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Work Quotes


"In the new century, we should continue to work together to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the vast number of developing countries including China and India and promote the establishment of a just and equitable new international political and economic order."


"Whether you're on TV or on the stage, you have to work hard to stay fresh, real, and full of energy. You can't settle back. You always have to stay on your toes."


"I just find that the harder you work and the more effort you put into yourself, the better you'll be."


"He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward."



"Washington state's 2nd Congressional District is a major producer of small fruit crops such as raspberries and strawberries. This research center is doing important work to help farmers enhance the quality, yield and marketability of their small fruit crops."


"Community service has taught me all kinds of skills and increased my confidence. You go out there and think on your feet, work with others and create something from nothing. That's what life's all about."


"If no one wants to jump into a Kim Weston and drive it down the street. That's fine with me I don't care. I know my work is good and I know it's serious work."


"The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too."


"Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance."



"But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work."


"To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege."


"Which, of course, isn't the point of writing - but it would be nice if, along with the creative satisfaction of writing and seeing my work in print, I could do more than merely scrape a living. Okay, moaning over."


"I think it is necessary to sit down and work for years and years to get it right. I think that's the main thing, that's what the emphasis has got to be on: individual work."


"What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?"



"I could not understand why Meryl Streep, for example, is allowed to work while pregnant and I'm not."


"The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually don't, and that sounds like a cliche in so many ways, but it actually happened... and it happened because of a beautiful idea."


"The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great."



"The goal is not simply to 'work hard, play hard'. The goal is to make our work and our play indistinguishable."


"And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra, jazz orchestra, symphony orchestra even."


"There are no right and wrong ways to work in this business, but there are some basic common-sense practices. Work very, very hard and always be prepared; never give up; and once you get the job, give them more than they ever expected: - Shine!"


"Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else."


"For me, Company is still the best way for me to work."


"In the end it's about the work, not an award you get for the work."


"I like working intensely, then going away and thinking about it, working out why it didn't work and then coming back to it. It makes the work richer, I think."


"It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very exciting."


"If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor."


"It was really really neat to make the movie because there were mentally challenged actors in the movie. So that was really really cool to work with them and they were always really happy, and they made everybody really happy on the set too."
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