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Work Quotes


"Not that I've always loved the movie when they finally come out, or if they ever come out-because many of them don't come out-but I've gotten to work with really good story editors and stuff like that."


"I can't wait to work for Rick Kaplan. He's a great producer. I would host an infomercial if he would produce it."
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"I'd be cheating everyone here, the staff and rest of my teammates, if I wasn't able to stay on top of my work. It was almost like therapy, to come back and get in an environment I'm comfortable with."


"I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain genre conventions. I'd like to do that kind of work someday, but for better or worse I'm too drawn by my own material."
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"I think talent is dangerous to have if you take it for granted. If you use it well and put hard work with it together, it's hard to catch that guy. And I think that's what you're seeing right now."


"Work is the price which is paid for reputation."



"In fact, as a spin bowler, you have to work on the batsman over after over."


"I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile."


"I get to work at about 7:30 or 8 unless I have a breakfast meeting."


"A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent."


"It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists."



"I don't know what people find or like in me, I'm hopelessly commonplace! Current appreciation of my work is a bit highbrow, I've always considered myself a popular artist."


"But since September 11, we have made every effort to try to work closely with state and local law enforcement."


"You make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am."


"All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen."


"When I work, I try to eat as much vegetarian as possible. When I do Cupid, I eat vegetarian because I need the energy. I've got those wings on my back."


"Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized."


"That's the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn't work, you try another."


"The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive work. In a sense, the mission chiefs were given the opportunity to help act as architects for the new Europe that was envisioned."


"I recognize very much in Hopper that it does look like the United States; it looks like the 30's and my first impressions of everything, all of which I have to deal with and which gets mixed up in my work and probably gets mixed up in everybody else's work too."


"Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the movements which I ascribe to the Earth, in order that this book might contain, as it were, the general scheme of the universe."


"The people I chose to work with me on this album are there because I have a personal relationship with them."


"The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute. Even if I was given two months, I'd do it in the last three days."


"On Capitol Hill, House Republicans have been doing our part. We've been hard at work developing policies that will help empower all Americans. We're beginning to see results. We reduced taxes for everyone."


"Although black and white Americans live, work, and learn together now, there is still injustice in America."


"After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not."
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