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"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."
John Sayles
"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."
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"I can't wait to work for Rick Kaplan. He's a great producer. I would host an infomercial if he would produce it."
Tucker Carlson
"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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"You can't do your work worrying about what people will think of it - you kind of just have to do your work."
Scott Wolf
"You can't do your work worrying about what people will think of it - you kind of just have to do your work."
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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."
Roger Clemens
"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."
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"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."
Todd Solondz
"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."
Ivan Lendl
"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."
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"Work is the price which is paid for reputation."
Baltasar Gracian
"Work is the price which is paid for reputation."
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"But now I really don't want to work unless I really, really care about a project."
Jodie Foster
"But now I really don't want to work unless I really, really care about a project."
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"In fact, as a spin bowler, you have to work on the batsman over after over."
Richie Benaud
"In fact, as a spin bowler, you have to work on the batsman over after over."
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"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."
Walter Chrysler
"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."
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"I get to work at about 7:30 or 8 unless I have a breakfast meeting."
Donna Shalala
"I get to work at about 7:30 or 8 unless I have a breakfast meeting."
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"It was a real honor to be able to work with someone like that that I've been watching since I was a kid. I mean, to play his brother left some people scratching their heads but something about it really worked."
Jared Leto
"It was a real honor to be able to work with someone like that that I've been watching since I was a kid. I mean, to play his brother left some people scratching their heads but something about it really worked."
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"A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent."
Guy Kawasaki
"A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent."
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"I think I work harder on the pitch, I cover more ground and my passing is more accurate."
Frank Lampard
"I think I work harder on the pitch, I cover more ground and my passing is more accurate."
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"You know I've had work banned."
Kathy Acker
"You know I've had work banned."
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"It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists."
Crystal Gayle
"It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists."
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"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."
Maxfield Parrish
"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."
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"While the debate on the Patriot Act is far from over, it is important that all Americans continue in this dialogue and work together to ensure greater security for our nation."
Jo Bonner
"While the debate on the Patriot Act is far from over, it is important that all Americans continue in this dialogue and work together to ensure greater security for our nation."
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"The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue."
Gabriel Lippmann
"The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue."
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"But since September 11, we have made every effort to try to work closely with state and local law enforcement."
Robert Mueller
"But since September 11, we have made every effort to try to work closely with state and local law enforcement."
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"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."
Kim Kardashian
"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."
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"I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it."
Fiona Apple
"I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it."
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"To my mind, the best SF addresses itself to problems of the here and now, or even to problems which have never been solved and never will be solved - I'm thinking of Philip K. Dick's work here, dealing with questions of reality, for example."
John Sladek
"To my mind, the best SF addresses itself to problems of the here and now, or even to problems which have never been solved and never will be solved - I'm thinking of Philip K. Dick's work here, dealing with questions of reality, for example."
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"All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen."
Sidney Lumet
"All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen."
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"It took about six years to get the Black Lung stuff. It didn't come just instantly. Sometimes, I see lobby groups, today, upset because they work the whole session and nothing happens."
Richard Grimes
"It took about six years to get the Black Lung stuff. It didn't come just instantly. Sometimes, I see lobby groups, today, upset because they work the whole session and nothing happens."
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"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."
Karl Urban
"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."
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"That is what I'm looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk to people who already work in those jobs can really teach me what to expect when I get out in the real world."
Angela Carter
"That is what I'm looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk to people who already work in those jobs can really teach me what to expect when I get out in the real world."
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"Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is."
H. R. Giger
"Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is."
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"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."
Marilyn vos Savant
"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."
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"You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn't have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it."
Waylon Jennings
"You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn't have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it."
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"That's the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn't work, you try another."
Pete du Pont
"That's the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn't work, you try another."
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"At this point in my career, it doesn't bother me much that I'm probably hopelessly typecast. I like to work, and horror films definitely keep me working."
Donald Pleasence
"At this point in my career, it doesn't bother me much that I'm probably hopelessly typecast. I like to work, and horror films definitely keep me working."
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"The fans in Dallas were hard on me my first year, but after having a great year last year they are now supporting me. It feels great to have my hard work pay off, especially when the fans made it hard for me."
Steve Nash
"The fans in Dallas were hard on me my first year, but after having a great year last year they are now supporting me. It feels great to have my hard work pay off, especially when the fans made it hard for me."
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"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."
Paul Hoffman
"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."
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"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."
Donald Judd
"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."
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"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."
Nicolaus Copernicus
"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."
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"Interested listeners have only to hear the recording to find out if those guys, who go to such pains to undervalue my work, are right. All people have to do is listen to realize it is a beautiful record."
Bill Dixon
"Interested listeners have only to hear the recording to find out if those guys, who go to such pains to undervalue my work, are right. All people have to do is listen to realize it is a beautiful record."
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"The people I chose to work with me on this album are there because I have a personal relationship with them."
Angie Martinez
"The people I chose to work with me on this album are there because I have a personal relationship with them."
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"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."
Ayumi Hamasaki
"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."
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"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."
Dennis Hastert
"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."
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"Building walls isn't going to work in the long run. Some people are happy with the wall in Israel, but somebody will get a weapon someday and knock it over or something. Walls aren't the answer between countries, though."
Arlo Guthrie
"Building walls isn't going to work in the long run. Some people are happy with the wall in Israel, but somebody will get a weapon someday and knock it over or something. Walls aren't the answer between countries, though."
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"If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too."
Wanda Sykes
"If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too."
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"It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines."
Anthony Doerr
"It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines."
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"If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong."
Parker Stevenson
"If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong."
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"A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not."
Len Wein
"A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not."
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"Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting."
Gavin Rossdale
"Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting."
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"The odd thing is, I don't consider what I do work, because it's what I love. But it is also an enormous amount of pressure, and you have to work an enormous amount of hours."
Maria Menounos
"The odd thing is, I don't consider what I do work, because it's what I love. But it is also an enormous amount of pressure, and you have to work an enormous amount of hours."
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"Although black and white Americans live, work, and learn together now, there is still injustice in America."
Kathleen Sebelius
"Although black and white Americans live, work, and learn together now, there is still injustice in America."
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"After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not."
Bill Budge
"After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not."
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"It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work."
Chuck Close
"It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work."
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