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"The thing with me, I can't talk about my work. I find it very difficult."
Mark E. Smith
"The thing with me, I can't talk about my work. I find it very difficult."
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"I think they quite like me when I work because I'm one of the safer directors to back, because even if my films don't bring their costs in back home, once they're shown outside of India they manage to cover the costs."
Satyajit Ray
"I think they quite like me when I work because I'm one of the safer directors to back, because even if my films don't bring their costs in back home, once they're shown outside of India they manage to cover the costs."
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"The potential elite runner must realize that hard means hard, easy means easy and they must patiently seek out what combinations work for them. They have to learn to be persistent and patient with their training and racing."
Frank Shorter
"The potential elite runner must realize that hard means hard, easy means easy and they must patiently seek out what combinations work for them. They have to learn to be persistent and patient with their training and racing."
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"Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on."
Ford Frick
"Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on."
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"Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day."
Mickey Rooney
"Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day."
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"My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor."
Harrison Ford
"My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor."
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"In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature; but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty."
John Strachan
"In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature; but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty."
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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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"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work."
Peter Drucker
"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work."
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"But day in and day out, the most stimulating part of the work is being a member of a team of so many very bright, articulate and talented professionals."
Randy West
"But day in and day out, the most stimulating part of the work is being a member of a team of so many very bright, articulate and talented professionals."
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"It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased."
Georgia O'Keeffe
"It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased."
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"There's always a question of duration, there's a question of who the orchestra is. No one is free to write what you want - you collaborate on a film score, and one of the good things is that someone else's work is motivating you."
Michael Nyman
"There's always a question of duration, there's a question of who the orchestra is. No one is free to write what you want - you collaborate on a film score, and one of the good things is that someone else's work is motivating you."
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"I've always wanted to work with Paul Newman. I had a couple opportunities in the past, and I didn't take advantage of it, so it was really fun to be working with him."
Ed Harris
"I've always wanted to work with Paul Newman. I had a couple opportunities in the past, and I didn't take advantage of it, so it was really fun to be working with him."
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"The last 16 years of my daddy's life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that."
Buck Owens
"The last 16 years of my daddy's life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that."
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"You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor - no matter what you do, and how you twist it."
Robert Frank
"You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor - no matter what you do, and how you twist it."
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"I live with an 18-month-old Jack Russell named Chicken. He moved in about 15 months ago, and it was very hard at first because I work a lot and he doesn't."
Liev Schreiber
"I live with an 18-month-old Jack Russell named Chicken. He moved in about 15 months ago, and it was very hard at first because I work a lot and he doesn't."
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"Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end."
David Niven
"Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end."
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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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"The worst manifestations of exhaustion were successfully cured by a long period of rest but it was immediately apparent to me that I had lost once and for all my former capacity for carrying out experimental work until physically tired."
Wilhelm Ostwald
"The worst manifestations of exhaustion were successfully cured by a long period of rest but it was immediately apparent to me that I had lost once and for all my former capacity for carrying out experimental work until physically tired."
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"People are saying that I'm an alcoholic, and that's not true, because I only drink when I work, and I'm a workaholic."
Ron White
"People are saying that I'm an alcoholic, and that's not true, because I only drink when I work, and I'm a workaholic."
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"I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not the kind of work I'm interested in. And frankly, it's not the kind of work I'm ever going to get."
Randy Harrison
"I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not the kind of work I'm interested in. And frankly, it's not the kind of work I'm ever going to get."
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"The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell young actors to take charge. It's not that hard. Sign your own cheques, be responsible."
Tom Cruise
"The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell young actors to take charge. It's not that hard. Sign your own cheques, be responsible."
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"I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I've worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell you that hard work pays off. It's not just a cliche."
Cameron Diaz
"I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I've worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell you that hard work pays off. It's not just a cliche."
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"However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it."
Jim Hodges
"However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it."
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"We'll limit in all ways the work of religious faiths which are foreign to us."
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
"We'll limit in all ways the work of religious faiths which are foreign to us."
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"The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness."
Jerome Bruner
"The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness."
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"Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them."
Tracey Ullman
"Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them."
