How that works is our first season was the year we had a threatened writers' strike, so what we did was that instead of doing 22 episodes, we did 30. We put 10 in the bank.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind.
~By George W. Bush ~
Change is such hard work.
~By Billy Crystal ~
But usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I still allow for and want to make changes.
~By Roy Lichtenstein ~
Not really in all honesty because until you take control of your own health and go to your own doctor and have your own doctor tell you what's going to work for you.
~By Star Jones ~
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
~By Rainer Maria Rilke ~
Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original.
~By Lukas Foss ~
I will work with a director who has good material because at the end of the day, that's what counts.
~By Javier Bardem ~
As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue their work.
~By Marty Meehan ~
Holly Hunter has been doing great work forever.
~By Patricia Clarkson ~
A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.
~By Maggie Gyllenhaal ~
I was lucky enough to know exactly what I wanted to do when I was growing up. I think one of the hardest things to figure out in life is what your calling is, and what truly makes you happy - not what you want to work at, but what you want to do.
~By Scott Foley ~
There's no secret to working with kids. They either charm you and you can work with them, or they don't charm you and you feel you're stuck with them.
~By Jerome Robbins ~
I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn't have family to fall back on if I didn't work. I didn't have a lot of other options of making money other than modeling.
~By Carre Otis ~
Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.
~By Ramakrishna ~
I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.
~By Jean-Michel Basquiat ~
I think a performer should do his work and then shut up.
~By Richard Widmark ~
I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don't know why, but he did.
~By John Lee Hooker ~
My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
~By Dave Van Ronk ~
Well, my closest friends are still the ones that I went to school with, but it's nice to go to work, at the studios, and have people there that you're willing to talk to and have a good conversation with.
~By Tom Felton ~
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
~By Lao Tzu ~
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
~By Sam Ewing ~
I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.
~By Trevor Nunn ~
And that's why I wrote the book, because our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation understood what our foreign policy is really about, what foreign aid is about, how our corporations work, where our tax money goes, I know we will demand change.
~By John Perkins ~
Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.
~By Robert Benchley ~
I still do not know where the notes will come from when I accept a commission for a new work.
~By Lukas Foss ~
Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.
~By Obie Trice ~
The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done.
~By Anthony Kennedy ~
We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment.
~By Helmut Jahn ~
After developing a primitive theory (1968) I therefore did not pursue this subject. However, the work was taken up by others and in 1974 the first experiments were done in the ISR.
~By Simon van der Meer ~
It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality.
~By Griffin Dunne ~
I started working on trying to sound like June from the very beginning.
~By Reese Witherspoon ~
I have such an extreme attitude about work, where I can just completely be derelict of my responsibilities and then when I am not derelict, I am completely indulged in it. I swing pretty wildly from the two extremes.
~By Geddy Lee ~
I hate acting when I see it. I don't want to feel it, I don't want to see it, I want to be taken away with the story - I don't want the actor's ego in front of me. That's what I try to live when I do the work.
~By Rutger Hauer ~
Eventually the bad stuff I'm writing turns into better stuff. Other times, I've just walked away from what I was working on, and figured I'd have a better perspective when I came back to it.
~By Margaret Haddix ~
The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
~By Adam Ferguson ~
I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.
~By Carol P. Christ ~
Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
~By Walter Benjamin ~
The key to making the inspections work is the Iraqi government making the crucial decision that because of the international pressure Iraq has to disarm itself.
~By Douglas Feith ~
For a while we were chasing a book by Graham Greene to do Brighton Rock as a musical. We didn't get the rights, so we decided to create something from scratch, with Jonathan. By that time we were big fans of his work.
~By Neil Tennant ~
That's my fun time so, to me, doing my homework, studying on what I do, watching the movies, listening to music, all that inspires me so I focus a lot on that and practice.
~By Christina Milian ~
And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard to get through the day, and I'll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over.
~By Delta Burke ~
My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.
~By Merton Miller ~
I grew up with the mindset that when you get home from work, you go to dinner and watch a movie. I don't want to be going to a club and taking off my panties.
~By Blake Lively ~
I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. I'm only just learning how to do certain things.
~By Art Garfunkel ~
Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
~By Louis Aragon ~
That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.
~By Marc Almond ~
That and the fact that I knew that nobody was going to publish my work at Dark Horse or DC or anywhere.
~By Rob Walton ~
To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement.
~By Jim Gibbons ~
A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should do something else first, so they've got something to fall back on. It doesn't work like that, as far as I'm concerned.
~By Ewan McGregor ~
To me, 'Blackberry Way' stands up as a song that could be sung in any era, really. We do it with the new doing all sort of fanfare things in it and it works really well. It goes down great with audiences.
~By Roy Wood ~
So, when I got the contract for my album, even though it was an English record, my manager insisted on making sure we would record in Spanish as well, and it worked out really well for me.
~By Jon Secada ~
It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.
~By Thomas Friedman ~
But, neither of these educational scenarios worked for us, so when we started a family, we wanted a different school for our children. And the other founders felt the same way.
