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«I don't pretend to tell people how to live their lives other than to do the right thing and work hard. Everything else should take care of itself.»
«I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do»
«I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.»
Author: Morgan Freeman (Actor, Producer) | About: Work | Keywords: dental, early on, get off
«I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.»
Author: Walter Chrysler | About: Work | Keywords: excited, genuinely, sorry for, worthwhile
«I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.»
«I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.»
Author: Rita Mae Brown (Writer) | About: Work | Keywords: bargain, rotten
«I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.»
Author: Truman Capote (Novelist, Playwright, Writer) | About: Ideas, Words, Work | Keywords: novel
«I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.»
Author: Arthur Miller (Playwright) | About: Work
«I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.»
«I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have»
Author: Thomas Jefferson (Author, President) | About: Work