Famous Quotes: Work

It's not like I had big dreams to go to California and become an actor. I loved doing my shows at school and community theater, and I probably would have settled in New York because it was closer. I was going to go to NYU.
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Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.
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I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes.
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If there's no relationship with a father who's absent, nobody talks about it.
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Marilyn Monroe was no fun to work with. She would report to work around 5:00 in the evening. You've been in make-up since 8:30 in the morning waiting for her.
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My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.
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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
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The thing about New York is you can leave your house without a plan and find the day. You can't do that in Los Angeles. You need to get in your car, all this, you can't just drive around like a lunatic. In New York, you can literally walk outside, and wind up anywhere.
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The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves.
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It's great to have the freedom to enjoy your work and not feel like you're leaving your other life behind.
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If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.
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When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.
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I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'
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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
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You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
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Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.
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Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But it's also the only gift that does not keep on giving.
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Employees are a company's greatest asset - they're your competitive advantage. You want to attract and retain the best; provide them with encouragement, stimulus, and make them feel that they are an integral part of the company's mission.
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I believe that the profits will come from the quality of your creative products. Since the beginning, I've always wanted to develop a self-feeding circle of creative productions: the positive financial returns from one show would be used to develop and create a new show, and so on.
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