Work Quotes
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My mum has always been a huge inspiration for me and my work. She loves fashion and has always been so supportive.
Matthew Williamson
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I'm lucky, I can sleep from takeoff until we land; so I'm fresh, rested and ready to work on arrival.
Eva Herzigova
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Work at a place like Google for awhile: if you do an interview and you say all the right things, no one really cares. But the day you say the wrong sentence, it's attributed to 'Senior Google Executive,' and the stock moves, and everybody hates you.
Chris Sacca
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I love politics, but I wouldn't want to be involved in it. Too little money, too much work! I don't really have the personality for that.
Dennis Quaid
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Give an earnest-hearted, devoted girl any true work that will make her active in the dawn, and weary at night, with the consciousness that her fellow-creatures have indeed been the better for her day, and the powerless sorrow of her enthusiasm will transform itself into a majesty of radiant and beneficent peace.
John Ruskin
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I've been asked a great deal about the influence I've had with my work and it's impossible to say, you know.
Ben Shahn
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A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.
Jose Marti
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Do not falter or shrink; But just think out your work, And just work out your think.
Nixon Waterman
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...in October 1866 I broke out as a lecturer, and from that day to this I have always been able to gain my living without doing any work; for the writing of books and magazine matter was always play, not work. I enjoyed it; it was merely billiards to me.
Mark Twain
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Don't be afraid of hard work.
Marian Wright Edelman
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Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work.
Albert Benjamin Simpson
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Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.
William James
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I love the work of Hayao Miyazaki. 'My Neighbor Totoro' and 'Castle in the Sky' are two of the great films that he's made that I just love.
John Lasseter
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I taught for a semester, but couldn't work out my teaching schedule with my acting schedule because they just didn't jive. So, I had to make a decision. And by sheer luck, I'm sure, I have not stopped working as an actor.
Danny Burstein
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I develop my own film. And I work in spurts. I pile it up.
Garry Winogrand
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When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.
Aubrey Plaza
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Ultimately a historian has to put together a cohesive work. That doesn't mean that your curiosity is ever totally satisfied.
Adele Logan Alexander
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This is a profession in which how you look dictates whether or not you get work, so a model has to be healthy.
Gabriella Wilde
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You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art gallery. You're looking at one portrait, turn around, and there is a work of art directly behind you. Because it's all energy. Every single thing has energy.
Marina Abramovic
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I'd rather have just one person who reads and feels my work deeply than hundreds of thousands who read it but don't really care about.
Derek Walcott
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When you first read a script is the purest moment. That's when you can understand how an audience will ultimately receive it. The first reading of the script is so important because you're experiencing it all for the first time, and it's then that you really know if it's going to work or not.
David Tennant
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Suppose that a person writes what she must. That is only the first step of becoming a writer. The work must survive the moment of creation. It must get out to an audience. She or he must dare to show the work. She must risk ridicule, misunderstanding, scandal, condemnation, & what's often worse, none of the above: silence. No attention at all.
Marge Piercy
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I want to be one of the greatest champions of all time. And it's a good pressure - I need this pressure. Because if pressure is making me work, if it's making me work harder - it was hard work to get to the championship, to win the championship.
Jinder Mahal
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I cry all the time - at work, at the shrink's, with my lady. 'The Notebook' killed me. 'Up' destroyed me.
Chris Pine