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- Nov 07, 2020
Work Quotes
Quotes on the meaning of work.
Several quotes here describe work as a solitary process, one that takes real effort to protect from distraction, while others connect a person's politics directly to the character of their work. Related reading includes Growth Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I'm talking to people. It doesn't always work, and one shouldn't always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't ever take a day 'off.' If I can't work, I won't work.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fight for civil rights did not end when Donald Trump was elected president. We've got work to do.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The advice that I can give anyone wanting to be in the biz: do all the work, learn your craft. There are no shortcuts. If you stay with it, you will get an opportunity.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The work of art is a scream of freedom.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not only one person's work, it's really a partnership and collaboration during all these years.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our work is a scream of freedom.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People think our work is monumental because it's art, but human beings do much bigger things: they build giant airports, highways for thousands of miles, much, much bigger than what we create.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Therefore we have to go over the fact that all human beings are afraid by what is new. It is our work to convince them that they will enjoy it, and even if they don't, to allow us just for 14 days to create that work of art.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been able to work as an actor and support my family and did great jobs, and more often than not, I got to turn down jobs that I didn't really want to do for various reasons or refuse to work with people I didn't like - and there are quite a few.
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- Nov 07, 2020