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I work in show business - there's nothing that shocks me anymore!
Thomas Gibson / Actor
Shock
Show Business
Shows
Work Business Me
Shocks
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That I would rather be in another business where a bad cold wouldn't put me out of work.
Merv Griffin / Host
Cold
Work Business Me
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In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.
Viggo Mortensen / Actor
Given
Interesting
Lord
Movie Business
Rings
Work Business Me
Lord Of The Rings
Options
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I'm quite stubborn, and it's hard for me to let people in - whether that's literally, musically, or with business and work.
Rex Orange County /
Work Business Me
Musically
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There is an old show business saying which warns never to work with animals or children, but nobody prepared me for Molly Meldrum.
Prince Charles /
Business
Prepared
Show Business
Work Me Children
Work Business Me
Animals
Nobody
Show
Old
Molly
Saying
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The theater business has allowed me, in a way the movie and TV business has not, to do very, very interesting work. So that's what I do.
Brian Dennehy / Actor
Work Business Me
Interesting Work
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I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was really inspiring for me at this stage in my career.
Orlando Bloom / Actor
Inspiring
Careers
Hero
Heroes
Work Business Me
Depp
Johnny
Johnny Depp
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If bad things are going to be said about me, I have to bear that. If I don't understand that it's part of being in show business, then I'd better go work in a bank.
Antonio Banderas / Film Actor
Bad Things
Show Business
Work Business Me
Bank
Bear
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People entrust me with the responsibility of actualizing our shared values and, that said, I'm not in the business of going to try to convert people and getting their buy-in. I just do the work.
Ayanna Pressley /
Responsibility
Work Business Me
Convert
Entrust
Shared
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I started off in this business in 1998, and I didn't fit in. There was no place for me, and I always felt like an oddball. Nobody really understood my work or what I wanted to do in my references.
Ryan Murphy / Screenwriter
Work Business Me
References
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People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learned that's kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened up. I've met everybody in the business. I'm fortunate people want to work with me.
Tate Taylor / Film Actor
Bittersweet
Doors
Fortunate
Interesting
Phone Calls
Phones
Return
Work Business Me
Calls
Phone
Opened
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Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don't really talk that much about work. He comes into my bit of the house every so often to vent but we don't really have very high, cultured conversations.
Helena Bonham Carter / Actress
Conversation
House
People
Work Business Me
Conversations
Cultured
Relationships
Tim
Vent
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In my business, if I get too close to you and you die, it hurts me. And so you develop a natural inclination not to be close to the patient, so that if things don't work out ideally, you can still get up the next day and care for the next patient.
Mehmet Oz / Surgeon
Hurt
Inclination
Natural
Next Day
Patient
Work Out
Die
Work Business Me
Close
Develop
Hurts
Ideally
Natural Inclination
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Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.
Joan Didion / Author
Different
Dread
Fiction
Half
Nonfiction
Novel
Writing
Totally
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Daily
Fraught
Occasion
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One of my bosses happened to be one of the early architects of some of the ways Internet providers work. He taught me how the cables connect, how the telecom providers work... I learned how to make my own Ethernet cables, all the way up to running a small business.
David Ulevitch / Manager
Running
Boss
Providers
Small Business
Telecom
Way
Work Business Me
Architects
Bosses
Connect
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I've been doing this for seven and a half years. I've been just bustin' it, trying to break in as an artist in this business. For me, it's still just about the work. I get the scripts and I'm all about that. I don't really even have an idea what that's going to be like.
Josh Holloway / Actor
Scripts
Work Business Me
Half Years
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I learned the ins and outs of the supplements business as a bodybuilder. I'd worked with some of the companies, and I knew a lot about the products. Some of them worked OK, and some of them didn't. I wanted all of them to work, not just for me, but for other people, too.
Ronnie Coleman / Bodybuilder
Products
Supplements
Work Business Me
Companies
Worked
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What was unique about me being in City Hall during the Giuliani Administration, I was the only one who wasn't an attorney. I may have been the only one who didn't work in a prosecutor's office. So I took a completely different point of view on how the city should be run. Very close to a business, very close on metrics and numbers.
Joe Lhota / American Politician
Administration
Attorney
City Hall
Numbers
Point Of View
Prosecutor
Work Business Me
Hall
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I think my biggest problem as a creative person trying to work within a business for profit was that it was very important to me that people liked me. Over the years, observing other showrunners who made work that I so admired, I realized that that had to go. This couldn't be my first priority. My first priority had to be the work.
Marti Noxon / Television Writer
Creative Person
Observing
Profit
Work Business Me
Admired
Biggest Problem
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