Work Quotes
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I thought, 'I'll come back to New York. I worked for the 'Aspen Times' when I lived in Aspen. I'll work for the 'New York Times' when I live in New York.' It didn't work out that way.
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I thought I was done making CIA movies after 'The Bourne Identity.' I really had used my father's work in Iran-Contra on 'The Bourne Identity.' You get one experience like that in your life where you have personal exposure to something, and you put it in a movie. That's it.
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The things that worked for us in the past wasn't going to work the same way going forward.
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From the very beginning, I was very interested just in light, and art seemed to be a way to work with it.
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Speaking to numerous teachers and nurses, I am consistently struck by the sense of mission they have about their work.
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If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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I would say take any work you can get. Don't pass on something if it's a commercial. Take it. Work really does lead to other work. Especially if you're just starting out, work begets work.
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The Conservative party, the modern Conservative party, is on the side of people who want to work hard and get on.
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I can't remember a 'best gig,' and my brain doesn't work in absolute terms like that.
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These days no one challenges us,' he said. 'And because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we have all become lazy.
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As a jobbing actor or musician, you have to take any work you can get.
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There's got to be something you want to tell and that's the engine which spurs all of the work you have to do in order to create the story, but you have to love some sort of nugget of what you're telling to be a filmmaker.
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I have spent many, many hours reading J.K. Rowling's work. I am a known 'Harry Potter' fan.
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When you do multiple things you love, it doesn't feel like work.
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My work is one of my passions, so I want to treat it with great importance, whatever the project or role.
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Anyone who understands anti-racist work, a white person specifically, understands that it is not black people's responsibility, or any person of color's responsibility, to dismantle the structures that keep white people in positions of power. We do our job to thrive, to survive. To protect ourselves, to sit together and feel better and to heal.
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There is an invisible aspect of being a writer; none of it is about you. It's about your work, and that's what it should be.
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It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it?
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I don't like the idea of stepping-stones in art forms: that you do your time at a regional theatre, and then you work in London and go to the West End, and then you do films. I've never felt like following that trajectory.
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We work with every one of them to see if their character wouldn't say a certain thing or if something is worded awkwardly - we work with them to rectify that.
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Tim Tebow is one of my biggest inspirations. I actually want to be able to do some of the things that he does in terms of the amount of charity work and the non-profit work, and the way he impacts people off the field. I think that is what is most inspiring to me about him.
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Our work on C. elegans emphasized the benefits of sharing large amounts of information. We took a global approach to discover the mechanisms that led to the development of the worm.
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It's not in my mission to work against Euroskepticism; it's my mission to work for fair markets. In antitrust, what is at stake is, in some ways, as old as Adam and Eve because it is about greed, to get more.
