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Work Quotes
"I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished."
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"Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original."
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"It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route."
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"We believe that salvation is to be found in wholesome work in a beloved land. Work will provide our people with the bread of tomorrow, and moreover, with the honor of the tomorrow, the freedom of the tomorrow."
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"Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be."
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"For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work."
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"Tim Burton... as an actor you wait and wish and hope and pray you'll work with him."
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"My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define."
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"Look, I get it; you come home, you work hard, and you turn on your TV... You kind of want to escape a little bit and be taken away by something. Our show required you to pay attention, and if that's not what you wanted to do, then it wasn't going to be for you, and that's OK."
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"When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out."
Work,
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"I wanted out of my pain and that silliness, but I wanted an easy out. That's before realizing that there is no easy out. Before accepting that you just have to do the work."
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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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"Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel."
Work,
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"I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I can't do a lot of casting. I can work a jig or a worm. But not for long, especially if the big ones are biting. Those big bass will make it hurt after a while."
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"But at the same time, I think we recognize we can't impose democracy from without, particularly American-style democracy. We need to work with those elements in the region that are moving towards a reformed process and there are a number of them."
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"So, in a way I was hedging and saying that if the Olympic stuff doesn't work out at least I can be a lawyer."
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"I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies."
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"I am certainly not arguing for the de facto autonomy of the individual work, even though there is much to be said for making the attempt to see it in that light as one facet of the reception process."
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"Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight."
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"During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms."
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"I've grown as a person. The dynamics on this set are very demanding because we work a lot of hours, it's very sad material, so there's always someone upset because it's really heavy stuff."
Work,
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"I wouldn't dream of selling my work. I give them to friends, to charities."
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"The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work."
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"Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic."
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"Personally, I've found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the free improvised area and work with people who are probably improvisers but they have a particular way of working."
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"And basically I always said when I was little that if I ever became successful or a celebrity, I would buy her this huge house and she would never have to work anymore. And I've done that. So I feel happy about doing that."
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"I went back to film work after Dobie. I went back to film work after Dobie."
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"Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work."
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"Staying focused is hard work and staying married is even harder."
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"You start where you can get an opportunity, you take everything that you can do to gain entrance. You do the little work and you try to find people who can teach you."
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"In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us."
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"But what I want to assure and reassure the public is we are concerned about your safety, your security, and your privacy. Let's work together in partnership to ensure that we can have the best way forward."
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"For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977."
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