Studs Terkel Quotes
Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding.
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It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking our careers will come to a standstill, or worse, crash and burn if we aren't social media butterflies.
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
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It's not so easy to forgive.
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New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone.
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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.
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It's so easy to get used to playing a role. Then all of the sudden when you're tossed out of it, it's almost like you have to remember how to act again!
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Doing the long lines - it looks easy when actresses do it: they just say it straight up, looks like they do nothing wrong, they just keep going, but it's not like that.
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My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.
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It wasn't easy to get here, and it will not be easy to take my title away from me.
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Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
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In tennis it's easy to get greedy - and one Grand Slam doesn't feel enough any more.
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And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have.
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Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.
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It's good to be difficult to know. Too many people are too easy to know.
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If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me.
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Having egregious divorces - where you just hate each other - is really the easy way out.
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Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy.
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When a role seems fun it's easy to play. It kind of comes organically.
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I was worried a bit at the beginning because I didn't know how the situation was. Once the ATP wanted to do the tournament, I realised there was no risk at all. I'm very sorry about what happened. It's not easy to be here knowing so many people were killed very near from here.
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We'd like to just write nothing but lyric poetry. The trouble is, the individual is going along intent on his own personal gratifications and love affairs and financial affairs and everything else. But loping alongside him is this fascist lout who keeps trying to take over. And if you keep ignoring him, he gets bigger and bigger, so every once in a while the free individual has to turn away from his private pursuits and give this fascist lout a few clouts, and beat him down to size.
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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
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Bottom line is, off-beat film or commercial films, Tollywood or Bollywood, it's the role that matters to me.
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Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding.
