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Work Quotes


"You work enough with someone and you develop a shorthand. You know how he likes to work through the day and he knows where you're vulnerable and where your weaknesses and strengths are, so it makes for a good team, a team that knows who's over there behind your back."


"Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people."


"I don't think about those things, really. I work hard on everything I do. Everything is a struggle, everything is hard, everything is difficult."


"If any fall by the hand of violence, others will continue the blessed work."


"So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other stuff. Warhol was definitely... Warhol."


"The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters."


"I haven't really focused so much on getting acting work."


"I'm not looking to set a standard... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work."


"I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment."


"I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies."


"I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work."


"I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21."


"Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project."


"But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity."


"Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in."
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"It's nice having your work recognized but having people follow you around is kinda weird."


"People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me."


"I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me."


"A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation."


"All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics only works in a fantasy world. It doesn't work in reality."


"I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else entirely because the one thing you wanted them to do may not work, then you are just shattering their confidence in the project."


"I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it."


"After Land I wanted to continue exploring the theme but I needed a new challenge so turned to colour. I explored Bradford and produced a series of urban landscapes that I liked, but because Land had made such an impact on the general public my colour work wasn't reviewed."


"By putting people around me who will calm me down and slow me down and make sure I work through an issue."


"Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent."


"If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God, he will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands."


"Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some."


"Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone."


"Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity."


"It ain't easy to break out of a mold, but if you do your work, people will ultimately see what you're capable of. Too often, people find it easier to make assumptions and stick with what they believe. They put you in a place and it makes their job easier. The good people constantly search for something different."


"Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday."


"Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible."
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