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Nobody knew exactly how the zombification process worked, and there were as many different strains as theories. -- Nicki Elson
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Darrell is really good in the studio. I mean, he has a real working knowledge of how the process works, and what sounds good coming back over tape, and how the stuff works together. -- Guy Clark
In the best nonfiction, it seems to me, you're always made aware that you are being engaged with a supple mind at work. The story line or plot in nonfiction consists of the twists and turns of a thought process working itself out. -- Phillip Lopate
I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of the problems is, when you start to do that, in effect you're going to have to step off the edge of science and rationality. -- Alan Moore
When I first joined the Irvine Company, I realized that less than 11,000 acres were designated as open space in the original master plan, and that just didn't seem adequate to me. So, I began the lengthy process working with public and community organizations to add more open space. -- Donald Bren
As a human being, I'm work in process. -- John Lydon
You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process. -- Lucinda Williams
I'm trying to go through the whole process of high school to college to work. -- Devon Sawa
I get to work with great photographers, wear lovely clothes, be part of the creative process. -- Alexa Chung
Learning about the way people process information and their emotions is hugely helpful to my work. -- Ellen Pompeo
When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making. -- Lindsey Buckingham
I've learned that I work best when I'm entirely naked. The recording process was done that way. -- Emilie Autumn
I enjoy the process of TV; I like the pace of it; I like the continual work. -- Christian Slater
The creative process for me doesn't work as well without an image of an audience in mind. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
The way that I work is very specific, very thorough, and the process has to be totally clear. -- Lynn Collins
I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. -- Vincent Van Gogh
I worked 18 years to become an overnight success. Now MagicPlace.com will short circuit that process for people. -- Criss Angel
The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work. -- Mordecai Richler
Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel. -- Theophile Gautier
I did everything. I worked at S.S. Kresge, the five-and-dime. I worked in a mailroom. I worked processing insurance claims. -- Grace Hightower
The emotional magnets beneath home and workplace are in the process of being reversed. Work has become a form of 'home' and home has become 'work.' -- Arlie Russell Hochschild
I create work, and I devote myself to the creative process, and I try to, you know, stay pure in that process and be worthy of the messages that I receive. -- John Zorn
Sometimes, as I feel a door or an exit point in my work is closing, I'll try to create an opening so as not to stifle the creative process, which I see as a process that's never-ending. -- Chris Ofili
That thought process that somehow other people have to be worse off in order for you to be better off does not work. People get on boats people jump fences to get away from that kind of thought process. -- Marco Rubio
What's important in the filmmaking process has stayed the same. Keep it small, keep it personal, keep it authentic, work with people you like and trust. That process is much longer than the filmmaking process. The development process is a long one, so try and say something of importance. -- Simon Beaufoy
The work of art is above all a process of creation. -- Paul Klee
Should the political process not work, there is always the other approach. -- Adel al-Jubeir
It's almost a work-shopping process to create the characters with the actors. -- Doug Liman
We should work on our process, not the outcome of our processes. -- W. Edwards Deming
When one's work hides behind simple, process is kind of long story. -- Shawn Lukas
If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. -- Hugh Prather
There's some mysterious process at work here, which I don't even want to understand. -- Philip Guston
All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. -- Chuck Close
Obsession and repetition in the process of making things is one constant element in my work. -- Sandy Skoglund
I always work with text orally in the writing process, saying passages aloud to measure flow. -- Vivek Shraya
If you have unskilled people who work poorly together, no amount of process will save your projects. -- Jim Highsmith
The creative process is different from the traditional production and work-flow process. It is not so linear. -- John Kao
Trust the process. Your time is coming. Just do the work and the results will handle themselves. -- Tony Gaskins
My process of preparing for any type of psychic work is to meditate and pray the rosary. -- John Edward
I like doing the promotional work. It's part of the film's process. Cannes was very wonderful to premiere. -- Nicolas Winding Refn
Photographers, it is true, do not work but they do do something: They create, process, and store symbols. -- Vilem Flusser
You have to write or else the auditioning process becomes so grueling because it's so hard to work. -- Pell James
In the film industry you work very long hours, and making a film is a very intense process. -- Emma Watson
Lasting goal achievement requires lots of time, hard work, sacrifice & dedication to a process that is maintained over years. -- Marshall Goldsmith
I never liked stardom. It's weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work. -- Barbra Streisand
What inspires me in life? The idea that the work and the rewards and the process is the thing. -- Jonathan Tucker
Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form. -- Muriel Rukeyser
This is the democratic process at work, What you're seeing with this process is the Iraqi people embracing American-style democracy. -- Condoleezza Rice
The process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly. -- Norman Ralph Augustine
The process of rehearsal means you learn so much and really get the chance to develop your work on a character. -- Adam Garcia
Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry. -- Thomas Perry
Fighting the ageing process just doesn't work. I think that actresses, ultimately, are responsible for the faces we give to women. -- Juliette Binoche
I never work with an audience - I can't do this. The process depends on the highest degree of nervous concentration. -- Frank Auerbach
I think fashion is about longevity and doing your work. It isn't about winning or losing. It's about process, keeping it going. -- Alber Elbaz
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And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others. -- Wole Soyinka
You need to work even if it is a menial or dirty job, because every job is participating in the process of creation. -- Sunday Adelaja
