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Success is like doing yoga; it takes more than just a good planner; flexibility and balance in life get you there.
Author:
Maya Lynn
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Success is often the result of dogged persistence coupled with a strong cup of coffee.
Author:
Anna Taylor
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Workers who incorrectly identify pizza as fruits tend to dodge lunchtime gym us
Author:
Cassie Milner
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Success isn't just what you achieve, it’s the number of times you fail whilst finding an unusual route to your next coffee break.
Author:
Alex Carder
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Success is like a hammock—it's best enjoyed when you kick back with passion and purpose, but watch out for productivity-addiction trying to steal your sunny day!
Author:
Alan Smith
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The only time success comes before work is in the dictionary, and even then it’s dubious!
Author:
Oliver Barnwell
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Success is like coffee; the first sip inspires, the next few stimulate, but if you drink too much, you're up all night worrying about deadlines!
Author:
Jamie Wells
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Success could be defined as being willing to do what you love, while still preventing things from stealing your time—like scrolling through cat memes!
Author:
Alexi Turner
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Success often comes dressed in a finely tailored outfit called hard work; humility is the accessory that never goes out of style.
Author:
Mia Tran
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There are two kinds of people in the world: those who should complete their current task before reading this quote, and those who need a break. Which one are you?
Author:
Jane Doe
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Dream big , work hard and make your magic happen.
Author:
Linda Magee
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Success only comes before work in one place: The dictionary.
Author:
Pat Riley
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Success is not the result of spontaneous; it resonates through countless days of hard work and persistence.
Author:
Amanda Joyner
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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what youre doing, you will be successful.
Author:
Albert Schweitzer
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In a world full of laptops, be someone's initially drive for composing vile scoop
Author:
Jamal Griffin
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The only place where success come before work is in the dictionary.
Author:
Vince Lombardi
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You can't have a million dollar dream with a minimum wage work ethic.
Author:
Stephen Hofstetter
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The only way to do great work is by loving what you do
Author:
Steve Jobs
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The only way to do fulfilled work is to love what you do and do it with passion
Author:
Michelle Rodriguez
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The best morals come home after a hard day’s work.
Author:
Rachel Adams
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Success is not defined by the amount of hours worked, but by the impact made during those hours.
Author:
Samantha Jones
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Creativity is the secret ingredient that spices up life's journey.
Author:
Sienna Walker
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Challenge is the catalyst for growth and innovation.
Author:
Sierra Nash
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Do what you love and you'll never have a problem with Mondays.
Author:
Sarah Thompson
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Do what you love and you'll never have a problem with Monday
Author:
Lily Parker
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Life is a canvas and each day is a new brushstroke.
Author:
Sophia Williams
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Do not only focus on building a successful career, but also strive to create a life worth living.
Author:
Samantha Smith
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The key to success is not just working hard, but working smart and with purpose.
Author:
Sarah Brown
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I have about two or three people, we don't have an office, we don't even have a dedicated phone line. We do it out of our own homes, and we make it work.
Author:
John Zorn
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I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.
Author:
John Zorn
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Author:
Emile Zola
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After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.
Author:
Zhang Ziyi
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There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.
Author:
Zhang Ziyi
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Yes, there is plenty of hard work for them in addition to that which they do when they appear, smiling and happy, when the curtain goes up. Giving a performance is the least of their worries.
Author:
Florenz Ziegfeld
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Not only may she unconsciously register a favorable impression with my associates and me, but she may also suggest something by her work that will lead to some new and novel feature in a forthcoming production.
Author:
Florenz Ziegfeld
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I'm very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
Author:
Zinedine Zidane
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We'll surely stop the work of all western Christian and eastern religions, and also Islam.
Author:
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
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We'll limit in all ways the work of religious faiths which are foreign to us.
Author:
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
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Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work.
Author:
Sarah Zettel
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I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work that I decided I wanted to be an author.
Author:
Sarah Zettel
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What practical conclusions may we now draw for our propaganda work among women? The task of this Party Congress must not be to issue detailed practical suggestions, but to draw up general directions for the proletarian women's movement.
Author:
Clara Zetkin
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I wish I was born in that era: dancing with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, going to work at the studio dressed in beautiful pants, head scarves, and sunglasses.
