Work Quotes
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Writing a novel is so hard, and there are so many problems that the last thing you're thinking about is adapting this mess you have on your hands as a movie. You just want to get it to work as a novel. That's your main focus.
Maria Semple
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I tried paying at a restaurant with stock options. It didn't work.
Parker Conrad
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I've been lucky enough to work with some great directors, and I don't want to throw that away by doing one big horrible big budget film.
Martin Compston
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All creative work begins by doing something with the hands. Creation is simply a problem and design is the way out.
Charles James
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Well, I realized finally that all of the hard work paid off.
David Naughton
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The more you work, study and develop your ability to contribute more to the lives and well-being of others, the better life you will have in all areas.
Brian Tracy
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I only travel to good material, a good director and a good company. I won't work in another country for a year any longer, because I have a lovely wife and I adore her and I can't bear to be away from her.
Jim Dale
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As a mother, I work hard every day and I expect that work to be recognized and appreciated. Because I work for and with human beings, sometimes they're grateful and sometimes they aren't.
Margaret Heffernan
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They're always saying that tragedy brings family closer, but unfortunately, sometimes it doesn't work like that.
Kendra Wilkinson
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Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it's people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.
Kendrick Lamar
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I'm not complaining about doing 20-hour days. It's a joy to be able to work on yet another film.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
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Children may be born angels, but with all the temptations out there in the world, it takes work to try to keep them that way.
LZ Granderson
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We have to transcend our own negativity and vulnerability and work from our own inner security.
James Redfield
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My golf score is really bad. I don't know. I'm definitely not a good golfer. Off the tee box, I can drive it about 275, and I'm in the fairway about 99% of the time. It's my next shot that needs work.
Jason Aldean
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Normally I sleep in until 7, and most days, I go right into the office. On Tuesdays, though, I stay home and do work. I need a day when I'm not in meeting after meeting. You need time to try to get into your head again and see what's next.
Maria Cornejo
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To complete a work is just like being present at the death of someone you love.
Claude Debussy
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If you love it, and work really hard at it, it will really happen, I believe. I'm living proof.
Kristen Johnston
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If an artist wants to work with me because they feel I've made some credible albums and there've been things that are long-lasting, it's because those artists took the time and we built an idea.
Phil Ramone
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The struggle to make an absolute statement in an individually conceived vocabulary accounts for the profound tensions inherent in the best modern work.
Harold Rosenberg
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What would that be, a world without war? It would be the real world. Peace was the true life, the life of working and learning and bringing up children to work and learn. War, which devoured work, learning, and children, was the denial of reality.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and homemaking.
Dennis Prager
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Live life and take chances. Believe that everything happens for a reason and don't regret. Love to the fullest and you will find true happiness in life. Realize that things go wrong and people change, but things do go on. Sometimes things weren't meant to be. What is supposed to happen will work its way out.
Oprah Winfrey
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I think the idea of getting out of a traffic jam and getting out of work each week and going and doing all this stuff would be really exhausting.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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My first move as the manager of the machine shop was to introduce standardized work.
Taiichi Ohno