Work Quotes
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Let's adopt some short-term strategies to get growth going and then let's have a long-term debt reduction package. That's what I think we should do and I think it will work.
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I grew up kind of rough, without very much. So, I just want to work as hard as I can so my kids won't have to go through what I did.
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There were so many occasions when I wasn't around for my kids or my husband. But we learnt to work around it.
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Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.
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Celebrity farmer. Now there's a phrase that should be an oxymoron. There are farmers on both sides of my family, and I can attest that the overlap between the way farmers live, work and think, and celebrity culture, is exactly 0%.
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It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.
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I've found a lot of the thinking in America is that a lot of people become actors to become famous. At least from my experience, I have a dozen or so British friends who are actors, and if you look at their body of work, and they'll go do theatre, and they'll go do this and this. They work, and they're always honing and trying to be better.
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I hope I'm always lucky enough to be able to work in theater, TV, and big films and small films. I think there's advantages and disadvantages to all of them. The fact that this was a small film without much money and without much time made it rich in energy and momentum and drive when we were actually making it 'cause that's all you've got. You've just got the story and the people.
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There is not a lot of separation between work and home life.
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Luckily I am very, very privileged and feel very lucky to be getting work and my kiddies are not feeling the brunt of any kind of horror that's going on today. So I'm super lucky.
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There's always going to be a ball up in the air, and what I try to do is make sure that ball is never the kids. If that means sacrificing a social event or having fewer work commitments, it's worth it.
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Perhaps the seeds of redemption lay not just in perseverance, hard work, and rugged individualism. Perhaps they lay in something more fundamental—the simple notion of everyone pitching in and pulling together.
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It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.
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They let you dream just to watch them shatter, you're just a step on the boss man's ladder.
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The best way to get started on the path to sharing your work is to think about what you want to learn, and make a commitment to learning in front of others.
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Start with the end in mind. If you want to be a millionaire, talk like one, act like one, work like one.
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After a few years, we realized that you did have to put some work into it. That's why the bimbo comments make me angry. After seven years, people have to realize we have a certain amount of talent.
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Maybe the biggest thing that I've learned musically is that anything is possible. Things can work when maybe they don't seem like they can.
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When I emerged from drama school, I had no expectation that I would ever work in film.
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Just because something didn't work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.
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The great challenge for me is to be all things to all people; I want to be a great mother, and I want to feel good when I'm at work.
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I'm not trying to say I accomplished nothing, I'm just trying to say that at this point in my life, I don't want to look at what I've accomplished and hold it like it's my trophy. I've got so much more to do; I don't want to put that gold medal around my neck yet. When I accomplish ten times what I've accomplished already, I'll start thinking about that. But a better way to put it is I kind of forget about it. I do it and I forget about it. And I just work.
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Give no man sympathy because he has to work - it is his blessing that he can.
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I'm always a great student of writers' work habits. Balzac sat at his desk dressed in a monk's robe, and he always had to have a rotten apple on his desk. The smell of the apple inspired him somehow.
