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"A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it's not as satisfying in the end."
Chaim Potok
"A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it's not as satisfying in the end."
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"When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me."
Emo Philips
"When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me."
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"I had to do this very aggressive, big score in a very short time, and knowing that in the beginning, middle, and end would be this very, very famous theme, but I still had to weave a score around it and make it work as a score was really challenging."
Danny Elfman
"I had to do this very aggressive, big score in a very short time, and knowing that in the beginning, middle, and end would be this very, very famous theme, but I still had to weave a score around it and make it work as a score was really challenging."
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"I, also, found the opportunity to work with the actors extremely gratifying and rewarding."
Janine Turner
"I, also, found the opportunity to work with the actors extremely gratifying and rewarding."
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"There is a lot of work just in terms of traveling and logistics and people and gear and all that kind of stuff. But I never really have problems playing music. That never seems like work."
James Iha
"There is a lot of work just in terms of traveling and logistics and people and gear and all that kind of stuff. But I never really have problems playing music. That never seems like work."
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"Believing in something and being a part of something you believe in and watching it work and coming from it."
Jam Master Jay
"Believing in something and being a part of something you believe in and watching it work and coming from it."
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"There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent."
Zhang Ziyi
"There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent."
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"Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring."
Bob Considine
"Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring."
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"I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to me, and still is. I felt like an old pro, but it was still so unexpected."
Jacqueline Bisset
"I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to me, and still is. I felt like an old pro, but it was still so unexpected."
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"If you take the approach that you want to scrape every last nickel off the table, that'll work one or two times, but after awhile, your reputation will precede you."
Tom Hicks
"If you take the approach that you want to scrape every last nickel off the table, that'll work one or two times, but after awhile, your reputation will precede you."
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"In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this."
Willie Mays
"In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this."
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"I was influenced by every comedian I ever saw work. That's the only way you learn how to do it."
Bob Newhart
"I was influenced by every comedian I ever saw work. That's the only way you learn how to do it."
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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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"These works brought all these people here. Something should be done to get them at work again."
King Edward VIII
"These works brought all these people here. Something should be done to get them at work again."
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"Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress."
Jacqueline Susann
"Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress."
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"Even as we work to develop more sources of petroleum for the United States, we must continue our vigorous pursuit of alternative fuels, so that we can be powered by cleaner, more efficient sources of energy."
Virgil Goode
"Even as we work to develop more sources of petroleum for the United States, we must continue our vigorous pursuit of alternative fuels, so that we can be powered by cleaner, more efficient sources of energy."
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"I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable."
Meg Whitman
"I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable."
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"We have closely monitored the ups and downs of recruiting and retention trends for many years and have been quick to sound the alarm when challenges came into view."
John M. McHugh
"We have closely monitored the ups and downs of recruiting and retention trends for many years and have been quick to sound the alarm when challenges came into view."
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"I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else."
John Polkinghorne
"I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else."
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"The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test."
Valentino Rossi
"The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test."
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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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"I've always had a show that went seven episodes or 13 episodes or whatever. And I've never had a show that's gone past a first season. It really is a lot of work."
Leah Remini
"I've always had a show that went seven episodes or 13 episodes or whatever. And I've never had a show that's gone past a first season. It really is a lot of work."
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"The crowd is just as important as the group. It takes everything to make it work."
Levon Helm
"The crowd is just as important as the group. It takes everything to make it work."
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"It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice."
Jim Morrison
"It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice."
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"I am going to work with Tom Daschle. And I'll work with the Republican leaders and the president to try and come up with something that we can all be proud of."
John Breaux
"I am going to work with Tom Daschle. And I'll work with the Republican leaders and the president to try and come up with something that we can all be proud of."
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"The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style."
Frank Auerbach
"The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style."
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"Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern."
Mary Richards
"Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern."
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"Now my complaint is there are only 18 hours to work in a day."
