Working Quotes
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Sometimes it ain’t about being the most talented. Sometimes it ain’t about being the smartest. Sometimes it’s not even about working the hardest. Sometimes it’s about consistency! Consistency!
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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.
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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.
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Computer : a million morons working at the speed of light.
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Oh, I have very limited will power. I wish I could change that. I am working on it, though. I am too easygoing.
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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.'
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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.
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I come from a very working-class background, so my family would have been downstairs in the past, as opposed to upstairs. People are often quite surprised to hear that, that I'm not actually posh.
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I started working for Bethlehem Steel when I was about 16 during the summers.
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I'm working all the time. When I'm home I try to split my time evenly between resting and preparing for another tour, and writing stuff.
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Nobody is an overnight success. Most overnight successes you see have been working at it for ten years.
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Historically, NBCUniversal had brilliant people, but some of them didn't do a very good job of working together.
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You can always be the hardest working person in the room, and I think the hardest working person will always win.
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Sometimes you're working in highly emotional scenes and you'll get lost in the moment. You're having fun with your friend at work. It's an opportunity to give to them as much as they've given back to you.
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Precariousness is not just a working-class thing.
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There's only one thing worse than to live without working, and that is to work without living.
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Working with the earth is peaceful for me.
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Working with a great director is like getting a master class in acting.
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To become a master at any skill, it takes the total effort of your: heart, mind, and soul working together in tandem.
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For too long, the Democratic majority in Washington has failed to see the value in the sound model of working hard and living within your means.
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That's a long way of saying no, I'm always too bound up in thinking about the characters in whatever I'm working on and trying to make good to dwell on characters from previous books.
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We’ve been working a long time for this and we want to accomplish our ultimate goal. We know what it takes.
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Most of the time, with voice-overs, you're recording before they've got the graphics, and you also don't get a whole script. I get my lines, as I show up that day. You don't know what the rest of the story is, so you really rely on the people in the room that you're working with, so they can fill you in on what's going on, right around your particular lines.
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What’s working, and how can we do more of it?