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"We must work to ensure that the Nevada Cancer Institute continues to receive the dollars necessary to make it a vibrant source of research and clinical assistance for cancer victims throughout the state of Nevada and the nation."
Jon Porter
"We must work to ensure that the Nevada Cancer Institute continues to receive the dollars necessary to make it a vibrant source of research and clinical assistance for cancer victims throughout the state of Nevada and the nation."
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"I've done work for hire. I've worked for DC and Dark Horse."
Rob Walton
"I've done work for hire. I've worked for DC and Dark Horse."
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"Telling lies does not work in advertising."
Stanislaw Lec
"Telling lies does not work in advertising."
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"There is no magic wand that can resolve our problems. The solution rests with our work and discipline."
Jose Eduardo Dos Santos
"There is no magic wand that can resolve our problems. The solution rests with our work and discipline."
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"Dimension regulated the general scale of the work, so that the parts may all tell and be effective."
Marcus V. Pollio
"Dimension regulated the general scale of the work, so that the parts may all tell and be effective."
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"The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it."
Wayne Gretzky
"The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it."
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"My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could only do that if I'm strong enough to keep on doing what I think best in an artistic way."
Javier Bardem
"My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could only do that if I'm strong enough to keep on doing what I think best in an artistic way."
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"So the first season about halfway through he just sort of put us together and then broke us up all within one episode. One of the ideas is to have us do that once a year - to have everything blow up in our faces and not work out."
Sarah Chalke
"So the first season about halfway through he just sort of put us together and then broke us up all within one episode. One of the ideas is to have us do that once a year - to have everything blow up in our faces and not work out."
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"Well, user feedback was excellent. Even when the software didn't work at all, there were few people who were avid users, and there were people who were just sending excellent feedback and excellent ideas."
Shawn Fanning
"Well, user feedback was excellent. Even when the software didn't work at all, there were few people who were avid users, and there were people who were just sending excellent feedback and excellent ideas."
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"Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that."
Paul Simon
"Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that."
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"A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself."
Dorothy Fields
"A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself."
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"I'm always pleased when people respond to the work."
Edward James Olmos
"I'm always pleased when people respond to the work."
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"Never work with kids or animals."
Cat Deeley
"Never work with kids or animals."
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"I always work on New Year's Eve, no matter what."
Debbie Harry
"I always work on New Year's Eve, no matter what."
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"The formula is the star. I couldn't work inside that formula."
Dianne Wiest
"The formula is the star. I couldn't work inside that formula."
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"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
Bruce Lee
"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
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"I learned the value of hard work by working hard."
Margaret Mead
"I learned the value of hard work by working hard."
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"You were told how much space so it was a matter of whether you could send in two paintings or three paintings, you know, pending where the show was being held. You did submit work to be accepted. Once you were accepted that was it. You did your own selection of what went in."
Lee Krasner
"You were told how much space so it was a matter of whether you could send in two paintings or three paintings, you know, pending where the show was being held. You did submit work to be accepted. Once you were accepted that was it. You did your own selection of what went in."
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"Some teachers had been trained to work out at Southern because I carried two out there. I carried a lady down here from Palmer's Crossing, used to play piano, and Billy Carter."
Charles Phillips
"Some teachers had been trained to work out at Southern because I carried two out there. I carried a lady down here from Palmer's Crossing, used to play piano, and Billy Carter."
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"Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry."
B. C. Forbes
"Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry."
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"The lessons of September 11 are that if we allow law enforcement to do their work free of political interference, if we give them adequate resources and modern technologies, we can protect our citizens without intruding on our liberties."
Lucille Roybal Allard
"The lessons of September 11 are that if we allow law enforcement to do their work free of political interference, if we give them adequate resources and modern technologies, we can protect our citizens without intruding on our liberties."
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"This book is pointing the way into it for people that see it as daunting or a mystery. Some people just do it, but others need help with the mindset, permission almost to listen to themselves. Understanding how things work is the key."
Sally Schneider
"This book is pointing the way into it for people that see it as daunting or a mystery. Some people just do it, but others need help with the mindset, permission almost to listen to themselves. Understanding how things work is the key."
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"There is nothing difficult about my work, and people get to hear it from me."
Tracey Emin
"There is nothing difficult about my work, and people get to hear it from me."
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