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"In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead."
Robert Wyatt
"In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead."
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"You get so tired of having your work die. I just wanted to make something that people would actually use."
Bram Cohen
"You get so tired of having your work die. I just wanted to make something that people would actually use."
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"Sometimes you work all the way through to 5am, then get a few hours and you're back on set again."
Catherine Bell
"Sometimes you work all the way through to 5am, then get a few hours and you're back on set again."
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"I have an office in Argentina, I go there every day, so I work."
Gabriela Sabatini
"I have an office in Argentina, I go there every day, so I work."
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"I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way."
Marie Osmond
"I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way."
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"The only place where compensation comes before service is in the dictionary or anywhere the government meddles."
Orrin Woodward
"The only place where compensation comes before service is in the dictionary or anywhere the government meddles."
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"I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so."
Jock Sturges
"I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so."
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"I try to get that across in the work, to try to, if I'm lucky, to make this world a little bit better for all of us before I check out. And that's if I'm lucky, I don't always get to have that privilege but I try always."
Mandy Patinkin
"I try to get that across in the work, to try to, if I'm lucky, to make this world a little bit better for all of us before I check out. And that's if I'm lucky, I don't always get to have that privilege but I try always."
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"So It's not like I go from being this disciplined person who has to get up and go to work to now I just lay around all day in my underwear eating Cheerios. I have this structure. I still have to do this and the difference is I'm doing this for me and my company."
Eriq La Salle
"So It's not like I go from being this disciplined person who has to get up and go to work to now I just lay around all day in my underwear eating Cheerios. I have this structure. I still have to do this and the difference is I'm doing this for me and my company."
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"I can work for the Lord in or out of prison."
Charles W. Colson
"I can work for the Lord in or out of prison."
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"I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and that's what we need."
Christine Gregoire
"I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and that's what we need."
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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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"Too many pitchers, that's all, there are just too many pitchers Ten or twelve on a team. Don't see how any of them get enough work. Four starting pitchers and one relief man ought to be enough. Pitch 'em every three days and you'd find they'd get control and good, strong arms."
Cy Young
"Too many pitchers, that's all, there are just too many pitchers Ten or twelve on a team. Don't see how any of them get enough work. Four starting pitchers and one relief man ought to be enough. Pitch 'em every three days and you'd find they'd get control and good, strong arms."
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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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"I just am grateful for every opportunity to go to work. I don't really focus on celebrity status."
George Dzundza
"I just am grateful for every opportunity to go to work. I don't really focus on celebrity status."
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"I would like to work with Jack Nicholson, before it's too late."
Judi Dench
"I would like to work with Jack Nicholson, before it's too late."
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"I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat."
Hank Aaron
"I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat."
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"I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen."
Laura Hillenbrand
"I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen."
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"Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy."
Verne Troyer
"Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy."
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"I have no idea how to become successful in children's tv programming today other than to say that whereever you find that rare animal being pursued, insert yourself into its environment; get in the door in any position and work from within."
William Jackson
"I have no idea how to become successful in children's tv programming today other than to say that whereever you find that rare animal being pursued, insert yourself into its environment; get in the door in any position and work from within."
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"After Land I wanted to continue exploring the theme but I needed a new challenge so turned to colour. I explored Bradford and produced a series of urban landscapes that I liked, but because Land had made such an impact on the general public my colour work wasn't reviewed."
Fay Godwin
"After Land I wanted to continue exploring the theme but I needed a new challenge so turned to colour. I explored Bradford and produced a series of urban landscapes that I liked, but because Land had made such an impact on the general public my colour work wasn't reviewed."
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"Work to enjoy life. Work to create value. Work to survive, strive and thrive. But do not work...to work."
Richie Norton
"Work to enjoy life. Work to create value. Work to survive, strive and thrive. But do not work...to work."
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"I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table."
Thom Mayne
"I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table."
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"I have about two or three people, we don't have an office, we don't even have a dedicated phone line. We do it out of our own homes, and we make it work."
John Zorn
"I have about two or three people, we don't have an office, we don't even have a dedicated phone line. We do it out of our own homes, and we make it work."
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"My work has social implications, it functions in a social arena."
Andres Serrano
"My work has social implications, it functions in a social arena."
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"Even up here on Vancouver on the weekends, I go work out in a studio space."
Dule Hill
"Even up here on Vancouver on the weekends, I go work out in a studio space."
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"On the way to work good-hearted young girls sometimes offer me their seats, which I accept and bless them in return, a transaction satisfying to all concerned."
Lionel Blue
"On the way to work good-hearted young girls sometimes offer me their seats, which I accept and bless them in return, a transaction satisfying to all concerned."
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"They get, you know, whatever they want from their earnings, and their earnings go into their own company."
Brian Epstein
"They get, you know, whatever they want from their earnings, and their earnings go into their own company."
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"When you have a Senate that is 50 Democrats and 49 Republicans and one independent, it's quite obvious that the only way we are going to get something done is if we work together."
