Work Quotes
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I find it easier to write in the winter in Melbourne. When the weather is good you want to go out for a walk, ride a bike, go to a cafe or something. When it's raining, when it's a miserable day, I just sit down at my desk and get some work done.
Adrian McKinty
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Almost six years ago, before I was given the incredible opportunity to be in 'Leaving Las Vegas,' I was going through a long period of artistic confusion. I'd spent years doing work that hadn't pushed me enough, and I was beginning to wonder if I had any talent.
Elisabeth Shue
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If you don't have work for a border collie or time to train it properly, your bright young border collie will invent his own work, and chances are you won't like it.
Donald McCaig
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I don't think you need any kind of backing here in the industry. I think what you achieve in your life is the result of your own talent and hard work.
Deepika Padukone
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What we in industry learned in dealing with people is that people do not work just for money and that if you are trying to motivate, money is not the most effective tool.
Akio Morita
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Overseas directors who want to work in Hollywood, the language barrier is not a problem. With the right talent, any director can be successful.
Kim Jee-woon
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I feel, for the most part, especially in comedy, you make your own work, and maybe that's true across the board.
Anna Faris
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Basically, I really love work that puts the reader into a kind of vertigo, into a real doubt, and a beautiful way to convey that, a really perfect metaphor for that, is to make the reader also experience doubt.
David Shields
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The early cyberpunk idea was that networked computers would let us do our work at home, as freelancers, and then transact directly with peers over networks. Digital technology would create tremendous slack, allow us to apply its asynchronous, decentralized qualities to our own work and lives.
Douglas Rushkoff
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When the sommelier Enrico Bernardo moved to Paris from Italy nearly two decades ago, the world of French gastronomy brutally rejected him. No matter that he had won the competition for best sommelier in Italy; when he asked 30 restaurateurs for work in their wine cellars, all turned him down.
Elaine Sciolino
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I've been a Nick Cave fan since the early '80s when he was part of The Birthday Party thing singing Australian self-destructive rock band and I've always followed his work and loved it.
Aleksandar Hemon
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Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.
James Frey
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Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked and disturbed if they realized that everything I believe is thoroughly moral, thoroughly Catholic, and that it is these beliefs that give my work its chief characteristics.
Flannery O'Connor
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Liberty is of small value to the lower third of humanity. They greatly prefer security, which means protection by some class above them. They are always in favor of despots who promise to feed them. The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.
H. L. Mencken
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When you work in television, it's an isolating experience. You rarely ever get to watch it with an audience.
Marti Noxon
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Don't ever write just for a trend or fad, because it's a moving target, and by the time you get your work out there, the trend or fad is gone. Dig deep; don't be afraid to write fiercely. Expose your heart.
Jane Yolen
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I'd love to work with some of the people I've remixed for - Ed Sheeran or Chris Martin or The Weeknd. But it's not just big names like these guys that I want to collaborate with.
Kygo
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They cover for each other if one makes a mistake, ... Karen knows every song he's going to sing backward and forward. They work in concert. They blend together beautifully.
Don Fraser
