Work Quotes
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When I am presented with good work, I accept it. Wherever it is.
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Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.
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The word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied; nevertheless, because all elements of a synergetic system support one another, they also support the whole.
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I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.
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Work begets work.
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Yes, I was mad at God because of the cancer diagnosis. I thought I should have been protected because of the work I do in the world.
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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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Rich kids work hard. Most black kids aren't working hard enough.
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I don't need any more press. I get enough when I work, but environmental causes is one place where you can get me to open my mouth. And put my foot in it if necessary. I think the only thing I do that gives me any bragging rights in terms of energy conservation is sailing. Just using wind power.
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The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute.
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I've become a lot more tolerant; I think before I talk. I can take a lot now. I don't get as angry as I used to. Whenever I do, I channel my anger into my work.
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Doing things in my day was simple: you either signed to a big label or you signed to a very small label, and you worked with that one, and then they eventually signed you on to a big one.
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The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilliser.
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Whatever the creative industry, when you're confronted with the challenge of coming up with a Big Idea, always work with the most talented, innovative mind available. Hopefully... that's you.
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Every once in a while I run the Olympic downhill in Japan in my head. I think of how the energy is going to flow and then I make it all work for myself.
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I think acting is a gift. I look at someone like Ben Kingsley, and he's incredibly charismatic, even when he's not acting. He's an incredibly hard worker, and he has a very specific system that he does with his work.
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I think constraints are very important. They're positive, because they allow you to work off something.
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The people we send to Washington have to roll up their sleeves, stop the fighting, and work together on issues that are not political, not partisan, but personal to families across our state and our nation.
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Anyone who puts 110% into their work deserves as much success as they can get.
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All I do is work, so I eat to live and to keep going.
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Being a musician, especially at the major label where you work for so long, it becomes a cycle. Write a record, make a record, tour. It's just this cycle, and I don't think there's any life built into it with time to assimilate what's going on in front of you and what's going on in your head.
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I have done all that I came into this world to do. I have worked task work, and have the rest of the day to myself.
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Fans are very emotional people, and when they have seen you with some people and they like your chemistry, they expect you to work with the same person again.
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When someone says 'Action,' you just get on with it and hope that that is translated onto the screen for other people to see. All you can ever do is work as hard as you can on it and make sure you're doing your job.
