Worked Quotes

• When you are successful, there is this tendency to repeat the elements that we believe have worked in a certain film. Then it becomes formulaic, and there is no getting back.

  

  Nivin Pauly
  • Film
  • Elements
  • Worked

• I played more of an advisory role with Public Enemy. I really trusted them to make the music that they wanted to make, and the way The Bomb Squad worked with the... they created their whole own world of music.

  

  Rick Rubin
  • Wanted
  • Public
  • Played

• I wanted to. I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled. Thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them.

  

  Tiger Woods
  • Life
  • Money
  • Fame

• The library was like a second home. Or maybe more like a real home, more than the place I lived in. By going every day I got to know all the lady librarians who worked there. They knew my name and always said hi. I was painfully shy, though, and could barely reply.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Home
  • Library
  • My Name

• Suddenly you've worked yourself up to the top of the pecking order and you say to yourself, okay, this is going to be fun.

  

  Michael Douglas
  • Worked
  • Top
  • Pecking order

• I worked with a lot of directors, and I took something from everyone.

  

  Ornella Muti
  • Directors
  • Worked

• If you look at the publishers I've worked with, generally, they're a great bunch. Creation is unlike any other publishing house you can think of. The people I've worked with have integrity and intelligence and, almost always, less money than ideas.

  

  Peter Sotos
  • People
  • Money
  • Ideas

• Mondrian? His mind was too subtle. He worked in the light. I work in the darkness.. .Mondrian is the Buddha of painting. I saw him once. You wondered how a man could radiate such charisma.

  

  Bram van Velde
  • Painting
  • Darkness
  • Charisma

• I have amazing parents. They had worked hard all their lives for me, and when I started to make money, I wanted to be able to take care of them.

  

  Noemie Lenoir
  • Care
  • Parent
  • Worked

• For the past several years, the Meth Caucus has worked to engage the Office of National Drug Control Policy on this issue. We have tried to get their attention that meth requires a strong, comprehensive Federal policy.

  

  Rick Larsen
  • Attention
  • Worked
  • Requires

• I had been a writer all of my life, every waking second, and now that part of my life was over. I suppose the truth was that I had never put myself forward as a writer, I didn't like the idea of the 'professional writer'; I just wanted to write. But that was not how the world worked...

  

  Bonnie Greer
  • Life
  • Writer
  • Suppose

• My dad worked for different companies that made whiskey for a long time, so we were definitely whiskey drinkers. Growing up, my friends would get toy cars, and I would get swag from whisky companies.

  

  Mike Krieger
  • Friends
  • Would
  • Definitely

• I've always worked really hard, and the hardest thing I've ever done is have kids!

  

  Gwen Stefani No Doubt
  • Kids
  • Hard
  • Worked

• I worked hard to get stronger and better, and I'm really happy and satisfied.

  

  Nino Schurter
  • Stronger
  • Satisfied
  • Worked

• Both my mother and father worked for everything that they had.

  

  Evan Ross
  • Father
  • Worked
  • My Mother

• I've always been an outsider. When I did magic, I was the only kid. When I worked with Johnny Cash, I was completely out of place in Nashville. And when I started Def Jam, I was the only white guy in the hip-hop world.

  

  Rick Rubin
  • Worked
  • Started
  • Nashville

• I've never worked with an acting coach, no.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Acting
  • Coach
  • Worked

• I've turned down good directors before because I knew the part didn't speak to me and I've worked with less talented directors before because the part I had such passion for.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Passion
  • Directors
  • Worked

• Guest roles are how you get initiated into the industry. It's fun. Over the course of a few years you realise you've done many shows. You get a chance to prove yourself, and that's how you get jobs because of people who have worked with you in the past and trust you.

  

  Sasha Roiz
  • Chance
  • Jobs
  • Roles

• Being fat worked, and I think that was what was confusing for me for a long time in my career.

  

  Ricki Lake
  • Time
  • Worked
  • Confusing

• Hooked on Phonics worked for me.

  

  Brian Regan
  • Worked

• We worked very hard to make extensions very simple.

  

  Mitchell Baker
  • Simple
  • Worked
  • Extensions

• Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, 'I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.'

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Living
  • Healthy
  • Writer

• I worked as a trainee manager for two years after leaving university - then got bored with the nine to five.

  

  Sarah West
  • Bored
  • Worked
  • Manager

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