~By Daniel Greenberg ~
The novels take longer to write than the picture book texts, and they do take a different sort of concentration. However, a very short, simple story that works well is just as exciting to me as any longer and more complex book.
~By Margaret Mahy ~
The actual getting into the gym and working out process was easier, but the eating was harder. I had to eat every two hours. At one point, my trainer said, 'Put anything in your mouth. Go to McDonald's, get the biggest shake possible. I just need to get calories in you.' Because my body fat at the time was only, like, 7.5%.
~By Taylor Lautner ~
To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.
~By Marilyn Monroe ~
Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.
~By Richard Roeper ~
We're looking to have the ability to come in and be able to capitalize on the marketing in order to grow the top-line. We basically leverage what has worked with our other successful acquisitions - investment in marketing, retention and student services.
~By John Larson ~
My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
~By Orson Scott Card ~
I didn't want to do 'Casino Royale' when they told me to audition. I said no. Then they sent me the script, and I thought it was actually very interesting - and I had no other work at the time.
~By Eva Green ~
Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen.
~By Robert Rodriguez ~
Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities.
~By Liberty Hyde Bailey ~
I feel the need to work with my wife, Lena Olin, again.
~By Lasse Hallstrom ~
We must lead in a different way... We must have an active president, who gives strong direction and works with the government for its implementation.
~By Lionel Jospin ~
The people who knew me and knew my work and trusted me, they knew then as they do now that I've never fabricated or plagiarized a story. People who know me know I didn't do this.
~By Jack Kelley ~
I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have always turned the suggestions down for the reason that I have never done creative work on a typewriter. There is to me a lack of empathy.
~By Winston Graham ~
I had to think ahead. How much would I really enjoy committing five or seven years to working on this? When you're an unemployed actor offered a TV pilot, no matter who you are you're tempted by the good hunk of change to be made. It keeps you out of the unemployment line.
~By Gerald McRaney ~
There was no way we'd ever get spoiled. Daddy made sure to instill in us a work ethic.
~By Kathie Lee Gifford ~
I do a lot of work with the Dyslexia Institute because, for people with dyslexia who do not have parental support, it is a huge disadvantage. I was fortunate because my Mum was a teacher and she taught me to work hard.
~By Susan Hampshire ~
If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.
~By Richard Russo ~
Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.
~By Jeremy Taylor ~
When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware.
~By Elizabeth Moon ~
I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family.
~By Sanford I. Weill ~
I hope to be with you as a writer for a very long time, and I hope that you will enjoy reading my work, because readers are the highest form of life on this planet.
~By Guy Johnson ~
Just do the math. In the next 50 to 75 years, people will be living to be 130 and 140. They'll be working until they're 100. It's incredible.
~By Willard Scott ~
I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and preventive services aimed at reducing the rate of birth defects.
~By Solomon Ortiz ~
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.
~By Eli Wallach ~
I'm in the process of working out an arrangement to make some very, very, very small films in the midst of all these films and maybe that will help. But you get tired of talking. You just want to do it.
~By Steven Soderbergh ~
One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.
~By David Hilbert ~
I always sympathized with the people who did work for hire; I was one of them.
~By Stan Lee ~
Most recently we've been working in concert situations rather than clubs. because there aren't too many rooms there like Ronnie Scott's, that are pure music rooms, where people come specifically to listen to music.
~By Chuck Mangione ~
And then what makes the work interesting is if you choose the right questions.
~By Bruce Nauman ~
Hey, we have obligations. We all work for a living now.
~By Michael Irvin ~
After the '96 Olympics, we all started believing that this is bigger than we thought, and we were willing to do the work. We knew that it was up to us, the players, to make soccer successful.
~By Brandi Chastain ~
I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out.
~By Bo Jackson ~
Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.
~By John Ruskin ~
Craft brewers are committed to promoting the safe and moderate consumption of their beverage, and work closely with their communities to prevent underage drinking and alcohol abuse.
~By Sherwood Boehlert ~
Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn't be more interesting - playing mothers, divorcees. I think it's going to be exciting to play a mother of teenagers. The longer your life, the deeper it gets.
~By Naomi Watts ~
I'm trying to go through the whole process of high school to college to work.
~By Devon Sawa ~
He makes me laugh, Mick! He tended to turn up when we were having lunch and entertain us all. He bought an Enigma machine! I've never worked with a producer who was more famous than everyone put together.
~By Saffron Burrows ~
Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.
~By Ernest Mandel ~
It was a very difficult 10 years of very hard work.
~By Jeffrey Skilling ~
The worst is when I talk myself into something. Sometimes you take things because you want to work with a certain actor, or you want to work with a director, even if the script or the part's not that great.
~By Jessica Lange ~
I wouldn't dream of selling my work. I give them to friends, to charities.
~By Rod Taylor ~
The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day.
~By Arthur Scargill ~
My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread.
~By Rafael Palmeiro ~
I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he played a kid who was suing his father for alienation of affection or something. It was great.
~By Rene Auberjonois ~
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