Steve Breen (Stephen Paul Breen) Quotes

Personally, I try to be provocative but not needlessly provocative in my work.

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• Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That's the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.

  

  Yul Brynner
  • Work
  • Never
  • Everything

• I retire every time I'm done with a movie. Then I go back. You know, I enjoy sleep. But I love to work; it's fun for me. As long as it continues to be fun, and I'm tolerated by the people around me, I will do it.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I wrote 'Criminal' in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Up
  • Work
  • Myself

• I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Work
  • Love
  • Know

• Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • Work
  • Hollywood
  • Italy

• If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God, he will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Work
  • God
  • Strong

• I try to take the time to appreciate and I certainly do appreciate and I do feel proud but that is probably one of the things I need to work on, building a bit of time for myself.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Time
  • Work
  • Myself

• Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • World
  • Work
  • Children

• I remember, in my first show in New York, they asked, 'Where is the Indian-ness in your work?'... Now, the same people, after having watched the body of my work, say, 'There is too much Indian philosophy in your work.' They're looking for a superficial skin-level Indian-ness, which I'm not about.

  

  A. Balasubramaniam
  • People
  • Work
  • Remember

• When I'm working, I have a hard time switching off, and when I'm not working, I have a hard time thinking of ever wanting to work again.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Time
  • Work
  • Thinking

• If a little black girl in Montgomery, Alabama, or some far-reaching region sees something that I do and aspires to do it one day with the knowledge that she can achieve it, then hey, my work is done.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Work
  • Done
  • She

• I'd put it this way: Canadians want politicians to work together on their behalf. So that's what I'm committed to doing. I think it's been the goal of every NDP leader. Because we had a profound belief that we could do a good job on behalf of Canadians... if we were given that opportunity.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Good
  • Work
  • Job

• There's nobility in hard work, traditional values.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Work
  • Values
  • Hard Work

• Goal setting will never stop. I will continue to work hard and practice hard and see where things go.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Work
  • Stop
  • Practice

• Teamwork requires some sacrifice up front; people who work as a team have to put the collective needs of the group ahead of their individual interests.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• School didn't work for me. I hated it.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Work
  • School
  • Me

• I left my home in Massachusetts after college to move to New York City to pursue my dreams of acting. I took roles for free. I waited tables. I didn't care because it was work.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Work
  • Home
  • Free

• There is this idea that it's very different from the French point of view to work in America blah, blah, blah. But I think it's different from one person to the other, not from one country to the other.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Work
  • Different
  • Country

• My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.

  

  John Dyer
  • Up
  • Work
  • Different

• I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • People
  • Know
  • Speak

• I am Charles Mingus. Half-black man. Yellow man. Half-yellow. Not even yellow, nor white enough to pass for nothing but black and not too light enough to be called white.

  

  Charles Mingus
  • Black
  • Light

• Personally, I try to be provocative but not needlessly provocative in my work.

  

  Steve Breen
  • Work
  • Provocative