Work Quotes
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If I dress like a schlump, I think like a schlump and I work like a schlump.
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I'm not sure many writers are trying to reconcile all the things that are separated in our culture - body and mind, urban and pastoral, lyricism and hardboiled, men and women, joy and grief. I tried to do quite a lot, but I wanted to create a serious work of literature.
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I hope I don't make it sound like it's this big to-do, but even putting on real cufflinks takes work.
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When I walk onto a set, no matter what it is, I always do the very best work that I can. But I'm not braindead, and I want to do things that I want to do, you know?
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You simply cannot do a sitcom by committee. It will not work. You've got to have one or two clean, creative voices in charge, and there's got to be some faith by the studio and network in those people to make the right choices.
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I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few words or sentences really: came from nothing. Self-educated. Luck. Energy. Curiosity. Ambition. That's it. Nothing at all can illuminate the work as far as I can tell.
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God created our emotions to work in harmony with our other two most fundamental faculties: our mind and our will.
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Twitter's a lot of work! That's the first thing I would say. There's so much pressure to be funny.
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I love the diversity of my district, and it does drive a fair amount of my work.
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I only know that all is lost, and that nothing can help me unless I inherit money, strike oil or go to work.
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I'm always calculating what I want to do, who I want to be, what I want to accomplish. I don't need to worry about that - that's always there on a slow simmer. The muscle I have to work on is being more present.
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It's an amazing feeling to feel that I was able to get a personal connection to the work, through the work of it. But I like the idea that I was able to tell a bunch of people's stories even though I didn't know them.
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We made the Gophers work for it. I don't think it came that easy to them.
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Even when matches don't work out the way you planned, you've always got to stay strong in defence; it's a matter of willpower and intelligence.
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Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.
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To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when you ask what's left, they say: 'Well, the typing is very good.'
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To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.
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For anyone aspiring to be anything, I would like them to realise dreams require work. So work big time.
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I'm raising kids, and so much of American culture sustains me and gives me things to think about and work on.
Colson Whitehead -
Christ's work is a kind of deterrent to us, and a way of upholding the justice of God's divine government of the world.
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I want to work with kids. I would love to be a teacher.
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When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write.
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Most people don't see the edginess in my work. They think it's all fantasy and whimsy.
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I've heard it said many times, 'Let's work on the look of the film,' but that doesn't work with me.
