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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This is the conundrum of the present regimes in the Arab world. They still want to control youth; they want to be in control as they did in the 1950s and '60s. But that doesn't work anymore. Now with just a Wi-Fi link, you can understand what's happening in the world.
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I hope to work till I'm an old lady.
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Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.
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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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Out-innovating them is the way to beat China. And to do everything that we do in this country to support innovative policy, that drives innovation and new products and more jobs and creates jobs. You can't - you can't put a wall up around here. We tried that in the '30s. It didn't work.
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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 didn't do my work for money or prizes - only for the excitement of discovery.
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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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One of the things I've observed since I was a kid, is that if you work on something long enough you'll find I, even if you're lost for a while you'll find it.
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There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies.
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What makes writing a memoir difficult is harder to quantify. Is it learning to know when you're ready to talk about something? Is it seeing the structure in a lumpen mass of fact? Is it finding out what you were really like as other people saw you? Yes to each.
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I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
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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.
