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Work Quotes
"Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do."
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"I don't believe, the president doesn't believe, that the high income tax cuts work, period. I don't think the evidence supports that."
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"Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing."
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"Fences work and the walls work and separations work. They afford to any nation the delay of entry."
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"It will be hard work. It's always hard work, and hard work from everybody within the team - technical director, mechanics, drivers, engineers - everyone in the team."
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"We pay for the navy, and we have no commerce for the navy to protect; we pay for the army, and we loathe and execrate the work upon which it has been engaged."
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"And I'm going to work as hard as I can... for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we'll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I'd like to think I'm going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year!"
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"I met the Coens here a few years ago and they said they liked my work."
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"The perfect gadget would somehow allow me to fly. Isn't that what everybody wants? It would also cook a damn good microwave pizza. So while in flight you had something to eat - an in-flight meal. Where would I go? Well, nowadays, it would probably just take me to work a lot quicker."
Work,
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"Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the task. After all, if you don't like action and excitement, you don't go into police work. And, what the hell, I figured, nobody lives forever!"
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"Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work."
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"Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in."
Work,
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"I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished."
Work,
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"I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else entirely because the one thing you wanted them to do may not work, then you are just shattering their confidence in the project."
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"And with Aaron, I'd have to find a reason not to work with him."
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"When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?"
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"I know I can't do everything myself. So I know I specialize in my melodies and I do some of my demo work. I pass it on to my producers who are much better at the production level."
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"Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone."
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"I think the harder you work, the more luck you have."
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"I mean, when I started out I was billing per hour, like a shrink because you would sit with somebody and work. But most of it, if it's for a live show it's usually a buy-out. A flat fee."
Work,
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"I won't be satisfied until I've put the entire security industry out of work."
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"This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything."
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"Ruth Cole was a novelist, novelists are not at their best when they go off half-cocked. She believed that she would prepare what she was going to tell the police - preferably in writing."
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"Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don't think you could do this."
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"Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring."
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"When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed-consent question was answerable."
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"I want to compliment The Heritage Foundation for its work on behalf of a strong national defense."
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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."
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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."
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"Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way."
Work,
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"The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this."
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"The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession."
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