Work Quotes
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If you're an artist, you need to work. It doesn't matter how old you are, who you are. It doesn't matter if you're 12: if you draw, you draw. If you're 85 and you paint, you paint.
Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
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Someone might look like an overnight success, but there's a lot of hard work that goes into it, and rightfully so. That's the way it should be. There are exceptions to that rule, but in country music, people really have to pay their dues.
Frankie Ballard
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With my work I attempt to help man to overcome his alienation; I do this by surrounding his daily life with objects, which confront him in a tactile way with the final and deepest problems of our existence. I want the means that I employ to create the necessary stimulus to be as direct as possible. Instead of giving a sermon on humility, I often prefer to depict humility itself.
Antoni Tapies
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Venezuela's government must work toward achieving a true culture of democracy for our region. There's no room for persecution based on ideological reasons or for thinking differently.
Mauricio Macri
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I'm a big fan of unflinching drama and bold drama. If you shy away from dark subject matters, there's only certain places for TV drama to go. If there are shows that can break through that and be brave, those are the shows that I personally enjoy watching. I try and do work that I would watch.
Joe Dempsie
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Looking back today over the years, we may well be proud of the work which our fellow citizens have done in India. There have, of course, been mistakes, there have been failures, but we can assert that our rule in India will stand comparison with that of any other nation which has been charged with the ruling of a people so different from themselves.
Clement Attlee
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'Our parents' generation had it a lot tougher than we did. They had to live through the Depression, World War II, and then they had to, you know, try to pick up the pieces of their lives and bring up their children. And, it was a great example for us. I guess we grew up with a certain amount of the ethics our parents had, which is, you know: work hard, make your own way, be independent.
Billy Joel
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Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look for bugs and things.
Peter Weir
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I don't work with the younger players. That's the manager's department. What I can do is go out and play as hard as I can.
Kirby Puckett
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Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life." Moral #2: Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.
Donald Miller
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It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good.
Pablo Picasso
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Some people only talk, while some only work. Sardar Patel was one such leader, who always worked without talking.
Dinsha Patel
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I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.
Don DeLillo
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I love music, and outside of work my family keeps me very busy, I have five children to keep track of.
Alberto Juantorena
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That's one of the main things I do, work with choreographers. I've been doing it a long time, and it's a real important part of my life as a soundmaker, making music for dance.
Zeena Parkins
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When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book.
David McCullough
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There is a direct line relationship between what happened in Afghanistan in the work up to 11 September 2001 and what we're doing in Afghanistan today.
John R. Allen
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I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber.
David McCullough
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Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay about an artist's work is not the artist's work.
Carl Andre
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Being in this whole fashion industry, seeing it firsthand, I never realized just how much work goes into everything.
Lucky Blue Smith
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People work harder when conditions are worse.
Jeff Goldblum
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There's no shame in a bronze medal. I used to think that, and I'm so ashamed of thinking that because there's so much joy and hard work and love in this.
Kerri Walsh Jennings
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I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.
Twyla Tharp
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I work in waves because I'm impatient. It has to be done. I take liberties.
Cy Twombly