wouldn't be another one that could be right."
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"They have equal weight and you do the same work you'd do if you were playing a dramatic role."
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"To work on the actual location I think is great. This thing of going to Canada and pretending you're in New York, it's terrible."
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"Very often out of adversity that's when the best work comes."
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"I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, "Does this suck?" and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, "I'm on fire, I'm amazing!" and I don't think that's the way to work."
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"Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis."
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"You get up about 2-3 o'clock in the morning and get through about 7 or 8 and 12 hours later you start all over. That's the worst kind of work a person can do. You have to do these two shifts to get one day."
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"I believe that one can indeed work on two or more tasks at once, but in ways yet to be understood."
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"The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work."
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"It's developing a relationship with actors that makes it work."
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"I look at myself and pick out the things I don't like. No matter how much I work out, I never get muscle tone in my butt and hip area."
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"I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work."
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"Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil."
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"Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants."
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"Amtrak is extremely important to the economy of Southern Illinois and I will continue to work with state and local leaders and my colleagues in Congress to secure the necessary funding to maintain full service."
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"To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid."
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"In the days and months I spent walking through the various communities of this city, I found that Chicago did not work for everyone, however."
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"I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine."
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"I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you're likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do."
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