Work Quotes
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Without social cohesion, the human race wouldn't be here: We're not formidable enough to survive without the tactics, rules and strategies that allow people to work together.
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I speak as the journalist who, on the first day back at work for 'The Daily Telegraph' after the birth of my daughter, went to interview Tom Hanks with an epaulette of banana sick on my jacket.
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Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
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Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret.
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If I'm going to work, I want to work with my wife.
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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.
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Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: 'Stop vamping.' It has remained a caution.
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I really never had any ambitions to be a standup comic. I was talked into it by guys that I used to work out with.
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I'm never too ambitious when I go into the studio. I always know that I'm just going into the studio to work on or try to develop an idea that I have for a song.
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I'd wish for my work to be remembered rather than myself.
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The Longstockings are eight children's and young adult writers. We all came out of the New School MFA program, and we meet regularly to critique each other's work.
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I am a bit of a goody-goody. Not that there aren't times when I think, I was kind of an (ass) today. I work in a world in which people are really catered to; someone will come up to me and say, "Is it OK if this person's makeup is done before yours for the premiere?"
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My dream would be to be on a show that shoots in New York, because I live here, and then I could walk to work.
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I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book.
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The moment you've brought a toothbrush to work, then you're getting into crunch time.
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Creating and producing creative work, to me, those are all happy accidents.
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I feel challenged every day, when I come to work. I feel like I have to step up my game, and that's a great thing.
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I work so hard for the fans who watch our show.
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The market system requires that people be committed and willing to work hard. Inherent with that is what I call a merit system, which I think gives people the greatest opportunity.
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That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.
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Those who work the hardest are the last to surrender.
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After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of my time, working out the problems according to my own rhythms and being able to nap.
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It is easier when you like to work with your companions.
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A lot of times, we talk about black people as if being black is all they are. They get up, go to work... and are as complex and interesting and variable as any other group of people. We don't often capture that or write about it.
