Work Quotes
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Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
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I love what I do so much, and I have a very acute understanding of how I work as a person, so if I'm afraid, I shut down and can't do anything. If I'm overwhelmed, I shut down and can't do anything.
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The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.
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I have just been working with Maggie Gyllenhaal, who is also a mum, on a movie called 'Hysteria.' She is everywhere because of the nature of film work. Not that I'm name dropping or anything like that. I have to pinch myself when I remember who I've been working with.
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I only work with actors who take full responsibility for their characters.
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The prejudice is against men and women - assuming men stay at work. That's the reason why we don't have enough women in the halls of power - the prejudice is pushing women to go home.
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At Pixar, 'Wall-E' was our ninth film, and they've all been successes - more than that, they've all really touched people. Everybody wonders, 'How do you do it?' Well, how do you not do it? You just work hard.
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Work is life. Work is opportunity.
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The only time it`s ever like work is when you don`t like what you`ve done. I`m very lucky in that I haven`t cultivated fame. Which, from what I`ve seen of my contemporaries, takes an enormous amount of time. I have a lot of respect for people that do it and they`re successful at it ... Especially people that aren`t such talented actors.
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I have been supporting the European Union, but we are still a work in progress. We have to become more of a United States of Europe. We should talk about electing a president of the E.U., rather than having one selected from the heads of government.
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Digital books and music are often different from their physical counterparts in that consumers buy licences to a work, revocable under an ongoing contract, rather than their own copies.
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Teach your children to work, teach your daughters modesty, teach all the virtue of economy. And if not make them saints, at least make them Christians.
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Our work to provide equal opportunities for all Americans should be a year-round mission.
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I didn't devote my life to acting. I give a lot to my work, but my life has always been more important.
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God blessed me with great talent and good genetics. Plus, he blessed me with a good work ethic and a drive to want to be the best.
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The records - what little we know about Shakespeare, including the records of the plays in his playhouse - were often the story of how quickly they came off if they didn't work. They had to move on. They were absolutely led by box office.
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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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Should the political process not work, there is always the other approach.
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Ours is the most precarious work, as you are in one place today, and tomorrow you are in another.
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When I see a film, I'll remember that there was a time when it wasn't working, and there was some pain and angst in order to get it to work.
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The wonderful thing with some of the things I've done - most of them, really - is to be trusted. To be able to do your thing, to work on it, hone it into my gem of creativity!
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A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.
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The liberation of the earth, the liberation of women, the liberation of all humanity is the next step of freedom we need to work for, and it's the next step of peace that we need to create.
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I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me.
