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"I use about 20 different colours to retain the luminance in my work."
John Dyer
"I use about 20 different colours to retain the luminance in my work."
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"Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream - but create!"
Robert Collier
"Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream - but create!"
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"I did get to work with Anthony Hopkins on 'The Human Stain.' If I ever manage to accomplish a quarter of what he's achieved, I'll have had one hell of a career."
Lindsay Lohan
"I did get to work with Anthony Hopkins on 'The Human Stain.' If I ever manage to accomplish a quarter of what he's achieved, I'll have had one hell of a career."
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"This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules."
Aaron Klug
"This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules."
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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."
George Shearing
"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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"To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when you ask what's left, they say: 'Well, the typing is very good.'"
John Sayles
"To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when you ask what's left, they say: 'Well, the typing is very good.'"
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"Some are pre-taped interviews because maybe we can't get that person live or maybe we're not sure it's going to work out right so we tape it an hour in advance."
Bob Edwards
"Some are pre-taped interviews because maybe we can't get that person live or maybe we're not sure it's going to work out right so we tape it an hour in advance."
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"If we will maintain our hope and confidence in the genius of our people, they will work out this problem, and their ability and industry will bring us back to normal conditions."
Frank B. Kellogg
"If we will maintain our hope and confidence in the genius of our people, they will work out this problem, and their ability and industry will bring us back to normal conditions."
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"My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother."
Laura Dern
"My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother."
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"Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work."
Michael Novak
"Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work."
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"They are imported by companies, controlled as serfs, worked like slaves, and at last go back to China with all their earnings. They are in every place, they seem to have no sex. Boys work, girls work; it is all alike to them."
Denis Kearney
"They are imported by companies, controlled as serfs, worked like slaves, and at last go back to China with all their earnings. They are in every place, they seem to have no sex. Boys work, girls work; it is all alike to them."
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"This acting was very hard work."
Jack Levine
"This acting was very hard work."
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"The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better."
Paul Wellstone
"The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better."
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"Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking."
Jacob Bronowski
"Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking."
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"But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore."
Brian De Palma
"But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore."
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"I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences."
Jim Hodges
"I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences."
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"I work to stay alive."
Bette Davis
"I work to stay alive."
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"Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work."
Sally Schneider
"Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work."
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"Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect."
Luther Campbell
"Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect."
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"For 40 years, I put my body through a tremendous amount of work."
Lee Majors
"For 40 years, I put my body through a tremendous amount of work."
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"The world intrudes in my brain daily. Since my brain is dripping with all kinds of stuff that's out there in the world, that I can't seem to be able to shut out, it has to end up being in my work as well."
Eric Bogosian
"The world intrudes in my brain daily. Since my brain is dripping with all kinds of stuff that's out there in the world, that I can't seem to be able to shut out, it has to end up being in my work as well."
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"I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story."
Annie Proulx
"I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story."
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"It's always hard to predict what's coming up next. My main guess is that content creators will increasingly start using BitTorrent to distribute their own work directly."
Bram Cohen
"It's always hard to predict what's coming up next. My main guess is that content creators will increasingly start using BitTorrent to distribute their own work directly."
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"Race and class are rendered distinct analytically only to produce the realization that the analysis of the one cannot proceed without the other. A different dynamic it seems to me is at work in the critique of new sexuality studies."
Judith Butler
"Race and class are rendered distinct analytically only to produce the realization that the analysis of the one cannot proceed without the other. A different dynamic it seems to me is at work in the critique of new sexuality studies."
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"Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work."
William Graham Sumner
"Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work."
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"I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good. Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder."
Jay Leno
"I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good. Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder."
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"Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable. There are many artists now, younger artists, who work out of the exotic."
Anish Kapoor
"Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable. There are many artists now, younger artists, who work out of the exotic."
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"True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person."
Willard Libby
"True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person."
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"It's harder for me to work on a Forrest Gump kind of movie, where everything is invisible."
Dennis Muren
"It's harder for me to work on a Forrest Gump kind of movie, where everything is invisible."
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"We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game."
Murray Gell Mann
"We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game."
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"I feel like I haven't done my best work yet."
Liza Minnelli
"I feel like I haven't done my best work yet."
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"I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this."
Susan George
"I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this."
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"I always say that I am very proud of the work that I did with the Rolling Stones and that I am also proud of what I have done with the Rhythm Kings."
Bill Wyman
"I always say that I am very proud of the work that I did with the Rolling Stones and that I am also proud of what I have done with the Rhythm Kings."
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"I think that our primary concern is that the membership in our industry become active. I'm not talking about the candidates being active. I'm talking about the few hundred thousand people who work in the industry around the United States."
Lew Wasserman
"I think that our primary concern is that the membership in our industry become active. I'm not talking about the candidates being active. I'm talking about the few hundred thousand people who work in the industry around the United States."
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"My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore."
Kate DiCamillo
"My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore."
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"You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line... We're just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best."
Miles Davis
"You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line... We're just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best."
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"He's a legend and I respect his work, so I went down and paid my respects when Charlton was on the set. He was nice but I think he lied a little. He said it was an honour to be in a movie with me, but I don't believe it."
Mark Wahlberg
"He's a legend and I respect his work, so I went down and paid my respects when Charlton was on the set. He was nice but I think he lied a little. He said it was an honour to be in a movie with me, but I don't believe it."
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"People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession."
Estelle Parsons
"People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession."
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"There's been a tremendous amount of work that's been done that you can't see in Columbia."
Duane G. Carey
"There's been a tremendous amount of work that's been done that you can't see in Columbia."
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"Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast."
Leonard Nimoy
"Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast."
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"Van Halen is a work in progress."
Alex Van Halen
"Van Halen is a work in progress."
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"I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or you can be shy and miserable. You ask my friends or anyone I work with now - nobody would say I was shy."
Lara Flynn Boyle
"I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or you can be shy and miserable. You ask my friends or anyone I work with now - nobody would say I was shy."
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"Every day I work my guts out in training, every match I play my heart out."
Ruud van Nistelrooy
"Every day I work my guts out in training, every match I play my heart out."
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"Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you."
Konstantin Stanislavisky
"Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you."
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"So I will stand more steadfastly for the things I stand up for, like people who work for a living. I'd like to be able to stand that way when I go to Congress."
John Murray
"So I will stand more steadfastly for the things I stand up for, like people who work for a living. I'd like to be able to stand that way when I go to Congress."
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"I watched a couple of really bad directors work, and I saw how they completely botched it up and missed the visual opportunities of the scene when we had put things in front of them as opportunities. Set pieces, props and so on."
James Cameron
"I watched a couple of really bad directors work, and I saw how they completely botched it up and missed the visual opportunities of the scene when we had put things in front of them as opportunities. Set pieces, props and so on."
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"There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while."
Pearl Bailey
"There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while."
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"I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs."
Barry Levinson
"I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs."
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"I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence."
Don DeLillo
"I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence."
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"I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record."
Ace Frehley
"I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record."
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