- Famous
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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
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm getting less and less interested in the problems of youth. I'm much more interested in the idea of emotional paralysis, and I find myself less interested in work that doesn't have anything to do with a conversation about the world.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a lot of optimism about new doctors because I think it's really clear that it's a lot of hard work and no guarantee of a lot of money.
- Truth
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- Nov 07, 2020
My work is about giving voice to the unheard, and reiterating the voice of the heard in such a way that you question, or re-examine, what is the truth.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely; it is not. It is very hard work.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like to diet, so I work out with a trainer a few times a week. We do kickboxing and strengthening - it's hard! I also do yoga and love to walk everywhere. I live in Brooklyn, so walking is the best way to discover the city and the neighbourhoods.
- Chill
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like going after work back to Brooklyn because it is so much more relaxed and chill.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never the class clown or anything like that. When I was growing up and doing theatre in Seattle I was always doing very dramatic work. Now I can't get a dramatic role to save my life!
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Blythe Danner is somebody whose career I admire. She's a great actress and does good work, but also has a life of her own. I love my job but, at the end of the day, I want to come home and watch a movie and drink a bottle of wine with my husband.
- Evening
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, right now, they say - I don't know who says this, but somebody told me - there's three male roles to every female role. And I guess I'd work on evening that up. Making great roles for women. It's just such a huge challenge.
- Nov 07, 2020
I feel, for the most part, especially in comedy, you make your own work, and maybe that's true across the board.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well it's hard to bracket it like that because everyone always thinks you either go to America and you come back, fail or succeed, but it doesn't work like that.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.
- Demoralized
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- Nov 07, 2020