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Work Quotes
"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 have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't."
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"If Americans want to see results instead of rhetoric, if taxpayers would like solutions instead of sound bites, and hard work instead of horse trading, I suggest you take a short look, and it won't take much longer, at the accomplishments of this Congress."
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"I remember those days with Bergman with great nostalgia. We were aware that the films were going to be quite important, and the work felt meaningful."
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"You have two choices when someone changes your work. You can either wash your hands of it or embrace it."
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"And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican."
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"As Americans, we can choose where we work and live, what we drive, which insurance plan is best for us, so why can we not give workers a choice when it comes to their retirement?"
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"I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me."
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"I look at other filmmakers and see skills in them that I wish I had but I know that I don't. I feel like I have to work really hard to keep myself afloat, doing what I do. But I find it pleasurable."
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"I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function."
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"But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity."
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"If they're working in a workshop somewhere, where there is, let's say, uh... only twenty people, or something like that, that's still, when they work and do a scene, that's still working in front of somebody."
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"My job is to give everyone a chance to catch their breath and step back from all this and get back to work."
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"You learn to kid around and joke and not take things too seriously because somehow its all gonna work out for the best - or you're gonna make it work out."
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"My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours."
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"I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody."
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"I try to deal with my serious reading before work."
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"Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire."
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"Which, of course, isn't the point of writing - but it would be nice if, along with the creative satisfaction of writing and seeing my work in print, I could do more than merely scrape a living. Okay, moaning over."
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"You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you."
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"Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive."
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"We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependent on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources."
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