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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
- Heartbreaking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Vancouver houses one of North America's largest open air drug markets and has a dense and heartbreaking problem with homelessness and mental illness. Those are the neighbourhoods I live and work in.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am fortunate enough to have worked on, and continue to work on, evolutionary movies in all formats from just simple good story telling, which still matters most of all, to CG movies to tent-pole size 3D movies, and genre 3D movies like 'Piranha 3D.'
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a couple of years, I focused more on producing because I wanted to be close to home, after traveling a lot for work.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
More than conventional picture books, the notebook format allows me to leap from words to images, and this free-flowing back-and-forth inspires my best work. It reflects the way I think - sometimes visually, sometimes verbally - with the pictures not there just to illustrate the text but to replace it, to tell their own story.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People generally complain that they're overburdened by responsibilities, forgetting that they chose to have those responsibilities. No one makes you work like a dog in order to live in a nice house, put your kids in nice schools, drive a smart car and go on exotic foreign holidays. It's up to you.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our grandparents' generation never expected too much out of life and, paradoxically, were happier for it. It never occurred to my granddad that he would enjoy work. He hated it from the day he walked through the factory gates at 14 to when he left at 65.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I get older, I feel better about myself because I've done a lot of spiritual work on myself and balanced myself out, and so I feel more confident about myself as a person and as a woman.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certainly one of the surprising truths of having a book published is realizing that your book is as open to interpretation as an abstract painting. People bring their own beliefs and attitudes to your work, which is thrilling and surprising at the same time.
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- Nov 07, 2020