- Chill Out
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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
- Nov 07, 2020
I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does - and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's an internal battle. I need to work, I need to work, I need to work and I need to be home with my kids and the kids win.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, any time an actress gets to work with another actress, it's like, 'Oh, there are two of us in a movie! How are you? Let's sit in the hair chair together!' We're lonely women.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you can create an environment where people are invited to do their best work and the best ideas always win, then the project itself will win.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know what, I'm happy to say that everything outside of 'Dexter' feels like a vacation, and I don't mean to say anything negative about the show. It's just a different kind of work. Emotionally it's taxing and complicated, and that's a great thing.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have learned that keeping my personal life outside of work is the easier, richer way to work.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to write about women and their work, and about valuing the work we, as women, choose to do. Too many women I knew disparaged their work. Many working mothers thought they ought to be home with their children instead, so they carried around too much guilt to enjoy much job satisfaction.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything changes as a mother. Yes, work has changed. The projects that I choose are even more important to me now. The world he's growing up in and the kind of stimulus that is out there; they are so precious and I'd do anything to protect him.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's a great feeling to know that I'm going into a project that I have no idea what will become of that movie, but I really trust Ang Lee. And I really trusted Ron. It's just really nice to work with people that you feel that way about.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt for a long time that this is what I want to do so I'm happy at this point to just take my time and work on projects that I feel strongly about, and the rest of the time just live my life.
- Trust
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
What lists and awards don't measure - and I feel this strongly - is the lasting value of any work of art. They're a snapshot of a moment, and one should always consider their judgments in that context.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that I don't think it will work out, doesn't mean that it actually won't.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020