- Job
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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
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wake up very early in the morning. I like to start in the dark, and I never work at night, because my brain is evaporated by 4 P.M.
- Honesty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find talking about my work harder than it might be if honesty wasn't my calling card.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to make the most out of the word 'fame.' I want to do good things with my fame, or whatever it is. I want to help and do charity work.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, the fashion business is this legendary repository of young girls on their way to getting husbands. I really wanted to work.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a New Yorker, and working in New York was divine for me. I loved working there and going to work there, which I've been able to do three or four times in my career, and I just love it. It's my favorite.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really care about what I put out, and probably more than the fans care. At times, I think I over-care. But I just know that the body of work has such a high standard that it's kind of like, in my own head, I need to at least match it if not get over that, so that's the challenge.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a believer in the nap. I don't care what it is. 15 minutes. Five hours. If you know someone's going to come back and come to work.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
But everything written has style. The list of ingredients on the side of a cornflakes box has style. And everything literary has literary style. And style is integral to a work. How something is told correlates with - more - makes what's being told. A story is its style.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.'
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we meet a work of art, there's something about that encounter that isn't fixed in time, but rather, it unfixes time: the shaft opens. The past and present exist in the same moment, and we know, as beings, that we are connected. All the people who lived before us, all who will come after us, are connected in this moment.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The things in life which try to pin us down are the things we have to try to work against.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is the life blood of everything in Hollywood. Without writers, there are no scripts, no acting work.
- Camera
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- Nov 07, 2020
People obsess about casting and representation, but really, all the real work is behind the camera. Casting an Asian American into a bad role where they're shoehorned into these stereotypes is worse than not having cast them at all.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any person I idolise, or I really admire their work, I want to beat them... For me, going through my years, I made sure to idolise myself... So when you're in a race, you have to make sure that you think you are the favourite to win. You have to have that confidence.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020