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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't do a movie until I was almost 30. I'm grateful for that because it gave me a chance to be an adult in the world and do work in the regional theater that very few people cared about. I loved it and I wanted to do that stuff.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard to make a living in this business. Unions aren't as strong as they used to be. For a journeyman actor - someone who doesn't have a famous name but has consistent work in theater or film or TV - it has become harder to get through, harder to raise a family.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel really lucky that I'm able to pursue the work that I love. I want my children to see that. I want them to have that for themselves, something that they love, that they do, that they pursue in their lives as a way of growing and learning.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having a life outside of movies is like pure oxygen. It makes the work more precious and informed.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.
- Loss
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.
- Cranking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm proud - or really more thankful than anything - for all the work that I've gotten.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The CIA teamed up with Army, Air Force and Naval Intelligence to run one of the most nefarious, classified, enhanced interrogation programs of the Cold War. The work took place inside a clandestine facility in the American zone of occupied Germany, called Camp King.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Churches, depending on their policy, can do fantastic work with people in the community.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Clybourne Park' was my first job after the birth of my son, who was 11 weeks old when we started rehearsals. And while that was truly harder than anything I've ever done, I was grateful every day to be going to work on such an incredible play, with such a generous, intelligent, supportive group of people.
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- Nov 07, 2020