- Human
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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
- Monster
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted to play a monster, and I also wanted to work with Wes Craven.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to drive up from theatre in Michigan to Stratford, Ontario to watch every show. I idolized the actors from Stratford. I was very influenced by them because they would come down and work at my theatre and get time on their American Equity union cards.
- Economics
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Nobel Prize in Economics is an incredible recognition for the work that my students, colleagues and I have done over the years. We all worked hard, but we were also lucky that the financial applications were so important.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was looking at the work of the New York street artists and then discovering Basquiat and Haring after that and seeing how the contemporary art scene was, and then going back into Warhol and all that was happening in the 60s.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you look at Banksy's work as a catalogue of ideas, it's undeniably brilliant. Going back to my days doing stencil work back in the 80s I knew that it wasn't exactly the most demanding work: it's like printing, but then Warhol was a printer.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
To have been able to do this for so long and to not have to work a regular job is a thrill.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nonfiction filmmakers were afflicted by two problems: one technical, the other spiritual. Technically, they did not have the equipment to do the sort of work I had in mind. Spiritually, they didn't care about the work because they'd been mistrained.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't mind starting to ride some more if I had a really good horse to just work a little bit with every day.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes directors will hire you and say, 'Oh, we love your work.' And then they start to tell you how to do it. I say, 'Hey, man, back off. You hired me to do it. Let me do it.'
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
While we see the course of the final abolition of human slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our prayers & all justifiable means in our power, we must leave the progress as well as the result in his hands who sees the end; who chooses to work by slow influences; & with whom two thousand years are but as a single day.
- Nov 07, 2020
When you work really hard for something for a long time it's almost impossible to believe that it's coming true.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're trying to work the art game, if you're like Andy Warhol or something, then you're in with cake-eaters of society. You want to get in with them and please them and get their money.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020