Edward Hopper Quotes
I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds..
Quotes to Explore
-
It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
-
What people are looking for are candidates and representatives that are going to work hard, tell it like it is. I'm unafraid to do things when it doesn't poll well.
-
You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.
-
Our contribution purely depends on our consciousness and our willingness to support those in need, to show vulnerability and accept the support of others, to share without expecting the credit, to give it our all and allow our hard work to decide the outcome, to understand that control can only be achieved with a shared responsibility.
-
Nobody has approached me about an offer to work in India. However, I can categorically state that if they did so, I would refuse immediately.
-
Getting into the residential investment business entails lots of renovation work.
-
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.
-
I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.
-
It was really really neat to make the movie because there were mentally challenged actors in the movie. So that was really really cool to work with them and they were always really happy, and they made everybody really happy on the set too.
-
You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.
-
Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
-
I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.
-
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.
-
I really enjoy laughing at work, and I find that it's easier to do that when you're shooting a comedy.
-
If I could never work again and I could just listen to music and walk, I'd be very, very happy.
-
I think one of the primary themes in my work is the paradox of memory, at once fundamental to our sense of who we are and yet elusive, ever-changing, fragmentary. One way to look at this is to say that, therefore, we ourselves are elusive, ever-changing and fragmentary to ourselves.
-
I've never seen hard work fail.
-
I learned early that I had to work harder than the white kids and harder than the boys.
-
That's a great feeling to know that I'm going into a project that I have no idea what will become of that movie, but I really trust Ang Lee. And I really trusted Ron. It's just really nice to work with people that you feel that way about.
-
I play tons of authority figures, whether it's the dad or the cop or the boss. I think it's a combination of how I look, who I am.
-
If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry; these can by no means be so surely obtained as by a fall in the price of corn.
-
I swear like a sailor, assuming the sailor in question died in 1800 and was really square.
-
Reading off a Teleprompter is an easy skill to do passably well and a difficult skill to do very well. I still have room for improvement there. I still talk too fast and I'm trying to slow myself down.
-
I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds..
