Work Quotes
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I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics.
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At first, we lived in very, very small places... with my mom cleaning houses and scrounging up just enough to keep us in town with a working car. She introduced me to my first agent, and I started with stand-in work, then eventually commercials and television guest-shots.
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Not to sound cliché or anything, but with the downtime that I have and the possible platform that my work could give me, I'd like to figure out a way to give back and make a difference, you know?
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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I know NBC pays my salary but I have never doubted who I work for. I think about the people who watch. They're the ones who matter to me.
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I was taught to value hard work. At the end of day, I'm just Olivia.
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My only plan every day is to get up and go to work, work hard and come back home. And whatever else needs to happen in my life will come in its own time.
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I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
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I work out, I go to pilates, I walk and I eat everything I can get my hands on.
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I am hunting for people who would be a good colleague or a teammate, not someone who works for me.
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My CIA colleagues were smart, dedicated, funny, and creative. Yes, there was sometimes stifling bureaucracy, boredom, colleagues who never should have been there, and later, deeply disturbing stories of the CIA's involvement in torture. Still, I got to do work I thought was incredibly important and, many times, had fun doing it.
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The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy.
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I have always wanted to work with Lingusamy, as he is a master of commercial cinema. I have always admired his etching of female characters.
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I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.
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There's so much bullying with young people and them feeling like they can't come out, and they don't know what to do. And it's something that you have to work through. And, you know, for me, it was - I came out, and then I went back in for a minute. And then I came out, and I was like, 'You know what? This is who I am.'
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The beauty of soaps is that it takes a village to make it work, and you get to work with really hardworking people.
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That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.
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I ... will not let the attacks put me off. As far as I am concerned, it is just a normal day at work.
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Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.
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I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it.
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I think there are always phases in life when things get intense or difficult, whether it's the sheer volume of work or personal circumstances. And I've definitely had tough moments. The way I approach them is just to tell myself that this, too, will pass, and take it one day at a time.
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We have great power to affect the attitudes and behavior of the people around us, at work and at home. We have the power to set a tone of honor, to create an energy around ourselves that says, 'I respect myself. I respect you. Let's respect each other.'
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The work must be its own reward. I got that early on. And I'm blessed by meeting my own standards of excellence.
