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Work Quotes
"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them."
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"You know, there was not much wire work for any of us actors to do because the extent of what they did was so huge. I mean, they wouldn't just throw you from this table to that wall."
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"Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell."
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"I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work."
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"When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky."
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"And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others."
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"I'm a traveling practical joker. That's my line of work."
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"I will work for energy policies that recognize oil won't last forever."
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"To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years."
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"I enjoy doing both of them very much, concert work particularly, and the division varies from season to season."
Work,
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"All of us, who are members of the Germanic peoples, can be happy and thankful that once in thousands of years fate has given us, from among the Germanic peoples, such a genius, a leader, our Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, and you should be happy to be allowed to work with us."
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"You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to."
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"People have to find ways of explaining the work."
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"Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand."
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"Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look for bugs and things."
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"The other work we started in 1992, it is called Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River in the state of Colorado, we haven't got the permit yet. And, we are working at both of those, trying to get the permit. Therefore, we do not know which one will be realized next."
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"It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner."
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"It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years."
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"There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there."
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"Tarantino is the coolest damn guy; he's just so much fun to work with. He might be the best director I've ever worked with. He just seems to know how to do it and he knows how to make you feel good about it. He's having so much fun you start having fun. You can't help it."
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"The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs."
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"If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color."
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"I would say probably Pirates of Silicon Valley just because I'm proud of the work, playing Gates."
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