- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Work Quotes
Quotes on the meaning of work.
Several quotes here describe work as a solitary process, one that takes real effort to protect from distraction, while others connect a person's politics directly to the character of their work. Related reading includes Growth Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn't going to work.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think people think filmmaking is fun, but I've never thought that. For me it's always been a lot of work and pain and stress.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a wonderful feeling to work in a country where the government's first concern is for its people, for all its people.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The common, the quotidian, is so much more unyielding to me, really stubborn and hard to work with, and I like this because it makes me think and it makes me worry. I can't just plunge my hand into the meat of it. I need new approaches.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work a lot in the summers. My family goes to Maine, where we have a little house. My wife's a writer, too, and we can write for six hours a day and then play with the kids.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an enormous fan of Thomas Bernhard's books, and I like the relentless feeling in his work - the pursuit of darkness, the negative - and I think in some sense I've internalised that as what one is supposed to do.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work, and then I leave the office, and I'm with my kids and just sort of enjoy them on a visceral level, and I don't feel like I'm exorcising my own deep ideas about parenthood and about how my life will come into play in my work.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents showed me by example that they could balance their work and family lives.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to keep working because work was essentially fantastic - you got to be around people, you got to be in a family, and that family changed from job to job. It was like being in the circus.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
My general feeling about approach to work is that anyone that's there, they're all there to do the best job they can.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most young actors, that's all they're trying to do: Get better at acting and be able to keep doing it. And that doesn't work out for most people.
- Expressed
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are always dimensions, and the way they get expressed is through the writing and the actors and the director you get to work with on that day. But there are always dimensions, outside of really basic stuff for very young people where it needs to be very clear.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My enthusiasm for L.A. stems from my father, who was a lecturer in American literature at the University of Birmingham. Through his work, our family did several house swaps with L.A. families. It was a dreadfully daring thing to do in the early 1980s; there was no Internet, so you had no idea of what you were getting into.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work out in the Caribbean for half the year, playing a detective who's really into science. Anybody who knows me will tell you that's a dream come true. But it's tough for my family. We only get to see each other every two and a half to three weeks.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020