Your Work Quotes
776 quotes by 588 authors
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When you play the same character for a long time, you have a shorthand. You get onto the set, you put on your outfit and…
— Lisa Edelstein
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For the most part, I meet people who are like 'I really like your work. I'm watching your career. I want to see you do…
— Michael Ealy
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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…
— Toni Morrison
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Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.
— Ford Frick
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Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.
— Ford Frick
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If the work is pure then you have to think it could be understood. If it is not understood it doesn't mean that your work…
— Ian Hamilton Finlay
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The money when you're having a hit is great, but money can be taken from you. What can't be taken from you is the talent…
— Janis Ian
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Well, there's a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose.
— Donald Judd
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Find your passion is in life, and do what you can to integrate that into your work life. That's not to say you won't have…
— Edward Whitacre, Jr.
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When there is tension, arguments and money problems, it's tough to do your work. Some people thrive on that. I don't.
— Richard Jenkins
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I like relaxed sets. I like to feel that I can make a mistake without feeling like I'm costing somebody money. I like a sense…
— Richard Jenkins
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The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.
— Takeshi Kitano
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No matter what you do for a living you should get paid for your work, whether you're washing dishes or recording songs.
— Bif Naked
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Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted…
— Dick Cavett
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Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
— Steven Pressfield
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You are in the business of serving other people as you stand in the service of your destiny and express yourself through your work.
— Michael Port
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It is still your work or role that finally gives you your definition in our society, and the thousands upon thousands of people who I…
— Seymour Krim
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Watch every detail that affects the accuracy of your work.
— Arthur Nielsen
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You have two choices when someone changes your work. You can either wash your hands of it or embrace it.
— Andrew Niccol
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Sundance is just a great place for your work to be seen. Not much more to say about it than that.
— David Wain
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