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I'd rather go back to waitressing than play a character that I hate.
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For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide.
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MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Efficiency is often the enemy of fun. It doesn't have to be.
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MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN
In my first courtroom scene, William [Shatner] had one of those giant monologues [creator] David Kel... JULIE BOWEN
I'd always rather be working - and you know what? My kids would rather me be working. If I stay ... DANNY TREJO I'm quite discreet. I think I'd rather focus on my work. So, I only speak when I have someth...
DELPHINE ARNAULT
In India, people love turmeric. They make turmeric milk, and sometimes I mix it with some cream or y... PRIYANKA CHOPRA
I suppose meeting people whether it's in real life and actually shaking their flesh and blood ha... JANET SUZMAN We needed to deliver, and the best way to do it was to go to India. I was empowered to make the deci...
SHAUN COYNE
I feel like the better version of myself is on paper... I'd rather have people know me on paper. AARON SORKIN You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poe...
CALVIN TRILLIN I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be t...
PAT QUINN
If I were a Negro, I'd be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and just... ABRAHAM MASLOW
Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story,... FRANK OCEAN Wale means to arrive home. So the crown has arrived home. Akin is warrior or brave man. Nuoye is a b...
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE Well, filming in Hawaii, you know, is a blessing. It's one of the most beautiful places on this ...
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE I've played different nationalities, and everything from vulnerable to strong to crooked to deme...
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE Also, I'd like to play an athlete again, while I'm still physically fit, or a musician, like...
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE I think that what 'Oz' did is it spawned a great generation of television production. But pe...
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE You really have to act your pants off to stay alive. I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the...
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE I've never been really great at trusting anybody, just because of the way I grew up.
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE When a child wants to be accepted, he'll do anything. And if it means you're getting a certa...
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE I wanted to wash off the experience of Africa but obviously I couldn't because that's who I ...
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE My father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home. The house was run by my mother, and because there...
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE Personally, I love Toronto.
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE I just want to keep the diversity and the options open. In terms of what I'm looking for, I'...
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE Certainly, I look for different characters 'cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I a...
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE What is a shame is that there isn't stuff that is as great as 'Oz' on a consistent level...
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It b...
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE The only way you can influence your fate is to put your soul into your performance and hope it regis...
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE I was always led to believe you should take care of yourself, trust in your abilities and you're...
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE It's a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people whi...
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE In some ways, what I learned is that you can take a character and breathe with them, and it's up...
ADEN YOUNG
The only way I know how to do something, as cheesy as it sounds, is to become that character, and it... THOMAS GIBSON
I tend to stay in character between scenes... to be rather serious on set, but here's why, and I... CHRISTIAN BALE
In every movie, there's always some physical thing that triggers the character for me. In 'T... SISSY SPACEK
The stock market to me was like a video game. When it went off, it was like turning the game off. It... JO NESBO Broken down into manageable chunks, the biggest projects become easy to conquer.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN By giving yourself less time, you'll work faster, concentrate more intensely, and perform at peak ef...
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN It takes almost as much effort to NOT do something, as it does to do it.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Often our biggest distractions are not external, but come from within. Get out of your own way!
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Focus isn't just working with single-minded devotion to a purpose. It's also working ONLY on things ...
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Some people spend a lifetime chasing the wrong goals. They work with extreme focus - but it doesn't ...
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Your ability to sustain focus depends on how enjoyable and productive it is.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Take power breaks every hour. Schedule tougher tasks for the time when you are most productive.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Find your true passion. Tap into the endless inspiration & energy it provides. Your focus will o...
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Focus can become an obsession... But your ability to sustain the drive to focus will depend upon how...
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN ... Make your work IMPORTANT. Important enough to ignore other things. mportant enough to decide to ...
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Once you've figured out where you want to go, what's your plan, focus on the minimum worst outcome. ...
RODNEY DAVIS I can't stay in L.A. too long or it starts to grow on me in a bad way.
HENRY THOMAS
Fantasy has had some problems with being too repetitive, in my opinion. I try to read what other peo... BRANDON SANDERSON What do I bring to a film? I think, maybe, I know for a fact that I focus on connection of character...
