Work Quotes
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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If I'm in the car after a bad game, I may think about ways I need to improve. But the second I reach home, the game's over. Work doesn't come inside with me. Same thing in reverse - I don't bring my personal life into the ballpark. Learning to keep it all separate has made life easier.
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Films work due to scripts, characters, and what you see on screen.
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I was able to go on stage and work until it felt right or felt good. It meant that I very quickly realised that it was the job for me.
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I come from Venezuela, from the independent film arena, and you work with one camera.
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I'm from the creative side of Hollywood. I'm up for anyone that wants to support my work. If you have eyeballs and give me a budget and are nice to me, I'm in.
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Anything I do informs how I design. I wouldn't isolate any one activity. Everything I do feeds back to my life, and my life is expressed in my work.
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I'm from durable stock. I'm made to work. I'm Irish.
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The most important thing I've done at work has been to surround myself with amazing people who I trust and empower fully to do stuff better than I could.
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Like I said in my election manifesto - why don't they legalise the whole thing and let people like me work?
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My mother always said to me, 'You're going to have to work harder and have to be better, and you can't take no for an answer'.
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In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
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Everyone has their set of problems and I'm certainly not going to sensationalize mine or try to evoke pity or sympathy out of people because I don't think they warrant that sort of thing. That's my private karma that I have to work out.
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I really want to work in a movie with Quentin Tarantino. I think he makes fantastic movies. I love people that create a different reality for the actors to live in.
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'Ragtime' is about how we get through ugliness, how we talk together, work together, get through it together.
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What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong.
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You learn from it, then you have to come back to work. I've been in this predicament many times.
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Oh, I do a tremendous amount of rewriting. I just obsessively rewrite. Although sometimes there are sections, sometimes you're just lucky and a paragraph will just kind of come out. And that's great. But that's not ordinary in a day's work.
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Even if I'd wanted to work at Goldman Sachs, they weren't going to hire me, because I was saying things like, 'That's a dumb question' when I was asked something stupid in the interviews. I just didn't have a lot of respect for authority.
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Celebrity has become, for better or worse, an art form. An artist can use themselves as a medium to become a celebrity as a walking work of art.
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I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves.
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On a regular basis if you're trying to produce something, I think you should work every day and set achievable goals.
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It would indeed be a sad misfortune if man were released from the necessity of work and struggle, for it is a well-known fact that organs which do not function atrophy; and according to the old saying, 'Idleness is the devil's workshop.'
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I'd really love to watch David Lynch work, to be a fly on the wall.