When I start doing a body of work I feel vulnerable, fearful. If I stopped trusting the process, I would stop doing art. -- Wanda Koop
The more work you put in on your outline and getting the skeleton of your story right, the easier the process is later. -- Drew Goddard
Changes are inevitable and not always controllable. What can be controlled is how you manage, react to and work through the change process. -- Kelly A. Morgan
Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together. -- Oscar Arias
I find that in the process of making a film you're constantly discovering things that you never even imagined would work at the beginning. -- Peter Jackson
I see my studio like a laboratory, where I work like an investigator - it's almost forensic. I love the discovery process in painting. -- Ross Bleckner
Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together. -- Oscar Arias
In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process. -- J. I. Packer
When it comes to my art work I would say that I am a perfectionist, although my sketchbook, and my process, is a mess. -- Noma Bar
Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing. -- Garry Marshall
Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing -- Garry Marshall
The point of serving your country is not to do your own thing or to go rogue, but to work as part of the process. -- Kal Penn
I place a lot of emphasis on process and revision because I believe that all of my students can become better writers through hard work. -- Cate Marvin
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You didn't have to work to keep your fear up, your energy up, or your anxiety. It is all kind of built into the process. -- Meryl Streep
Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way. -- Joichi Ito
Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work process - in dismissal. -- Nigel Rees
The very way you breathe, sit, stand, eat, walk, work - everything can become yoga. You can use any process of life to transcend your limitations. -- Jaggi Vasudev
Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure. -- E. F. Schumacher
Too little process and you can't get good work done. Too much process and you can't get any work done. Most companies never find the middle. -- Aaron Levie
I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them. -- Jodi Picoult
Work is a process, and any process needs to be controlled. To make work productive, therefore, requires building the appropriate controls into the process of work. -- Peter Drucker
A work of art is said to be perfect in proportion as it does not remind the spectator of the process by which it was created. -- Henry Theodore Tuckerman
I think that the process of figuring out what kind of leader I wanted to be was challenging, because as an actor, you work alone, really. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
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I've been very fortunate to work for great people - so even when the political process gets ugly, I find inspiration in the people around me. -- Stephanie Cutter
Through a process of trial and error and experimentation, I discovered the simplest method - using only black - produced work with the strongest visual impact installed. -- Paul Russo
The thing that really makes me happy is the real work and rehearsing and creating the character and the process of making the movie. Hollywood's not real. -- Penelope Cruz
People who copy what exists copy a point-in-time artifact, and if you are managing the process correctly you are already hard at work on the next thing. -- Scott D. Anthony
It's such a private thing - 'my process' - I can just say that the work that I do is like therapy between me and the character. -- Kirsten Dunst
The process of breaking down fear was always my greatest challenge and it was made easier by the careful work and gentle voices of my female workers. -- Muhammad Yunus
Neuroscience is exciting. Understanding how thoughts work, how connections are made, how the memory works, how we process information, how information is stored - it's all fascinating. -- Lisa Randall
I love to work. I really enjoy getting up really early and driving downtown. I just really love the process of acting and being on a series. -- Portia de Rossi
The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process. -- Arthur Erickson
A garden is a kinetic work of art, not an object but a process, open-ended, biodegradable, nurturant, like all women's artistry. A garden is the best alternative therapy. -- Germaine Greer
I think every time you work with another collaborator, there's an adjustment process where you figure out the other person's strengths, and that has definitely happened for me. -- Gene Luen Yang
The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it. -- Mao Zedong
I've had so many experiences where everyone is very polite about each other's working process, which can lead to work where everyone seems to be in different plays. -- Hattie Morahan
Setting proper expectations from the moment you meet a potential client will reduce stress and enable all parties to work together, rather than struggling contentiously through the process. -- Michelle Moore
Thirdly, as we move through this process of integrating the communications, we will begin to emulate more of the World Wide Web in our work in the future. -- Stephen Cambone
The word story is intended to alert the reader to the fact that, however closely the narrative may fit the facts, the fictional process has been at work. -- Bruce Chatwin
I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it's a lie already at work. -- Adam Rapp
I allow myself to be guided by the work which is in the process of being born. I have confidence in it. I do not think about it. -- Hans Arp
I'm not much interested in prizes, whether from the Arab world or from the Western world. Writing is a very difficult process and I want to continue my work. -- Hassan Blasim
A lot of my work is process-oriented. I delve into my work and sit alone in silence and work with the material and process it, like talking to yourself. -- Chath Piersath
Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at work. So too, perhaps, are our lives. -- Roger Ebert
In the process of making anything, a person moves beyond personal expression to make something that stands by itself. The work acquires its own internal validity, its own integrity. -- Joseph C Zinker
I've often heard academics disparage non-academic writing in terms that suggest it could be a negative in the tenure process, irrespective of the quality of academic work under review. -- Daniel Drezner
How many great men didn't know enough, or have enough faith in the creative process and in themselves, to let go for the whole mind to work at it? -- Daniel Keyes
Sometimes airport security people recognize me. I'll go through the whole screening process and at the end they'll go, 'Hey, man, I really like your work.' That's so cool. -- Reggie Watts

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