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"We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency."
Rem Koolhaas
"We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency."
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"Film people are coming into TV, because they can't get any work."
Delta Burke
"Film people are coming into TV, because they can't get any work."
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"I avoided nudity unless a film couldn't be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have that element, yet nudity and male fantasies have become emblematic of my work."
Greta Scacchi
"I avoided nudity unless a film couldn't be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have that element, yet nudity and male fantasies have become emblematic of my work."
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"I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again."
Frances McDormand
"I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again."
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"So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work."
Stephen Sondheim
"So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work."
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"I think probably, the makeup artists don't really know how long it's going to take until they really work with your face and they kind of mold it and build it as they're going along."
Andrea Martin
"I think probably, the makeup artists don't really know how long it's going to take until they really work with your face and they kind of mold it and build it as they're going along."
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"Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair."
Edmund Burke
"Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair."
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"The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist."
Thomas Friedman
"The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist."
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"Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me."
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
"Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me."
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"I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work."
Princess Diana
"I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work."
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"I find it easier to work when it's quiet."
Daniel Day Lewis
"I find it easier to work when it's quiet."
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"It's nice when you work with someone who has an eye for clothes and will show what you've given them."
Julie Harris
"It's nice when you work with someone who has an eye for clothes and will show what you've given them."
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"The perks of working in Japan are that you might go for two weeks every three or four months, so you do work an abbreviated schedule. But you really make up for the abbreviated schedule by how hard you have to fight, how much you've got to be in shape."
Owen Hart
"The perks of working in Japan are that you might go for two weeks every three or four months, so you do work an abbreviated schedule. But you really make up for the abbreviated schedule by how hard you have to fight, how much you've got to be in shape."
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"It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing."
Morgan Freeman
"It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing."
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"From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years it might well appear to the layman that the main problems were already solved and that only more detailed work was necessary."
Victor Francis Hess
"From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years it might well appear to the layman that the main problems were already solved and that only more detailed work was necessary."
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"The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it."
Mother Teresa
"The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it."
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"Not being able to work would make me very unhappy."
Ian Hart
"Not being able to work would make me very unhappy."
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"There's always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you're a fraud after all!"
Ben Stiller
"There's always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you're a fraud after all!"
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"Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?"
J. Paul Getty
"Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?"
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"Now, the external work of man is of the most varied kind as regards the force or ease, the form and rapidity, of the motions used on it, and the kind of work produced."
Hermann von Helmholtz
"Now, the external work of man is of the most varied kind as regards the force or ease, the form and rapidity, of the motions used on it, and the kind of work produced."
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"I kind of have a happy magnet. I can't stand being depressed, so I work my ass off to get out of it as soon as possible."
Sarah McLachlan
"I kind of have a happy magnet. I can't stand being depressed, so I work my ass off to get out of it as soon as possible."
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"Let's face it, 80 percent of the work I do my kids can't see."
Joe Pantoliano
"Let's face it, 80 percent of the work I do my kids can't see."
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"It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn't work, that's all."
Kary Mullis
"It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn't work, that's all."
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"I remember thinking, I want to work for the camera."
Brendan Fraser
"I remember thinking, I want to work for the camera."
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"I've actually become much, much dumber through being married and having these children. I find that I'm not half as sharp that I once was. I can't even help them with their 4th and 5th grade vocabulary and math work at this point."
Patrick Warburton
"I've actually become much, much dumber through being married and having these children. I find that I'm not half as sharp that I once was. I can't even help them with their 4th and 5th grade vocabulary and math work at this point."
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"I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of my books had already been published."
Sigrid Undset
"I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of my books had already been published."
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"It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us."
Thomas Aquinas
"It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us."
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"There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around."
Vinton Cerf
"There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around."
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"I enjoy doing both of them very much, concert work particularly, and the division varies from season to season."
Sarah Caldwell
"I enjoy doing both of them very much, concert work particularly, and the division varies from season to season."
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"My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore."
Kate DiCamillo
"My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore."
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"I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way."
Marilyn Hacker
"I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way."
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"What you need if you want jobs are small and medium sized enterprises, local initiatives, labour intensive work, community development, service providers and the like."
Susan George
"What you need if you want jobs are small and medium sized enterprises, local initiatives, labour intensive work, community development, service providers and the like."
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"So I'm going to go on and work on preserving the ozone layer, encouraging everyone to recycle."
Dean Stockwell
"So I'm going to go on and work on preserving the ozone layer, encouraging everyone to recycle."
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"When we finally came to start work on this, the joy was it was only Joel and I, we didn't have to answer to anybody, and we didn't have to submit a screen play or anything like that. We just wrote it and then made it."
Andrew Lloyd Webber
"When we finally came to start work on this, the joy was it was only Joel and I, we didn't have to answer to anybody, and we didn't have to submit a screen play or anything like that. We just wrote it and then made it."
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"It's very much like filmmaking always is-you're always asked to do something that you're not sure you know how to do. So you make an educated guess as to what you think will work and you hope between that and plan B, that you can end up with a product that's really good."
John Dykstra
"It's very much like filmmaking always is-you're always asked to do something that you're not sure you know how to do. So you make an educated guess as to what you think will work and you hope between that and plan B, that you can end up with a product that's really good."
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"I don't work at being ordinary."
Paul McCartney
"I don't work at being ordinary."
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"He's very concealed, Polanski. We became very close friends, but I don't think I ever saw him drop his guard. I didn't see him upset or anything like that, we just did the work."
Ronald Harwood
"He's very concealed, Polanski. We became very close friends, but I don't think I ever saw him drop his guard. I didn't see him upset or anything like that, we just did the work."
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"I don't think I'm going to do any good work this morning."
David O. Selznick
"I don't think I'm going to do any good work this morning."
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"We always work at least a month to six weeks before we go on the road, usually for something like eight to 12 hours a night. It took six weeks to do it this time. We just play virtually everything we know."
Charlie Watts
"We always work at least a month to six weeks before we go on the road, usually for something like eight to 12 hours a night. It took six weeks to do it this time. We just play virtually everything we know."
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"My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff."
Harvey Pekar
"My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff."
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"God never made His work for man to mend."
John Dryden
"God never made His work for man to mend."
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"There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that."
Daniel Day Lewis
"There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that."
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"You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to."
Ed Bradley
"You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to."
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"My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me."
Paul Cezanne
"My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me."
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"Sometimes it's a little bit like being a politician. We have work to do in understanding our users' sentiments."
Meg Whitman
"Sometimes it's a little bit like being a politician. We have work to do in understanding our users' sentiments."
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"I really don't have any secrets. I've never met a photographer whose work I respected that had a secret because the secret lies within each and every one of us."
John Sexton
"I really don't have any secrets. I've never met a photographer whose work I respected that had a secret because the secret lies within each and every one of us."
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"I would never say one was more important or more gratifying than the next because there's a tremendous amount of work, as you know, that goes into winning a cup."
Mark Messier
"I would never say one was more important or more gratifying than the next because there's a tremendous amount of work, as you know, that goes into winning a cup."
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"Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles work but is work."
John Thorn
"Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles work but is work."
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"If you go out there and your main purpose is to get a sponsor, then it's not gonna work. Just go out there and have fun. That's how I got sponsored."
Ryan Sheckler
"If you go out there and your main purpose is to get a sponsor, then it's not gonna work. Just go out there and have fun. That's how I got sponsored."
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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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