Work Quotes
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My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.
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Part of the reason why my folks - why any immigrant family - wants their kids to go into law or medicine is because there's the promise of reliable work. That's a powerful idea that got hammered into my head growing up: Be this thing, or else you'll starve.
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At my core, I know that the American Dream is about the opportunity to work hard to make your future.
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Eventually you get bored and you want to work.
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Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.
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As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.
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When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it out as you see so many people do in lesser work.
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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.
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This we do know: a world that begins to witness the rebirth of trust among nations can find its way to a peace that is neither partial nor punitive. With all who will work in good faith toward such a peace, we are ready, with renewed resolve, to strive to redeem the near-lost hopes of our day.
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My job is to engage, entertain, work out my life, tell a certain truth.
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I think I've had the opportunity to work for people because I wanted to and because I thought they were good people, and therefore everything I do, I can do with sincerity.
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Claire Danes in 'Homeland' just blew me away. She is so intuitive, and her choices are so unique. When you see somebody like that work, you just have to stop in your tracks. It is a lesson in what good acting really is, and it is so inspiring to be around.
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You do your work as fully as you can, and the ones who hear the sound join in.
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I think Don Cheadle has always done great work.
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When you're going for a joke, you're stuck out there if it doesn't work. There's nowhere to go. You've done the drum role and the cymbal clash and you're out on the end of the plank.
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There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.
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You have a very poor neighborhood. You have students that are required to go to school. They have no money, no habit of work. What if you paid them in the afternoon to work in the clerical office or as the assistant librarian?
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Using the Internet as as vehicle to work with people is fascinating. It's sort of a Pandora's box of energy for me.
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For me, there is no day or night for music. I often work through the night - without phone calls disturbing me.
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The pressure, the heat, the almost impossibly fast pace at which you need work - this is the reality of working in the culinary industry. This is what professional chefs do night after night.
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I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.
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My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.
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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.
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I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.
