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One thing I have throughout my career, it felt like I did my best to align myself with quality artists, quality work, and it is a situation of steel sharpening steel.

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• I always try to keep a little bit of space in the year to work with other people. Because I love doing musicals, films and plays - projects where I'm not in charge, where I've got somebody else telling me what to do and I have to work with their vision.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • People
  • Work
  • Space

• 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.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Good
  • Work
  • Mind

• My parents got to see all my hard work pay off.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Hard Work

• Even when I get to the point where I am acting and performing, where I want to be with my career, I'm never going to think of anyone as lower than me. Everyone's the celebrity of their own life, you know?

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • Life
  • Career
  • Acting

• I found that I need to work, and I wouldn't have known that if I hadn't taken the time off.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Time
  • Work
  • Taken

• The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Writing
  • You
  • Quality

• There are programs that don't work.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Work
  • Programs

• Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.

  

  Ma Long
  • Work
  • Step
  • Hard Work

• I was so worried when I left 'GH:' so scared I'd never work again.

  

  Nathan Parsons
  • Work
  • Never
  • Scared

• A mate of mine told me recently, 'It's the first time I've seen you work, Worthington.' I thought that was quite funny, but he was right.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Time
  • Work
  • Funny

• If you play cricket for India, money is bound to come, and with IPL in and match money of the Ranjhi trophy, I think money is there. There's no good reason why you should not work hard, because at the end of the day, you want to play for your country.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
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  • Work
  • Country

• 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

• I cannot imagine a more enjoyable place to work than in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology where I work.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Work
  • Place
  • Biology

• I'm aware people will think I've had an easy way into a dream career. My view is, if anyone has opportunities, they'll take them. My surname opens doors, but those doors will slam firmly if I'm no good.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • People
  • Good
  • Career

• I think great artists have no time to waste with having disproportionate egos and irrational requests. They're too focused on their work to actually lose themselves in hysterical spirals where they become monsters or tyrants.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Work
  • Job
  • Enough

• 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.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Work
  • Me
  • Kind

• I really do feel now that the way I dress onstage and for work is a true reflection of my own sense of style as well.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Work
  • True
  • Style

• I'd love to do more TV, but I'd love to get into more feature films. I'd also love to go back to the stage when the time and opportunity is right. I haven't gotten to do a lot of that here in L.A., but my favorite thing to do is live theatre. I'd love to actually have a career where you can kind of move in and out of all of those mediums.

  

  Mariana Klaveno
  • Time
  • Live
  • Career

• I'm a firm believer in karma. By doing good, good things eventually find you. I don't have an American Express Black Card, but I like to think that I would if I could fill it with karma points.

  

  Chieh Huang
  • Good
  • American
  • Black

• There's always the joy of the performance and fine-tuning new interpretations. Over the years, we've all grown as musicians, so obviously there is a lot of subtlety that wasn't there in the first place.

  

  Chris Squire Yes
  • Joy

• The man or woman at home who prays often has as much to do with the effectiveness of the missionary on the field, and consequently with the results of his or her labors, as the missionary.

  

  R. A. Torrey
  • Men
  • Home
  • Missionary

• I've been angst-ridden all my life, but finally I'm in a place where things don't matter so much.

  

  Kate Dickie
  • Life
  • Matter
  • My Life

• One thing I have throughout my career, it felt like I did my best to align myself with quality artists, quality work, and it is a situation of steel sharpening steel.

  

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