Denise Duhamel Quotes
My advice to my younger self would have been, "Chill. Concentrate on the poems. Everything else will work itself out."
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.
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We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.
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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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I think great artists have no time to waste with having disproportionate egos and irrational requests. They're too focused on their work to actually lose themselves in hysterical spirals where they become monsters or tyrants.
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Many young adults I have communicated with - both in-person and over email - constantly apologize before stating their idea, or finish each sentence with a question. Unfortunately, doing so in business puts you at an immediate disadvantage with your boss and work colleagues.
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We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.
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Sometimes when you're looking at your own work, you can't really see, and it's only when you step back a little bit later that you think, 'Oh, that's completely in line with everything else I've done.'
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I feel like I've been fortunate enough that I've gotten to meet and work with some really passionate people.
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I have no regrets. I wanted to raise the kids and be a present father. When I developed a movie, I was gone for a year. That didn't really work for me. That isn't fair to make these life-forms and then disappear.
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My work is a self-portrait of my mind, a prism of my convictions.
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We will work to bring an element of stability to the price of oil.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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All day long they work so hard till the sun is goin' down. Working on the highways and byways and wearing, wearing a frown. You hear them moanin' their lives away. Then you hear somebody say: 'That's the sound of the men working on the chain gang. That's the sound of the men working on the chain gang.'
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I want to be clear: The United States of America has done what we said we would do. That’s not to say that our work is complete.
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You are my pride and joyAnd I just love you, little darlin'Like a baby boy loves his toyYou've got kisses sweeter than honeyAnd I work every day to give you all I knowAnd that's why you're my pride and joy.
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The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite.
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I am highly critical of myself. I am never satisfied with my work.
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I work 6:00 a.m. to midnight, seven days a week.
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There's a lot of fashion that I don't respond to and I just walk on. I always look for things that make me happy, and in my work, all I'm doing is trying to convey that joy. Fashion should always be fun.
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I have learned that I will not pay any attention to anything people say about my movies, because people say things that are all over the place.
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I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.
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I think everything that I've done, I've been involved with for longer. Either you develop it from scratch, or you take something, and you develop it, and you work on the script, but I'm not sure how good I'd be at just sort of taking a piece of material and being a director for hire like that.
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I just wanna make music that people love. If they love the next project that I put out, 'Thank you' because that means that I can take care of my family.
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My advice to my younger self would have been, "Chill. Concentrate on the poems. Everything else will work itself out."
