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Work Quotes
"I believe that we have been doing this not primarily to achieve riches or even honour, but rather because we were interested in the work, enjoyed doing it and felt very strongly that it was worthwhile."
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"My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes."
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"The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any."
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"German and English firms operate internationally, while French firms do not. The only place where they all have work is in China. Anybody can sell himself in China!"
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"Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it."
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"I asked him, How could we have a press column if we can't write about other work done in the press?"
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"What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off."
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"Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease."
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"So anyway, I've learned a lot about myself just in terms of acting but just work ethic and interesting things like full-page monologues or talking straight into camera, which I had never gotten to do before."
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"If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that."
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"We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not."
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"After releasing Mono 1.0, we started work on a new edition of Mono that will be released later in the year."
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"So I majored in Drama, did all the plays that were possible to do, skated through school in order to be in every production on stage or backstage in whatever capacity and I came to New York looking for work in the summers."
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"I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work."
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"As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns."
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"Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing."
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"Inflation outstripped real wages for people who work for pay from others."
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"But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the pop genre and represent them to people so that they see them in a new way. I think the best example is Andy Warhol's work, the image of Marilyn Monroe or the Campbell's soup can."
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"I actually never knew Peter Green but I do respect his early work very much."
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"It wasn't until my second year that I got to actually work with Church."
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"Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves."
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"There's so many things I want to do. I want to work with great filmmakers, great actors, great scripts. And there's no reason for me to do anything short of that, because I'm 24, I don't have a family, I don't need to make tons of money, and I'm not dying to get famous."
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"It always surprised me that I was getting acting work."
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"If you're sitting in the audience, you probably can't see the preparation and work that goes into creating a great scene or a great part, but I can assure you that a good film depends on lot of different things falling perfectly into place."
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"You are faced with the choice: either my integrity remains intact and this is the work that ends up on the screen, or I have to leave, and I have to be known to have left."
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"These films however, have ambiguity built into them, because it's too easy in film to make a strident work of propaganda or advertising, which are really the same thing anyway, meaning the message is unmistakable."
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"You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances."
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"What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can."
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"People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level."
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"I look forward to going to work. Everybody is at the top of their game. It was like we just got to play."
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"I didn't work on the killing floor. I worked in the section where you break the meat down and package it."
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