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"It should be only a part of my life, but it isn't. I have only one thing: my work."
Nastassja Kinski
"It should be only a part of my life, but it isn't. I have only one thing: my work."
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"I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen."
Laurie Anderson
"I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen."
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"Well, I haven't been doing that much work with other people per se. I started doing more of that."
Dweezil Zappa
"Well, I haven't been doing that much work with other people per se. I started doing more of that."
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"You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances."
Maggie Gyllenhaal
"You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances."
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"The charge was left entirely to himself from midnight until the rising of the sun; and if all the shepherds in the Forest had been there to have assisted him, they could not have effected it with greater propriety."
James Hogg
"The charge was left entirely to himself from midnight until the rising of the sun; and if all the shepherds in the Forest had been there to have assisted him, they could not have effected it with greater propriety."
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"For English assignments I was constantly coming up with these strange adventure stories... But I actually wanted to be an artist, or maybe work in the comic book industry."
Paul Kane
"For English assignments I was constantly coming up with these strange adventure stories... But I actually wanted to be an artist, or maybe work in the comic book industry."
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"If the work is going well and it's something that has value with some meaning to it, it gives back a lot."
Richard Gere
"If the work is going well and it's something that has value with some meaning to it, it gives back a lot."
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"But everything has been so gradual that it's sort of all come from, just hard work and basically being at it."
Kim Gordon
"But everything has been so gradual that it's sort of all come from, just hard work and basically being at it."
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"I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book."
John Sayles
"I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book."
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"Well there is a lot of work here for younger and older musicians now. Our Ministry of Culture has now really embarked on changing things for artists, and it is getting much better. We just have to organize ourselves as artists, and then things will be better."
Miriam Makeba
"Well there is a lot of work here for younger and older musicians now. Our Ministry of Culture has now really embarked on changing things for artists, and it is getting much better. We just have to organize ourselves as artists, and then things will be better."
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"As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake."
Eric Allin Cornell
"As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake."
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"We, Russia, are prepared to work with others. I am convinced that stability and security in Europe cannot be considered without taking Russia into account."
Boris Yeltsin
"We, Russia, are prepared to work with others. I am convinced that stability and security in Europe cannot be considered without taking Russia into account."
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"Go ahead, work hard and never be afraid to try something. Even if you don't make it, at least you can say you tried."
Guy Lafleur
"Go ahead, work hard and never be afraid to try something. Even if you don't make it, at least you can say you tried."
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"I never read reviews at all. I'm proud of the work I did."
Nicole Kidman
"I never read reviews at all. I'm proud of the work I did."
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"I took a private lesson, but it didn't really work out, so I went back to playing along with records. That's really the thing that got me into playing a lot - getting excited about playing along with my favorite bands like Zeppelin and Black Sabbath."
Chad Smith
"I took a private lesson, but it didn't really work out, so I went back to playing along with records. That's really the thing that got me into playing a lot - getting excited about playing along with my favorite bands like Zeppelin and Black Sabbath."
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"If you're going to have to beg them to play, it's not going to work."
Chuck Daly
"If you're going to have to beg them to play, it's not going to work."
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"With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it."
Geddy Lee
"With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it."
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"When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it."
Barry Gibb
"When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it."
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"It just makes that person feel that what his work is is going to be more valid. But who wants to see a guy standing in front, looking like a bum, doing something that a bums don't do? This don't make sense."
Ornette Coleman
"It just makes that person feel that what his work is is going to be more valid. But who wants to see a guy standing in front, looking like a bum, doing something that a bums don't do? This don't make sense."
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"I will continue to work in Washington to oppose any efforts to expand drilling off our Coasts and to challenge my colleagues to adopt responsible energy policies."
Lois Capps
"I will continue to work in Washington to oppose any efforts to expand drilling off our Coasts and to challenge my colleagues to adopt responsible energy policies."
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"Richard Chamberlain on The Slipper and the Rose was lovely to work with. He wore the clothes so beautifully and sang his songs so well."
Julie Harris
"Richard Chamberlain on The Slipper and the Rose was lovely to work with. He wore the clothes so beautifully and sang his songs so well."
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"Sun's role in the grand scheme of development is to work on the runtime environment and the APIs. The tools we produce are much more for systems programmers, not enterprise developers."
