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Work Quotes


"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."


"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."


"We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from."


"Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done."
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"There lay certitude; there, in the daily round. All the rest hung on mere threads and trivial contingencies; you couldn't waste your time on it. The thing was to do your job as it should be done."


"Well, first of all, let's go right to it. We're going to balance the budget. We should live within our own means, and we should read the bills and work with the American people."


"Always give your best, today's great work is tomorrow's benchmark."


"Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure."


"Tools were made and born were hands Every farmer understands."


"When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things."
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"Without hard work and discipline it is difficult to be a top professional."


"People can be a hoot on the set, but if they're not good to work with, that tires very quickly."


"Normally, an actress has to work to bring out her male side. In our case, the dynamic is reversed. The actor playing her modelled himself on Sharon Stone."


"My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won."


"Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Suicide is a choice and I think if we work with that with kids, we'll get somewhere."



"It became evident to me that there was a very serious political element at work. I know that the term impeachment was bandied about. I do not believe, however, that the word was used with the ferocity it was more recently or that it was in the Nixon years."


"I mean, there are times when you aren't working, but still believe that work will come."


"If it's not in New York, let's say it's in St. Louis, then they've got to find a place or get with someone who knows about the work... they've got to find a place like that and do scenes, and then try to get in plays."
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"Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes."


"In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions."


"Don't try to be somebody you're not because it doesn't work. If you try to be this perfect person or perfect persona of what you think that somebody should be when they're involved in public office, it's just not going to work. Just be yourself, stay true to your core values, and really just stay abreast of the issues."


"The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading."


"You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day."


"I mean, when I started out I was billing per hour, like a shrink because you would sit with somebody and work. But most of it, if it's for a live show it's usually a buy-out. A flat fee."
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