Work Quotes
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I don't want my kids to grow up with no father like I did. I came to the conclusion a while ago that you can work until midnight and not be finished or you can work until 6 or 7 and not be finished. I decided I'd rather work until 6 or 7.
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It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.
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Sometimes it takes us a long time to build up songs, and we really work the structures over and over and build in lots of noisy parts.
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I'm incapable of truly relaxing. I remember when I was younger and less wise or experienced, actors that I knew would always talk about jobs ending and wondering whether they were ever going to work again. Now that's my life.
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Unless they have disabilities to cope with, no family should get more from living on benefits than the average family gets from going out to work. No more open-ended chequebook.
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I worked on Capitol Hill for five years, and I saw how things work and how they do not. I saw the partisanship, the gridlock, the pettiness, and the corruption.
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To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.
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Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.
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Human work must be done thoroughly and honourably because we are now men; whether we ever expect to be angels, or ever were slugs, being practically no matter.
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Don't go to work to make money; go to work to spread joy.
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I am a huge fan of Adrian Piper: how she works, how she reveals her process in the work, how she writes about it.
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Idolizing is a strong word, though. I'm happy that people respond well to the work I'm doing now. If anyone admires what I'm doing in any way, then I'm really proud of it.
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Rich people...take responsibility for the results in their lives and act upon the mind-set "It will work because I'll make it work."
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I dont work weekends. Weekends are for my kids. And I have dinner at home every night when Im not physically directing a movie - I get home by six. I put the kids to bed and tell them stories and take them to school the next morning. I work basically from 9.30 to 5.30 and Im strict about that.
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It's just not right that so many things don't work when they should. I don't think that will change for a long time.
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No man can do a great and enduring work for God who is not a man of prayer, and no man can be a man of prayer who does not give much time to praying.
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Nature is the best and really the only real vocabulary that an artist can legitimately work with.
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I feel like a lot of the stuff coming out right now just feels really inauthentic to me. But apparently, people don't seem to see through it. And this makes me sound bitter, but it's just my perspective. I'm not bitter. I just feel like there's a lot of stuff that doesn't feel like it's coming from a place of any sort of integrity. It just doesn't feel like it's coming from the heart, basically. It just feels like it's being produced because people know it's a formula that will work, or it's easily digestible and fun to look at.
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Architecture is the work of nations.
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Mental development is a by-product of hard work and effort.
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It was a nice relief to be able to work on individual songs.
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I wanted to get the guy who works next to me in the office something he really wants, but how do you wrap up a saloon?
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I don't really begin with ideas about genre. I certainly wrote a gothic novel, 'The Keep,' that conformed to and, in some ways, played with every convention I knew of to work with in the gothic, but the way I came to it was very instinctive and visceral.
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We have some nice pieces to put into the puzzle and a lot of kids who are willing to work to fill the rest of the spots in.
