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"If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it."
Stephen Sondheim
"If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it."
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"We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork."
Milton Friedman
"We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork."
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"I was very disappointed that so much of the work I did on The Haunted Mansion didn't arrive in the final cut."
Terence Stamp
"I was very disappointed that so much of the work I did on The Haunted Mansion didn't arrive in the final cut."
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"And, all these things need to be coordinated; so we all need to work together, have timers going and everything so we're all coordinated and get this piece of orchestration done."
Duane G. Carey
"And, all these things need to be coordinated; so we all need to work together, have timers going and everything so we're all coordinated and get this piece of orchestration done."
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"Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach."
Roger von Oech
"Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach."
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"Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns."
Tab Hunter
"Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns."
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"When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making."
Lindsey Buckingham
"When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making."
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"In this view, the role of the great majority of Americans is simply to buy the products produced, work happily for their wages, and leave all of the significant economic decisions to the capitalists."
Barney Frank
"In this view, the role of the great majority of Americans is simply to buy the products produced, work happily for their wages, and leave all of the significant economic decisions to the capitalists."
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"Most people spend their whole lives looking for the right job. There are others who never get an opportunity to do work that fulfils them."
Zhang Ziyi
"Most people spend their whole lives looking for the right job. There are others who never get an opportunity to do work that fulfils them."
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"It takes between three and six hours to make each snowball, depending on snow quality. Wet snow is quick to work with but also quick to thaw, which can lead to a tense journey to the cold store."
Andy Goldsworthy
"It takes between three and six hours to make each snowball, depending on snow quality. Wet snow is quick to work with but also quick to thaw, which can lead to a tense journey to the cold store."
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"We stand ready to work together, where possible, in helping rebuild not only homes and businesses, but most importantly, lives of those who so desperately need our help."
Marc Morial
"We stand ready to work together, where possible, in helping rebuild not only homes and businesses, but most importantly, lives of those who so desperately need our help."
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"The more work I do, the more important it is to work with people I like - who are very talented."
Frank Oz
"The more work I do, the more important it is to work with people I like - who are very talented."
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"In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance."
Eduardo Chillida
"In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance."
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"The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed."
Niklaus Wirth
"The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed."
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"If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work."
Thomas J. Watson
"If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work."
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"Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments."
Anish Kapoor
"Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments."
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"I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering."
Harold H. Greene
"I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering."
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"I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work."
Alvin Ailey
"I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work."
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"The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing."
Judith Rossner
"The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing."
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"Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me."
Victoria Abril
"Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me."
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"I have to finish this book tour of almost 30 cities."
Iris Chang
"I have to finish this book tour of almost 30 cities."
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"Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from."
Daniel Day Lewis
"Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from."
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"It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very exciting."
Illeana Douglas
"It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very exciting."
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"The finished product is often of less importance than the skills and confidence gained through the process and the way in which the community is strengthened through people in it work and are brought together."
Ben Edwards
"The finished product is often of less importance than the skills and confidence gained through the process and the way in which the community is strengthened through people in it work and are brought together."
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"Now, after 18 years, not a sign of Lovecraft in my work."
Brian Lumley
"Now, after 18 years, not a sign of Lovecraft in my work."
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"I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect."
Ava Gardner
"I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect."
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"We want to develop innovative ways to promote savings so more Americans can save for their future, but first we need to reject privatization schemes and work together to strengthen Social Security."
Debbie Stabenow
"We want to develop innovative ways to promote savings so more Americans can save for their future, but first we need to reject privatization schemes and work together to strengthen Social Security."
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"So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work."
Marie Windsor
"So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work."
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"Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late."
Henri Cartier-Bresson
"Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late."
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"I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers."
Jo Stafford
"I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers."
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"Actors have to be there and do the work, and that's enough."
Catherine Deneuve
"Actors have to be there and do the work, and that's enough."
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"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."
Ludwig Wittgenstein
"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."
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"Of course I work hard. Why shouldn't I? Who am I to think I should get things the easy way?"
Judy Holliday
"Of course I work hard. Why shouldn't I? Who am I to think I should get things the easy way?"
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"If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs."
William Feather
"If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs."
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"Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work."
Gil Kane
"Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work."
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"You have to work more than your adversary."
Jurgen Klinsmann
"You have to work more than your adversary."
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"If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer."
Mary Oliver
"If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer."
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"I'd had episodes before, but I swept them under the carpet. This time, I couldn't do that because everyone knew. I got on with the hard work of getting better and haven't had a blip in almost 10 years."
Margot Kidder
"I'd had episodes before, but I swept them under the carpet. This time, I couldn't do that because everyone knew. I got on with the hard work of getting better and haven't had a blip in almost 10 years."
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"Getting in shape for this role, which is incredibly demanding, vocally, has been a lot of hard work, but I'm nailing it. I'm even kind of, at times, blowing my own mind, because I am even able to talk right now."
David Hasselhoff
"Getting in shape for this role, which is incredibly demanding, vocally, has been a lot of hard work, but I'm nailing it. I'm even kind of, at times, blowing my own mind, because I am even able to talk right now."
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"Pickup lines are a major turn-off, they don't work on me and I tune them out. It's better to just be honest."
Kim Smith
"Pickup lines are a major turn-off, they don't work on me and I tune them out. It's better to just be honest."
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"Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy."
James L. Brooks
"Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy."
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"I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on."
Julie Andrews
"I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on."
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"I mean, you work and you try and find the work that suits you the best and you enjoy the most."
Harvey Keitel
"I mean, you work and you try and find the work that suits you the best and you enjoy the most."
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"Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them."
Theodor Adorno
"Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them."
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"People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work."
Tahar Ben Jelloun
"People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work."
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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."
Linda Lavin
"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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"States get to improve transportation infrastructure; that creates economic development, puts people back to work and, most important, enhances safety and improves local communities."
Corrine Brown
"States get to improve transportation infrastructure; that creates economic development, puts people back to work and, most important, enhances safety and improves local communities."
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"In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. It was now my intention to rewrite this work."
James Meade
"In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. It was now my intention to rewrite this work."
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"One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide."
Charles Horton Cooley
"One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide."
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"The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work."
Berthold Auerbach
"The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work."
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