- 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
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I liked Vittorio De Sica a lot, and I got to work with him once in a segment movie. He was a great director. He was a very charismatic character and a guy I watched a lot when he was directing.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still work out on a daily basis.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was born, the economy wasn't in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick to try and find work.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment's notice.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People don't realize that doing a horror movie is hard work. You're out there all day screaming your lungs out, breathing in toxic make-up fumes, rolling around in the dirt, getting your eyebrows burned off - it's not like doing a sitcom.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black artists deserve the opportunity to create work without the burden of alleviating the social ills plaguing many black communities.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
'A Talk to Teachers' is emblematic of Baldwin's proclivity for candor over political appeasement and, like much of his work, focusses on history and the American consciousness.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
'A Talk to Teachers' showed me that a teacher's work should reject the false pretense of being apolitical and, instead, confront the problems that shape our students' lives.
- Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020
The moral abhorrence of private prisons has been brought to our attention by courageous acts of investigative journalism, illuminating scholarship, and the work of activists who have decried the social stratification brought about by our prison systems.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of places where the image of a cube as a thing of power is pertinent. I don't know why that is. I don't have any mythic explanation for it, but it seems to work for people.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020