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Work Quotes


"But then Froi looked back to where his work lay unfinished and it made him sad because there had been something about the touch of earth in his hands that made him feel worthwhile."


"Despite these hurdles, manufacturers in the U.S. and their employees are doing remarkable work."


"It's been the work that has carried me and I never wanted to rest on my laurels or go back and do what I done before."


"Levi is one of the best authors I've ever read. It's hard not to have an immediate personal response to his work. He has such a quiet tone."


"The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can."
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"You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard."


"We should so work as if we were to be saved by our works; and so rely on Jesus Christ, as if we did no works."


"I mean, if somebody said to me, junior year of college, you can go anywhere, your old man's paying for it, I'd have been gone in a flash. But I had to work. Every summer my mother would say, 'Get that job and hold on to it until August 30.'"


"Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here."


"The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him."


"I believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and ultimately an independent prosecutor working in the Executive Branch."


"You work on an idea, your first interpretation is very raw and you work it and you work it and it gets polished and polished. It gets to a certain level and then it comes down off that peak."


"There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance."
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"My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work."
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"Certainly since then many people have taken a lot of those ideas and ridden them for years and years and made careers out of them. Part of that is willingness to do the kind of work that I wasn't willing to do. Get into a van and cover the country."


"I propitiated the knife-wielding deities with presents of books. The gifts to them and the head of nursing were also meant to acknowledge that although people get paid to do their jobs, you cannot pay someone to do their job passionately and wholeheartedly. Those qualities are not for sale; they are themselves gifts that can only be given freely, and are in many, many fields."


"According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules."


"You can tell when an actor or actress cares about their work. It's really clear."


"I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world."


"I wouldn't miss this opportunity for anything. For the chance to work on these conservation issues, to serve my country, to work for this president, I'd do it all over again, every single minute."


"I'd like to work with any actress from whom I can learn-one who has had many experiences with many directors and is willing to share some of her knowledge with me."



"During my work there I came across some very significant issues that I started reporting in December of 2001 to the mid-level management within the FBI."


"I didn't have big movie offers, or any big agents wanting to work with me. I had to go grassroots, start at the bottom and go on 150 auditions before someone finally gave me a shot."
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"When they are performing in front of the public, they ought to have a sensation that's relatively easy, if the technical and the interpretive work was done before."


"I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards."
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"If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good."
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