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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
And no, having the hits is just more work.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really do work in solitude.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.
- Centered
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- Nov 07, 2020
To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was really more interested in dramatic work, but I thought, 'Well, I guess I could do comedy.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to work with Justin Bieber. He's talented and he's so young. I know what he's going through. I've lived what he's living through right now. Working with him would complete a circle of sorts for me. And he might find it a worthwhile experience himself.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be in show business.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
With success came an ever-growing burden of responsibility. I lived with a near-constant low-level anxiety that I would make a mistake that would not only threaten my career, but also my brothers' - not to mention the livelihoods of many people who work with us or for us.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you record an album and it goes platinum... yeah, you're in the studio and you work hard for months, but it's not like your whole body hurts. Maybe you get a little hoarse and tired. But on 'Dancing With the Stars,' everything hurts.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Honors and awards are very interesting, and I truly accept them. I have very high regard for what they mean. What they mean is that they're pointing to the work.
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- Nov 07, 2020