Work Quotes
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I go into any movie that's historical fiction thinking, 'OK, I'm here to watch a work of art, something delivering a series of opinions, and if it's a good work of art, these opinions become so deeply embedded in complexity and richness that I won't even be bothered by the opinions. I'll make my own mind up.'
Tony Kushner
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When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.
Natalie Gulbis
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It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status.
Madeleine Peyroux
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A lot of our music came out of a lot of weird psychology and weird emotions. When you play the whole body of work, you get tossed all over the place. It's not easy listening. It's not even comfortable to listen to.
Dave Davies The Kinks
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Investment banking is not a business; it is a personal service where bankers work hand in hand with their clients. And it is a service that must not simply be about making bigger and bigger deals that reap rewards for only a small group of executives.
Felix Rohatyn
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The work of our missionaries is a magnificent expression of the Lord's redeeming love.
D. Todd Christofferson
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I don't read much when I'm working. When I'm finished work, I don't want a thing to do with words.
Pauline Gedge
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I will continue to work to maintain Planned Parenthood's ability to provide excellent health care to millions of women.
Jan Schakowsky
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Much like film, authors spend a fair amount of time alone in the creative process, tossing their work out into what can feel like an abyss, void of real people.
Mary Pilon
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When meetings are the norm - the first resort, the go-to tool to discuss, debate, and solve every problem - they no longer work.
Jason Fried
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When I have a job to do, time means nothing. I lose patience with people who work on a clock.
Don Cornelius
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I was a student of Stella Adler and then later Lee Strasberg, and they were into sensory work. At its best, acting is not about words - even when the words are important.
Mark Margolis
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Work begets work. Just work. If you work, people will find out about you and want to work with you if you're good. So work anywhere you can. That's why I've changed my mind about these theatres where people work for free or have to pay money. I think it's kind of terrible that they feel they have to, but you know what? They're working.
John Carroll Lynch
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To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
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To organize work in such a manner that it becomes meaningless, boring, stultifying, or nerve-racking for the worker would be little short of criminal; it would indicate a greater concern with goods than with people, an evil lack of compassion and a soul-destroying degree of attachment to the most primitive side of this worldly existence.
E. F. Schumacher
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I don't live on the West Coast, so when I come out to work, I rent a house.
Joe Morton
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I like working with the public, and I like that it's really hard work.
Amy Sedaris
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Gansey asked, 'Do you have time to run an errand with us? Do you have work? Homework?''No homework. I got suspended,' Blue replied.'Get the fuck out,' Ronan said, but with admiration. 'Sargent, you asshole.'Blue reluctantly allowed him to bump fists with her.
Maggie Stiefvater
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You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.
Haile Gebrselassie
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What's great about acting is you can let all your wackiness hang out while you work.
Ian McShane
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Being a film director involves, above all, a lot of hard work and resolve and determination. The glamour doesn't come until the premiere and the thing is all long done.
D. W. Griffith
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I find talking about my work harder than it might be if honesty wasn't my calling card.
Alice Sebold
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Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its stylistic 'family' in the world outside.
Brian Ferneyhough
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As a young boy growing up in Rohtak, India, I had no idea what my life's work would be. But my parents instilled in me something that I have never forgotten: that work must have a sense of purpose beyond mere financial gain; that to be meaningful, work should make a positive and lasting difference in the lives of others.
Punit Renjen