Work Quotes
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It's hard work, 'Doctor Who,' but let's be frank about it, I'm fortunate to be rewarded in the ways that I am. I don't just mean financially, I mean the nature of the part and everything that comes with it.
Matt Smith Poison -
I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.
Bette Davis
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Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
Russell Baker -
I have about two or three people, we don't have an office, we don't even have a dedicated phone line. We do it out of our own homes, and we make it work.
John Zorn -
If I can't even be bothered to brush my hair, I don't think I should start getting face work... I think it would look a bit try-hard.
Alexa Chung -
I work with many jazz artists as Miles Davis, Laughlin, etc.. One of the things all these artists had in common is that they had no fear.
George Duke -
I love my work, but my home life is so fulfilling that I don't tend to be driven by work ambitions.
Jane Goldman -
Does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?
William Allingham
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It wasn't my childhood fantasy to work with Truffaut or be in obscure films. I like Midnight Run better than I like The Bicycle Thief. It was films like Die Hard and Bladerunner that made me want to be an actor.
Ben Affleck -
You've got to stay focused without being boring - because all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Skinny, but dull.
LL Cool J -
I'm pretty consistently fit because I think it's an important part of my work, but I will ramp it up just because I have been enjoying myself a little bit too much.
Alexandra Daddario -
I actually did work and produced two short dissertations, one on Faulkner and one on the film criticism of the stream-of-consciousness novelist Dorothy Richardson.
Claire Messud -
When you're by yourself, you realize how much pressure you're under and how much work you have to do.
Joe Jonas Jonas Brothers -
My work is as an ethnographic rescuer: a conduit between past and future generations. The urgency of this effort cannot be overstated.
Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey
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No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people.
Rita Mae Brown -
I get work done in half the time if the family is still asleep. When my family wakes up, I've already had a productive morning and am ready to enjoy breakfast with them before I start conquering the rest of my day.
John Rampton -
I'm a big fan of Edouard Vuillard, so I'd like anything by him - particularly a painting called 'Madame Hessel on the Sofa.' His work is realistic without being literal: I can really imagine what Madame Hessel is thinking.
Lesley Manville -
If a guy doesn't work hard and doesn't play well, he can't lead anything. All he is, is a talker.
John Madden -
I've never really had a relationship with Hollywood. I've never had a desire to work there.
Audrey Tautou -
It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.
H. L. Mencken
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I was fortunate to work with some very powerful producers like Tom Miller and Bob Boyett.
Jaleel White -
I still feel I'm doing the same work I've always done.
Elizabeth McGovern -
Going to the darkest place you can to make yourself really upset and adding that with the physicality and running around, you can work yourself into hysteria that way.
Alexandra Daddario -
One of the major things I really want to work on now is female rage because that's not dealt with at all - and I have a lot of it.
Nan Goldin