Author:
Catherine Zeta-Jones
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I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn't until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people that I started to get any work.
Author:
Catherine Zeta-Jones
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I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts.
Author:
Franco Zeffirelli
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I count myself fortunate to be able to contribute to this work; and the great interest which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has shown in my work and the recognition that it has paid to my past successes, convince me that I am not on the wrong track.
Author:
Pieter Zeeman
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In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.
Author:
Panayiotis Zavos
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Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
Author:
Frank Zappa
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Well, I haven't been doing that much work with other people per se. I started doing more of that.
Author:
Dweezil Zappa
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I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard.
Author:
Jay Z
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For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
Author:
Cao Yu
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You learn to kid around and joke and not take things too seriously because somehow its all gonna work out for the best - or you're gonna make it work out.
Author:
Jack Youngblood
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The hardest work in the world is being out of work.
Author:
Whitney Young
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I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else.
Author:
Neil Young
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I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered.
Author:
Marguerite Young
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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.
Author:
Edward Young
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Too many pitchers, that's all, there are just too many pitchers Ten or twelve on a team. Don't see how any of them get enough work. Four starting pitchers and one relief man ought to be enough. Pitch 'em every three days and you'd find they'd get control and good, strong arms.
Author:
Cy Young
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So that is how I ended up with those two titles, I like Accidentally on Purpose better - it is how we work in our trade - is it really an accident, or is there a thread of destiny in there? That was the intention, I am not sure I found out.
Author:
Michael York
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I was seeing everything through pain. I would roll out of bed and do my exercises. I had to do that to work out the remainder of the pain pills. I would drink coffee and go to the set and plunge myself so far into my work.
Author:
Dick York
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I took pain pills to get to sleep because I didn't want to go to work the next day exhausted.
Author:
Dick York
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We started shooting, and then Jodie found out she was pregnant. Forest broke it to me - he'd gone to work and heard it on the radio! It seemed like the movie was doomed. But, like these characters, there was a disregard for all the signs along the way.
Author:
Dwight Yoakam
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Well if done a lot of hard work to try and get people to act rationally, the fact that weve had 15 deviant Muslims, plus 5 or 8 others that got away does not mean that all Muslims are deviant or extremists.
Author:
Lee Yew
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I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.
Author:
Boris Yeltsin
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We, Russia, are prepared to work with others. I am convinced that stability and security in Europe cannot be considered without taking Russia into account.
Author:
Boris Yeltsin
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Since Israel does not differentiate between attacking this group or that, we are saying our people can work individually or collectively to face this aggression.
Author:
Ahmed Yassin
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I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern science, a part of human civilization of Western origin, to which I have dedicated and I shall continue to dedicate my work.
Author:
Chen Yang
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When you enjoy what you do, work becomes play.
Author:
Martin Yan
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I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.
Author:
Minoru Yamasaki
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I work so much. If I don't get all the comforts, I will turn mad.
Author:
Lalu Yadav
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I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.
Author:
Bill Wyman
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I always say that I am very proud of the work that I did with the Rolling Stones and that I am also proud of what I have done with the Rhythm Kings.
Author:
Bill Wyman
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I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free.
Author:
Andrew Wyeth
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In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.
Author:
Robert Wyatt
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There are people I would like to work with. It's a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I can't really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing.
Author:
Robert Wyatt
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I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated.
Author:
Elizabeth Wurtzel
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I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital.
Author:
Elizabeth Wurtzel
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I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.
Author:
Steven Wright
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When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them.
Author:
Peter Wright
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The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines.
Author:
Orville Wright
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No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it.
Author:
Gary Wright
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Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!
Author:
Fay Wray
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Cary Grant was wonderful to work with on stage. He would move downstage, so that as he looked at me the audience had to look at me, too. He knew a lot about the theater and how to move around. He was very secure.
Author:
Fay Wray
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I think the studio gave me that series on purpose, because they knew perfectly well that Robert Riskin was ill and that I needed to go to work. They gave me that series to do.
Author:
Fay Wray
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Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.
Author:
Steve Wozniak
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I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
Author:
Sam Worthington
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I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.
