Work Quotes
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Which, of course, isn't the point of writing - but it would be nice if, along with the creative satisfaction of writing and seeing my work in print, I could do more than merely scrape a living. Okay, moaning over.
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If there's anything I'm not pompous about, it's myself or my work. But I seem to be able to play it.
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There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.
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I'm an entrepreneur and a businesswoman and I do a lot of different things besides my work on television and people probably don't know that about me.
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If you work hard and perform well, it doesn't matter whether you're 20 or 40. People are going to follow, and you can go in there and run the show.
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I'm not somebody who carries around a notepad and writes songs all day long. I don't imagine everything I think of is worth being in a song. So I tend to collect notes, and I set time aside to go to work and write songs.
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I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.
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Usually people just do their own work. But I want to deal with the place and what it means to show in a mental hospital.
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If people like something you've done - or don't like it - this shouldn't determine what you write or how you write it. Those are two separate things entirely: your work and the world's response to it.
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All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.
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I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as a result of a fashion of literary deconstructionism indicating that there are no meanings.
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In my work, I want to convince people that I'm that character. If they know everything about Lesley Manville - private life, all of that stuff - it doesn't help. So the kind of anonymity I enjoy is key.
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Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.
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We are not all the same. If you care that much, if you're that invested in us as artists and the changes that we're trying to make and the work that we're putting out there, then at least give us the same decency and respect to know that I am not Yara Shahidi and never will I be.
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What I'm looking for is the variety of choices and the opportunity to work with great directors - that's what I'm looking for.
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Good work is good work wherever it is.
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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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On every show, there's some amount of work that is brought to some state of completion - or even finished - and then cut out of the movie.
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A lot of times, people just want to be an individual. But if you really want to win, at the end of the day, it's not about you just achieving something. Everybody can achieve more if they work together.
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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
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In the end, when you love what you do, it never feels like work.
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I know my limitations. I live and work according to my limitations. And my party only two weeks ago has clearly declared that the leader of the party after Ms Sonia Gandhi will be Mr Rahul Gandhi. And all of us, including me, have expressed our solid support to Mr Rahul Gandhi.
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I was being groomed as an undergraduate to specialize in Midwestern prehistory, but going back to my teenage days, my interest has always been in our early human ancestors. I wanted to work in Africa.
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I met Mr. Hoover socially. I never talked to him about anything connected with his work. We just met him.
