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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
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Two of my sons are themselves filmmakers, and we can't afford them nor they us. They work in the real world and earn money and are pretty good at it.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Choosing to work where there is a union and getting the related benefits of higher wages and collective bargaining, but not paying a fair share of the costs of representation, would be freeloading, right?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Watching Mum work hard made me do the same. I've watched her since I was little, and I've picked up on how hard she works and the fire she has in her belly.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have so much respect for people who do blue-collar work because I come from that background myself.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ageing is very exciting. But if I didn't work on ageing, I'd want to work on the brain. There are really cool techniques you can use now. And bioinformatics. The methods you can use for comparing large data sets - that's so powerful.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's typical for people living in nonurban areas to drive 100 miles to go to work, to the grocery store or to the doctor.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unlike me, a lot of child actors are very short, which is why they work. So when they're 15 they can play 11 or when they're 18 they can play 14. They look young for so long, they have abilities a much younger kid wouldn't have.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: it's the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance.
- Humility
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humor, humility, and, of course, honesty, all are qualities that work in public and cultural diplomacy.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like I said in my election manifesto - why don't they legalise the whole thing and let people like me work?
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sly always had us rehearsing, and he always had something planned out that he wanted us to do. So it wasn't ever like, 'Well what should we work on?' It was never that. He always had the plan, 'This is what we're going to do today, shoop shoop shoop shoop,' and everybody's minds were in the same direction.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I told my kids, 'It doesn't matter if this person or that person in the family isn't perfect; this is what you've got. We have to work with that, and if you can't work with that, then you're just jumping into someone else's family, and there's always going to be something missing if you don't work that out.'
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020