Work Quotes
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I really love working. It makes me feel like an even better person when I work. I function much better if I have a really rigid schedule. When I'm left to my own devices, I can just be all over the place.
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I don't think there is anything owed to us. You've got to go out and work hard for every round win.
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My junior year, I was in a play at school and five days before opening night, I still didn't know my lines. Opening night was a disaster. I was so embarrassed. The director made me work backstage for the rest of the performance.
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I think all of us are multitasking a little more today than we used to or than we would like to. And I think that the issue of work-life balance is a critical issue for every company around the world.
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Work is really wrapped up with identity. Work is not just money for most people.
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If you know you're supported, you're going to work harder, you're going to be more focused on your mission.
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People say that the best part about doing animation is that you don't have to dress up to go to work, but I don't believe that. I dress up to go to work. I dress up for an airplane. I think it's just focusing your skillset, focusing on your voice and the comedy.
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You never sit on your laurels. It is always a case of trying to work on your deficiencies as much as working on your strengths.
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I was not a very good mother. I was always running out to do a movie or something. If I had to do it over, I would either have a career or children. I wouldn't do both unless I could work in my home. I spent 20 years feeling guilty, which is not a very nice emotion.
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I want to do work, but I also want to have a good time.
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There's something about the schedule of working in TV that's attractive. You know exactly what the next six months is going to be like: You'll work Monday through Friday and have the weekends off, and then there's going to be a hiatus here, so you can kind of plan a little bit.
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I had worked for a lot of directors whose work I didn't respect, and as I was editing material, I was thinking about how I would have shot the scenes and what I would have done to make the scenes better. After several years of that, I got to the point that I was pretty confident I could sit in the director's chair.
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That's a great feeling to know that I'm going into a project that I have no idea what will become of that movie, but I really trust Ang Lee. And I really trusted Ron. It's just really nice to work with people that you feel that way about.
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One of the things that was most shocking to me about starting to work in the funeral industry is just how industrial the environment is.
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I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea.
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Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.
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I don't ascribe to the idea of the ivory tower composer who sits alone in a room composing his masterpieces and then comes down from Mount Sinai with the tablets. It doesn't work like that. The job of a composer is putting something down on a piece of paper that will inspire the person who's playing.
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Most historians don't much like generalizations. Indeed, they make a trade of showing that this or that generalization about the past will not work here or there or then.
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I only want my work to make people happy.
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We make a contract within ourselves as actors or directors or writers about how much of ourselves we let into projects. You can actually figure out before you work on something how much blood you will have to let emotionally.
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If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.
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Yes, doing a work, telling a story very much represents a way to save my own life, and on so many levels.
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The corporate world has the resources to improve the world. It's where people live and work.
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My parents pushed us very hard to work, both in the home, doing chores and cooking, and at school.
