- Door
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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
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
I imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in blaxploitation movies. There was a much greater preponderance of work then than there is now.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father worked real hard. I admired him. My father taught me you needed to work with your brain and not your back. I've made that a passion.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I have a job to do, time means nothing. I lose patience with people who work on a clock.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.
- Quit
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- Nov 07, 2020
I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.
- Idols
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shortly after I moved to Los Angeles, I was looking for work, and I happened to be invited to Ray's studio and sat in and played on a couple of his demos. I didn't charge him a dime for it. I was on cloud nine to be working in the same room as Ray Charles, one of my huge idols.
- Balance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to balance work and family. As long as I'm able physically and mentally to do it, I will.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not that I'm in the stage of my career where they're offering me parts in 'The Revenant,' but I try very hard to go through the audition process because I feel like I learn quite a lot about the character and the people I'm going to work with.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Preparation is a mentality... With wrestling being my background, I've always learned to overwork, overwork. Work, work, work, work. It's not always the talented that wins, but it's the one who puts in the most preparation and thought into things.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, acting is all about hard work and talent. Once you get your first wrinkle, if you are a female actress, nobody will care about what you look like - it's all about what you can do.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always loved playing tennis. When I was 12, my parents decided that I should try to do it seriously. My father started to travel with me, and as a family, we tried to make it work.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020