F. GARY GRAY
I'd rather go back to waitressing than play a character that I hate. JULIANNA MARGULIES
I don't know how to put it, but yet you know we have so many people who the way they look at lif... MIKE DITKA
I can tell you that I'd rather be kissed by my dogs than by some people I've known. BOB BARKER I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop. At the time that I am bored or...
ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG
It's a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Re... LINDA RONSTADT I try to stay far away from anything creepy and supernatural. I'd rather not think about it.
TAISSA FARMIGA Form must never trump function. Some objects are made to look so smooth, you don't know where to...
MICHAEL GRAVES
I don't think of myself as funny. I think of myself as rather grave, actually. And I'm suspi... HUGH LAURIE You don't put something in people's bodies' to turn something on until you know how to turn it off.
MICHAEL GOODYEAR
You know, I think the greatest gift in the world is a good employee, you know, or people who can do ... KENNY ROGERS I don't want to have to say, Honey, you know, could you turn off the sports channel because I...
LYNN REDGRAVE
I would love to work with Adam Sandler. Because then all I'd have to do is just turn the camera ... DAVID ZUCKER I do have a television over there - it was a gift - but I never turn it on. I'd rather read a bo...
SAM CRAWFORD I'm a lazy guy. I can't focus for too long. I'd rather hear a record that has no filler.
THOMAS MARS
So much has been written about me, and people don't know what's right and what's wrong. ... PRINCE
The only thing that I know how to do as an actor, as a trained actor, is you can't villainize th... COREY HAWKINS
I'd rather sleep on the bus than in the hotel because I sleep way better on tour buses. SHAWN MENDES
Cease to think of an impossibility and you will seize an opportunity for productivity. Excellence co... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I know that some people work differently, but I have to work from the inside out. It doesn't mat...
LESLEY ANN WARREN Motivational Force
STEVE RECHEL I know that often times a lot of people who work in music, whether they be labels and so on or even ...
K'NAAN
For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide. JOHNNY CASH I'd rather have 100,000 people who really get what I'm doing and like it for what it is than...
KACEY MUSGRAVES
I'd love to play a gangster but I think people might say I looked a bit too young and cheeky to ... DOMINIC MONAGHAN
I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know ho... MARVIN GAYE
I never want to get a job because I'm female. I want to get it because I earned it and I deserve... MARY BARRA I drive around in my car and listen to [the demo]. And if I drive by people I know, I have to roll t...
HOWIE DAY
The trouble with the jokes is that once they're written, I know how they're supposed to work... STEPHEN COLBERT In fact when I first got my Apple II the first thing I did was turn it on and off, on and off, just ...
ANDY HERTZFELD I'm building a career as big as humanly possible so I can be in a 'Star Wars' project. M...
RAHUL KOHLI Information overload (on all levels) is exactly WHY you need an "ignore list". It has never been mor...
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd ra...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I know I'm not a coal miner, but I do long hours and I never complain, and there is nowhere else... DANIEL RADCLIFFE
I work through teams. It's the only way I know how to work. ANGELA AHRENDTS
I didn't even know how to judge 'Die Hard 1.' It's not anything I know how to judge.... BONNIE BEDELIA The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.
ENRIQUE IGLESIAS If I went on vacation, I'd rather go camping than stay in some four-star hotel... My friends tre...
TRAVIS FIMMEL
I love team sports - they give me something to focus on rather than the fact that I can't breath... SANJEEV BHASKAR We have to make sure, at Apple, that we stay true to focus, laser focus - we know we can only do gre...
TIM COOK
When a big event happens, people turn on to CNN, not only because they know there will be people the... ANDERSON COOPER
I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of. RACHEL STEVENS It's pretty bad. I don't know what to say. Nobody's used to this, nobody in here wants to get used t...
MARK ROMAN I'd love to do a film. I'd love to play a character that I know the beginning, middle and en...
CASSIDY FREEMAN Make rituals of the important elements of your work. It ensures that they get done without much cons...
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Efficiency is often the enemy of fun. It doesn't have to be.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Focus helps you do something. Distraction makes you avoid doing anything.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN In the past, I'd sort of know before Ozzy sang something, what he was going to sing. I'd kno...
TONY IOMMI My ability to be emotive and cry... I think I'm so fearful of tapping that that I won't know...
ANDREW BREITBART
I'd much rather go out and have music randomly presented to me by different DJs than stay home a... MOBY If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. ...
VIJAY SINGH
