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Work Quotes
"Since fantasy isn't about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it's changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher!"
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"Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff."
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"Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition. I don't do this and can't stomach it, honestly."
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"The fame and reputation part came later, and never was much of a motivator, although it did enable me to work without feeling guilty about neglecting my studies."
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"I didn't really work with Vin on it except we talked about it a little bit. I think it was kind of cool because we didn't think it was going to be that emotional. I don't think Vin knew I was going to be that emotional."
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"This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses."
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"For me it was perfect, because it wasn't a very competitive environment, and it was a studio program. They basically send you off, and say, bring us some work, and we'll help you improve it. It really rewarded self-discipline."
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"I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings."
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"It's a rare thing to find somebody you can work with, work off of, and have fun with."
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"I like to use my hands and make things... It might seem pretty stupid or pointless but that doesn't matter... some of the most interesting work is the stuff that starts like that - out of a raw need for activity."
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"There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still."
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"I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore - but the last thing I'm trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people's pain and humiliation."
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"There was splendid fighting on the part of the division on the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th. There was no faltering or hesitation. Each man went to work determined to carry anything in reason."
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"We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that "9/11"? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name."
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"Because the truth is, today's immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay, jobs that are just about impossible to fill."
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"When you don't work for a while, immediately you get a little black mark next to your name."
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"Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction."
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"It's not fair to say that people who work with their head or with their hands ought to pay taxes, but people who earn their living with capital ought not to."
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"We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future."
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"I was looking for a husband, but meanwhile to survive, I had to work."
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"I've experienced a private doubt, something that I've kept deeply inside, and then eventually delivered a piece of work that people responded to with huge enthusiasm."
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"I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world."
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"I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything."
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"What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an ounce of your essence on that stage,... Otherwise it was impossible."
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"They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways."
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"I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough."
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"Anyone can use these sites - companies and colleges, teachers and students, young and old all make use of networking sites to connect with people electronically to share pictures, information, course work, and common interests."
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"It is work and personal worth which make a State great both politically and industrially, and in my estimation they are to be found in largest proportions in the Democratic party."
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"I found that nothing that anybody else said to me would work."
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"If any fall by the hand of violence, others will continue the blessed work."
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"I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done."
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