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Work Quotes


"Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some of her best work was in Dangerous Liaisons and that's what I believe as well."


"We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment."


"I mean, I'm new but I've always been very interested in film making process and I've been lucky enough to work with film makers in my past that have been very encouraging to let me hang around. I get so emotionally vested - that the producer part of me was natural."


"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."


"We are immortal until our work on earth is done."


"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."


"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."


"I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy."
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"I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right."


"Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most."


"In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times."


"All I like to do is work every day and have an idea what I want to do."


"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."


"I've got nothing left to lose at this point. The work I've done is out there."


"I work 6:00 a.m. to midnight, seven days a week."


"Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave."


"I feel like I'm a stay-at-home mom, which I was for the five years before this. She's absolutely been my focus. That's the choice I made. Desperate Housewives is perfect for me. I get to go back to work and still be able to take my daughter to school and pick her up."



"But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work."


"My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation."


"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."


"The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender."


"It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked."


"The different Ministries have to work more on the promotion of the country, to build Kosovo's public image. Concrete projects must be assembled, in order to activate our businessmen to have more contacts. We have to create a positive image about ourselves."


"Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others."


"I had an acting coach while I was doing the show and every week I could see my work improving. I really liked working on the show because I was learning new things every day."


"When it happened to us and it was all gone overnight, we said, 'We are in this together, we are healthy, our children are healthy and we can work'."


"You know, there was not much wire work for any of us actors to do because the extent of what they did was so huge. I mean, they wouldn't just throw you from this table to that wall."


"I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence."
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