Quotes About Work

I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics.

I believe that people should take pride in what they do, even if it is scorned or misunderstood by the public at large.

Our public services and the great people who work in them are improving lives.

I'm just a normal girl who really enjoys her job, and so you have to take the other things that come with being in the public eye.

Being in the public eye, going through so much in life personal and my work, all of that put together it's either it will destroy you or make you a better person.

I worked in restaurants, and I worked in the Cambridge Public Library.

It's good-bye to public life in the way that you try to communicate with an audience playfully, like we're friends, beyond the work you are actually paid for.

Obama's the one who never worked a day in his life. He never earned a penny that wasn't public money. How many fund-raisers does he attend every week? How often does he play basketball and golf? I wish I had that kind of time.

It sounds outright bland, but people here in Indiana want conscientious public servants who have deep convictions but are prepared to work across the aisle when possible.

If I had to work a 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. job in the public service, I'd freak out.

When I started creating my work for publication, I just assumed that the focus would be on the work itself and that there wouldn't be a lot of interest in who was creating the work.

It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations.

I was a publicist for other people's movies.

I only do the press for the work. I don't have a publicist. I don't go to events or self-promote or endorse things or whatever it is people are meant to do in that world.

I was working for the CIA and prohibited from speaking publicly.

No one should ever feel obliged to speak or to put themselves out publicly online, but I do think it's a good thing to do. The more of us who are women, making our work and just going 'Here I am, here's my work,' the easier it gets for everybody. It's a good thing to do.

We sometimes allow writers to publish their work without editing on io9.

As I see it, my job has always been to champion the work of the authors I publish.

I am a conventional science fiction author. But that said, once your work is published, it no longer belongs to you. It belongs to the readers and they will derive all sorts of interpretations.

I published 'Rules of Civility' while I was still working. It became a best seller. I was working on this book, and then I decided to retire.

I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of my books had already been published.

I'm working with published authors and some very young undergraduates and lots of people in between. They are lovely people, and they can write.

I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.

I had some connections from the newspapers that I did work with up there, so there was a newspaper publisher in Hollywood, and they promised me work and so on.