- 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
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things we try to do on 'The Fosters' is shine a light on the problems and the people that get pushed to the periphery. From the very beginning of the show, when we told people we were putting foster care at the center of a TV show, even the people who work in the system were afraid.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know colors like some people know a melody. And the tunes of my favorite musicians energizes me when I work.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very interested, for instance, in music in education - getting young people not only to listen to, but participate in the music that I write. I consider this one of the most vital aspects of my work.
- French Revolution
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're a serious publisher, you publish books because they work. In other words, they are written well; the reader identifies with the characters. The context seems to be real whether he's writing about the French Revolution or the failure of Lehman Brothers.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a very set routine. I work six days a week, but only half days. I work from 9 in the morning till 1 in the afternoon, without any interruptions, a fair slug.
- Nov 07, 2020
Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first and primary requirement for me in a director that I'd want to work with is: do they love writing, and do they love the collaboration process with writers?
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Scotland, we're a colony in more ways than one. So when directors come up to work, there's a very particular way they want Scotland to look like and to behave like.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I simply loathe the crude 1960s distinctions between commerce and art. For me, Warhol and pop obliterated all of those separations - that was the whole point of the Brillo Boxes and Campbell's Soup Cans. And believe it or not, in 2009, moronic journalists are still saying to me, 'Your work is so commercial.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always look for inspiration, and the creativity of artists is an essential element to my life, my work, and my happiness.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work 12 hours a day, seven days a week - and I love it. I'm creative. I feel fulfilled. I'm from a solidly lower-middle-class background; I'm not from the world that I'm in now. So I appreciate it a lot. I've really got a rich, full life.
- Retro
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- Nov 07, 2020
Creating work for the time that one lives in means no retro thinking. It can and hopefully does mean timelessness.
- Patience
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- Nov 07, 2020