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• Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress.

  Jacqueline Susann

  Motivational, Writing, Style

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• I think KISS has always been about celebrating self-empowerment. Celebrating the idea that anything is possible with determination and hard work.

  Paul Stanley

  Determination, Kissing, Thinking

  "Paul Stanley Analyzes KISS's Success: 'I don't want to buy a t-shirt with a guy on it who looks like my neighbor'". Interview with Linda Leseman, www.laweekly.com. October 03, 2011.

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• Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Wisdom, Encouragement, Lost Love

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• Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.

  David Ogden Stiers

  Writing, People, Attention

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• Some people work hard in this business and become really popular, really big stars but they never receive an award from within the business. Somehow, when your colleagues and friends believe in you to the point of handing you an award it means so much more.

  Sharon Stone

  Friends, Stars, Believe

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• I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up.

  Wanda Sykes

  Energy, Steps, Comedy

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• I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work.

  Matt Taibbi

  Growing Up, Kids, Way

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• Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they'll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they've got it half right, because eventually they do wake up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Believe, People, Effort

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• I am closer and closer to reaching my childhood dream. This is really exciting! I will continue to work hard, to focus on each tournament I play.

  Yani Tseng

  Dream, Play, Focus

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• I've been spending this last month trying to find four outfits to wear to the different premieres of The Two Towers. It's hard work.

  Liv Tyler

  Two, Trying, Different

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• I'm a designer, and I work very hard at that. People sometimes want to put down fashion by saying it's frivolous or superficial, but it's not that way at all. It's actually very hard work.

  Donatella Versace

  Fashion, People, Want

  Interview with Nicki Minaj, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 8, 2011.

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• It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mind, Doing Nothing, Importance Of Being Earnest

  "The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays".

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• Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.

  J. C. Watts

  School, Responsibility, Important

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• He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn't live as if it mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.... We have to be all those difficult things like cheerful and kind and curious and patient, and we've got to study and think and work hard, all of us, in all our different worlds, and then we'll build... The Republic of Heaven.

  Philip Pullman

  Thinking, Heaven, Important

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.

  Jack Welch

  Ideas, Forever, Terrible

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", edition.cnn.com. June 11, 2011.

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• The bulk of my fans are my age, and I'm aging at the same rate they are. That makes me relevant. They like hearing what I have to say. I work hard at it, but it's addicting, really.

  Ron White

  Age, Fans, Hearing

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• Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Jobs, Men, Smell

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• Work hard at . . . something.

  David Nicholls

  Hard

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• In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.

  Wendell Willkie

  Honesty, Work, Winning

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• I'm not a genius. I'm just a hard-working guy.

  Brian Wilson

  Guy, Genius, Hard

  Domenic Priore, Brian Wilson, Van Dyke Parks (2005). “Smile: The Story of Brian Wilson's Lost Masterpiece”, p.73, Omnibus Press

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• You should be dead," he said, his voice full of wonder. "How is it that you're still alive?" Jaw clenched, I worked at his grip on me, trying to get my fingers between him and my wrist. "I work hard at it.

  Kim Harrison

  Voice, Trying, Alive

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• Okay. Morality in a nutshell. Don't hurt people if you can avoid it. Don't steal stuff unless you're starving or it's really, really important. Work hard. Pay your bills. Try to help others. Always double-check your math if there are explosives involved. If you screwed it up, you need to see it gets fixed. And don't eat anything that talks. If it doesn't fall under one of those categories, just do the best you can.

  Ursula Vernon

  Hurt, Fall, Math

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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.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Kings, Opportunity, Differences

  "Outliers: The Story of Success". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, November 18, 2008.

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• Winning in women's singles felt surreal. I felt that everything I had done - the hard work, the tough times - was all worth it.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Winning, Tough Times, Done

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• Work hard. Do good. Be incredible!

  Cheryl Strayed

  Incredibles, Hard

  Cheryl Strayed (2014). “Torch”, p.269, Atlantic Books Ltd

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