Author:
Alexander Woollcott
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I believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and ultimately an independent prosecutor working in the Executive Branch.
Author:
Bob Woodward
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We work in an environment where your options are to do, you know, Batman 10, so when you get to do a movie that's a really great film like this, people really step up to the plate and enjoy it.
Author:
James Woods
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Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.
Author:
George Woodberry
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Sexual harassment at work... is it a problem for the self-employed?
Author:
Victoria Wood
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If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store.
Author:
Natalie Wood
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He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
Author:
Ed Wood
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
Author:
Beatrice Wood
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Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.
Author:
Stevie Wonder
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And it took me about 11 years to get a record deal, and I just had to work around and come to terms with the fact that what I was doing was going to be different, and I just had to wait until somebody was ready to jump on the bandwagon.
Author:
Lee Womack
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The fact that the same symbolic programming primitives work for those as work for math kinds of things, I think, really validates the idea of symbolic programming being something pretty general.
Author:
Stephen Wolfram
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I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things they do well, of the things they need to look at again, of the wells of material they have not even begun to dip their buckets into.
Author:
Tobias Wolff
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Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community.
Author:
Tobias Wolff
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Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.
Author:
Thomas Wolfe
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America is at that awkward stage; it's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.
Author:
Claire Wolfe
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Idolizing is a strong word, though. I'm happy that people respond well to the work I'm doing now. If anyone admires what I'm doing in any way, then I'm really proud of it.
Author:
Scott Wolf
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You can't do your work worrying about what people will think of it - you kind of just have to do your work.
Author:
Scott Wolf
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I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people.
Author:
Dick Wolf
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I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because then there's no work and no potential of work.
Author:
Dick Wolf
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It's hard work to make a four-minute program look effortless and elegant.
Author:
Katarina Witt
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As I've always said, preproduction is so important. When you cast the actors, you've done much of the work. Now, you may need to guide them a little, take it up or down, have them go faster or slower, but the casting process is crucial.
Author:
Robert Wise
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But no, I've just been very lucky. But I've worked hard, and the harder you work, the luckier you seem to get.
Author:
Norman Wisdom
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The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed.
Author:
Niklaus Wirth
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Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.
Author:
Jeanette Winterson
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The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.
Author:
Kathleen Winsor
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I do most of my work with kids. They are the very foundation of our future. We are so incredibly disrespectful to them in America in every way because they can't vote.
Author:
Henry Winkler
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I could play everything but could never take a lead. My brain just doesn't work like that.
Author:
Kip Winger
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I don't believe in careers. I believe in work. I'm not interested in some 'big picture that would be really good for me'.
Author:
Debra Winger
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What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.
Author:
Oprah Winfrey
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So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work.
Author:
Marie Windsor
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Since fantasy isn't about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it's changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher!
Author:
Terri Windling
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America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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I was studying acting in New York, and wasn't being hired by anyone to do anything other than to work in an Oriental rug warehouse.
Author:
Thomas Wilson
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I think the way it works is that when you're casting a movie, you usually want to work with people that you believe in.
Author:
Owen Wilson
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As long as you're getting along, it's nice to work with someone you know well.
Author:
Luke Wilson
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Through this additional support, we must renew our commitment to provide talented young people with the opportunity to build scientific careers based on their curiosity, the same opportunity that was provided to me when I began my work.
Author:
Kenneth Wilson
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The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.
Author:
Earl Wilson
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I know people don't think I work.
Author:
Douglas Wilson
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The only sound approach to collective bargaining is to work out an agreement that clarifies the rights and responsibilities of the parties, establishes principles and operates to the advantage of all concerned.
Author:
Charles Wilson
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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.
Author:
Charles Wilson
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In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.
Author:
Wendell Willkie
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Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may.
Author:
Nathaniel Willis
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Every day I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately I have a great group of friends who help me do this.
Author:
Bruce Willis
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The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.
Author:
Marianne Williamson
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I've learned that I get blocked when my subconscious mind is telling me that I've taken the work in a wrong direction, and that once I start listening to what my subconscious is trying to tell me, I can work out the problem and get moving again.
Author:
Walter Williams
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Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.
