- Thought
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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
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.
- Her
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You respect all of these people that you know in the business as actors. And they sort of turn around and say, we really like your work. It's a nice acknowledgment.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since we didn't use guns, we wanted to make sure we could earn the ability to win the audience over by making it believable. A lot of what you do when you work out in that mode is use your mental energy.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the last 10 years a huge amount has been achieved in getting people into work. Measures such as the New Deal, tax credits, the minimum wage and improved childcare have brought about record numbers of people in work, a number that is still rising despite the global economic slowdown.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
In an era when party fundraising is badly tainted, dinners are a really good way of raising cash for campaigning. Lots of people giving very small amounts of money through ticket sales and raffle prizes: yes, it's much harder work than big donations, but I think it's a more democratic and transparent way of fundraising.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People ask why I always play crazy people and free spirits. I guess it is because I like to have fun. But I am more ambitious than your average free spirit. This job is hard enough that, without drive and hard work, you will never make it work.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love my work, apart from when it's driving me crazy. But I get to be interested in stuff and think like a filmmaker as I'm buzzing about the world and then see an opportunity to make a film, and then make it happen.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
My main trick is to work with amazing people. It's a long and twisty journey, and you need people that really are amazing and have this rare gift of honesty and courage and really open up.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always been interested in garbage: What it says about us. What in there embarrasses us, and what we can't bear to part with. Where it goes and how much of it there is. How it endures. What it might be like to work with it every day.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love making fiction films as well as nonfiction ones, and hope to keep challenging myself to make better and better work.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020