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All the real work is done in the rehearsal period. -- Donald Pleasence
The movie feels to me like a real work of lovely art. -- Jeff Goldblum
I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me. -- H. P. Lovecraft
It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else. -- James M. Barrie
Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done. -- Junot Diaz
Handouts are not going to end global poverty, but work - real work - just might. -- Leila Janah
Although I receive a small salary from Apple, I do virtually no real work at the company. -- Steve Wozniak
Swimming gave me my start, but my pal Tarzan did the real work. He set me up nicely. -- Johnny Weissmuller
What I want from my Lovers is real unadulterated love, and from my genuine workers I expect real work done. -- Meher Baba
I've always enjoyed real work more than schoolwork. My mother will attest to that - she was always concerned about me academically. -- David Ulevitch
I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society. -- Charles Kuralt
And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree. -- Donald A. Norman
My holy grail is fusion energy. Nuclear fusion has little to no radioactive waste. It's clean. It's very abundant. The fuels are everywhere. There are problems with fusion. -- Taylor Wilson
For better or worse, when Sen. Inhofe speaks, the Republican Party follows. And when the Republican Party follows, it is impossible to get real work done in the Congress. -- Bernie Sanders
If Yucca Mountain had not been designated as a dumpsite for radioactive waste in 1987, it might easily have become a scenic overlook on the long drive between Tonopah and Las Vegas. -- Wil S. Hylton
When I felt rather overcome with my father's opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work. -- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
After college, rather than pursue real work, I joined a folk group and sang in coffee houses and nightclubs, an occupation that does little for the intellect and even less for the complexion. -- Marshall Brickman
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
There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that's plutonium. -- David R. Brower
Deleting 200 spams a day is a drag. And I was checking my email constantly, rather than getting on with my real work, which is reading and writing. Email was becoming a distraction, a burden rather than a liberation. -- Tom Hodgkinson
You want to have fun but you also want to work well. Sometimes I was quite happy at Ferrari, because we would have fun, but then they could not stop having fun and go back to the real work. -- Alain Prost
I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art. -- Helena Bonham Carter
In the beginning I had a real work problem. Every time I had job I had to convince the immigration authorities I was the only man for that job and get a special work permit until I went under contract to MGM. -- Rod Taylor
I've had an unbelievable life. I've been very lucky. You do create your own luck too, you know? I never forget where I'm from. Whenever I pass a building site or see somebody digging a ditch, I always think, 'That's real work.' -- Liam Neeson
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. -- Thomas A. Edison
On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden. -- Maya Angelou
For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily subsidised. They leave to future generations the task, and most of the cost, of making safe sites that have been polluted half-way to eternity. -- James Buchan
The international community must do a better job of controlling the risks of nuclear proliferation. Sensitive parts of the nuclear fuel cycle - the production of new fuel, the processing of weapon-usable material, the disposal of spent fuel and radioactive waste - would be less vulnerable to proliferation if brought under multinational control. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
My youngest son's pre-school class was recently asked what their dads do for work. The responses were things like, my dad sells money, and my dad figures stuff out. My son said, 'I've never seen my dad do work.' It's true. Skateboarding doesn't seem like real work, but I'm proud of what I do. -- Tony Hawk
I think that I was lucky that I was 30 when I did 'Love Story', which came with this extravagant pop celebrity. I had already done 15 years of what I call 'real' work.' I was a waitress, chambermaid, and a photographer's assistant, so I knew that I was tremendously lucky as a novice actor to have that big hit. -- Ali MacGraw
I feel very protective in the first draft, when all the pieces are coming together. I work in a way that is not linear or chronological at all, even with the short story. I will just be writing bits and pieces, and then when I have all the pieces on the table, that for me is when it feels like the real work begins. -- Jill McCorkle
The real work is in the practice. -- Swami Vivekananda
Real management is developing people through work. -- Agha Hasan Abedi
Communication is the real work of leadership. -- Nitin Nohria
The real essence of work is concentrated energy. -- Walter Bagehot
Real life is in love, laughter, and work. -- Elbert Hubbard
In a knowledge-driven economy, talk is real work. -- Thomas H. Davenport
Being busy does not always mean real work. -- Thomas A. Edison
The real artist's work is a surprise to himself. -- Robert Henri
Focused, hard work is the real key to success. -- John Carmack
A work of real merit finds favor at last. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
I live, like every real man, in my work. -- Max Frisch
My work is writing, but my real work is being. -- William Saroyan
I've got a clear line between work and real life. -- Ed Westwick
Mothers who work full time - they're the real heroes. -- Kate Winslet
The real work of an expedition begins when you return. -- Louise Boyd
I've had three husbands, but my real romance is my work. -- Hattie Carnegie
Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work. -- Viola Davis
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love. -- David McCullough
My indie work is mostly reality-based, focused on real life and characters. -- Jeff Lemire
Inflation outstripped real wages for people who work for pay from others. -- Tim Bishop
Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work -- Joseph Barbara
