"Dudley thought for a moment. It looked like hard work."
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"There's positive attention and there's negative attention - negative attention is easy, positive attention requires actual hard work."
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"If you do what you enjoy doing you'll never have to work hard."
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"Remember your ancestors, dream of your descendants and work hard while you're living."
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"Young adults living with a stutter is hard work. How do they handle job interviews? What do they do when the phone rings? How do they chat someone up? All these things the average person takes for granted prove to be a stammerers biggest challenge."
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"Dream big - dream very big. Work hard - work very hard. And after you've done all you can, you stand, wait and fully surrender."
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"I truly believe that a woman can have anything she wants - if she's willing to do the hard work it takes to get it."
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"I work seven days a week, from 9 in the morning till 8 at night. I have the titles of the next eight novels I want to write. I feel myself pitiable, degraded on a day that I don't write."
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"I want to work hard, and when good roles come along I don't want to pass them up."
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"I think that persistence and stubbornness and hard work are probably, at the end of the day, more important than the willingness to take a risk."
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"The people who stand before kings may look like they did it all by themselves. But in fact they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot. It makes a difference where and when we grew up."
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"Hard work is amply the refuge of those who have nothing to do."
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"If you want your freedom, you have to be willing to work hard to exercise it."
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"I never work hard when I am working; I only work hard when I am not working."
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"I do not believe that people want to work hard enough and they want to find the quick Twitter, SEO. Anybody who's obsessed with SEO has lost already, period. I believe that firmly."
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"He sighed. It was a long sigh, weary and worldly-wise. The kind of sigh you could picture God heaving after six days of hard work and looking forward to some serious cosmic R&R, only to be handed a report by an angel concerning a problem with someone eating an apple."
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"Hard working people stopping for a drink on the way to work."
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"Getting anywhere you want is hard work. In this photography culture, everything looks so amazing. But it's actually very hard to get to where anybody gets."
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"I'm sure you've felt this way along the way: Yes, I got to do what I wanted to do. But it was much harder than I thought it was going to be, and it continues to be. You never get to a place that is a place of rest. I think that's OK. It's not bad - life is hard work!"
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"A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration."
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