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"My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat."
Clifton Fadiman
"My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat."
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"I'm enthusiastic and ambitious, and I work hard."
Jason Statham
"I'm enthusiastic and ambitious, and I work hard."
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"If you really want it, you need to really work for it."
Jesse McCartney
"If you really want it, you need to really work for it."
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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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"Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis."
Arthur Ashe
"Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis."
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"You know I've had work banned."
Kathy Acker
"You know I've had work banned."
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"I've had more of an opportunity to work with Katie Holmes, which is incredibly enjoyable. I think she is really one of the best actresses on the market right now. She forces you to bring your best stuff to the table, because if you don't, she just completely overpowers you."
Joshua Jackson
"I've had more of an opportunity to work with Katie Holmes, which is incredibly enjoyable. I think she is really one of the best actresses on the market right now. She forces you to bring your best stuff to the table, because if you don't, she just completely overpowers you."
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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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"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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"The important thing is to do good work, no matter what medium you do it in."
Roy Scheider
"The important thing is to do good work, no matter what medium you do it in."
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"Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing."
Ajay Naidu
"Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing."
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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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"The American work ethic is something to be admired. Our workforce, regardless of position, works hard to produce the best product and serve customers to the best of their ability."
Leonard Boswell
"The American work ethic is something to be admired. Our workforce, regardless of position, works hard to produce the best product and serve customers to the best of their ability."
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"It just doesn't work without the others."
Billy Corgan
"It just doesn't work without the others."
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"This is the kind of work I've aspired to my whole career."
Treat Williams
"This is the kind of work I've aspired to my whole career."
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"Sundance is just a great place for your work to be seen. Not much more to say about it than that."
David Wain
"Sundance is just a great place for your work to be seen. Not much more to say about it than that."
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"As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it."
James Ellroy
"As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it."
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"I work best when people are here to puncture me."
Tom Bergeron
"I work best when people are here to puncture me."
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"I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well, it is dangerous - but beyond that there was the pressure of being young and of not yet having done work you really liked, trademark work, breakthrough work."
Harold Brodkey
"I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well, it is dangerous - but beyond that there was the pressure of being young and of not yet having done work you really liked, trademark work, breakthrough work."
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"The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire."
Jeffery Deaver
"The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire."
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"The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work."
Mordecai Richler
"The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work."
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"We have to mainstream everybody. No matter what their circumstances when they were growing up. Part of that is knowing that after they're finished with school, everybody in this country gets up and goes to work."
Donna Shalala
"We have to mainstream everybody. No matter what their circumstances when they were growing up. Part of that is knowing that after they're finished with school, everybody in this country gets up and goes to work."
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"This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding."
Albert Szent Gyorgyi
"This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding."
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"I am ready and prepared to work with the President, but I will not be a rubber stamp for any president."
Daniel Inouye
"I am ready and prepared to work with the President, but I will not be a rubber stamp for any president."
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"That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion."
Jock Sturges
"That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion."
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"I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way."
Thom Gunn
"I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way."
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"You can browse to your heart's content but it's hard work and not easy on the feet unless you do it through catalogs or the Internet, and I like to touch and try on the things I buy."
Judith Krantz
"You can browse to your heart's content but it's hard work and not easy on the feet unless you do it through catalogs or the Internet, and I like to touch and try on the things I buy."
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"The day I showed up to South Carolina to work, I was with my kid and my ex and our dog and Kirk was hanging with this weird guy and I kind of defined the two of them by his friend and made a vow to avoid him."
Donal Logue
"The day I showed up to South Carolina to work, I was with my kid and my ex and our dog and Kirk was hanging with this weird guy and I kind of defined the two of them by his friend and made a vow to avoid him."
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"People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are."
Aldous Huxley
"People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are."
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"There was no one around me who didn't work hard."
Ed Bradley
"There was no one around me who didn't work hard."
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"He who knows how will always work for he who knows why."
David Lee Roth
"He who knows how will always work for he who knows why."
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"Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff."
S. E. Hinton
"Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff."
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"When the day's work is over, it's over."
John Turturro
"When the day's work is over, it's over."
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"Well, there's a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose."
Donald Judd
"Well, there's a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose."
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"If you want to act, you have to devote yourself to it. Send out letters and photos every day, work all the hours under the sun, whatever it takes. If you're not determined, you won't get anywhere."
Christopher Parker
"If you want to act, you have to devote yourself to it. Send out letters and photos every day, work all the hours under the sun, whatever it takes. If you're not determined, you won't get anywhere."
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"We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them."
Barbara Boxer
"We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them."
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"America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses."
Woodrow Wilson
"America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses."
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"After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college."
Lloyd Alexander
"After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college."
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"Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun."
Christina G. Rossetti
"Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun."
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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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"Through these ongoing activities and possibly in the future, a Canadian will go live and work on the International Space Station and we will continue to make Canadians proud of our achievements in space."
Marc Garneau
"Through these ongoing activities and possibly in the future, a Canadian will go live and work on the International Space Station and we will continue to make Canadians proud of our achievements in space."
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"As soon as I step on that stage, nothing matters. I don't think of it as work. It's just so much fun."
Miley Cyrus
"As soon as I step on that stage, nothing matters. I don't think of it as work. It's just so much fun."
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"I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If something is pleasurable and exciting and rewarding, why should one stop?"
Gunther Schuller
"I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If something is pleasurable and exciting and rewarding, why should one stop?"
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"Yes, I am complimented on my work in Kids in the Hall once or twice a week. It's a nice feeling."
Thomas Lennon
"Yes, I am complimented on my work in Kids in the Hall once or twice a week. It's a nice feeling."
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"I know of no greater work for humanity than in the cause of peace, which can only be achieved by the earnest efforts of nations and peoples."
Frank B. Kellogg
"I know of no greater work for humanity than in the cause of peace, which can only be achieved by the earnest efforts of nations and peoples."
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"I think most artists find it difficult to part with their work but it's the parting that keeps us alive and keeps us working. In the case of the chariot, although it's been sold I actually still have it, just in another form."
Kit Williams
"I think most artists find it difficult to part with their work but it's the parting that keeps us alive and keeps us working. In the case of the chariot, although it's been sold I actually still have it, just in another form."
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"As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn't get work, when I wanted to quit."
Mariska Hargitay
"As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn't get work, when I wanted to quit."
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"I think the studio gave me that series on purpose, because they knew perfectly well that Robert Riskin was ill and that I needed to go to work. They gave me that series to do."
Fay Wray
"I think the studio gave me that series on purpose, because they knew perfectly well that Robert Riskin was ill and that I needed to go to work. They gave me that series to do."
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"We have different personalities and different skills and the kind of things that we do, we can do together that neither of us can do separately. We've been working together so closely that it's kind of hard to decide what's my work and what's her work, it's ours really."
Guy Burgess
"We have different personalities and different skills and the kind of things that we do, we can do together that neither of us can do separately. We've been working together so closely that it's kind of hard to decide what's my work and what's her work, it's ours really."
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"There is a number among us, young and old, of all sorts almost among us, that swarm up and down towns, and woods, and fields, whose care and work hitherto hath been like bees, only to get honey to their own hive."
Thomas Shepard
"There is a number among us, young and old, of all sorts almost among us, that swarm up and down towns, and woods, and fields, whose care and work hitherto hath been like bees, only to get honey to their own hive."
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