Work Quotes
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The criterion of action is that todays work should not be deferred till the following day.
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I feel my work is made for one being, one individual. You could say that's me, but that's not really true. It's for an idealized viewer.
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Every time. You know why? I want to fail. I work like a dog for twenty years so I'll have the supreme pleasure of failing. Never knew anybody like that, did you? I'm very cunning. I plan it in advance. I fool myself right up to the last minute, and then the time comes and I know how cunningly I've been planning it all the time. I've been a failure all my life.
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Everybody goes through challenges. There's stuff that happens personally that's challenging, stuff in work that's difficult, disappointments that happen.
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I think there's a lot of work to be done with our societies. My biggest passions are the environment and health. And when I say 'health' I mean the secrets behind health and our food system.
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Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.
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A lot of the artists that people equate my work to, I didn't find out about until after graduate school.
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I feel that as long as you keep running towards your dreams and wish, they'll come true one day. Hard work will not betray ourselves
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Self-taught are those without formal education. Most self-taught artists have missing ingredients to their work.
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I did a series for teenagers and kids called S-Club 7 in LA for Fox Family Channel. And I did it because the children, everybody's children, they don't know who I am. They know I'm the-lady-in-the-movie-they-can't-see. And I was actually offended by that because I think I've done a lot of wonderful work.
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I always felt my writing could benefit from the attention of established writers. I knew my work could grow and be better.
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I talk about race a lot. It's been my work ever since I came out of acting school. But it's true that in a way talking about race is a taboo. Because so many of our debates about race have to do not with race but with what we are willing to see, what we will not see and what we don't want to see.
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Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.
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A 300pp novel can easily become a 200pp novel by printing with smaller type; a 100pp screenplay can potentially become a film of between 60-140 minutes in length; a 200pp stage play could be performed in anything from 30 minutes to four hours. For all these media, the script length is agnostic to the final work.
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No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.
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I never feel like I've done good enough. That's why I'm always so excited about working because I gotta keep pushing myself to do better work, to do great work.
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I avoid watching other people's versions of films or plays that I work on.
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If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.
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When you work hard, good things happen.
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Hard work always wins in the end.
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Most of the time, the creative part is like playing in a sandbox. I can sit here and work for 12 hours and not get tired of it.
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He brings an unusual ability to work collaboratively with
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When you work with people you aspire to be like, you pay attention to them.
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We’ve got to find a way to make the world work for everyone. Climate change is an issue that impacts that greatly by making it harder for people to live where they live, by causing disruptions, and lack of resources.
