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"It doesn't happen very often that you get to work with some really good friends of yours and there's a common language between everyone, you don't have to explain what you're doing, you can just run with it. It makes it just so much easier and more relaxed."
Elizabeth Perkins
"It doesn't happen very often that you get to work with some really good friends of yours and there's a common language between everyone, you don't have to explain what you're doing, you can just run with it. It makes it just so much easier and more relaxed."
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"Two points that are very important points to remember and ask: Is it real and does it work?"
Edward T. Hall
"Two points that are very important points to remember and ask: Is it real and does it work?"
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"The work to me is everything, and I would throw every rule overboard and send them to the bottom of the sea tomorrow, if I felt there were a more excellent way."
Thomas John Barnardo
"The work to me is everything, and I would throw every rule overboard and send them to the bottom of the sea tomorrow, if I felt there were a more excellent way."
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"If it's a big hit, fantastic. If it's not, then it's not. I don't worry about my work."
Kate Hudson
"If it's a big hit, fantastic. If it's not, then it's not. I don't worry about my work."
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"My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me. I'm in this wonderful position to be able to do that. The reason I do that is because I know what it takes once I engage, what that means for me personally and for my wife."
Jeff Bridges
"My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me. I'm in this wonderful position to be able to do that. The reason I do that is because I know what it takes once I engage, what that means for me personally and for my wife."
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"I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting."
Jackson Pollock
"I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting."
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"You have to compete with others in the field. Sometimes the competition gets pretty fierce because you're competing for funds or grants to do your work, the financial work."
Clyde Tombaugh
"You have to compete with others in the field. Sometimes the competition gets pretty fierce because you're competing for funds or grants to do your work, the financial work."
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"I was working straight for nine months and I'm exhausted. I'm ready to relax for a little while and read. I don't want to work for work sake; I have to be excited about it."
Sanaa Lathan
"I was working straight for nine months and I'm exhausted. I'm ready to relax for a little while and read. I don't want to work for work sake; I have to be excited about it."
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"We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves."
John Oates
"We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves."
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"In terms of being a role model, I didn't start out to be one. I don't go to work every day with that in mind. But, I do get a lot of fan mail from young girls."
Victoria Pratt
"In terms of being a role model, I didn't start out to be one. I don't go to work every day with that in mind. But, I do get a lot of fan mail from young girls."
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"It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized."
Barbara Kruger
"It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized."
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"You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process."
Lucinda Williams
"You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process."
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"I'm only interested in being a good actor and in being remembered for my best films, not for the way I look. But it seems inevitable in this line of work that I have to care about the way I look without getting obsessed about it."
Kevin Costner
"I'm only interested in being a good actor and in being remembered for my best films, not for the way I look. But it seems inevitable in this line of work that I have to care about the way I look without getting obsessed about it."
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"I wasn't sure what I was getting into when I signed on to work with a wrestler."
Kelly Hu
"I wasn't sure what I was getting into when I signed on to work with a wrestler."
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"With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town."
Helena Bonham Carter
"With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town."
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"When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work."
Andres Segovia
"When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work."
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"Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders."
Steve Ballmer
"Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders."
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"Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work."
Yves Tanguy
"Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work."
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"There's always a question of duration, there's a question of who the orchestra is. No one is free to write what you want - you collaborate on a film score, and one of the good things is that someone else's work is motivating you."
Michael Nyman
"There's always a question of duration, there's a question of who the orchestra is. No one is free to write what you want - you collaborate on a film score, and one of the good things is that someone else's work is motivating you."
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"I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful."
Aaliyah
"I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful."
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"Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work."
Michael Novak
"Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work."
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"The people who have recently come to this country to work and better their lives should be given the same opportunities that our parents, grandparents, and ancestors were given."
Jose Serrano
"The people who have recently come to this country to work and better their lives should be given the same opportunities that our parents, grandparents, and ancestors were given."
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"What I have now are good problems of trying to decide and what I really want to do is good work next. My phone's ringing a lot more and I've got nine lines so when it doesn't ring, it's very frustrating."
Bob Saget
"What I have now are good problems of trying to decide and what I really want to do is good work next. My phone's ringing a lot more and I've got nine lines so when it doesn't ring, it's very frustrating."
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"I don't know Dr. Rosenberg. I have never met her, I have never spoken or corresponded with this woman. And to my knowledge, she is ignorant of my work and background except in the very broadest of terms."
Steven Hatfill
"I don't know Dr. Rosenberg. I have never met her, I have never spoken or corresponded with this woman. And to my knowledge, she is ignorant of my work and background except in the very broadest of terms."
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"Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked."
Steve Wozniak
"Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked."
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"Make sure you are the boss. I don't think I would encourage executives that work for me to blog. There can be only 1 public vision for an organization."
Mark Cuban
"Make sure you are the boss. I don't think I would encourage executives that work for me to blog. There can be only 1 public vision for an organization."
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"What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough."
Eugene Delacroix
"What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough."
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"If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit."
Harold Bloom
"If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit."
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"I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy."
Bruce Jenner
"I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy."
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"I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated."
Elizabeth Wurtzel
"I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated."
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"People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession."
Estelle Parsons
"People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession."
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"I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it."
Taylor Caldwell
"I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it."
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"I've done a lot of costume drama and theatre - the National Theatre and In fact, most of my work at the theatre, at the National Theatre anyway, was period."
Brenda Blethyn
"I've done a lot of costume drama and theatre - the National Theatre and In fact, most of my work at the theatre, at the National Theatre anyway, was period."
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"I think we can work through a lot of these issues."
William P. Leahy
"I think we can work through a lot of these issues."
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"People expect me to be with some stripper... That's just the kind of woman I work with."
Luther Campbell
"People expect me to be with some stripper... That's just the kind of woman I work with."
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"It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents."
Laura Dern
"It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents."
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"We're working people, and that's what we like to do, work."
Paul Prudhomme
"We're working people, and that's what we like to do, work."
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"One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again."
Jim Carrey
"One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again."
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"I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it-going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert."
Albert Ellis
"I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it-going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert."
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"Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have gone wrong. We look for the one action, or the one person, that created this mess. As soon as we find someone to blame, we act as if we've solved the problem."
Margaret J. Wheatley
"Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have gone wrong. We look for the one action, or the one person, that created this mess. As soon as we find someone to blame, we act as if we've solved the problem."
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"Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work."
Alfred Hitchcock
"Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work."
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"Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future generations. May we boldly seize the moment with singular unity. And may we build a Texas of unlimited possibility."
Rick Perry
"Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future generations. May we boldly seize the moment with singular unity. And may we build a Texas of unlimited possibility."
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"The gallery is generating work for the masses."
Kim Weston
"The gallery is generating work for the masses."
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"The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself."
Anna Quindlen
"The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself."
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"I think as far as kids go, you just have to work hard. Work on your skills, keep focused."
Frank Lampard
"I think as far as kids go, you just have to work hard. Work on your skills, keep focused."
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"It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation."
Gavin Bryars
"It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation."
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"I have lot of respect of filmmakers who work in Telugu and Tamil."
Anil Kapoor
"I have lot of respect of filmmakers who work in Telugu and Tamil."
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"A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis."
Temple Grandin
"A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis."
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"Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle."
Aiden Wilson Tozer
"Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle."
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"For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles."
Jim Capaldi
"For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles."
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