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Work Quotes
"But we wanted to work in a way we never had, which was write everything together. We had to face each other in the same creative room, which gets tougher as you get older, because you don't want to be confrontational."
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"I work with Sally and I can see Sally doing that. She is very aggressive. Very fun loving and charming... and pushy in a very competitive way and a very healthy way and a very good actress."
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"I just try not to subscribe to the ways of celebrity. I'm not a celebrity, I'm a working actor. A lot of the events - the parties and the premieres that people go to to get noticed - I'm just not into. I'll hang out with my friends, go see punk shows, read at home. At the same time, I have a production company, which is a lot of work."
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"Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels."
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"I work out the other bits, too, but I need to know what I look like, very early on. And then it's like a template; I'll fill that person out. If I get that out of the way, then I'm all right."
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"I'm always a little starstruck anyway. So to work with a movie star, which is Brad, I was excited about that; to work with a movie legend, which is Tony, I wouldn't have passed that up. Just to get to watch him and watch how he works."
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"That's where I got my start and where I'll continue to work, but I can't tell you the number of films between Drugstore Cowboy and Curly Sue that I auditioned for and wanted that didn't choose me."
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"Work is the price which is paid for reputation."
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"When you hire me, you hire a nut who is going to work 24 hours a day for you and never, ever burn his audience."
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"Democrats are committed to mapping a new direction in Iraq, and we will work with the President and the new Defense Secretary to ensure that the will of the American people guides our future actions."
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"When I was 18 I went to college for two years and didn't work for a year which was essential for me, because my identity had been so influenced by my being an actor and I think I just needed to discover what it was to be myself, divorced from all that responsibility."
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"Go into something because you really like it, and then do it with a drive and enthusiasm so that it isn't work."
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"Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture."
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"David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with David and her to read stories for the anthology."
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"I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week."
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"When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites."
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"We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork."
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"After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not."
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"The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it."
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"Most people spend their whole lives looking for the right job. There are others who never get an opportunity to do work that fulfils them."
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"My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something which came by hard work."
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"On this important anniversary, we must remember that while we have come a long way in eliminating barriers, critical work remains to ensure all Americans can live up to their full potential."
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"One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call."
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"I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your own boss. My father built up his business, and he was by no means a rich man, but he figured out how to work four-and-a-half days a week."
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"Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit."
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"A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can."
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"But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know."
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"I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics."
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"Some fatherlands are difficult. Germany is one of them. But it is our fatherland. Here is where we live and work."
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"There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work."
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