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- Nov 07, 2020
Best Quotes
Quotes on doing your best work.
These quotes focus on craft and timing - a drama student naming the first year as the best, and filmmakers explaining that the best visual effects and shots come from grounding fantasy in something real. Related reading includes Achievement Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom.
- Brightest
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now things have changed for the better. Our reforms end seniority and tenure so we can hire and fire based on merit and pay based on performance. That means we can put the best and the brightest in our classrooms - and we can keep them there.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see many founders waste too much time trying to work their networks and/or ultimately settle for mediocre but available candidates. You will definitely have to interview hard for cultural fit, but the best talent isn't cheap.
- World
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever vocation you decide on, track down the best people in the world at doing it and surround yourself with them.
- Checking
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best board members aren't elected by default. CEOs that set themselves up with their choice of board member - which means getting more than one term sheet and doing extensive reference checking - are better off.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will say this: the first film that I was on was 'In the Heat of the Night', that Norman Jewison directed with Sidney Poitier. I'm on the set, and I'm totally taking it for granted. Everyone is working for everyone else and pulling for the very best, and it makes everyone better because you feel that effort and concern and appreciation.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best adaptations are the ones that really excavate the material. The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing and put it into a story.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's my goal, to feel like I've done the best I could. When I've done that, anything else that happens is a bonus.
- World
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- Nov 07, 2020
You read a script, you try and think through what is the best, most wide-ranging way of telling the story: who stylistically, character-logically, psychologically fits inside the world of what you're trying to do. A lot of it, when you're casting, is trying to get yourself in the head of a director.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
'O.J.: Made in America' was one of the best things I've seen in a long time.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
My view is we need the best environment for businesses to grow. That is the best opportunity to ensure wages can lift, not artificially but sustainably.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best thing I can do for someone who's not in a job is get them in a job, and this government has had the greatest success of any government at getting Australians into work.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have entered a time when a writer's first idea is his best idea, when the first thing a reporter hears is the first thing that she reports. We live in a time now when we have seen major television networks take video off of YouTube and broadcast it to millions of Americans without verifying whether the video had been fabricated or not.
- Entrepreneurial Spirit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Supporting the entrepreneurial spirit is our best chance for economic progress.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020