Jeff Lynne Quotes

To me, making records isn't work.

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• It's obviously nerve-wracking, because I don't know the ropes really, William is obviously used to it, but I'm willing to learn quickly and work hard.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Work
  • Learn
  • Work Hard

• The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!

  

  Ina Garten
  • Work
  • Why
  • Pasta

• My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Work
  • Best
  • Understand

• It was tough for him in that newsroom with Ted Baxter getting all the glory and this poor guy doing all the work. Murray worried so much he worried his hair off!

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Work
  • Guy
  • Hair

• There's no possibility that foresight work will ruin my creativity. It goes to a different area than the creative wellspring of SF.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Work
  • Different
  • Creativity

• Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • Know
  • Years

• In committing an estimated 3,000 U.S. forces to join international Ebola relief efforts in West Africa, President Obama seems to be fulfilling the plans of highly influential progressive groups who seek to transform the American military into more of a social-work organization.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Work
  • American
  • Military

• I really wanted to work and become independent.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Become

• As an actor, you're not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Time
  • Work
  • Thinking

• 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

• I got behind that pencil and nothing happened for many years, but since they put me in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, I've turned around. I took a good look at myself and said, I think it's time to get back at work.

  

  Otis Blackwell
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• I mean, comedy's hard. If you go back and look at the first season of 'Seinfeld,' it's a work in progress and that's what happens. It just takes time for people to figure each other out, and figure out timing, and to develop creatively with the writers.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Work
  • Find
  • Excuse

• War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Up
  • Work
  • Done

• I was greatly influenced by musique concrete when I was, like, 10. I was completely mesmerized by the idea that you could make music out of sounds. So that's been a constant influence on all my work.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Work
  • Music
  • Influence

• I got into one of the schools I applied to because of the essay I wrote about Holly Hunter's character in 'Broadcast News.' She's the only female producer on this news network, and she's really good at her job, but she allots time in her day to just sit at her desk and cry. And then she's just back to work. I find that really effective.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Character

• I know Bo Xilai well. But our relationship was based on our work; we didn't have a personal relationship.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Work
  • Know
  • Relationship

• I certainly like it if the work is beautiful, but that's a surplus effect. I can only think about that after I consider how it's made.

  

  Walead Beshty
  • Work
  • Think
  • Beautiful

• When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.

  

  Yves Behar
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Vision

• It's difficult to make your clients understand that there are certain days that the market will go up or down 2%, and it's basically driven by algorithms talking to algorithms. There's no real rhyme or reason for that. So it's difficult. We just try to preach long-term investing and staying the course.

  

  Warren Stephens
  • Up
  • Long
  • Real

• There are elements to my faith which are echoed very closely in the scripts that come through. I read certain moments, and I'm able to say, 'Yes, I recognize that. I champion that. I ally myself to that idea.' Then there are times where I don't. My feeling is, at this stage in my life, that it will be an ongoing struggle.

  

  Charlie Cox
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Faith

• You can bring your children under age 18 into the voting booth with you. Many families do so as a way to teach civic responsibility.

  

  Christine Pelosi
  • Children
  • Age
  • Responsibility

• I picked up the guitar when I was 4, and from then, I could never be bored.

  

  Eliot Sumner
  • Up
  • Bored

• To me, making records isn't work.

  

  Jeff Lynne Electric Light Orchestra
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