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Work Quotes
"At the White House, everybody works for the same person. They're all part of the same company. But on Capitol Hill, they're all independent contractors. They all work for themselves. That's a formula for getting news."
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"In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died."
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"Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened."
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"I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with."
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"In a job you trade your freedom and time for money."
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"Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens."
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"If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance."
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"Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it."
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"My philosophy is very simple. To feel young, you must work as long as you can."
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"My relationships with my loved ones always take precedence over work."
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"So, I'm happy to do that because it's a wonderful working relationship but I will be going out for pilot season for half hour work and that's the gamble I'm taking."
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"Work continuously to trim the White House staff from your first day to your last. All the pressures are to the contrary."
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"Some people are born with the necessary gift, and some work hard to build on the few gifts they have."
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"The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work."
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"Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now."
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"I heard this when I was in the Air Force: "There's never enough time to do the job right, but always enough time to do it over."
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"I get myself a gig somewhere, whether it's in a club, whether it's in a bar, it doesn't matter, and I just work on New Year's Eve because I always feel it's very symbolic for me for the next year, for the new year."
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"I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work."
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"We must care. We must all care. And while I am working, while the governments is working, so must the people also work."
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"Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you."
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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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"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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"I have an old saying that the harder I work, the luckier I get."
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