John Breaux
"When you have a Senate that is 50 Democrats and 49 Republicans and one independent, it's quite obvious that the only way we are going to get something done is if we work together."
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"I think we probably will end up in America because he would be giving up much more to come and live here. If you want to work in film, that's really where you have to be. But I'm not sure that being an ex-pat is very good for one's sense of self."
Emily Mortimer
"I think we probably will end up in America because he would be giving up much more to come and live here. If you want to work in film, that's really where you have to be. But I'm not sure that being an ex-pat is very good for one's sense of self."
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"As a head-hunter I get a lot of satisfaction from seeing my candidates do well and therefore my clients happy. I want to work with clients more as a partner than simply a head-hunter."
Bruce Bennett
"As a head-hunter I get a lot of satisfaction from seeing my candidates do well and therefore my clients happy. I want to work with clients more as a partner than simply a head-hunter."
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"People who decide they came to earth to work, who make work their personal philosophy, are kept very busy."
Constantine Karamanlis
"People who decide they came to earth to work, who make work their personal philosophy, are kept very busy."
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"If you knew the upward mobility that South Dakota's kids have gotten from the opportunity to intern and to work and to be employed and to have upward mobility in that company and move on, it's been phenomenal for South Dakota."
Bill Janklow
"If you knew the upward mobility that South Dakota's kids have gotten from the opportunity to intern and to work and to be employed and to have upward mobility in that company and move on, it's been phenomenal for South Dakota."
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"Randy said I could call him for anything, Paula said that she loved me and said how much of a star I was. Simon was like, keep up the good work and I'll have nothing to worry about."
LaToya London
"Randy said I could call him for anything, Paula said that she loved me and said how much of a star I was. Simon was like, keep up the good work and I'll have nothing to worry about."
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"I also met, early on Ella Fitzgerald. Her songbooks are some of the most amazing bodies of work."
Johnny Mathis
"I also met, early on Ella Fitzgerald. Her songbooks are some of the most amazing bodies of work."
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"I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet."
Natasha Richardson
"I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet."
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"I've always thought of myself as more of a character actress. I've tried to do different things, but I've always been under the radar and that's how I like it. I've been really blessed to work this long and I just hope I continue to get better and better and better and better."
Rose Byrne
"I've always thought of myself as more of a character actress. I've tried to do different things, but I've always been under the radar and that's how I like it. I've been really blessed to work this long and I just hope I continue to get better and better and better and better."
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"I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction."
Ben Nicholson
"I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction."
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"It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years."
Vera Wang
"It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years."
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"I've never related to the work geek at all-it sounds much more horrible than nerd. Like a freak biting a chicken's head off in a sideshow."
Jonathan Lethem
"I've never related to the work geek at all-it sounds much more horrible than nerd. Like a freak biting a chicken's head off in a sideshow."
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"The 1993 Social Security tax penalizes seniors who have planned for their retirement through savings, investment and hard work. That's wrong, and that's why the double tax on Social Security must end."
Rob Simmons
"The 1993 Social Security tax penalizes seniors who have planned for their retirement through savings, investment and hard work. That's wrong, and that's why the double tax on Social Security must end."
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"Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work."
Chief Joseph
"Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work."
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"We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work."
Anna Freud
"We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work."
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"It could be a great script but the director is not the right person for me to work for at this time. So there are a lot of elements that come into play and a lot of variables, but more than anything it's got to be a great script and a great character."
Blair Underwood
"It could be a great script but the director is not the right person for me to work for at this time. So there are a lot of elements that come into play and a lot of variables, but more than anything it's got to be a great script and a great character."
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"Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work."
Sally Schneider
"Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work."
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"It's fun to do voiceover work, although you still have to act. But it doesn't involve memorizing lines, and you don't have to dress up."
Stephen Root
"It's fun to do voiceover work, although you still have to act. But it doesn't involve memorizing lines, and you don't have to dress up."
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"I've done approximately 15 films, and most of the things I've done have either been stunt or costume work."
Verne Troyer
"I've done approximately 15 films, and most of the things I've done have either been stunt or costume work."
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"There is a lot of work just in terms of traveling and logistics and people and gear and all that kind of stuff. But I never really have problems playing music. That never seems like work."
James Iha
"There is a lot of work just in terms of traveling and logistics and people and gear and all that kind of stuff. But I never really have problems playing music. That never seems like work."
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"I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to me, and still is. I felt like an old pro, but it was still so unexpected."
Jacqueline Bisset
"I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to me, and still is. I felt like an old pro, but it was still so unexpected."
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"Even as we work to develop more sources of petroleum for the United States, we must continue our vigorous pursuit of alternative fuels, so that we can be powered by cleaner, more efficient sources of energy."
Virgil Goode
"Even as we work to develop more sources of petroleum for the United States, we must continue our vigorous pursuit of alternative fuels, so that we can be powered by cleaner, more efficient sources of energy."
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