- Cool
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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
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm positive and I smile a lot, and I'm kind of a banana, but serious work just seems to find me, so I'm not going to argue with it.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't been offered a lot of comedy. In theater, I've done quite a bit of comedy or dramas that included a lot of funny stuff. But in my TV work, those aren't the roles that I've been offered.
- Handing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was little, I used to work with my dad on the engine of his car. Mostly this was a matter of me handing him wrenches.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
People seem to like this image of me being all boho and hippy. It's either that or I'm down on my luck, I've got no money, the work's dried up.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a single mum I have to work, so I'm grateful to have the help of a wonderful and trusted nanny like I had when I was young.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marriage of attraction is a gamble anyway, so you might as well marry into a family that is similar to your own, and make that much less of an adjustment. But the 'love marriage', as it is called, is equally common in India now. But it would be interesting to do a comparison of what would work better. Marriage is hard work, and it is a gamble.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started to make my own films, however small and however independent they were, from the beginning. And so, even though I was nobody, I was always the master of my own work.
- Hard Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a hard time getting motivated to do something that seems like a career move. I've gotten into vague trouble with my agents for turning down work that I thought was exploitative.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not only would my parents work full hours, my parents both woke up at 5 A.M. My dad left the house at 5 A.M. to go to the fish market to pick out his own fish, and my mom woke up at 5 A.M. to wake me up in order to get me ready for skating before school.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Skating becomes more important to me every year. It's obviously harder as age takes a toll on the body and the brain, and I think because of that, competing becomes much more difficult. That's why those who stick around are always so appreciative of others' skating because we know how much work goes into it.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
To all the little girls out there, I would tell them to really appreciate what their parents do for them. And also to truly believe in their dream. If they truly believe that they're capable, things will happen for them - as long as they put in the work, of course.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A long time ago, a sports reporter wrote that I wasn't strong in the free-skate, that I was more of a short-program skater. And that bothered me because I work so hard every day just for a person to judge me on a couple of bad skates and deem me a bad free skater. That's absurd!
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020