"Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning."

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"Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning."

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"Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release."

James Taylor, American Musician

Work, Americans

"When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things."

Richard Gere, American Actor

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"The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work."

Simone Weil, French Philosopher

Work, Civilization, Greatness, Lies

"You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes."

Boris Vallejo, Peruvian Artist

Work, Clothes, Machine

"Rather, I believe that it is very good, if, with the aid of his songs, we can be reminded, among other things, of the social conditions under which Schubert had to work."

Dietrich Fischer Dieskau, German Musician

Work, Songs

"I think what makes a good action film is a story that gets you involved. Just action, by itself, is not going to work."

Jan de Bont, Dutch Director

Work, Action, Film

"When I started, I knew I didn't fit any visual that anyone was going to lie down and take their clothes off about. Work doesn't come to me; I go out and look for it."

Whoopi Goldberg, American Actress

Work, Lie, Clothes

"It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing."

Morgan Freeman, American Actor

Work, Actors

"I've grown as a person. The dynamics on this set are very demanding because we work a lot of hours, it's very sad material, so there's always someone upset because it's really heavy stuff."

Elisabeth Rohm, American Actress

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"I guess after you've been doing something for 20 plus years, you have to work to stay interested."

Bruce Hornsby, American Musician

Work, Years

Explore more quotes by John Ruskin

"Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand."

Age, Work, People, Doubt

"He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas."

Creativity, Ideas, Artist

"All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness."

Work, Darkness, First

"Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time."

Time, Books

"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists."

Art, Power, Nothing, Perfection

"Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back."

Love,

"Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor."

Poor, Property, Right

"The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition."

Power, Successful, Effort, Temperament

"No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish."

Being, Fish

"The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most."

Love, Thoughtful