Work Quotes
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If you have anything better to be doing when death overtakes you, get to work on that.
Epictetus
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I'm not jumping into anything fast. I'm an actor that likes to choose my work and there's an element of good taste to my work.
Luke Ford
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You can work for 10 years without making it... we aren't actually all living in mansions.
Jimmy Napes
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Here," Myrnin said, his voice still gentle and low. "Amelie said you had to work. No one said you had to work alone." He picked up the next part and slotted it in, took the screwdriver from Claire's numbed fingers, and fastened it with a couple of deft, fast movements. "I'll be your hands." She wanted to cry, because it was so sweet, but it wouldn't do any good.
Rachel Caine
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I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original.
Margaret Mahy
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There are hours when the Church must say NO to those who should ask communion with her, in the doing of her work, upon the basis of compromise.
G. Campbell Morgan
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This work of the Lord is indeed great and marvelous, but it moves forward essentially unnoticed by many of mankind's political, cultural, and academic leaders. It progresses one heart and one family at a time, silently and unobtrusively, its sacred message blessing people everywhere.
L. Whitney Clayton
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There are a whole bunch of roles where people say, 'Oh, you're playing yourself.' I guess it's kind of a compliment. Or people say, 'Oh, man, you just roll out of bed and do that.' The work is to make it look effortless. That's the hard part.
Matthew McConaughey
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A child's course in life should be determined not by the zip code she's born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.
Barack Obama
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More immediately, I'm currently working on another Dracula in which there will be connections with ancient Egypt. That's about as far as I want to go in commenting on current work.
Fred Saberhagen
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The most challenging work and the best work I've ever done was in a thing I did for PBS called 'Lemon Sky', a play by Lanford Wilson. I think it's the rawest, most complex work that I've had to do, and the thing I'm most proud of.
Kevin Bacon
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I'm by no means an expert at giving advice on depression, but I would say that a lot of my show is about making the decision to be happy. We all think that happiness is something that just falls into our lap. But it's something you have to really work on.
Lilly Singh
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Collaboration is the best way to work. It's only way to work, really. Everyone's there because they have a set of skills to offer across the board.
Antony Starr
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Basically, it's hard for me to assess myself, a hardship not only prompted by the immodesty of the enterprise, but because one is not capable of assessing himself, let alone his work. However, if I were to summarize, my main interest is the nature of time. That's what interests me most of all. What time can do to a man.
Joseph Brodsky
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I wanted to go where the people work hard, throw down, and really needed the party... Saginaw is all that and then some. I looked in those faces - and I knew, these people mean business.
Brantley Gilbert
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I think Pixar's done an amazing job integrating art and science. They really get this idea that art and engineering work side by side.
Joe Gebbia