I like kids' work more than work by real artists any day. -- Jean-Michel Basquiat
I don't know how to work a room. It's a real skill. -- Matthew McConaughey
Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love. -- David McCullough
Work on what is real rather than worry about what is unreal. -- Elizabeth George
The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like. -- Stephen Hawking
Real love takes work. You have to be willing to make the effort. -- Noah Weinberg
Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley. -- Ben Stein
Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work. -- Harvey Mackay
The real story of the settlement of the West was work, not conquest -- Stewart Udall
There is no real difference between work and play - it's all living. -- Richard Branson
In the sales profession, the real work begins after the sale is made. -- Brian Tracy
I was really interested in geishas' work, and wanted to meet real geishas. -- Zhang Ziyi
The real work of social innovation is to fix our broken human systems. -- Cheryl Heller
I have a real eclectic taste for work, for movies, for characters and jobs. -- Ricky Schroder
All men are into bondage, 'specially if they're real assholes at work all day. -- Kathy Lette
Real happiness lies in the completion of work using your own brains and skills. -- Soichiro Honda
Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real. -- Yann Martel
Playing the game was the easy part. The real work was in the preparation. -- Alex Rodriguez
Real life is sometimes boring, rarely conclusive and boy, does the dialogue need work. -- Sarah Rees Brennan
I like to work with really good professional people - anyone with real talent. -- Lauren Bacall
The real transformation of society will come only in love, in work, and in stillness. -- Gustav Landauer
The key to hitting is just plain working at it. Work, that's the real secret. -- Ted Williams
Back off, boys. You don't want to mess with an out-of-work secretary. We're real testy. -- MaryJanice Davidson
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to make it work is the unreality. -- Toni Cade Bambara
I think I'm very real as a person, and that comes across in my work. -- Danielle Steel
If this is a real work for God it is a real conflict with Satan. -- Hudson Taylor
If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling. -- Robert Henri
I don't have a good work ethic. I have a real casual relationship with hours. -- Janeane Garofalo
Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day. -- Norman Mailer
The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real. -- Marge Piercy
A real woman is a work of fiction a real man is a short report -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
Devils so work that things which are not, appear to men as if they were real. -- Lactantius
It doesn't bother me to work with so much green screen. I prefer real settings obviously. -- Joe Flanigan
I'm able to leave Don Draper at work. I'm quite dissimilar from him in real life -- Jon Hamm
I'm able to leave Don Draper at work. I'm quite dissimilar from him in real life. -- Jon Hamm
It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people. -- Christopher Hampton
So, I don't work in terms of real time. I don't work in a timely fashion. -- John Irving
It's not the increasing competition; it's going back to real work that most of us complain about. -- William Feather
We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art. -- Maurice Ravel
We can all be more consistently involved in missionary work by replacing our fear with real faith. -- M. Russell Ballard
We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art -- Maurice Ravel
Real teams don't emerge unless individuals on them take risks involving conflict, trust, interdependence and hard work. -- John Katzenbach
Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work. -- Sue Monk Kidd
Nature is the best and really the only real vocabulary that an artist can legitimately work with. -- Nelson Shanks
The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general. -- Mario Benedetti
Christianity has confused catching mice with the real work of the Kingdom, which is more like hunting lions. -- Leslie Ludy
It's always been in between the things I thought I was doing that the real work has happened. -- William Kentridge
The real kiss of death - particularly with my father - is the extraordinary popularity of his work. -- Jamie Wyeth
Climate change is a real deal. So, hey deniers - cut it out, and let's get to work. -- Bill Nye
People finally have permission to be human in the context of their work. That's the real Internet story. -- Christopher Locke
I mostly don't submit to talking about my work because I would like another talk about real life. -- Leos Carax
Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few. -- Carl Jung
As an actor, you're trying to capture the nuances of real life, but voice work is almost over-acting. -- Mike Colter
Two points that are very important points to remember and ask: Is it real and does it work? -- Edward T. Hall
When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The real reward for doing your best work is not the money you make but the leader you become. -- Robin Sharma
Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It's just another colour to work with. -- Quentin Tarantino
My idea of the real aristocrat is the master workman, no matter what his line of work may be. -- Henry Latham Doherty
"A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist." -- Leo Tolstoy
When I don't have to be at work, I want to be the real me - the comfortable me! -- Leighton Meester
Real ability is the child of God-given talent and rock solid diligence. Nobody maintains ability without hard work. Nobody. -- Cung Le
You know, the one with all the well meaning rules that don't work out in real life, uh, Christianity. -- Homer
The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work. -- Agha Hasan Abedi
It's only when we can work with something that brings out our strengths that we're of any real use. -- Henning Mankell
If there are moments in my work when people find joy and humour, that's a real success for me. -- Patricia Piccinini
The real culprits are those who created a system that makes it dangerous to work and safe to loaf. -- Thomas Sowell
If you were building a real-time game like one of Zynga's games, the WordPress model wouldn't work well for that. -- Matt Mullenweg

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