- Parents
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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
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I moved from Stockholm to London, and I didn't want to work with my parents or have them help me in any way, I think just to prove to myself that I have my own talent.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm going to try to do music for the rest of my life, but that's just trying. Maybe it's not going to work out. Who knows?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
- Encompass
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- Nov 07, 2020
I kept on trying to use so many media and ideas in my work because our horizon is so vast and Indian culture is so rich that I think what we are today, culturally, we have a unique position and I don't think one lifetime is enough to encompass it.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture than Christian theologians were able to work free of their inheritance of classical and pagan thought. The process... has not been the deletion and replacement of religious ideas but rather the assimilation and reinterpretation of religious ideas.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Social media buzz can lead to huge successes when people spread the word about something they love and want to share. But authors creating their own buzz? Making their own noise? It's hard to make a lot of noise on our own about our own work. Except, sadly, negative noise.
- Smart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Smart authors, faced with storms, chose to create umbrellas. That's why a diverse group of authors banded together to create The Fiction Writer's Co-op, which will work to find innovative ways to promote each other's work and cheer each other on in a very competitive field.
- Exploits
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thriller novelists get asked - berated, sometimes - about whether their work glorifies bad behavior, even, exploits human tragedy for entertainment.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems like, yeah, of course - I always think my work is important, or I wouldn't risk my life for it.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to continue doing my work, but I had to figure out how. And so what I have basically come up with is that I still go to Afghanistan and Iraq and South Sudan and many of these places that are rife with war, but I don't go directly to the front line.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always wanted to do a photo book, but I've never done one because I've never felt ready; I just didn't feel my work was good enough.
- Fact
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020