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• Regardless of your ethnicity or anything, if you do great work, people will notice and you'll get hired.

  Aziz Ansari

  Ethnicity, People, Ifs

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• I guess maybe another gift I have is a great work ethic.

  Vince McMahon

  Work Ethic, Ethics, Great Work Ethic

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• The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed by our rebels to the horrible squareness of our institutions, the idiocy of power, the debasement of sexual instincts, and the failure of writers to be alienated enough. The poems and novels of these same rebellious spirits, and their theoretical statements, are grimy and gritty and very boring too, besides being nonsensical, and it is evident by now that polymorphous sexuality and vehement declarations of alienation are not going to produce great works of art either.

  Saul Bellow

  Art, America, Poetry

  Saul Bellow (2015). “There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction”, p.149, Penguin

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• There's definitely a wave of Brits doing great work on American television, and I wouldn't mind being one of them!

  Rob James-Collier

  Mind, Television, Wave

  "'Downton Abbey' Cast Spills Secrets on Hollywood Ambitions at Season 3's U.S. Premiere". www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 10, 2012.

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• Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Writing, Greatness, Men

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• I think it's always hard for people to get their head around the fact that populist, commercial films can also actually be great works of art.

  Helen Mirren

  Art, Thinking, People

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• Work hard at work worth doing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Work, Day Jobs, Labor Day

  Theodore Roosevelt (1967). “Writings”

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• Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell.

  Itay Talgam

  Art, Two, Special

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• I'm one of those people who does a lot of things. I'm lucky. I get up and I have a lot of energy. I have a great work ethic.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  People, Work Ethic, Energy

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 24, 2010.

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• There is no place for little minds in a great work

  Manly Hall

  Mind, Littles, Little Minds

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• It's great working with my sister, because we are very close as a family - my brother, my sister and myself. We have a great relationship.

  Penelope Cruz

  Family, Brother, Great Relationship

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• TV is so seductive with a great workday. You're going to work and making people laugh, and that's fantastic.

  Jillian Bach

  People, Laughing, Seductive

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• Those fortunate enough to find or create a practical intersection of the three circles have the basis for a great work life.

  James C. Collins

  Work, Circles, Three

  "Best new year's resolution? A 'stop doing' list" by James C. Collins, www.jimcollins.com. December 30, 2003.

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• A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Reading, States, Musings

  "The literary character". Book by Isaac D'Israeli (Chapter XII, last lines), 1795.

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• I am the people the mob the crowd the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?

  Carl Sandburg

  People, Done, World

  "I Am the People, the Mob" l. 1 (1916)

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• No man ever did or can do a great work alone.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Work, Men, Can Do

  Elbert Hubbard (1912). “Little journeys to the homes of eminent artists”

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• Mervyn Peake is a finer poet than Edgar Allan Poe, and he is therefore able to maintain his world of fantasy brilliantly through three novels. It (Gormenghast trilogy) is a very, very great work ... a classic of our age.

  Mervyn Peake

  Age, Three, World

  Mervyn Peake (1995). “The Gormenghast Novels”, Overlook Books

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• Whatever the practical origins of aesthetic discernment may have been, it has been used to create great works of art. When the very loftiest human creations are seen to derive from humble origins and functions, what needs revision is not our esteem for these creations but our notion of nobility.

  Robert Nozick

  Art, Humble, Needs

  Robert Nozick (1994). “The Nature of Rationality”, p.181, Princeton University Press

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• While the nation that has dared to be great, that has had the will and the power to change the destiny of the ages, in the end must die, yet no less surely the nation that has played the part of the weakling must also die; and whereas the nation that has done nothing leaves nothing behind it, the nation that has done a great work really continues, though in changed form, to live forevermore.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Destiny, Age, Done

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.81, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.

  May Sarton

  Dream, Humble, Humility

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• The Holy Spirit, in the variety of his gifts, unites us and enables us to contribute to the building up of the Church in holiness. In this great work, each of us has a part to play; each of us, as a "living stone", is needed for the growth and the beauty of God's holy temple. Let us ask the Lord to help us to take an ever more active part in the Church's life and mission, guided by the Holy Spirit and with Jesus as our cornerstone.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Building Up, Play

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• Great work is always shunned at first.

  Seth Godin

  Firsts

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• The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal.I want an Australian vision of arts policy that is expansive, is embracing, is not narrow, is not parochial. For example, that Australians can do Shakespeare just as well as Englishmen can because we, like every civilised nation, partake of the great canonical works. It's not about Australian nationalism; it's about our identity as a culturally ambitious, culturally sophisticated nation.

  George Brandis

  Art, Vision, Ambitious

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Whenever GOD determines to do a great work, HE first sets HIS people to pray.

  Charles Spurgeon

  People, Firsts, Praying

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• Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me in saying it, to understand it.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Enmity, Helping, Daily Life

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