Work Quotes
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At the beginning of every semester, I ask my graduate students whether there is something I should read that will help me understand their work.
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It's always nice when you get a chance to actually work with the other actor. It just brings the scene to life, in a way that's not as easy to replicate on your own.
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I have learned from my experiences in this industry that there is absolutely no way to control people's opinions on your performance in your movie. You go out there, promote your film and hope people like the work you did.
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We need to focus on getting people back to work, focus on jobs, the economy, the debt and the spending. That's what will improve the quality of life for American families and for hard-working taxpayers.
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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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As an actor, you don't have control over what you do, whom you work with.
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Magic is what it is, and those who work it can be male or female; it doesn't matter. What matters is power.
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I really wanted to work with Luc Besson. I'm a big fan of his. Did you ever see 'The Professional.' It was very violent. But a fabulous story, a fabulous movie, very well done. So that and two or three other projects of his that I've seen, I just thought if I had a shot to work with him I wanted to do it.
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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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A lot of the qualities in 'Killing and Dying' is sort of a response to work I'd done previously. I wanted to push myself in some different directions.
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For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable in anticipatory excitement to what I imagine is felt by an athlete warming up for a competition, a mountain climber preparing for the ascent: it is the beginning of a process whose outcome is unknown, one that promises the thrill and elation of success but may as easily end in bitter disappointment. Committed readers realize at a certain point that literature is where we have learned a good part of the little we know about living.
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I'm glad I've had the comic work. I plan to do others, but I could lay it down if I had to choose. I hope I don't have to, though.
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Ultimately, I want to have a good career and do interesting work
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One way or another we all work for our vice.
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I don't want to say I'm never going to direct again, but directing's hard work.
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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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Choosing to laugh doesn’t undermine the serious work we have to do. It enables us to do it.
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The way I mainly use the Internet is keeping in touch with poets that live far away. My main interest is contemporary American poets and some Spanish language poets, and I keep in touch with their work through either their websites or email.
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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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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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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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Use new drugs quickly, while they still work.
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I know what I'm missing. I know what I have to work on. Coloratura. And I sing sharp sometimes. It happens when I'm nervous.
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Sometimes the rules don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.
