Work Quotes
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I consider it almost antifeminist to say that there is a feminine nature which expresses itself differently, that a woman speaks her body more than a man, because after all, men also speak their bodies when they write. Everything is implicated in the work of a writer.
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Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.
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Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it "tap dancing to work."
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Cornelia Parker has inspired a lot of my theatre work. Her art is about points of impact: it's poetic but with a strong literal story.
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All I can do in my writing is to stimulate a certain amount of thought, clarify some technical facts and date my work. But when I preach sharpness, brilliancy, scale, etc., I am just mouthing words, because no words can really describe those terms and qualities it takes the actual print to say, “here it is.
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Financially, I'm fine. But it's good to work. I'm not capable of doing nothing.
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To love the perfection with which we do our work, or the company of those with whom we work, is the secret of learning to love the work itself.
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The conservative Republican governors tend to be more oriented toward trying to work with Democrats and getting things done.
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The things I've done in my life have required a lot of years of work before they took off.
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Of all the excellent copyedits I've received over the years, Marie-Lynn Hammond's was by far the best. Her work on Half Blood Blues was incredibly sensitive and astute.
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Part of what I do comes from the fact that I don't know any jokes to tell. And when I do they're really flat and don't work.
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Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work.
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I work in the commercial real estate sector.
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I have a problem with writer/directors, personal. I can't work well with both of them on the set, if both of them are giving instructions. Writers tend to be in love with what they wrote. You can't always translate the words into the meaning, sometimes the meaning is better served without the words, difficult to make a writer to try to understand that. It gets, sometimes, tense.
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Filthy, mucky tools: filthy, mucky work. Clean, beautiful tools: clean, beautiful work.
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When I find something that I really like and I can get it off, then I put my time and energy into that. It is a lot of work....
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I've been fortunate enough to always have plenty of work, offers to go out and play shows. The hardest thing I have to do is pick out which one I want. For some reason, there's a great demand out there, whether I've got a new record out or not.
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We must continue to ensure that the legacy of the Greatest Generation is preserved and protected so that all Americans can work to embody the ideals and values of those that came before them.
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My frustrated days are over. I'm too old to be frustrated, ... All I can do is work to get better. I think I've been tested for situations like this. I'm not going to say it's not a concern, but it's not the end of the world. I know it's going to get better.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you're likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do.
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Never give away your work. People don’t value what they don’t have to pay for.
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Dance like it hurts. Love like you need money. Work when people are watching.
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If you're doing creative work, that work should never feel trivial - even if what you're doing is for hire or lightly intended. Even the mundane doesn't have to be trivial.
