Work Quotes
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The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
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Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
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As Mayor of San Francisco, I will work hard to ensure that, in the event of natural or man-made disasters, San Franciscans are prepared and our City is protected.
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The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and the character is interesting, then, as an actor, that's the raw material I need.
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I'm such a robot when it comes to work.
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I would love to work in a Bollywood film as there is so much drama and colour in the films there.
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The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.
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It's more important to fly midpoint in deals and work together than to try to haggle for the last dollar.
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I was able to work with two heads. If anything, doing ads and other commercial work were at least exercises in discipline.
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Characters work really well when they're reflective of the times that they're operating in.
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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
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What I see now is the consumerisation of IT. I don't want my company to tell me that I have to use a BlackBerry or I have to use a Windows phone. I just want to use the phone I want and have it all work.
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In high school in the early Sixties, I dreamed of intellectual work by women that would match the highest male standards and set men on their ear. A lot of women have done a lot of academic work since then, but most of them fall short of that standard.
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I would be happy if they just gave out nominations and there weren't any Oscars. But winning them is definitely an experience - to get up there and make a speech. Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level.
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We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
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The way I work is I like to immerse myself in the world of the film and in the character's lives, and then from that, I get a lot of ideas of how the film could be made, how it could be told.
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My whole career, my swing has always been the most important thing to me. Even when I'm taking a shower, I work on my swing.
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The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
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I had a bad experience doing public speaking at school. I had to talk about a pen for five minutes and it was really hard work. I couldn't wait to get off the stage.
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I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
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I think Douglas was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real science that he could make science fiction work as well as it did. And just such fun to have around, he was just such a lovely man.
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I was never interested in playing him with a big red S on his chest. I’m much more attracted to the underbelly stuff. Gibbs is a loner, with emotional scars a mile deep that run in a million different directions. At work, he’s a leader. But who is he if you take away his job? I play him, and even I don’t know the answer to that.
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Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
