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A lazy man works twice as hard. My mother told that to me, and now I say it to my kids. If you're writing an essay, keep it in the lines and in the margins so you don't have to do it over.

— Gary Oldman

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.

— Ann Rule

Much of my work has come from being lazy.

— John Backus

There was a time in my life when I wasn't sure I'd ever write a short story again because I had started writing novels, and I am fundamentally a lazy person, and the fact is that a novel is a lazy person's form, really. That is, you can amble; you can digress.

— Elizabeth McCracken

I consider myself pretty lazy, but I look back and check out the stuff I've done, and I say, 'God, that's a lot of stuff for a lazy guy.' It's a paradox, I suppose, being both things.

— Jeff Bridges

Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.

— M. H. Abrams

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.

— Tony Robbins

Writing is hard work: it is like doing homework for the rest of your life. You are always chipping away at it.

— John Lutz

I think of myself as a very lazy writer, though other people see it differently.

— Samuel R. Delany

You know, to an extent, Method acting feels occasionally lazy.

— Richard C. Armitage

Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative process. It is meaningless bustle that actually gets in the way of productivity. All we are really saying is, give peace a chance.

— Tom Hodgkinson

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