John Fowler
"Sun's role in the grand scheme of development is to work on the runtime environment and the APIs. The tools we produce are much more for systems programmers, not enterprise developers."
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"My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean?"
Amy Adams
"My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean?"
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"Some people make a career out of doing one thing, but I wanted to diversify my body of work."
Morris Chestnut
"Some people make a career out of doing one thing, but I wanted to diversify my body of work."
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"In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing."
Johannes Tauler
"In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing."
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"Sure, things could always have been done better, but I just wish people would drop their political hammers for a few weeks, as happened in 2001, and work on the problem at hand."
Mitch Daniels
"Sure, things could always have been done better, but I just wish people would drop their political hammers for a few weeks, as happened in 2001, and work on the problem at hand."
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"We cannot go on as we are with 2.6 million people on incapacity benefit, 500,000 of them are under 35. Are we really saying there are half a million people in this country under 35 who are simply too ill to work? I don't think that's right."
David Cameron
"We cannot go on as we are with 2.6 million people on incapacity benefit, 500,000 of them are under 35. Are we really saying there are half a million people in this country under 35 who are simply too ill to work? I don't think that's right."
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"In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there."
John F. Kennedy
"In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there."
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"Look there are going to be, there are already adjustment processes in place but the point is that you'll actually make them work and get satisfactory outcomes if there's decent burden sharing along the way. If there's, if you like a proper transitional assistance."
John Anderson
"Look there are going to be, there are already adjustment processes in place but the point is that you'll actually make them work and get satisfactory outcomes if there's decent burden sharing along the way. If there's, if you like a proper transitional assistance."
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"Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life's work."
Thomas S. Monson
"Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life's work."
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"I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier."
Robert Duvall
"I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier."
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"I haven't any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner."
Dashiell Hammett
"I haven't any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner."
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"I'd work for John Waters again, because he's so off the wall."
Tab Hunter
"I'd work for John Waters again, because he's so off the wall."
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"Typically what happens is, somebody drags an idea from the past that worked in an old set of logics that they try to apply to the new one. And it doesn't work."
Michael Nesmith
"Typically what happens is, somebody drags an idea from the past that worked in an old set of logics that they try to apply to the new one. And it doesn't work."
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"I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil."
Sting
"I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil."
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"Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges."
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
"Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges."
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"I really do work in solitude."
Donna Tartt
"I really do work in solitude."
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"I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done."
Mick Jagger
"I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done."
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"Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace."
Louisa May Alcott
"Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace."
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"The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first."
T. S. Eliot
"The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first."
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"Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction."
Walter Benjamin
"Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction."
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"When I feel like I'm doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you're not so much losing yourself but you're sort of in the zone."
Chris Cooper
"When I feel like I'm doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you're not so much losing yourself but you're sort of in the zone."
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"We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is going to do it."
Dorothy Height
"We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is going to do it."
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"I guess I work well with others I handle younger actors well."
Hector Elizondo
"I guess I work well with others I handle younger actors well."
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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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"The last movie I did, I was very lucky: I got to work with probably the best actor of our era, Billy Bob Thornton. He's just incredible. I was like a sponge: I soaked up everything he had to say."
Tim McGraw
"The last movie I did, I was very lucky: I got to work with probably the best actor of our era, Billy Bob Thornton. He's just incredible. I was like a sponge: I soaked up everything he had to say."
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"So, I am independently well-off and don't have to do anything, but I still do. I write books, lecture around the world, work with scientists and governments."
Uri Geller
"So, I am independently well-off and don't have to do anything, but I still do. I write books, lecture around the world, work with scientists and governments."
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"I was not an outstanding student. I did a reasonable amount of work. I got generally good - pretty good grades, but I was not that passionate about getting straight A's."
Steve Case
"I was not an outstanding student. I did a reasonable amount of work. I got generally good - pretty good grades, but I was not that passionate about getting straight A's."
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"The German people were not denied, however, the possibility of improving their lot by hard work over the years. Industrial growth and progress were not denied them."
James F. Byrnes
"The German people were not denied, however, the possibility of improving their lot by hard work over the years. Industrial growth and progress were not denied them."
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"Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less?"
William Glasser
"Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less?"
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