Work Quotes
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What I learned, more than anything, was that you can't have it all balanced perfectly at any one time. When I was young, it was much more balanced toward work. When I had my children, it was much more balanced toward love and family, and I didn't get a lot of work done. So you can't ask of it to be perfectly balanced at any time, but your hope is, before you die, you've somehow had each of those spheres come to life. That's probably more important than success in any one of those spheres alone.
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It has made me realise how many doors open for you when you're up for an Oscar. It seems once you are nominated, it validates you as a serious director, and you become someone that people want to work with.
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Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.
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I think I'm a common man for the most part, but I don't work as hard as most people that I know.
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My job is to work hard and be honest with my character, and that's in my control. I can only try to give my best performance.
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That's what I care about is the people I work with and representing them and helping to make their music apparent for the rest of the world.
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I was very excited to work with Nick Jarecki and, of course, to be in a film with Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon!
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When 'Pune-52' was offered to me, I liked the script, but I wasn't convinced about the kissing and other intimate scenes. I tried talking to the director, but things didn't work out.
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When you agree to work with a filmmaker, it's important that you accept their world. It's an adventure. I like that. I throw myself into the director's arms, into their universe.
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I want to raise my kids, I want to get them through their teenage years. ... I do love my work with the UN and with PSVI so if I can do more of that and be more effective I will do whatever I can.
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I was really interested in geishas' work, and wanted to meet real geishas.
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I work real hard so the reader doesn't have to. I don't want them to have to look up words.
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I'd love to work with Rachel McAdams, because she's a great actress.
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When we shot 'The Lord of the Rings,' we had special permission to film in wild areas of New Zealand that could be accessed only by helicopter. They would drop us off and we would work all day, and they'd pick us up and take us out again.
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When you're starting a new business, you don't need to know much about it. A lot of the work is blocking and tackling - it's the same type of stuff no matter what sector you're in.
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With acting, I felt like I had a lot to prove because I didn't study it; I didn't work my way up in a traditional sense.
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There is something to be said for people who have to work hard, be creative, produce what they have with little - or no - means. Those of us from poor homes have the advantage of thinking for ourselves and of knowing that when times get hard, things could always be worse.
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I'm interested in creating new work.
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Whenever I get to work with great actors, I'm happy.
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The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.
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Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!
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I'm 6' 6''. It's hard to find golf clubs that fit you right and work right.
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Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information.
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I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results.