Author:
Walter Williams
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This is the kind of work I've aspired to my whole career.
Author:
Treat Williams
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We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
Author:
Tennessee Williams
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All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
Author:
Tennessee Williams
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It seems we always exceed even our own expectations-after a lot of hard work, though!
Author:
Roberta Williams
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I just happen to admire everyone that we work with.
Author:
Pharrell Williams
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We're brothers and we all look after each other. If one person falls down, the rest of the team is going to be there to pick him up. We just work hard together to get it done.
Author:
Michael Williams
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You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process.
Author:
Lucinda Williams
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I feel a lot more comfortable being me these days. I'm constantly told that my work is good. A lot of fans and a lot of other artists say my songs and albums mean a lot to them. Isn't that what's important?
Author:
Lucinda Williams
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I think most artists find it difficult to part with their work but it's the parting that keeps us alive and keeps us working. In the case of the chariot, although it's been sold I actually still have it, just in another form.
Author:
Kit Williams
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The attraction in this city is money, from gambling. What you are if you work here is a shill.
Author:
Joe Williams
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Treatment is the way to go. It can work if you have the right model.
Author:
Joe Williams
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The most challenging part of being a boss is that nobody will tell you if your work is suffering.
Author:
Bill Williams
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It's such a pleasure to work in these movies, it's almost like it's not really happening.
Author:
Fred Willard
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I don't know why my lines that were cut from the film didn't make it onto the DVD. I have offered to go into the editing room with Christopher and work shoulder to shoulder with him to fit all my lines in. I think he thinks I'm kidding. I'm only trying to help.
Author:
Fred Willard
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All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult.
Author:
Tom Wilkinson
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When I first started the show, I was known as the 'cop nerd.' I was in the 9th Precinct in the East Village every day. I'd be at work wearing a fake bulletproof vest with foam in it, then I'd leave and put on a real one to ride around with these guys.
Author:
Jason Wiles
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It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day.
Author:
Andrew Wiles
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Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Author:
Thornton Wilder
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If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.
Author:
Laura Wilder
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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.
Author:
Billy Wilder
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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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The formula is the star. I couldn't work inside that formula.
Author:
Dianne Wiest
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Annika has the type of game I want to work on. She's just so consistent. Hopefully I'll be like that one day.
Author:
Michelle Wie
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Marilyn was terrible to work with. I was fond of her, she was a nice girl, but she was a damaged girl. She was very difficult. You couldn't get her on the set; she didn't know the words.
Author:
Richard Widmark
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I think a performer should do his work and then shut up.
Author:
Richard Widmark
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You shouldn't just work on your jump shot. You should work on being a better person, a better teammate, and a better friend.
Author:
Sue Wicks
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One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.
Author:
Eli Whitney
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Sometimes it's a little bit like being a politician. We have work to do in understanding our users' sentiments.
Author:
Meg Whitman
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I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable.
Author:
Meg Whitman
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I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.
Author:
Katharine Whitehorn
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We are immortal until our work on earth is done.
Author:
George Whitefield
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But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It's like anything else. It's a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever.
Author:
Ron White
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People are saying that I'm an alcoholic, and that's not true, because I only drink when I work, and I'm a workaholic.
Author:
Ron White
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Work alone will efface the footsteps of work.
Author:
James Whistler
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You don't even have to leave your house: you do your work from your house; you can order anything you want from your house; you don't have to leave your chair. Everything's been designed so that you never leave your computer chair.
Author:
Deryck Whibley
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Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have gone wrong. We look for the one action, or the one person, that created this mess. As soon as we find someone to blame, we act as if we've solved the problem.
Author:
Margaret Wheatley
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In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us.
Author:
Margaret Wheatley
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For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions.
Author:
Margaret Wheatley
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My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful, but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.
Author:
Hermann Weyl
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You work on an idea, your first interpretation is very raw and you work it and you work it and it gets polished and polished. It gets to a certain level and then it comes down off that peak.
Author:
Kim Weston
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What I had to prove was that I had a dedication and a desire and a passion to do the work and everything else would fall in place because I have a vision that I want to portray and it did and I do it. I don't sell anything.
Author:
Kim Weston
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Galleries, and they're all the same, and rightly so, they sell work.
