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Work Quotes
"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."
80
"I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence."
79
"This work is a torture on the rump but a joy to the heart."
77
"So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old."
77
"You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air."
Work,
76
"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great."
74
"The thing that makes me happiest about Simpsons Illustrated are all the drawings that we get from readers. I wish we could print them all. They're really imaginative. They show a lot of hard work."
74
"In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times."
74
"Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell."
74
"There's no way that I could do a 9 to 5 job. There's no way. I was not cut out for that. You come in and you work for three months on the one job. They say, 'Great,' you know, and you're on to the next one - and you never even got fired. It's wonderful."
73
"Bobby Troup and I have been working together for about a year in clubs. We work in the same club."
Work,
73
"I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right."
72
"I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is."
Work,
72
"We are immortal until our work on earth is done."
71
"Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected."
71
"I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam."
70
"You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance."
Work,
70
"It's definitely going to be harder than it sounds to acquire millions of users in the U.S. It's going to be a lot of work, and you can't make light of that."
70
"Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand."
70
"I work 6:00 a.m. to midnight, seven days a week."
69
"My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another."
69
"I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. That's not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course, something wrong with some politicians."
69
"Believe it or not, I don't own a TV. Crazy huh? I'm not a big movie-goer either. I just feel like I'm watching work. I am always outside and couldn't care less about what's on TV these days."
69
"So that is how I ended up with those two titles, I like Accidentally on Purpose better - it is how we work in our trade - is it really an accident, or is there a thread of destiny in there? That was the intention, I am not sure I found out."
69
"Clint Eastwood is aging beautifully. But someone like Burt Reynolds and others are practically destroying their faces in the amount of work they have."
68
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