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"I work very physically as an actor. The biggest thing for me has been the challenge of how to be this person [Olivia Pope] with the personal transformation that's going on for me physically... That hasn't been easy. It's been an awesome challenge for me...because so much of how I access character is through my body."
"Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others."
"The Moor has done his work, the Moor may go."
"In America, we hurry-which is well; but when the day's work is done, we go on thinking of losses and gains, we plan for the morrow, we even carry our business cares to bed with us...we burn up our energies with these excitements, and either die early or drop into a lean and mean old age at a time of life which they call a man's prime in Europe...What a robust people, what a nation of thinkers we might be, if we would only lay ourselves on the shelf occasionally and renew our edges!"
"Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor."
"The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make."
"The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time."
"Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward."
"The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too."
"I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety."
"A guy gave me a job at an information booth - no questions asked."
"I can't fax you my love, I can't email my heart."
"We made it nearly 20 centuries, a bunch of monkeys with PH Ds."
"Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason? Work'st thou will today for worthier things? Then calmly wait the morrow's hidden season, And fear thou not, what hap soe'er it brings"
"We can redeem anyone who strives unceasingly."
"We will burn that bridge when we come to it."
"If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses."
"Out of the work comes the work."
"It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it."
"Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty."