Author:
Kim Weston
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I'm not photographing the model in the classic sense; the model is playing a part in my photographs. It's more like theater. I always work with models I know, and I let them participate in deciding how to act their part.
Author:
Kim Weston
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If no one wants to jump into a Kim Weston and drive it down the street. That's fine with me I don't care. I know my work is good and I know it's serious work.
Author:
Kim Weston
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The gallery is generating work for the masses.
Author:
Kim Weston
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I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without.
Author:
Edward Weston
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Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
Author:
Edward Weston
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My work schedule has changed over the years. The one constant is, when at work on a novel, I try to work seven days a week, so as not to lose touch with that world. Within that, I'm flexible on hours and output.
Author:
Donald Westlake
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I'm lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer there's ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under my pillow if I was only ever allowed one book to keep, and who never bores me.
Author:
Samuel West
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Remember, while the work can sometimes appear to be simple to a viewer, the ability to perform expertly, consistently, precisely, over and over again, under pressure and on demand is what's needed.
Author:
Randy West
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It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.
Author:
Randy West
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From my years of work with so many game show production companies and their producers I'm probably no longer eligible to be a contestant on any American game show.
Author:
Randy West
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But day in and day out, the most stimulating part of the work is being a member of a team of so many very bright, articulate and talented professionals.
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Randy West
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Yet as a team, we can pull together to do some incredible work.
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Randy West
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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Mae West
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I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject matter. I approached subject matter as a scoundrel. I had nothing to say about it whatsoever. I only wanted to make these exciting paintings.
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Tom Wesselmann
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God buries His workmen but carries on His work.
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Charles Wesley
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It's silly to work hard the whole week and then spoil it by not preparing properly before the game.
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Arsene Wenger
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To imagine yourself inside another person... is what a storywriter does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.
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Eudora Welty
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The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better.
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Paul Wellstone
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The Pentagon today will not allow any of these people who work for the Pentagon, to talk to the media. They have gagged them from talking to members of Congress.
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Curt Weldon
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I think ethnic and regional labels are insulting to writers and really put restrictions on them. People don't think your work is quite as universal.
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James Welch
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Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them.
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Chaim Weizmann
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Give it a kick at the right place and it'll work.
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Ezer Weizman
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Swimming gave me my start, but my pal Tarzan did the real work. He set me up nicely.
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Johnny Weissmuller
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Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look for bugs and things.
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Peter Weir
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Not only the Archivist alone but all who work for NARA are designated custodians of America's national memory.
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Allen Weinstein
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I'm not resigning, and I'm going to try very hard to go back to work a better man and a better husband too.
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Anthony Weiner
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I am announcing my resignation from Congress so my colleagues can get back to work, my neighbors can choose a new representative and most importantly that my wife and I can continue to heal from the damage I have caused.
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Anthony Weiner
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In these litigious times, if you're a beginner, it's becoming harder and harder to get your work to the people who might actually be able to hire you.
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Len Wein
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A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.
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Len Wein
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To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.
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Simone Weil
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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
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Simone Weil
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Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more.
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Cynthia Weil
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Whenever I release a record, it's my record. It's not a selfish thought. I may work all year 'round for other people. So, finally, when I come out with my own album, it should be me with the creative help of other musicians.
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Eberhard Weber
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Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.
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Beatrice Webb
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I guess I judge my films by how pleased I am with the work I do, so it's kind of on another level. If they do well at the box office, then that's great. Then I'm really pleased about that too.
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Hugo Weaving
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I am always successful in my work.
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George Weah
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For Scary Movie 2, we had a due date and had to work fast. And though there's a lot of pressure, as artists, we just block it out. So really, the pressure comes from us. That's how the first movie happened. There was no outside pressure: we wanted to hit the audience hard.
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Shawn Wayans
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You can kind of feel when things are going to work out.
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Keenen Wayans
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We always work at least a month to six weeks before we go on the road, usually for something like eight to 12 hours a night. It took six weeks to do it this time. We just play virtually everything we know.
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Charlie Watts
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It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves.
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Bill Watterson
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If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
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Thomas Watson
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Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.
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Thomas Watson
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Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.
