Work Quotes
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One of the challenges with period costumes is, on a technical level, making the scale of different periods work on contemporary bodies. We're much bigger than what people were in older times.
Colleen Atwood -
I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.
Thomas A. Edison
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It's a tremendous challenge now: to make sure the green economy is big enough that there is enough labor demand that people who've been thrown out of work can be re-employed AND people who are new to the workforce can be employed. And that is going to be very difficult.
Van Jones -
When I find those actors who are going to work that hard and collaborate that deeply, my role is to make sure there's a whole lot there for them to work with.
Debra Granik -
For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.
Vincent Van Gogh -
From 1985 to 1994, I lived in Manhattan in a big old loft right off Times Square. I could walk to work, which was in a couple of Broadway theaters, to Howard Stern's studio, and to 30 Rock for 'Letterman' and 'SNL.' Even in New York, walking to work is homey and folksy, like living in a small town.
Penn Jillette -
A richly detailed, poignant, and utterly fascinating look into another culture and how it is cross-pollinated by our own. It brings to mind the work of Ha Jin in its power and revelation of the new.
T. C. Boyle -
You aren't a true husband/man until you've done the work of a wife/women.
Leon Uris
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There are interactions with characters within the game which I think are pretty neatly done considering the limitations that you have to work with. I mean, a computer can't really generate a character that talks back and forth with you successfully.
Fred Saberhagen -
There's no such thing as a self-made man. I've had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.
B. C. Forbes -
Over the near term there is clearly the opportunity to work with Microsoft to do to a better job of creating a more secure Windows experience for users around the world.
John W. Thompson -
Most of the day I work standing up, as I once read somewhere that it's the best position for the back.
Anthony Browne -
You won't see me in a better mood than 4:00 in the morning on my way to work.
Christina Ricci -
When there wasn't a lot of work, I wrote a screenplay, 'What Lies Beneath,' which got noticed and got me more acting jobs. As I got more jobs, I was able to make my own films. That ethos of making my own work has provided me with a lot of opportunities.
Clark Gregg
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I believe it doesn't really matter where you work as long as you work. Keep sharpening your teeth.
Morgan Freeman -
You only live once. Trying to do the right thing for other people often doesn't work out, and you have to follow your own path in order to make things work out best for everyone.
Alison Pill -
A woman who is not ready to have a baby making it work is not a happy ending to me. It's a personal nightmare.
Jenny Slate -
The Taj Mahal appears like a perfect pearl on an azure ground. The effect is such I have never experienced from any work of art.
Patrick Henry -
What I think about is what people spend their time on this planet doing. So No.1 is sleep, No.2 is work, and No.3 is sight, sound, and motion video consumption. Basically, four to five hours a day is what Americans spend consuming video.
Jason Kilar -
The important thing for the survival of the Thai society is that the majority of those who work, both in the government and the private sector, still strive to work in the same direction; this is why the Thai nation still stands.
Bhumibol Adulyadej
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Having a Weim means never having to work alone again. I have two Weims. When they think I've been working too long, they stage an intercession.
Ann Maxwell -
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
Bette Davis -
When you get a character that you're just starting to work on, it's the most exciting and most terrifying feeling because you have endless hours of diving in, researching, reading, and decision-making.
Chris Wood -
When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes.
T. S. Eliot