Work Quotes
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Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets.
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The things are mighty few on earthThat wishes can attain.Whate'er we want of any worthWe've got to work to gain.
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It's always been a dream of mine to do a voice for a Disney movie. I think Disney movies and theater are very closely related. That would be amazing. I don't know about doing a Broadway musical, just because I don't really know how people do it. You just work all the time. That's something that I would definitely have to work up to.
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Life is continued work. It's constant learning. The whole concept of retirement I don't even buy into. We should constantly be working. Maybe not physically working, but we could be spiritually, emotionally working toward bettering ourselves and bettering the lives of others around us.
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We need to send hundreds of millions of dollars down to our public high schools, vocational colleges, and community colleges to begin training people in the green-collar work of the future - things like solar-panel installation, retrofitting buildings that are leaking energy, wastewater reclamation, organic food, materials reuse and recycling.
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I know that anybody who does all this and doesn't have to, everything thinks she's very driven. The truth is, I enjoy it all so! Can't it be that simple? I think it is! I don't feel overworked. I get a constant kick out of being heavily committed. Is that sick or something? God, what would I do sitting still?
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I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work.
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Wrongful convictions happen every week in every state in this country. And they happen for all the same reasons. Sloppy police work. Eyewitness identification is the most - is the worst type almost. Because it's wrong about half the time. Think about that.
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A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels.
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I'm lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions.
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Roger [Corman] didn't actually hire me, though. I was hired by AIP [American International Pictures], the studio that made the picture, which was Sam Arkoff and Jim Nicholson. It was a great learning experience for me, because not only did I work on the script, but they hired me back to go on location when they were making the movie, to write new scenes and so forth.
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Anytime I write something that's trying to be too smart, it doesn't work.
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The greatest testimony to the human spirit that I'm witnessing now is the fact that people still come back to work, after all that has been done to them. They are still willing to participate for a more positive future if they would be sincerely invited.
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Everyone thinks something like 'The Hills' just falls into your lap. It's not true. You have to work for everything.
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Weather is uncontrollable. Only the Lord above can control the weather. Whatever we get, we have to work with.
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Let's put it this way: I don't have a good work ethic. I have a real casual relationship with hours. I don't understand why, in entertainment, the hours are as long as they are. It seems like everything takes forever, and no one can tell you why, exactly.
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Luckily, I had that experience on 'Homeland,' to work with these unreal people who are unbelievably talented, great actors.
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I don't think fashion people know about my work. Some collectors find some of the work too intense.
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I try to bring all that I am to my work and all that I experience. That includes how people react to the way I am - the prejudice and the celebrations.
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Best Buy went and hired a lot of Shanghai staff, but went and westernised them. They only work eight hours a day!
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Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.
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Honestly, I spend very little time thinking about past events, and I certainly don't have them ranked in any way. I look back and think that I have done a lot of good work over the years, but I am much more excited about what the future holds.
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Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition. I don't do this and can't stomach it, honestly.
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I do not believe in a label on a shirt or a dress should tell me that I can't wear a T-shirt or a pant because it should say "women's"or "men's" on it, you know? That's just not how it should work.
