Lyle Lovett Quotes
I sort of cringe when I hear myself say the word 'work.' Getting to do something you love to do never really feels like work.
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I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.
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I was a little, uh, incorrigible as a kid, so the kitchen was a good place to give me structure and balance. It taught me hard work, but then I grew to love it.
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My parents got to see all my hard work pay off.
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I like to work all the time and really immerse myself in the project.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.
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I don't look at emails, Internet or newspapers before 1 P.M. I wake at 7 A.M., eat fruit, drink tea or coffee, and read what I've achieved, or not achieved, the previous day. Then I take a shower and work on my next sentence until 1 P.M. After I've done emails and so on, I write again from 3 P.M. until 8 P.M.; then I socialise.
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Some things is made by destiny, yes, other things by hard work, but quality you don't learn. Quality you are born with.
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Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.
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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.
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We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
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I want to play in as many theatres as possible, work with as many brilliant people as possible, but definitely do a new play.
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This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office.
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What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
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I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.
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I was taught to value hard work. At the end of day, I'm just Olivia.
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You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.
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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.
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Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.
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Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
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In the 18th century, people began to adopt the radical new idea that love should be the most fundamental reason for marriage and that young people should be free to choose their marriage partners independently.
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But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls.
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There's something just so kind of smooth about politicians.
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I sort of cringe when I hear myself say the word 'work.' Getting to do something you love to do never really feels like work.
