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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
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often my best work comes from somebody trying to stretch me in a direction that I wouldn't normally want to go in. It's not something I fight at all.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll always work with my collaborator in the room so I have a reaction on a note-by-note basis. I know in my gut when something works for me, and I'll fight for it, but I'm a very easy re-writer.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
There has been a rather unpleasant sensibility apparent in Frank Miller's work for quite a long time.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't understand the culture and what Starbucks was really about. It wasn't a coffee shop. It was really a way of life... we suffer from thinking that since we have it in New York, or it won't work in New York, that it won't work some other place. That's a discipline we keep trying to improve.
- Seriously
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You have no life. Going to a punk rock club - or whatever the music was at that time - would not have been on my agenda.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only way to have several currencies from divergent nations lumped together is if they are culturally close, such as Germany, the Netherlands and Austria. If they aren't, it simply can't continue to work.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Putin probably, almost certainly, thinks that one of the great disasters of the 20th century was the demise of the Soviet Union. It's very obvious that he's trying to work its way back and maintain something similar to that sort of institution.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not aware of any sensible theory of how classical gravity could interact with quantum matter, and I can't imagine how such a theory might work.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had no plans once I finished my football career, which was a problem, so I had to go looking for work. Television was the one area that it was easier to get a job than anywhere else.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to work hard and play hard.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020