Lane Kirkland Quotes
If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
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In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.
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When I went to drama school, I knew I was at least as talented as other students, but because I was a black man and I wasn't pretty, I knew I would have to work my butt off to be the best that I would be, and to be noticed.
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I was just finishing up 'Spotlight' in Toronto - I finished it on a Tuesday and started 'True Detective' on a Friday. So I was missing rehearsals, unfortunately, which I hate and why I never like to work back-to-back.
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It's been a straight strip, I must tell you, I've enjoyed it all the way. If I'm saying things to make it sound like it's hard, hard work, it's not. It's beautiful work. It's fun work. It's everything you'd ever want to do.
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What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.
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The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test.
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I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.
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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.
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Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.
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There's no possibility that foresight work will ruin my creativity. It goes to a different area than the creative wellspring of SF.
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I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.
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I was taught to value hard work. At the end of day, I'm just Olivia.
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I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check – it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.
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To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.
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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
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I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!
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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.
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I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.
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When I started writing 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid,' I was trying to write the type of book you might enjoy, put back on your shelf, and rediscover a few years later. I hope that the book finds its way into the bathroom of every kid in America.
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I go to Union Square Park, mostly to take care of squirrels.
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If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing with some kind of care and thought and preparation to rationalize the taking of that life in some way. Where if you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things.
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Making $30,000 on my first business deal was exciting, but not as exciting as the sudden knowledge that I did not have to work for anyone again.
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If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.
