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"I have an old saying that the harder I work, the luckier I get."
John Engler
"I have an old saying that the harder I work, the luckier I get."
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"And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made."
Robert Towne
"And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made."
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"I believe in the players and what I've put together and we'll make it work."
Isaiah Thomas
"I believe in the players and what I've put together and we'll make it work."
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"I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people."
Dick Wolf
"I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people."
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"Most families need both parents to work. Moms need to be able to work and earn fair pay and have the flexibility in their jobs to also be primary caretakers."
Joan Blades
"Most families need both parents to work. Moms need to be able to work and earn fair pay and have the flexibility in their jobs to also be primary caretakers."
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"To me the only real star of the movie is the writer. And I work with writers very closely, from outline to first draft and on to the seventh draft, whatever it takes. Then my job is to support the director to make the best movie we can. Some producers try to go past them, but my job is to support them."
Dino De Laurentiis
"To me the only real star of the movie is the writer. And I work with writers very closely, from outline to first draft and on to the seventh draft, whatever it takes. Then my job is to support the director to make the best movie we can. Some producers try to go past them, but my job is to support them."
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"Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!"
Fay Wray
"Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!"
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"There aren't enough people who are scaring the kind of people who work at these record companies."
Greg Ginn
"There aren't enough people who are scaring the kind of people who work at these record companies."
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"It was a very difficult 10 years of very hard work."
Jeffrey Skilling
"It was a very difficult 10 years of very hard work."
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"In the past, if I didn't work, I didn't eat but now I feel I can not work and I won't starve."
Mark Strong
"In the past, if I didn't work, I didn't eat but now I feel I can not work and I won't starve."
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"There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily."
Geoffrey Chaucer
"There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily."
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"I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as small a crew as possible."
Atom Egoyan
"I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as small a crew as possible."
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"It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive."
Federico Fellini
"It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive."
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"I have always tried to work according to what affects me, to a script that I like because it touches me in some way, without deliberately pursuing a commercial career or a particular image."
Alan Bates
"I have always tried to work according to what affects me, to a script that I like because it touches me in some way, without deliberately pursuing a commercial career or a particular image."
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"A man's got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel right."
John Dos Passos
"A man's got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel right."
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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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"Doing a series, every week you work with a new star."
Lee Majors
"Doing a series, every week you work with a new star."
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"It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they offer you something - The Avengers is a good example... I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It's not even acting."
Patrick Macnee
"It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they offer you something - The Avengers is a good example... I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It's not even acting."
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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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"Well, I realized finally that all of the hard work paid off."
David Naughton
"Well, I realized finally that all of the hard work paid off."
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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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"I guess after Dances With Wolves they probably tried some derivative westerns, and if they didn't work, they said the western is dead and moved on to something else."
Tom Selleck
"I guess after Dances With Wolves they probably tried some derivative westerns, and if they didn't work, they said the western is dead and moved on to something else."
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"These things are hard to pin down. We work on a script a bit, then work on a different one."
Joel Coen
"These things are hard to pin down. We work on a script a bit, then work on a different one."
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"He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work was recovered too, and it is still spoken of, when it is noted, with high regard, though seldom played."
William Gaddis
"He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work was recovered too, and it is still spoken of, when it is noted, with high regard, though seldom played."
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"That's because I didn't have to work with Madea. I only had to work with Madea once, and that was at the barbecue and I didn't have to get close to her."
Shemar Moore
"That's because I didn't have to work with Madea. I only had to work with Madea once, and that was at the barbecue and I didn't have to get close to her."
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"The March on Washington was a culmination of years of hard work and dedication of many individuals."
Leonard Boswell
"The March on Washington was a culmination of years of hard work and dedication of many individuals."
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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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"Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day."
Richard Roeper
"Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day."
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"I work to stay alive."
Bette Davis
"I work to stay alive."
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"All my work is much more peaceful than I am."
Maya Lin
"All my work is much more peaceful than I am."
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"I live with an 18-month-old Jack Russell named Chicken. He moved in about 15 months ago, and it was very hard at first because I work a lot and he doesn't."
Liev Schreiber
"I live with an 18-month-old Jack Russell named Chicken. He moved in about 15 months ago, and it was very hard at first because I work a lot and he doesn't."
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"It was tough for him in that newsroom with Ted Baxter getting all the glory and this poor guy doing all the work. Murray worried so much he worried his hair off!"
Gavin MacLeod
"It was tough for him in that newsroom with Ted Baxter getting all the glory and this poor guy doing all the work. Murray worried so much he worried his hair off!"
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"I work with a lot of movie stars."
Norman Jewison
"I work with a lot of movie stars."
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"There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance."
Cesar Chavez
"There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance."
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"In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this."
Willie Mays
"In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this."
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"Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress."
Jacqueline Susann
"Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress."
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"I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds."
Edward Hopper
"I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds."
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"Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work? Be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you."
John Owen
"Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work? Be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you."
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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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"I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom."
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
"I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom."
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"I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, He would have put diamonds on the floor."
Joan Rivers
"I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, He would have put diamonds on the floor."
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"If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way."
Anderson Cooper
"If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way."
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"Well you know, Woody doesn't rehearse, as opposed to my own method of directing where I really work with actors around a round table for weeks, examining the values of the material, so his technique is very different."
Mark Rydell
"Well you know, Woody doesn't rehearse, as opposed to my own method of directing where I really work with actors around a round table for weeks, examining the values of the material, so his technique is very different."
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"A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone."
Jane Harrison
"A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone."
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"There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work."
Charles E. Wilson
"There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work."
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"The chips are in production, the machines aren't. So we've got a little bit of work left to do."
J Allard
"The chips are in production, the machines aren't. So we've got a little bit of work left to do."
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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?"
John Doolittle
"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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"It was both exciting and frustrating to work with an orchestral group."
Ken Hensley
"It was both exciting and frustrating to work with an orchestral group."
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"Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with every day observation."
Joseph E. Stiglitz
"Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with every day observation."
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"Although important nuclear physics work was to go on in laboratories such as ours had become - and we had to cut down to a lower energy group - it was not fundamentally opening up new insights on the structure of matter. That required you to be in a higher league."
John Henry Carver
"Although important nuclear physics work was to go on in laboratories such as ours had become - and we had to cut down to a lower energy group - it was not fundamentally opening up new insights on the structure of matter. That required you to be in a higher league."
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