Work Quotes
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Part of what makes a great chef is the ability to adapt, cook, and to taste. A great chef will use all their food knowledge, food memories, and senses to work with each ingredient and apply themselves to the dish they are creating.
Johnny Iuzzini -
Since I started acting, I always or often find work takes precedence with me. And that is not necessarily a great rule for life.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
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I tell anyone who is willing to listen that auditioning is the hardest part. Once you get the job, you have the job. You can go to work. You learn your lines. You learn your character. With auditioning, you can have five in a week with different people.
Jazmyn Simon -
Different things work for different people. One thing I've realized, though, is that the work that I've done on myself outside of my work as an actress has really allowed me to open up my mind. I think I understand my emotional state and my complexities now in a much clearer way, and I can put them to rest in a way that there's almost a catharsis that happens through the work, where I can do it and then find myself again.
Scarlett Johansson -
I think ethnic and regional labels are insulting to writers and really put restrictions on them. People don't think your work is quite as universal.
James Welch -
I feel more inspired than ever, and think that I will finally achieve what I have long been wishing for: a balance of work and privacy - a harmony.
Kylie Minogue -
Through hard work and education, we can deliver a strong economy and opportunity for all.
Julia Gillard -
We are all trying to balance our careers and children and give as much of ourselves and our time to them. You work and have a husband, and projects, and friends. It is a balancing act.
Kelly Preston
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I still live as normal a life as anybody else. I have two homes to run. I have my staff to take care of. I work, pay bills and attend society meetings like everybody else.
Deepika Padukone -
I kind of always think my work is unfilmable, and when I meet people who are interested in filming it, I'm always stunned.
Daniel Handler -
It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.
W. Allen Wallis -
Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work.
Ben Silbermann -
I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times.
Thomas A. Edison -
Hollywood to me is a place to work. Home is Chester County.
Claude Rains
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I went around in my teens and early 20s thinking that life was a con trick. I had managed to grow up believing in all sorts of romantic ideas about hard work and justice and truth, and it seemed the real world was much more complicated and shaded than I wanted to believe.
Claire Messud -
It's hard when you put a year of good work into something and someone at the top says no, and they pull your show's title off a bulletin board and chuck it in the trash.
Tyler Labine -
You appreciate just being able to work because there are so many actors that aren't. You have to appreciate every single job just the same.
Chris Zylka -
The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have women well represented in the work that I've done because I've always been around them and around the way they look at the world.
Anthony Minghella -
I tend to eat pretty healthy, though, and I work out - I work out hard.
Amy Schumer -
When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing the history of his life almost as tedious as living it had been, and so, possessing a natural invention coupled with a gift for locating the easier path, he began to prevaricate a little upon the second page, working his way up to downright lying on the sixth and subsequent folios.
Margery Allingham
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When I work, I disappear into work, which I like to do, and sometimes I don't really have a choice. It's not a conscious thing. It's just total devotion to what I'm doing.
Elijah Wood -
Think about last time you were broke ... now how well did it go with spending your way out of it? Did that work?
P. J. O'Rourke -
Oracle will continue to componentize all of its solutions so we can work in a heterogeneous environment.
Mark V. Hurd -
Empress of the Universe would be way too much work. I'd have to wear fancy clothes, probably including lady shoes with pointed toes, and could no longer slouch into the study in PJs and slippers. Someone would (avert!) straighten my desk. Someone would reorganize my yarn stash...in fact, they'd assign someone else to knit my socks, thus depriving me of an excuse to rest my brain while pretending to accomplish something useful.
Elizabeth Moon