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• The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

  Gustave Flaubert

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• I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I’m one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.

  Mel Brooks

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• If you feel driven and compelled to make your work and to be fiercely original and have something unique to say, in a compelling way, then chances are the helpers will be there for you the doors will open some, the ice will crack.

  David Knopfler

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• In some ways it’s taken me decades to come clean and make honest work – and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects.

  David Knopfler

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• I’d worked with Mel Harris before, I love working with her, she’s great.

  David Keith

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• I’m a working actor so I never really pick a film because of a genre, and I don’t really turn them down because of genre. Anything that’s unlike the picture I just finished is always more interesting.

  David Keith

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• I’ve been working hard to become the kind of man she needs, the kind of man she already believes me to be.

  Colleen Haskell

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• In practice, socialism didn’t work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.

  David Horowitz

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• What the left says sounds very good but, in practice, it works out very badly.

  David Horowitz

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• When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.

  Tennessee Williams

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• Things work out the way they’re meant to

  Danielle Steel

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• The real question is: How do you react? What do you do next? Evade responsibilities? Bury yourself in work? What do you do? All three of my novels take up that question, although none gives an answer.

  David Guterson

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  Tags in Self, Responsibilities

• Corn ethanol can help in the short term, but it has serious limitations, and none of this is going to work if we don’t dramatically improve the efficiency of our cars and trucks.

  David Friedman

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• What this loss means will be appreciated from the statement that one bushel of wheat contains sufficient energy to support the average working man for 15 days.

  David F. Houston

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  Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.

  David Bly

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• The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn’t require any.

  Russell Baker

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  Tags in Writer, Real, Writing

• If a man is called to be a streetsweep-er, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

  Martin Luther King Jr

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  I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

  Pearl S. Buck

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• Sundance is just a great place for your work to be seen. Not much more to say about it than that.

  David Wain

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• I am not one of those guys who pretends not to enjoy his own work.

  David Wain

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