Work Quotes
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I do occasionally get into that 'checking Twitter every five minutes' state - 'Please, help me avoid my work.' I have a writing room for when I get completely out of control, so I can put myself out of the Internet's reach.
Margo Lanagan -
A lot of people who are 'social media' stars aren't considered to be 'real' stars, and people underestimate the amount of work it takes to edit and upload a video every single day and document your life like that.
Shawn Mendes
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This was all evidence of the tradition at work, of Homer being more interested in epic music than its meaning.
Adam Nicolson -
Making films requires the creative skills you'd expect, but it also demands immense non-creative skills, like the ability to raise all that money and the savviness to work the studio's politics.
Jay Chandrasekhar -
I like to stay in the rhythm of things. My maternity leave will be a few weeks long, and I'll work throughout it.
Marissa Mayer -
I get to work at about 7:30 or 8 unless I have a breakfast meeting.
Donna Shalala -
The material presence of the work only serves as a conveyer launching an invitation to the observer to take part of the comprehensive game of the thousand and one emotions and visions.
Antoni Tapies -
There are always dimensions, and the way they get expressed is through the writing and the actors and the director you get to work with on that day. But there are always dimensions, outside of really basic stuff for very young people where it needs to be very clear.
Ben Mendelsohn
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There is no such thing as alternative medicine; there are just treatments that work, and those that don’t.
Edzard Ernst -
I've become friends with Michael Mann and Oliver Stone; I've seen those guys work and that was great to see.
Antoine Fuqua -
I live, like every real man, in my work.
Max Frisch -
I don't sign every check anymore, but I have my checks, my balances. I like the people I work with very much, but I check on them.
Trisha Yearwood -
Being on a film set is like being in tech forever. In theater, when you finally finish rehearsing, you go onstage and you do the lights and the sets and you make the machine of the production work. It takes usually about ten days in the theater, two or three weeks if it's a really big musical. I mean, it's hell on earth. You just sit around forever while they adjust the lights. And every playwright with half a brain runs for the hills when tech starts because it's so boring, and you don't want to talk to the director because the director is running this giant machine.
Tony Kushner -
I became a loner. I became a mountain man. A lot of those things are very good qualities and they help you do your work, help you be singular and keep the artistic integrity of your work intact, but they don't make it very easy to live your life.
John Milius
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The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.
John Milton -
Oscar night is a ridiculous night where you go to these parties and you see everyone that you've ever wanted to work with and admire.
Jordana Brewster -
I wasn't always interested in technology. I had been a student for a long time - I'd earned a bachelor's degree, a law degree, and an MBA - and decided that I wanted to work in a large corporation, focusing on finance and law, in either New York or Chicago.
John T. Chambers -
I have a really supportive family, which is really wonderful, but I'm not forcing everyone to watch my work every week.
Brigitte Michael Sumner -
If you waste five minutes of time a day, over the course of a year that adds up to one full work day. Think of five wasted minutes as a slow-release holiday drug. Savour it.
Douglas Coupland -
He is able to help His children work through anything, and not a single thing is going to happen in the future that can change that fact.
David Jeremiah
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I always knew my death would be a possible consequence of the work I do. But for me it was a price I was willing to pay because this is what I believed in.
Lynsey Addario -
User-comments culture is not useful for creating original work, I think.
John Cameron Mitchell -
Just as art brings you to another place, so does religion - and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both. If you say you were inspired by a novel, that implies that your book is a work of fiction.
Yann Martel -
Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.
Seneca the Younger