Jean-Philip Grobler (St. Lucia) Quotes
		
	 
	
		
	
	
	
		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 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dan Gilroy 
			 
			
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		In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Frances McDormand 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kamisese Mara 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We all present versions of ourselves. The person you are at work is not the same person you are at home. The face we present in our most intimate relationships is not the face we present to the world. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Val McDermid 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Aaron Eckhart 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barbara Kruger 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Focus comes a lot more easily when you desperately want the results of your own work - nobody else is going to do it for you. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Palmer Luckey 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I never really grasped how big it was when I initially got 'Alexander'; I thought, 'Ooh, this is exciting,' but after I got home, I looked back and thought, 'That was an incredible experience.' I got to work with some massive names in Hollywood, and I learnt so much, and then it really kind of struck me how life-changing it was. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ed Oxenbould 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A lot of people put pressure on me, but I don't think I feel that type of pressure. It is more of a good thing that people are trying to do that. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Adam Peaty 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Samuel Butler 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		'Cold Case' was fun. It was a fun experience. That was right when I was cutting my teeth as a TV actor. It was a great learning experience to work on really fast-paced television shows that are very high quality. It was a place where I learned that I had to keep up and I could keep up. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zach McGowan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A novelist's lack of awareness of and critical distance to his own body of work is due to a phenomenon that I have noticed in myself and many others: as soon as it is written, every new book erases the last one, leaving me with the impression that I have forgotten it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Patrick Modiano 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nadia Comaneci 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I first moved to Denver to work with a group called YWAM, 'Youth With a Mission.' I was a kid - I was 18 - and did some work with homeless people. Really, trying to convert people is sort of an awful position to find yourself in, so I quickly, on my own, grew out of religious ideas. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nathaniel Rateliff 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It was a privilege to direct the music video for Adele's beautiful, heartbreaking song, 'Hello.' When I first heard it, all the images appeared clearly in my head - and her trust and generosity allowed me to work with abandon artistically and emotionally, like she always does. It made me extremely proud. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Xavier Dolan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If you work with big stars, then they become the lead actors. It's not that I don't want to do films with big stars, but I would rather do the films where I get the title roles. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kangana Ranaut 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Education and work are the levers to uplift a people. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				W. E. B. Du Bois 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It is Method on 'This is England;' it is. But it can't be Method on every job because it just doesn't work for everything. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vicky McClure