Work Quotes
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Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head for the city to work in a factory.
Bernie Taupin
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I've been lucky enough to work with extraordinary teachers along the way, and I'm excited to share what I've learned with graduate students at SNHU. I'm just as excited for what I'll learn from them.
Leslie Jamison
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My work has social implications, it functions in a social arena.
Andres Serrano
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It's great being married to a writer. You live with someone who can read your work and help you.
Karen Bender
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Sisters, when about their work, should not put on clothing which would make them look like images to frighten the crows from the corn. It is more gratifying to their husbands and children to see them in a becoming, well-fitting, attire, than it can be to merely visitors or strangers.
Ellen G. White
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When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that work inside you.
Brian Moore
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April 21. My birthday - I am told the fifty-seventh, and yet I feel only a boy. Must make haste and get my work done ere the night falls. Made an excursion with the babes to Mount Wanda.
John Muir
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If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.
Lane Kirkland
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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.
Lyle Lovett
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It's natural canine behavior to chew on all sorts of things, roll in other animals' droppings, hump and fight other dogs, menace anything that invades the home. All these behaviors can be curbed, but that takes a lot of work. Trainers say it requires nearly 2,000 repetitions of a behavior for a dog to completely absorb it.
Jon Katz
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My interest was always to do interdisciplinary work with space. I thought of architecture as one strand in a multimedia practice.
Elizabeth Diller
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I want to work with Will Ferrell. I want to do, like, an action-comedy with him. How do I get the project for that? It's killing me. I've got all these great ideas, and the hardest thing is getting the material, the screenplay, you know.
Jason Statham
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I tend to watch things that aren't really the genre of my own work.
Jenny Slate
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When they're looking at my work, they're looking at a painting and they're able to accept it better because it is also a quilt.
Faith Ringgold
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The designers, photographers and models I work with, they are really hard-working people who are devoting their lives to fashion. They're kind of like nuns of fashion.
Alber Elbaz
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We've always wanted to control the video player for our videos. We really want to evolve how comments on videos work.
Freddie Wong
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The thing that really makes me happy is the real work and rehearsing and creating the character and the process of making the movie. Hollywood's not real.
Penelope Cruz
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The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that goal the artist has set for himself.
Odilon Redon
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What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.
Harold Prince
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ESPN is a great organization to work for.
Lou Holtz
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One of the reasons I admire David Lindsay-Abaire's work is that he, like the Greeks I've spent so much of my professional life contemplating, is not afraid of taking on the big stuff - huge, human, moral issues - what do we owe to those we love?
Ellen McLaughlin
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Churches, depending on their policy, can do fantastic work with people in the community.
Annie Lennox Eurythmics
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Throughout my 20s I spent a lot of time just playing and not really working, but fortunately for me I continued to get just enough work, and have a reason to wake up in the morning. I really empathize with some of my peers who had success in the early years then it dries up, and so there's no reason to get up in the morning.
Jason Bateman
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
Alan Kay