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"In the summertime, we do a lot of video work. With that, I can show them if their head is moving too far or if the ball position or alignment isn't right."
Mike Ricci
"In the summertime, we do a lot of video work. With that, I can show them if their head is moving too far or if the ball position or alignment isn't right."
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"I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow."
Abbey Lincoln
"I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow."
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"For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant."
Russell Banks
"For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant."
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"They make a humongous profit, but the people that work on the shows don't get paid a lot because they're working on the Oscars show. It's the biggest show in the world."
Bruce Vilanch
"They make a humongous profit, but the people that work on the shows don't get paid a lot because they're working on the Oscars show. It's the biggest show in the world."
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"Why we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true; we play because we are wired for joy, it is imperative as human beings."
John Thorn
"Why we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true; we play because we are wired for joy, it is imperative as human beings."
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"All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics only works in a fantasy world. It doesn't work in reality."
Michele Bachmann
"All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics only works in a fantasy world. It doesn't work in reality."
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"Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within."
Jackson Pollock
"Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within."
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"I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession."
Bela Lugosi
"I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession."
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"So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket."
Vincent D'Onofrio
"So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket."
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"For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work."
Doug Larson
"For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work."
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"I just feel like if I do good work, then people should respect me for the work I do."
Scott Caan
"I just feel like if I do good work, then people should respect me for the work I do."
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"Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished."
Marcus Aurelius
"Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished."
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"A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to."
Alain de Botton
"A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to."
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"I think there are writers who take a quieter approach to their work - one that is just about respectfully showing up for your vocation day after day, steadily doing your best, and letting go of the results. Not going to war against anyone else, or against their talents, or against themselves."
Elizabeth Gilbert
"I think there are writers who take a quieter approach to their work - one that is just about respectfully showing up for your vocation day after day, steadily doing your best, and letting go of the results. Not going to war against anyone else, or against their talents, or against themselves."
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"And uh, I'm glad that I still have my hands and my eyes to work with."
Rube Goldberg
"And uh, I'm glad that I still have my hands and my eyes to work with."
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"It must have been so impossible to think about it and dare to do that, so they feel compassionate for her. I don't think the movie would work otherwise."
Diane Kruger
"It must have been so impossible to think about it and dare to do that, so they feel compassionate for her. I don't think the movie would work otherwise."
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"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."
Susan B. Anthony
"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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"But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent."
Patrice Leconte
"But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent."
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"Japan continues to work closely with the United States on the issue of the North Korean nuclear crisis and has played an important and constructive role in the Six-Party talks."
Michael K. Simpson
"Japan continues to work closely with the United States on the issue of the North Korean nuclear crisis and has played an important and constructive role in the Six-Party talks."
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"If you want to direct, you've got to work."
John Goodman
"If you want to direct, you've got to work."
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"It's important to determine which surroundings work best for you, and then build that environment to suit your needs."
Marilu Henner
"It's important to determine which surroundings work best for you, and then build that environment to suit your needs."
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"For me it came from the material. It was so well written and brought the opportunity to work with great actors. And of course the opportunity to 'mince about' was an added element that I wanted to take advantage of!"
Dwayne Johnson
"For me it came from the material. It was so well written and brought the opportunity to work with great actors. And of course the opportunity to 'mince about' was an added element that I wanted to take advantage of!"
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"A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty."
Nadia Boulanger
"A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty."
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"Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter."
Dietrich Fischer Dieskau
"Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter."
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"Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!"
Doris Lessing
"Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!"
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"Videogames are a little more work and they're a little more stilted."
Carlos Alazraqui
"Videogames are a little more work and they're a little more stilted."
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"You know, it's just tough to get together and do work with somebody."
Chaka Khan
"You know, it's just tough to get together and do work with somebody."
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"I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer."
Ben Hecht
"I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer."
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"I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead."
Sting
"I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead."
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"I have been singing for the last 50 years, you know, so I deserve a break. Besides, there are talented singers around who can do justice to their work."
Lata Mangeshkar
"I have been singing for the last 50 years, you know, so I deserve a break. Besides, there are talented singers around who can do justice to their work."
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"No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond."
Andre Gide
"No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond."
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"If both parents must work, I think it is more important that the mother has proximity to the child to therefore establish a childcare situation at the big corporations not once a day, but many times a day."
Eric Braeden
"If both parents must work, I think it is more important that the mother has proximity to the child to therefore establish a childcare situation at the big corporations not once a day, but many times a day."
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"I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces."
Maurice Ravel
"I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces."
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"Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work, the pressure and incentive have to come from the top."
Vernon Jordan
"Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work, the pressure and incentive have to come from the top."
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"I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving."
Pete Domenici
"I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving."
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"It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be a very inviting place to live or work."
Frank Borman
"It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be a very inviting place to live or work."
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"This acting was very hard work."
Jack Levine
"This acting was very hard work."
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"To my fellow nominees, whoever they are - I'm not that familiar with their work - I just want to say, there's always next year - except, you know, for Ray Romano ."
Tony Shalhoub
"To my fellow nominees, whoever they are - I'm not that familiar with their work - I just want to say, there's always next year - except, you know, for Ray Romano ."
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"He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work."
Ed Wood
"He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work."
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"Hugh Everett's work has been described by many people in terms of many worlds, the idea being that every one of the various alternative histories, branching histories, is assigned some sort of reality."
Murray Gell Mann
"Hugh Everett's work has been described by many people in terms of many worlds, the idea being that every one of the various alternative histories, branching histories, is assigned some sort of reality."
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"The pride people take in their work transcends to their homes, their education, families and communities."
Leonard Boswell
"The pride people take in their work transcends to their homes, their education, families and communities."
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"Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn't only new ones who suffer from that."
Greg Egan
"Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn't only new ones who suffer from that."
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"I don't believe that there are no spiritual beings around us. I don't know what to call them, I don't know how they work. But I know they're there."
Martha Beck
"I don't believe that there are no spiritual beings around us. I don't know what to call them, I don't know how they work. But I know they're there."
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"The toughest workout can never match the pain of being out of work."
George Montgomery
"The toughest workout can never match the pain of being out of work."
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"I think most of the best new work is intended to have much more impact at once."
Donald Judd
"I think most of the best new work is intended to have much more impact at once."
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"I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity."
Philip Levine
"I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity."
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"It's what's left in life, to work with interesting people."
Mikhail Baryshnikov
"It's what's left in life, to work with interesting people."
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"I think a composer is always interested in his last work."
Gyorgy Ligeti
"I think a composer is always interested in his last work."
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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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"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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