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When I think of some of my earlier work, it really seems a fortunate coincidence that I succeeded.
One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
You need to know what doesn't work to know what works. It's especially true in improv and stand-up.
When you're passionate about your work, it feels like you would do it even if no one were paying you.
It is only serving God that is doing immortal work; it is only living for Christ that is living at all.
After a year of doing general farm work, it was quite clear to me that chickens and I were not compatible.
...I think that ideally that is how a company works. It becomes a place of ideas, not a place of position.
You can't throw money at the Internet to make it work - it really is all about the quality of the content.
I never courted that but it's nice when it's people you respect and they respect your work. It's thrilling.
Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment.
Love is hard work. It is the hardest work I know of, work from which you are never entitled to take a vacation.
When humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.
Everyone should find something they love doing. Then work isn't work. It's a part of themselves. Of who they are.
I trust my work. It's a collaboration with the material, and when it's viewed, it's a collaboration with the world.
Whatever role I do, I've got to do the work. It all starts with the body. Get that ready and everything else follows.
When I started understanding how science works, it occurred to me that there just is no evidence that there is a God.
If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings.
Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing.
Just to be involved in anything Disney, whether it's 'Avengers Assemble' or 'Planes' or straight-to-dvd work, it's great.
If you work it will lead to something. It's the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things.
Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read - my own or other people's works - it all seems to me not short enough.
The thing about movies is if somebody has an idea that works, it's in, and I say that as a screenwriter as well as a director.
Writing is physical work. It's sweaty work. You just can't will yourself to become a good writer. You really have to work at it.
Movies are magical. Sometimes it just works, it catalyzes, and everything falls into place, and no one knows exactly how or why.
...what I try to do is a good bad picture. I work it out very carefully, and then I do something that looks as if it went wrong.
I really enjoy my time off. If I'm going to go to work, it has to be something I really believe in, or else it's totally tedious.
Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.
Ive always been very comfortable in a set environment. All the collaborating going on, seeing how actors work - it all excites me.
I work very fast and steadily, and I don't hardly ever notice that I'm working. It feels like just breathing or walking when I do films.
The word ‘studio’ is derives from ‘study’. Our object is not to know the answers before we do the work. It’s to know them after we do it.
Don't wait for perfect. Don't wait for something to be fully formed in your head to start on it. Just start, and then work it out as you go.
You know that the formula is askew when even if the formula is working, it's not; when even if everything's going right, something is wrong.
I'm never gonna go into a studio and work for a whole year non-stop. Just every day on my own in the studio working, it's just too damn hard.
I like working. It is where I feel useful. I have no plans to cut down. I am happy with what I do. There will be a lot more of me yet, that's for sure.
I will just create, and if it works, it works, and if it doesn't, I'll create something else. I don't have any limitations on what I think I could do or be.
You've really got to keep on improving and improving and improving. It still involves work. It's not like you get to a point, and then you're good and that's it.
Maybe you could casually mention to Zoe that I'm not now, nor have I ever been, an axe murderer." "I'll see if I can work it into our next conversation," Flynn promised.
It's one thing in this business to actually work. 5 percent of the Screen Actors' Guild works. It's another thing to do work that's satisfying and that people are loving.
The Recovery Act is working, but it's going to continue to work. It's not over. A lot's going to happen this summer. And even after the summer, there's more to come with the act.
When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes.
It's the most exciting thing to watch God work when I've asked him about something, to listen to him and watch him work. It's like this friendship, and it just grows and grows and grows and grows.
In the general sense, there's a journey to be had. You either start at the top or the bottom for a journey to happen. Our movie has to start at the top and work it's way down. Or start at the bottom and work it's way up.
I just like to be in the now. And kind of reporting on what it is that I see, feel and that's really reflective of the times that I'm in, we're in and I think with the latest works, it's still evident that we're going through a lot of the same things.
Our success has come from the lack of oversight we've provided, and our success will continue to be from a lack of oversight. But if you're going to provide minimal oversight, you have to buy carefully. It's a different model from GE's. GE's works - it's just very different from ours.
Trickle-down did not work. It got us into the mess we were in, in 2008 and 2009. Slashing taxes on the wealthy hasn’t worked. And a lot of really smart, wealthy people know that. And they are saying, hey, we need to do more to make the contributions we should be making to rebuild the middle class.