Working Quotes
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If I'm not in the dead heat of working on something, I can end up spending tons and tons of time on the Web, and I hate it. I feel the same shame I did in grad school when I was pretty much addicted to reruns of 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'. I wish someone would make the Web just go away. Just remove it from the earth.
Susan Choi
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Everybody in America grew up without a father even if they had one. It was the fifties. They were working.
Mona Simpson
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The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.
Ernest Newman
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Emma Watson is my kids' favorite actor on the planet. They never took me more seriously than when I was working with her.
Ethan Hawke
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Ironically, I like working with people.
Hamilton Leithauser
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There is nothing that you can do without working.
Ali Bongo Ondimba
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Similarly, the understanding that one can get more change in a family or organization by working with the motivated members (the strengths) in the system than by focusing on the symptomatic or recalcitrant members totally obliterates the search for answers to the question of how to motivate the unmotivated.
Edwin H. Friedman
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My anxiety is my least favorite thing! I’m a natural-born worrier. If I don’t have something to worry about, I’ll find something! I wish I could just let things go, and I’m working on that. My best quality is probably my energy and my eagerness to accomplish things. I’m a go-getter so it’s hard to sit still.
Susan McBride
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I'm thrilled to be working with Goldline, the very best in the gold business.
Monica Crowley
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I am a huge fan of Gena Rowlands. I love that she is still working and always in something fresh and new.
Boti Bliss
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I am sometimes asked, 'Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?' I answer: 'I am working at the roots.'
George Thorndike Angell
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You should count yourselves lucky, working for me. I ain't no glock of wood - I got the grains to take us places!
Arnold Wesker
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Computer : a million morons working at the speed of light.
David Ferrier
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When I don't have a movie, I don't take a job just for the sake of working. I just sit it out until I find something I'm passionate about.
Steven Spielberg
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When you're working with somebody else in that kind of way, you always have to have these guidelines to what you're doing - especially when you're working with your sibling. But when you're working by yourself you're free to do whatever you like.
Eleanor Friedberger
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Hope you're working hard, because I am!!!
Corey Hill
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I think for a long time it seemed like working in an art form and being a feminist meant portraying women in a perfect, angelic light. And there's nothing feminist about that.
Rebecca Hall
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If there's a theme in my work, it's that I like to focus on smart people who are facing oppression and who are fighting back against it.
Molly Crabapple
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We're all working with one power, one law, it's Attraction.
Bob Proctor
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If the movie's not communicating, it's not working.
Judd Apatow
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Some of the stories in Dogwalker were written as long as four years ago, but I wouldn't say I've been working on this collection for four years. I have always been a little unsure of whether I could make it as a writer so I've held other jobs and worked on other projects this whole time.
Arthur Bradford
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I'm accustomed to just working by myself, alone in the room and cranking up the music and just working and getting all into an obsessive state where I'm focused on this thing, and it's the one thing that I feel like I may have a little bit of control over in my life.
Eric Drooker
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Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.
Plotinus
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Historically, NBCUniversal had brilliant people, but some of them didn't do a very good job of working together.
Steve Burke