- Music
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mum is very driven and has always kept me busy... She used to say to me, 'Nobody likes a teenager. So use your teenage years to work. Then enjoy your life when you're slightly older.'
- Hot
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- Nov 07, 2020
Always keep wiping your face with towels when you work out because I find that the more I exercise, that's when I have my breakouts. You've got to keep the sweat off because the pores are open when you're hot and can get clogged.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first play I ever did was with Michael Langham, Brian Bedford, and Colm Feore, at Stratford Festival. That was my first professional job, and I got to work with Garland Wright and so many great artists.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know all my tricks, and I'm pretty bored with them, so if that's all someone wants, I'd rather wait for TV money and not work so hard.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have to say, it seems to be the older I get, the better the work gets. When has that been true?
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reality of the Green party is that we are a party committed to bringing forward big ideas, new ideas and demonstrating by our conduct in parliament and through the election that we really want to work for Canadians, work across party lines, work across jurisdictions.
- Chair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to be a writer with superstitions worthy of a professional baseball player: I needed a certain desk chair and a certain armchair and a certain desk arrangement, and I could only get really useful work done between 8 P.M. and 3 A.M. Then I started to move, and I couldn't bring my chairs with me.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ordinarily, I'd claim that I'd never write directly about my children, but the opening conversation of 'Peter Elroy' is a verbatim conversation that my children had that I just loved: morbid, funny, passionate, and obsessed with the truth of things - all natural qualities of children that I'd like my work to contain.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work in my office on the campus of the University of Texas. It's the sort of place described as 'book-lined', but it's recently tipped over into 'fire-hazard' territory.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still feel I'm doing the same work I've always done.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
So the English approach to show business and their work is more - and this is a big generalization, I hasten to say - but it's more, they work on it as a craft job.
- Smart
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- Nov 07, 2020
In today's world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we're only clever enough, smart enough, work hard enough.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020