Lesley Manville Quotes

When I make films, I work with Mike Leigh, who's the most prolific director in England.

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• I have been singing for the last 50 years, you know, so I deserve a break. Besides, there are talented singers around who can do justice to their work.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Work
  • Justice
  • Singing

• It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Family
  • Today

• You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.

  

  Irving Ravetch
  • Up
  • Work
  • Real

• I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Work
  • Control
  • Singing

• I don't hide. I never have. I stay at home because I like to stay at home, and at home I work.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Work
  • Home
  • Hide

• One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term 'reform' is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various level of the government, in work practices and procedures.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Work
  • Important
  • Government

• 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
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Work
  • Important
  • Player

• People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• We tried every single way of giving birth. It didn't work. I wasn't too crazy about having to do a C-section and take all the drugs. Finally, I just had to be like, 'Let it go.'

  

  Camila Alves
  • Work
  • Giving
  • Single

• I'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I switch the next and let my subconscious work on unraveling any plot problems from another story.

  

  Zara Cox
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Problems

• I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • Work
  • Guy
  • Style

• Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Faith
  • Politics
  • Unity

• Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• Our work for human dignity is often lonely, and almost always an uphill climb. At times, our efforts are misunderstood, and we are mistaken for the enemy. There has been a clear erosion of respect for U.N. blue and our impartiality.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Enemy

• I'm one of the lucky few who never had to face the whole 'Oh, you've had a baby, and now work will have to suffer' bit. It just wasn't a big deal when I got married and had a baby.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Work
  • Baby
  • Lucky

• 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

• One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Work
  • Eyes
  • Heaven

• I thought that you had to work, work, work and try to be the best musician you could, and that's the only way you could make it. Then it turns out, halfway through the scene, they change the rules on you!

  

  Steve Lukather Toto
  • Work
  • Rules
  • Musician

• Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Hope
  • Death
  • Faith

• Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government.

  

  Jim Costa
  • Political
  • Mercy

• Tomorrow is not promised to any of us.

  

  Kirby Puckett

• I think the best developers can learn any language; if they are a good developer, they can learn whatever. But the raw talent, the ability to learn it and do it and demonstrate the ability is helpful.

  

  David Cohen
  • Good

• When I make films, I work with Mike Leigh, who's the most prolific director in England.

  

  Lesley Manville
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