Work Quotes
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Even if I'm playing a bad guy, I work hard to make him multi-leveled and interesting.
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No one should be so precious as to refuse criticism of their work. But to respect an opinion, we have to know that it was given honestly and with proper thought.
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The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.
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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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The Folly had last been refurbished in the 1930s when the British establishment firmly believed that central heating was the work, if not of the devil per se, then definitely evil foreigners bent on weakening the hardy British spirit.
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Choosing to laugh doesn’t undermine the serious work we have to do. It enables us to do it.
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I'm not the best person to analyze any kind of evolution in my work, but I do feel like it's been an ongoing struggle to basically teach myself how to tell the kinds of stories that interest me in comics form.
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They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original.
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At the end of the day, it is about doing your best work - controlling what you can control and not trying to control what you can't.
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If you've as many films as I have, and missed as many opportunities as I have to do good work and been pissed off about it, you say, "Well, now you've got to start getting it right." If you get a chance, you really want to cook. And the tragedy is, when you finally feel that way about yourself, about your work, nobody wants to give you a chance. And that happens to a lot of actors. But I'm feeling very wanted these days, so there must be something in the air.
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I want to work and be happy.
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In case the rest of you missed it, the inspirational speech was: 'If you work hard, you can achieve great things. And then you die'.
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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.
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It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them.
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One aspect of neighbourly love is that we must not merely will our neighbours good, but actually work to bring it about.
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'The Purpose-Driven Life' is not just a mega-bestselling work of Christian faith; it is the thing that every voter, secular or not, yearns for.
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Well depending on the government, you either work through the government, which is ideal, because then you're strengthening their capabilities, or you work through the non-governmental organizations. It's never easy, and you know, it's just about the very basics of health. This is not hospitals. This is just primary health care [in Africa], the most simple things, and even so, getting the supplies out, getting the trained workers there.
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Sometimes the rules don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.
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Use new drugs quickly, while they still work.
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Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.
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Working with children is very different than the way in which I work with adults. One has to work just as much with children as with adults, but the manner of work is very different. I never tell the children the actual truth of the thing that I want them to act.
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I'm always excited to be around other actors. I sometimes only get to work with myself, and it's so tedious. I was so excited to go to work every day, and we ran into work every day.
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Give it a kick at the right place and it'll work.
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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.
