Oprah Winfrey Quotes
When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
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I am just like Dr. Armaan - fun-loving, flirtatious, and tension-free. I am serious about my work, but apart from that, I am always playing pranks on people. As a viewer, I relate more to 'Dil Mill Gayye.'
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I hope to work till I'm an old lady.
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It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.
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Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.
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Sony is the coolest studio. They are really amazing. I think part of it comes from they're not an American corporation. They don't work by quite the same rules. And their studio heads have a lot of autonomy.
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Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.
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Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns.
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I think, initially, working on your own is really great because it allows you to just be really free and not worry about how things are perceived or if people are going to think you're an idiot. And once that becomes ingrained, at least for me, I think I'll feel really comfortable to work with other people and still feel that same freedom.
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I want to do work that has a message and casts a light over an area that's dark. But I'm fun and jovial, too.
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Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.
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My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers.
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People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the war started, including my parents, said, 'Oh, its temporary.' It lasted 17 years! People tend to underestimate the gravity of these situations. That's how they work.
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All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.
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I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.
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I would recommend going out for more independent films. You can get bigger roles and really work your acting chops and build a reel.
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Music really gets me going, so I've always got to make sure I have my iPod to give me energy to work out.
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The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.
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It makes me happy to work. And it makes me a better mother to be a happy person.
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At this stage of my life I would rather try and have some small impact within a company and suffer through those things than make such a big stink that nobody can trust to work with you. It's very important in an environment of a big institution that people don't feel threatened that you're going to expose them in any way.
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Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
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The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture.
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Hey, sexy. Why haven’t you called?” The cooing sound came from behind me, and I glanced back over my shoulder to see a familiar-looking brunette. “Because I’m the asshole who never calls,” I replied with a wink.
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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.
