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Work Quotes
"I was a bartender in New York and I overheard this girl saying she made $3000 doing a commercial. A kid at work told me, 'Hey, I know this director and he'd really like you!'. So I walked into this guy's office and was like 'I was thinking maybe I could make $3000' and he hired me for commercials, short films, like 15 jobs in a row."
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"The entire perks that I need are to let me do my job with full honesty to my conscience."
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"Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him."
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"An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous merriment, cannot always be satisfied to set aside her whole career, in the work that she loves, simply because she is married."
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"The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause."
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"The people who knew me and knew my work and trusted me, they knew then as they do now that I've never fabricated or plagiarized a story. People who know me know I didn't do this."
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"There are no shortcuts to victory. We must commit ourselves to the slow, painstaking work of foreign policy day by day and year by year."
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"This is a dream come true. To wake up in a place that I own and go to work in New York City as an actor - I feel like Mary Tyler Moore throwing her friggin' hat in the air."
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"No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole and only aim is to be able to establish a historical fact, on which I disagree with some eminent historians and geographers."
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"Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair."
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"They work in secrecy. I can't get any information. You can't find out anything until they get out to the floor. And it's hard to lick em at that stage. They're a closed corporation. When they stick together, you can't lick em on the floor."
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"No business can be made easier to do than excuses are to make."
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"Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly."
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"Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves."
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"If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves."
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"There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted."
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"Not only is women's work never done, the definition keeps changing."
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"It's a rotten job, but somebody's got to do it."
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"To come up with the ending to a story and then work backwards is like tying your shoe with one hand only."
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"It's all about work when you reach up, tap in and step on that field. You don't mess around when you go through that gate."
Work,
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"It's a very good thing for students also to be exposed to people who aren't film students or film scholars but who work in the world of film."
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"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, 'We did this ourselves.'"
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"I don't know what makes someone hip. The goal is artist achievement and the best work we can do with no limitation."
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"This is the way federal land management should work. Cooperation, not confrontation, should be the hallmark of conservation efforts."
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"There is no room in the world, as you say, for second rate work."
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"Workers of France, it is for the freedom of the prisoners that you will go to work in Germany! It is for our country that you will go in large numbers!"
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"As we take our places in the General Assembly and at the Council meetings, let us begin all our work in the name of God, for the solution of all our problems is a spiritual one."
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"I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should."
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"It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done and do it coolly."
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"With a fresh start, I hope it'll work out good. I know the whole Fox story and how he came over here and had a great year for them. I'm hoping that's what it'll be - fresh start, new faces, new team, new city. I'm looking forward to getting out there."
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