Work Quotes
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I have come up with very creative ideas that really didn't work with the song I was currently composing.
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I think it's because we're not purists, we're open to all kinds of music. We're not afraid to take chances and we work really hard, and we gig relentlessly, we've been very active in the studio, we're active with the record labels that we have. So I think it's like a full-on assault. We've stalled in many different directions and it kept us in the limelight for so many years.
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At the core of my work there is this eternal back-and-forth between being confined to one's own individuality and that longing to be part of the other, the outside world: the impossibility of ever being able to get beneath another person's skin.
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The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.
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I think most of the best new work is intended to have much more impact at once.
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You've got to work hard for your success and you've got to have a steady presence. That's the secret.
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Work hard, use your common sense and don't be afraid to trust your instincts.
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I will try to work very hard not to disappoint the people of South Africa.
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I always want to be a part of ensembles. Besides it feeling safer, I think it's a more fun environment to work in. To have a bunch of people collaborating on something, it takes the pressure off of each individual.
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From an artist's point of view, I always want to work with the writers I admire.
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I never really had an itch for gambling. I work hard for my money, so I don't like going out and giving it away like that.
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Each new generation builds on the work of the previous one, gaining new perspective. New verbs are introduced. We Google strange and dangerous places. We tweet mindlessly to the cosmos. We Facebook our own grandmothers. I, for one, don't want to be left behind.
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Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.
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It's always nice to come home and work in Australia with friends I've known since I started.
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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.
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The end crowneth the work.
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Sometimes I go, 'Wow, this is a director I really, really want to work with,' like David Cronenberg. I haunted David Cronenberg for years before, and then he offered me a role.
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When I work alone, and I'm in my studio, and I'm playing a lot of the stuff myself, I think the style of it becomes something a little different.
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I have found that the more I honored others, the more they honored me and the more fulfilling my career became. In the business arena, I have been surrounded by people with awesome skills. The difference between good and great is determined by the mindset you choose to bring to the work. The concept of honor should be part of that mindset.
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We work with the people not out of pity but out of respect for their potential for growth and development, both as individuals and as communities.
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Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other.
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You stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go do something else.
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I've learned over the years that there's a lot of things that work out pretty well that I don't love.
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Bettie Page was number one. I have never known another model who had better knowledge of her body or how to work with it to make it look so good. Her skin was perfect, no blemishes. Perfect nose, beautiful straight teeth, and gleaming, shiny black hair that was always in place, always.
