Work Quotes
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I was the only actor in my family. I wasn't given a lot of advice; I had to work it out.
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John Lee Hooker became a friend of mine and I love all of his work. He was truly an icon. He lived the life. I miss him.
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A Heroick Poem, truly such, is undoubtedly the greatest Work which the Soul of Man is capable to perform.
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I didn't open a restaurant, but I did go to a few cooking schools. It was too much like hard work!
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Fear God and work hard.
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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.
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Fires and floods, we're hardwired to accept them or at least file them under Bad Things Happening. But there's something so abstract and so modern about a bank making a technical mistake about how it funded its obligations to depositors, and suddenly you're out of work.
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As society has shifted from an agrarian to an urban structure, the joy and necessity of diligent, hard work have been neglected.
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He had a so-so game. He played adequately.... Everybody's a work in progress right now.
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I've been on so many movies. Generally, I haven't gotten to be on the ground level. As of two years ago, in 'Dear John,' I got to really be on the ground floor. I wasn't a producer. I felt like I put the work in, and I did have a lot of sway on what got fixed, reshoots, so on and so forth. It felt really good.
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Basically, I was always very interested in comedy, but I was much more sort of academic. And then, after college, loaded with my art history degree, I decided to go work at Comedy Central as a temp.
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People have to find ways of explaining the work.
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Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.
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A writer loses possession of her work as soon as it's reaches its audience. Each reader brings his own experience and prejudice and imagination to the work. Television adaptation just goes one step further, and the novelist has to learn to let go.
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Without hard work and discipline it is difficult to be a top professional.
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I personally claim no special insight into Satan's methods, but I have at times been able to identify his influence and his actions in my life and in the lives of others. When I was on my first mission, Satan sought to divert me from my future path and, if possible, to destroy my usefulness in the Lord's work.
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I don't dance like I used to, but I'm moving and I'll be doing my form of dance at Town Hall... I hit my limitations but I learn to work with what I've got.
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I'm a father with two daughters, and I don't want them to feel that they have to go and work in China when they are older.
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All I've done is work... I arrived in Los Angeles in my early 20s and I've been pounding the pavement ever since.
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I am lucky because I get to work with the smartest, most creative, and most devoted group of students and postdoctoral fellows imaginable.
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When I wrote about Mary Wollstonecraft, I found that here she was, in the late 18th century, going to work for the 'Analytical Review.' What was the 'Analytical Review?' It was a magazine that dealt with politics and literature.
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I love high concept movies, but they can only work if the source of inspiration is really human - if they're driven by pain and strong emotions. Once you connect the audience with that, then I swear you can take them on the craziest journey, and they'll come along.
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It was a dream come true working with Johnny Depp. He's always been my acting idol. Working with him and watching him work taught me a lot as an actor. He's very down to earth and a lot of fun to hang out with.
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I would rather write or record something great and have it overlooked than do mediocre work and have it be popular.
