Work Quotes
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I love what I do, and I find personal joy through my work at Harman. My identity is who I am and what I do.
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My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that can be used to enhance the infinitely more complex demands of a novel.
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I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.
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To be a great actor, you really don't need to go to acting school or learn dance classes or work on your body. You have to be intelligent. You have to draw on a lot of emotions that you go through in life that you can tap into once you work on a set.
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After a year of post-graduate research, I won an 1851 Exhibition scholarship to work at Oxford with Robert Robinson. Two such scholarships were awarded each year, and the other was won by Rita Harradence, also of Sydney and also an organic chemist.
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Nothing changes and very little happens in Paris. This is a great place to work without distraction - and then I run away to New York, where I have a life!
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I want to work with great filmmakers and great actors and get better as an actor.
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As I've met clinicians in my travels, time after time I've been inspired to hear why people went into medicine: to apply their way-above-average minds (and hearts) to work that's beyond most people's capacity, and perhaps save a few lives.
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The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
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When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out in the world. It just feels good.
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Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
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Journalists often ask me: "Aren't you sorry that after all the work you've done, you're best known as Magneto and Gandalf?" But that's what I've always wanted - not to be known as myself. I want to draw attention to the characters.
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Two points that are very important points to remember and ask: Is it real and does it work?
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Another Black Label motto. That's what I think life is. It's just another bridge to cross. You ask no questions. Whatever work it is you gotta do, you gotta go over it, under it, through it, around it, to do it.
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I think for everyone it's good to have your own personal work on a character and a film before you even start rehearsing, to have an inner life.
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl.
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For me, there is no day or night for music. I often work through the night - without phone calls disturbing me.
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In fitness, there are no short cuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work.
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I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.
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I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - great belief - and these films slightly don't work at the box office, and they become your favorite films.
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The Oscars are a lot different when you are a nominee. You walk around with this big smile on your face, and everyone, even people who work for rival film companies, tells you they voted for you.
