"If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?"
-Henry David Thoreau
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"Live your life, do your work, then take your hat."
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"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
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"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."
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"Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it."
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"It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible."
-Warren Farrell
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"I feel responsible that everyone has a really wonderful experience and to do the best work possible, and to always know my lines and to always be on time and to bring a level to the show in terms of quality that other people will follow."
-Julianna Margulies
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"Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience."
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"Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience."
-David Mitchell
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"I got pregnant at 40 by surprise. It's funny, because when we found out we were pregnant, I said, 'Okay, let's experience that.' You just have to just go with it because it's rare."
-Julianna Margulies
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"At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers."
-Vincent D'Onofrio
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