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Ethel Waters
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I think that our primary concern is that the membership in our industry become active. I'm not talking about the candidates being active. I'm talking about the few hundred thousand people who work in the industry around the United States.
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Lew Wasserman
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Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
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Harold Washington
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The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.
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Harold Washington
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Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.
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Denzel Washington
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I'm not in the loop; I don't know any actors, really, just the ones I work with.
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Denzel Washington
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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Booker Washington
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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of "work," because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
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Andy Warhol
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Apparently I work for free, look at some of the independent films I've done.
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Patrick Warburton
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I believe I'm doing the right thing in trying to step away from that and to take chances and work on little independent films and do stuff like that wild dance scene.
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Patrick Warburton
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I've actually become much, much dumber through being married and having these children. I find that I'm not half as sharp that I once was. I can't even help them with their 4th and 5th grade vocabulary and math work at this point.
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Patrick Warburton
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There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices on The Simpsons. See, there's The Simpsons, and then there's everything else.
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Patrick Warburton
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I'll work with Jerry Seinfeld any day of the week. Get a nice little paycheck there, but you do it for free. It's just good to be associated with that man. He's a great guy.
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Patrick Warburton
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You don't make a fortune doing cartoons. It's a lot of fun, it keeps you busy, and it's better than a kick in the pants, absolutely. But doing voiceover work doesn't make you rich. It just doesn't.
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Patrick Warburton
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It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
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Vera Wang
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I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes - where a woman's personality and sense of style are realized.
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Vera Wang
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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.
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John Wanamaker
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The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work.
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Zach Wamp
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Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work.
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Zach Wamp
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I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.
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Joseph Wambaugh
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If you like a story that's totally different and won't know which way it's going... where it's go ing to end up and which way it's going to take you, then I think my work fits the bill.
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Rob Walton
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I've done work for hire. I've worked for DC and Dark Horse.
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Rob Walton
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That and the fact that I knew that nobody was going to publish my work at Dark Horse or DC or anywhere.
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Rob Walton
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It is very rewarding to serve the country by helping President Bush work to reduce the drug problem.
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John Walters
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To work to make the lives or others better is the most rewarding work of all.
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John Walters
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If it's not in New York, let's say it's in St. Louis, then they've got to find a place or get with someone who knows about the work... they've got to find a place like that and do scenes, and then try to get in plays.
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Ray Walston
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If they're working in a workshop somewhere, where there is, let's say, uh... only twenty people, or something like that, that's still, when they work and do a scene, that's still working in front of somebody.
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Ray Walston
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We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest in the fruits of his or her own labor. What I work for should be my property.
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Malcolm Wallop
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Our chemical and other manufacturing concerns are all too often ready to let the Germans have Latin American markets, provided the American companies can work out an arrangement which will enable them to charge high prices to the consumer inside the United States.
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Henry Wallace
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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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Larry Wall
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Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
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Larry Wall
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It's not about working anymore, its about doing work I can be proud of.
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Paul Walker
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I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why.
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Diane Wakoski
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It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well.
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Andrzej Wajda
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Sundance is just a great place for your work to be seen. Not much more to say about it than that.
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David Wain
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He's a legend and I respect his work, so I went down and paid my respects when Charlton was on the set. He was nice but I think he lied a little. He said it was an honour to be in a movie with me, but I don't believe it.
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Mark Wahlberg
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It's rare that I come across actors who are willing to work as hard on the material as I am.
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Donnie Wahlberg
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I didn't have big movie offers, or any big agents wanting to work with me. I had to go grassroots, start at the bottom and go on 150 auditions before someone finally gave me a shot.
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Donnie Wahlberg
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I was in the movies. I danced, I sang, I learned to work in front of a camera. It was like being in a repertory company.
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Robert Wagner
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I liked working in a series, going to work every day and not having to leave town for long locations. I was producing them and building an audience.
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Robert Wagner
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I've experienced several different healing methodologies over the years - counseling, self-help seminars, and I've read a lot - but none of them will work unless you really want to heal.
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Lindsay Wagner
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We're both very very lazy, and having someone else do half the work is very convenient.
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Larry Wachowski
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It's important that we work very closely with moderate Muslim forces locally, nationally and internationally.
