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Work Quotes by Toni Morrison
- Like friendship, hatred needed more than physical intimacy; it wanted creativity and hard work to sustain itself
- The function, the very serious function of racism, is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again,…
- Word-work is sublime... because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference-the way in which we are like no other…
- The Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to a writer in terms of how it affects your contracts, the publishers, and the…
- I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.
- I get angry about things, then go on and work.
- I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they…
- I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it at all.…
- There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises.... If you write…
- I remember a very important lesson that my father gave me when I was twelve or thirteen. He said, You know, today I welded a…
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- Successful people don't relax on a chair. They feel relaxed with their work. They sleep with their dreams and wake up with… — Ritu Ghatourey
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to… — Kevin Bacon
- A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the… — Clive Bell