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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

• You have to work with the auto industry, the oil companies, you have to work to develop renewable fuel, whether it's solar or different kinds of fuel or whatever.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Work
  • Different
  • Oil

• 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
  • Good
  • 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

• As a sociolinguist, I want to know how cultural differences affect the ways people talk and listen. My research method, inspired by the work of Robin Lakoff and John Gumperz of the University of California at Berkeley, is sociolinguistic microanalysis. I tape-record and transcribe naturally occurring conversations.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • People
  • Work
  • Inspired

• I usually like to keep my hair and makeup routines pretty simple after I work out but always need a little bit of mascara to finish off the look. I just swipe some on and then am good to go for the rest of the day.

  

  Oksana Masters
  • Good
  • Work
  • Pretty

• Unfortunately, I think it's very difficult to separate policy from politics. In a perfect world, in some instances, you probably would want to. In other instances, you'd probably say that the political element is important because it should, in a perfect world, match what the stakeholders need or want, or what the public is after.

  

  Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • World
  • Important
  • Political

• I never thought I would actually become a professional actor. I just kept going with it. One thing led to another.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Professional

• Replace judgment with curiosity.

  

  Lynn Nottage
  • Curiosity

• 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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