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Gijs Vries
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We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.
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Voltaire
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The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.
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Voltaire
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You start where you can get an opportunity, you take everything that you can do to gain entrance. You do the little work and you try to find people who can teach you.
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Jon Voight
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I am flying back to New York as I write this. I will never forget these wonderful 35 days and I would go back to Copenhagen in a heartbeat to work there again.
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Tony Visconti
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Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.
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Vernor Vinge
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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Vernor Vinge
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I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
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Leonardo Vinci
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They make a humongous profit, but the people that work on the shows don't get paid a lot because they're working on the Oscars show. It's the biggest show in the world.
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Bruce Vilanch
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I mean, when I started out I was billing per hour, like a shrink because you would sit with somebody and work. But most of it, if it's for a live show it's usually a buy-out. A flat fee.
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Bruce Vilanch
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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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Gore Vidal
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We will work with industrial or Dept. Of Defence sponsorship as long as we keep our principals of openness firm we're proud to work with the military, and they respect that in turn.
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Charles Vest
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You have to pay attention to the work on the page and make it as good as possible because it could be your last.
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Milo Ventimiglia
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I just try not to subscribe to the ways of celebrity. I'm not a celebrity, I'm a working actor. A lot of the events - the parties and the premieres that people go to to get noticed - I'm just not into. I'll hang out with my friends, go see punk shows, read at home. At the same time, I have a production company, which is a lot of work.
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Milo Ventimiglia
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I want to avoid locking people into solutions that work only with Postfix. People should have a choice in what software they want to use with Postfix, be it anti-virus or otherwise.
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Wietse Venema
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I was going to visit IBM for six months as a visiting scientist. Now, six months is a lot of time, so I came with a whole list of projects that I might want to work on.
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Wietse Venema
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So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle rejection.
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Patricia Velasquez
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Always work hard, be honest, and be proud of who you are.
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Patricia Velasquez
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I wouldn't characterize my work, however, as directly political.
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Suzanne Vega
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I invite you, from my sentiments, my convictions and my responsibilities, to work together in the construction of a Uruguay where being young is not suspicious, where aging is not a problem.
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Tabare Vazquez
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Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
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Bill Vaughan
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I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.
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Edgard Varese
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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.
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Raoul Vaneigem
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And I'm going to work as hard as I can... for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we'll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I'd like to think I'm going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year!
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Jim Valvano
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You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes.
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Boris Vallejo
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An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
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Paul Valery
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I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves.
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Leon Uris
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Series work is just grueling.
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Robert Urich
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I did a little theatre work after that and the following year I got another part in a television series. Then it was almost to the end of the year before I got more work. That was coming to terms with the reality of the vocation I had chosen.
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Karl Urban
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When I work, I try to eat as much vegetarian as possible. When I do Cupid, I eat vegetarian because I need the energy. I've got those wings on my back.
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Karl Urban
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I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think in essence what you're doing is you're raping yourself really.
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Karl Urban
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That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something.
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Karl Urban
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I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of my books had already been published.
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Sigrid Undset
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It could be a great script but the director is not the right person for me to work for at this time. So there are a lot of elements that come into play and a lot of variables, but more than anything it's got to be a great script and a great character.
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Blair Underwood
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I'd rather say no and have said no and do say no often. I walk away from projects if it doesn't feel right; if it's not the right team of people pulling in together or if the script isn't right. It could be a great idea but the script doesn't work.
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Blair Underwood
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I heard we'll get you a pass because we know you're married to a black woman. You're married to a sister so we'll give you that pass but also, those who know me but also if they look at the body of work, it is the bigger picture.
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Blair Underwood
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The older one gets in this profession, the more people there are with whom one would never work again.
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Liv Ullmann
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Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them.
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Tracey Ullman
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The more you participate in our common endeavors, the more successful your work in the factory, mine, wharf or village, in an economic institute or in the arts, in commerce or administration, the sooner we will be where we all want to be.
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Walter Ulbricht
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Well, I probably, I guess first became aware of the whole, what I call the nuclear complex or weapons work those kinds of things, right out of law school.
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Tom Udall
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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Lao Tzu
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, "We did it ourselves."
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Lao Tzu
