Work Quotes
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It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and female authors are ghetto-ized as 'other.'
Jesmyn Ward
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I have 800 books of just Samuel Beckett's work, tons of his correspondence, personal letters that he wrote. I have copies of plays he used when he directed, so all of his handwritten notes are in the corners of the page.
John Larroquette
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For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are.
D. H. Lawrence
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The history meant that someone like Todt would go work there. The history was what convinced Michael Schumacher to go there.
Eddie Irvine
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I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings.
Isabelle Adjani
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I try to not work too many Sundays. At least on Sunday nights, I try to chill out a little bit. I call it Sunday Funday.
Miley Cyrus
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I can't even call it work. I'm a creative-a-holic. I love the tearing into new material.
Laurie Metcalf
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I got my start in the 'New York Times' because I used to read Stuart Elliot, the advertising columns. I still do. And I read him so religiously, I wanted to work for him before I died.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
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My kind of work is very intense. The trouble with me is that I completely fling myself into it. I get giddy. I get terrible crushes on jobs.
Maxine Peake
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It's not in my mission to work against Euroskepticism; it's my mission to work for fair markets. In antitrust, what is at stake is, in some ways, as old as Adam and Eve because it is about greed, to get more.
Margrethe Vestager
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Writing is hard work: it is like doing homework for the rest of your life. You are always chipping away at it.
John Lutz
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It's good to work for someone else. Because then you appreciate it more when you are an entrepreneur.
Matt Mullenweg
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A game of rugby is a work of art!
Danie Craven
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To survive, you've got to keep wheedling your way. You can't just sit there and fight against odds when it's not going to work. You have to turn a corner, dig a hole, go through a tunnel - and find a way to keep moving.
Twyla Tharp
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I like to edit; I like to work with other people, and that's something stand-up doesn't really have.
Kyle Dunnigan
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I believe that anyone can be what they want to be; it just comes down to hard work.
Kiesa Rae Ellestad
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You don't have to have a great art idea - just get to work and something will happen. So that's pretty much my modus operandi and pretty much my principal position, such as it is.
Chuck Close
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Until you get your reputation made, you have to work twice as hard... there is always a doubt in your superior's mind as to whether you will put family before your job.
Arundhati Bhattacharya
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I'm looking for something that gives me a chance to stretch. Because I have my own work, and I can do anything I want in my own work - juggle, tap dance, anything I want.
Bette Midler
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The great creator from his work returned Magnificent, his six days' work, a world.
John Milton
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I'm attracted to directors in general because I appreciate the work and the job they have to do. I watched the post-production, I watched the pre-production... post-production is something that I'm very interested in and I did spend a lot of time in editing rooms when I was young pretending to be sick.
Alice Englert
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Childhood’s work is learning, and it is in his play...that the child works at his job.
Caroline Pratt
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'Dancing with the Stars' was hard work. It was interesting and fun, too, but it was hard work.
Chuck Liddell
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I kind of viewed '50/ 50' and 'Warm Bodies' both as my next films after 'The Wackness.' In my head, I was just like, 'I'll try the big, fun, adventure-weird movie, and I'll do the small, heartfelt comedy-drama, and one of them will probably work out, and I'll get to work more.'
Jonathan Levine