Harry Shearer Quotes

The hardest work most of us do is maintaining the appearance of normality.

Harry Shearer

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• The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!

  

  Ina Garten
  • Work
  • Why
  • Pasta

• For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Good
  • Work
  • Art

• I want to work with the best coaches in the world.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • World
  • Work
  • Best

• When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and it seemed to me, mistakenly, that I would not find them among the Jews.

  

  S. Ansky
  • Work
  • Literature
  • Jews

• It is very difficult to work in another language, and it is also very challenging.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Work
  • Language
  • Difficult

• As an actor, you're not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Time
  • Work
  • Thinking

• Since I was from the theater, that's how I learned how to go through the process of being a character. That's how I learned, and that's what I was comfortable doing. And then, the first feature films, I'm sure I was no fun because I did not want to be spontaneous in that filmic way that really can work for you.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Work
  • Character
  • Fun

• I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Work
  • Inspiration
  • Blessed

• You can't live in a dialect without tremendous work. Like any muscle, accents and voices and languages are all formed out of the muscles that we have in our mouths and faces and tongues.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Work
  • Live
  • Dialect

• When I was growing up, my white friends would call me: 'Hey, Chief!' Even when I go to work now, people call me 'Chief.'

  

  Adam Beach
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Work
  • Find
  • Excuse

• If you're graduating from high school, and you come from a lower income family, you're effectively given two options. One is get a four-year college degree; two is work at a low-wage job, potentially for the rest of your life. We've got to do better on that front. We have to provide more options.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.

  Gail Devers
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Remember

• A film set is a workplace for me; it's my office, and nobody really wants to be in a stressful work environment.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Work
  • Me
  • Environment

• I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Work
  • Family
  • Mother

• I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Never

• I enjoy doing my work, and I don't want to deal with the other things. When you enjoy doing your work so much, why deal with where to show, how to show, what to do? If the artist finds the right gallery which respects their work and gives them that freedom to do whatever they want to do, the artist can focus on his work.

  

  A. Balasubramaniam
  • Work
  • Why
  • Freedom

• There's worse things in life than to put sunscreen on. It means I'm going to work, which is on the beach, which is pretty wonderful.

  

  Kerri Walsh Jennings
  • Life
  • Work
  • Pretty

• In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

  

  John Ruskin
  • People
  • Work
  • May

• I find that when I'm under pressure, I work really well, but then you have those days where you sleep for four hours because you drive to a venue overnight and arrive there the next day, and you're cranky and not dealing with it very well.

  

  Jean-Philip Grobler
  • Work
  • Pressure
  • Well

• You have to think, 'What can I do to help my team develop, grow, and become better performers?' rather than, 'What's in it for me?'

  

  Jimmy Iovine
  • Help
  • Team

• God gives not kings the stile of Gods in vaine, For on his throne his sceptre do they sway; And as their subjects ought them to obey, So kings should feare and serve their God againe.

  

  King James I
  • God
  • Obey
  • Throne

• The hardest work most of us do is maintaining the appearance of normality.

  

  Harry Shearer
  • Work
  • Appearance of normality