Quotes About Work

I'm looking for a balance of reported and essayistic work by up-and-coming women journalists. Often that means combing online-only sources or alt weeklies.

When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.

I did become quite well known from 'Four Weddings and a Funeral', and it helped hugely. I wasn't as famous as Hugh Grant, but I certainly began to work.

What my work is, is my approach to it. It's the practice. And my work is about the effort that I make to get there. And I think if there's anything artistic, it's in that middle space.

In Hollywood I got work but not the right work until Pushing Daisies. Every girl in LA wanted the part of Chuck. I was terrified - I didn't know if I could be funny.

In my experience, you get a job for a reason. Your work life happens for a reason.

I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years.

It's great to have the freedom to enjoy your work and not feel like you're leaving your other life behind.

I think when you're a mom and an actor, it forces you to leave any actor neuroses behind and just concentrate on the work.

I wear Blundstones for hiking. They're like a work boot with a bit of grip, so you can wear them all day. They're quite groovy.

You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.

I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.

If God lets me live, I shall attain more than Mummy ever has done, I shall not remain insignificant, I shall work in the world and for mankind!

The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is the point.

You really felt a radical shift in the advance of a poetics that had really been engendered by [Walt] Whitman. This was very exciting. I wanted to work in this environment.

I work mornings only. I go out to lunch. Afternoons I play with the baby, walk with my husband, or shovel mail.

I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.

Churches, depending on their policy, can do fantastic work with people in the community.

Life fundamentally does not change depending on work or fame or success.

If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.

I did this movie with Spike Lee called Sucker Free City, and that would have to be my favorite role by far. It was just so much fun to work with Spike and shoot in San Francisco.

Work isn't meaningful just because you spend your life doing it.

Its nice to have proper film fans respecting and appreciating your work.

I had an idea and I wanted just to make it work. And I am never, ever secure on the set that what I am doing is going to translate to the screen. It never changes.