Heston Blumenthal
"Now my complaint is there are only 18 hours to work in a day."
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"At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes."
Jimmy Carter
"At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes."
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"The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are."
Martin Puryear
"The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are."
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"I expect VA's inspector general and the FBI to work closely together so that we can identify and eliminate the flaws that allowed this leak and prosecute any criminal acts."
Steve Buyer
"I expect VA's inspector general and the FBI to work closely together so that we can identify and eliminate the flaws that allowed this leak and prosecute any criminal acts."
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"Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses."
Cato
"Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses."
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"All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else."
F. Murray Abraham
"All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else."
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"I do a lot of Vegas work and work with the comedians."
Ben E. King
"I do a lot of Vegas work and work with the comedians."
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"If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable."
Donald Trump
"If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable."
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"Well you know, Woody doesn't rehearse, as opposed to my own method of directing where I really work with actors around a round table for weeks, examining the values of the material, so his technique is very different."
Mark Rydell
"Well you know, Woody doesn't rehearse, as opposed to my own method of directing where I really work with actors around a round table for weeks, examining the values of the material, so his technique is very different."
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"Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts."
Tim O'Reilly
"Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts."
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"There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work."
Charles E. Wilson
"There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work."
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"We work with every one of them to see if their character wouldn't say a certain thing or if something is worded awkwardly - we work with them to rectify that."
Simon Pegg
"We work with every one of them to see if their character wouldn't say a certain thing or if something is worded awkwardly - we work with them to rectify that."
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"The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me."
Sam Elliott
"The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me."
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"So many people think they need to have serious equipment. In the magazines and the media, they see all this stylish stuff, especially on TV, and they think, That's what I need to make it work. You don't. I'm attempting a little bit of liberation here."
Sally Schneider
"So many people think they need to have serious equipment. In the magazines and the media, they see all this stylish stuff, especially on TV, and they think, That's what I need to make it work. You don't. I'm attempting a little bit of liberation here."
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"Rewriting to me means, if I work on it for three days, I've rewritten it."
Jules Shear
"Rewriting to me means, if I work on it for three days, I've rewritten it."
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"In the beginning, everybody that gets to work with me, thinks I'm nice. But three weeks later, they hear a bell ringing. Then they realise I meant everything I said during that first week. It's not my fault people are not taking me serious from the first moment."
Andrew Eldritch
"In the beginning, everybody that gets to work with me, thinks I'm nice. But three weeks later, they hear a bell ringing. Then they realise I meant everything I said during that first week. It's not my fault people are not taking me serious from the first moment."
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"If God can work through me, he can work through anyone."
Francis of Assisi
"If God can work through me, he can work through anyone."
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"I like to work. I enjoy once a year, doing a film."
Hope Davis
"I like to work. I enjoy once a year, doing a film."
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"Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can."
Walter Jon Williams
"Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can."
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"I heard we'll get you a pass because we know you're married to a black woman. You're married to a sister so we'll give you that pass but also, those who know me but also if they look at the body of work, it is the bigger picture."
Blair Underwood
"I heard we'll get you a pass because we know you're married to a black woman. You're married to a sister so we'll give you that pass but also, those who know me but also if they look at the body of work, it is the bigger picture."
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"Perhaps you should say there should be mandatory retirement even of members of the court, members of the federal judiciary. I'm sure there can be questions about whether one does as good work when you get into your - you know, I'm 67."
William Rehnquist
"Perhaps you should say there should be mandatory retirement even of members of the court, members of the federal judiciary. I'm sure there can be questions about whether one does as good work when you get into your - you know, I'm 67."
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"I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years old, and I started to do things that I thought would help other people."
Roger Nash Baldwin
"I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years old, and I started to do things that I thought would help other people."
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"But we should also not forget the difference between what first motivated me and the work that is the result."
Anselm Kiefer
"But we should also not forget the difference between what first motivated me and the work that is the result."
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