Work Quotes
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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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It's fun to see how other artists adapt my work.
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How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.
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Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.
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For feel-good fiction to work, there has to be an element of darkness.
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The point of my work is to make it clear that all youth can make 'big miracles' happen.
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Every day, I have to work and show the coach I work well and I deserve my place.
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Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don't like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.
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The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing.
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A lot of my work comes through accidents or circumstances that just happen to present themselves. I have to realize that something is presenting itself. Otherwise it slips right by.
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Nobody's a natural. You work to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.
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I love acting, but don't necessarily enjoy other aspects of the business. For me, going to celebrity parties is like work.
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Does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?
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I need more personal time and, given my extensive work in health care, I want to pursue that interest further.
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Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.
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I am always successful in my work.
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Any work of art must first of all tell a story.
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I'm a great salesman when I believe in a product that somebody else is producing, but I always feel very awkward and clumsy asking for money for my work.
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You've got to go where the work is. My mom got a job somewhere else so I went and lived with her and then I just bounced all over going to school, chasing rainbows and all that.
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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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The hardest job of all is trying to look busy when you're not.
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The worst thing is losing because you got tired, because you didn't work hard enough in training. Ugh, that's the worst.
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There's a guy I used to pay to work with me who'd call me 'kiddo.' I said, 'There's nothing that justifies you expressing that to me, your boss.'
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It seems like when I was growing up there was more compromise, wanting to work with each other, and I think all of them - all of the lawmakers - have hearts to do what's right, and they all are passionate about it.
