- Live
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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
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe that there are two sides to a story when it's a matter of right versus wrong. It just doesn't work that way.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Horses are prey animals, and most of the other animals that I've shot are predators. If you act mellow with predators, they know that they can kill you, so they are cool, but if you work with prey, they think that you're going to kill them at any moment.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a list of ideas that I want to do for my art series, but I'm always trying to figure out what's going to work. Ever since I was in art school, I would read and get ideas. Sometimes the photograph sparks an idea in me, and I continue in that direction.
- Great Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Running gives you a great opportunity to work stuff out in your head.
- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm in so many Charles Bronson films because no other actress will work with him.
- College Students
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the last years of the nineteen-eighties, I worked not at startups but at what might be called finish-downs. Tech companies that were dying would hire temps - college students and new graduates - to do what little was left of the work of the employees they'd laid off.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
As with the factory, so with the office: in an assembly line, the smaller the piece of work assigned to any single individual, the less skill it requires, and the less likely the possibility that doing it well will lead to doing something more interesting and better paid.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel very protective in the first draft, when all the pieces are coming together. I work in a way that is not linear or chronological at all, even with the short story. I will just be writing bits and pieces, and then when I have all the pieces on the table, that for me is when it feels like the real work begins.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
One day, when my son was eight, he came into the kitchen while I was cooking and said: 'You put bad words in your books, don't you?' No doubt he had overheard my mother, who often tells people who ask about my work: 'Well, you'll never find her books in the Christian bookstore.'
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mos Def is one of the most creative, intelligent human beings I've had the opportunity to work with. He is fun. The entire time, he would go in and out of different characters, just for the fun of it. Awesome energy.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm looking for someone who works as hard as I do. Who loves their work as much as I do, so at the end of the night we have something real to talk about, something exciting that makes our blood flow and boil.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painters who do self-portraits are engaging in a form of narcissism. But it doesn't work like that in movies. A truly narcissistic person wouldn't go into filmmaking because it's just too tiring.
- Keen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm especially keen to work with good scriptwriters on stories we have developed.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
From now on, I will work with other people's material if it fits where I want to go.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020