Sam Abell Quotes

My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

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• People get TV deals by doing something in their grandmother's basement. It is definitely the wave. Everybody is trying to do all that stuff. I mean, the Internet is the only reason that I've gotten work is because I've somehow created a line and people have seen it. And then I've been asked to auditions.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
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• From a motivation perspective, helping others enriches the meaning and purpose of our own lives, showing us that our contributions matter and energizing us to work harder, longer, and smarter.

  

  Adam Grant
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• In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.

  

  J. I. Packer
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• I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time.

  

  Edie Campbell
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• When you start to think about politicians, you've got to realize these are strange creatures. Other than the fact that they can't tell directions, and they have very strange breeding habits, how do you actually work with these things?

  

  Omar Ahmad
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• If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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• I'm shy. I am. I mean, if I get around, you know, in a room of a bunch of people especially I - you know, I don't know or - it takes me a while to warm up. I'm - and the real me, I'm not as witty as, you know, as the comic Wanda. The comic, she's had time to work on some things.

  

  Wanda Sykes
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• I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It's best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• A lot of newspaper columns used to be written in a rat-a-tat-tat, fast-paced style - and they tended to be funny. They were a little relief from the grimmer, grayer parts of the newspaper, and one of the best people at doing this was Will Rogers.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• I always joke with people that having nephews is the best birth control there is.

  

  Tahj Mowry
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• However careful a tramp may be to avoid places where there is abundant work, he cannot always succeed.

  

  W. H. Davies
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• The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
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• Human connection is the way things work. It's like a patronage system. You know somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows the district governor, and it's okay.

  

  Ian Frazier
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• Above and beyond drawing my creations, I try to incorporate some kind of message. I try not to end as merely a question but try to provide a conclusion within the work.

  

  Natsuki Takaya
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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.

  

  Xavier Dolan
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• The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.

  

  Kara Walker
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  • History
  • Past

• Voting to go on strike is not a decision working people take lightly and is always accompanied by a strong sense of injustice at work. The impact of losing a day's pay is significant, not least for those in the lowest paid jobs who are already on the tightest budgets.

  

  Frances O'Grady
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• Many people who want to be great aren't willing to do the work to make it possible!

  

  Zig Ziglar
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• I definitely have had a couple of years where I've been working constantly, but it never goes away, that worry that you'll never work again. It's a funny job. It never gets easier. Rejection never gets easier.

  

  Chloe Pirrie
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• We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law, closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards.

  

  Ma Jun
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• If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.

  

  Bodhidharma
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• People are forgetting how crazy President 43 was.

  

  Jason Jones
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• I'm very interested, for instance, in music in education - getting young people not only to listen to, but participate in the music that I write. I consider this one of the most vital aspects of my work.

  

  Peter Maxwell Davies
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• My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

  

  Sam Abell
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