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		I'm not really a knob-twiddler. I always work with an engineer; I'm not super hands-on when it comes to mixing boards and computers. I'm much more about what I'm hearing and what it needs to be like. I deal with songs and ideas and instruments.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		I always watch the work I do. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Tamara Tunie 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		People look at stuff like 'Godzilla' and 'Avengers' and think I only do blockbusters, or however you wanna put it, but in reality, I can make double or triple what I got paid for 'Avengers' by doing other stuff - there are other options, but I don't want to work with this person or that person, and so I don't do it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Aaron Taylor-Johnson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Carly Fiorina 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was hoping, actually, that being on the other side of the camera in a scary movie, see how it's filmed and maybe you won't be as scared next time you watch one... didn't really work out! Because I know it's fake, but I just get so into it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Taissa Farmiga 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I don't look at emails, Internet or newspapers before 1 P.M. I wake at 7 A.M., eat fruit, drink tea or coffee, and read what I've achieved, or not achieved, the previous day. Then I take a shower and work on my next sentence until 1 P.M. After I've done emails and so on, I write again from 3 P.M. until 8 P.M.; then I socialise. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Orhan Pamuk 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Larry Wall 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		There's no possibility that foresight work will ruin my creativity. It goes to a different area than the creative wellspring of SF. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Karl Schroeder 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Xavier Rudd 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ursula Burns 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In America, people buy cars, and they put very little money down. They get a car, and they go to work. The work pays them a salary; the salary allows them to pay for the car over time. The car pays for itself. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Iqbal Quadir 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm an actor that likes to go to work. I like going to work every day. I'm a worker by nature. I'm not someone who does one film a year and feels satisfied by that. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rachael Taylor 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		While I was at Cornell in engineering, I was an engineering co-op student, and that turned out to be very valuable because we'd go out every other term to work in industry and have that close association with industry. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Irwin M. Jacobs 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Florence Welch 
			 
			
				Florence and the Machine  
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jackie Cooper 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				A. Bartlett Giamatti 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A novelist's lack of awareness of and critical distance to his own body of work is due to a phenomenon that I have noticed in myself and many others: as soon as it is written, every new book erases the last one, leaving me with the impression that I have forgotten it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Patrick Modiano 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think a generation ago, dads went to work, they came home, and they had their dinner, had a drink, and then went to bed. I don't know what it was like in your house, but that is how it was in mine. I think it is cool to have the dads in the trenches and doing the real parenting work. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zach Cregger 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Having your stuff online - some people think of it as gimmicky, but in a way, it's one of the most pure forms of having your work judged. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Tavi Gevinson