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Quotes About Personal

The work itself is what motivates me. I like my own stuff, you know? I like the way it looks. I do it to please myself first.
~ Robert Crumb
I don't want people poking around in my private stuff. They've no business in it. My work is what I give to people, that's my job, and that's where it stops.
~ Brendan Gleeson
Maintain a good balance. A personal life adds dimensions to your professional life and vice versa. It helps nurture creativity through a deeper understanding of yourself.
~ Kathy Ireland
I'm kind of a failure. I mean, I'll be honest. I'm successful in that I'm getting to work on great stuff, but I think I'm a failure in all the personal stuff that is most important to me.
~ Paul Feig
I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
~ Rachel McAdams
I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing to do with my life.
~ Ann Patchett
Personally, I really enjoy sci-fi. I watch it, I read comic books, and I play video games. I love this kind of world, so too be able to work in it is a dream. I enjoy it.
~ Aaron Ashmore
My work is intensely personal.
~ Andres Serrano
I try to look nice. I comb my hair, I tie my tie, I put on a jacket, but I draw the line when it comes to trimming my eyebrows. You work with what you got.
~ Andy Rooney
I'm a very private person. I don't go out much. I'm home with kids. I go to work. I don't really like being the focus of attention, which is why I like being behind the camera more.
~ Angelina Jolie
When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.
~ Ann Patchett
I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy.
~ Billy Crudup
I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control.
~ Bruce Dickinson
I'm the one I need to work with.
~ Byron Katie
But I never gave up personal things to work, never.
~ Catherine Deneuve
I think the honesty not only shines through in my work, but also my personal life. And I get in trouble for being honest. I'm extremely old-fashioned. I'm a nobleman. I'm chivalrous.
~ Charlie Sheen
I don't approach my writing or my work from an academic or analytical point of view. I do it for myself.
~ Chath Piersath
I've always been incredibly proud of both of my parents and proud of the work I had done privately as a person, professionally and academically.
~ Chelsea Clinton
Our policies must be premised on, and must reinforce, values such as family, hard work, integrity and personal responsibility.
~ Dan Quayle
My work is incredibly important to me personally. It brings me joy and it brings me life and it brings me meaning. It doesn't necessarily have to be important to the people who read it.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I think this is pretty clear, but maybe not to everybody: Despite the fact that the work is personal or taken from life, it's not about me telling my personal story.
~ Frances Stark
It is work and personal worth which make a State great both politically and industrially, and in my estimation they are to be found in largest proportions in the Democratic party.
~ Franklin Knight Lane
The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.
~ Freeman Dyson
All my work at Armani is based primarily on my personal vision of style, and while I differentiate between the look and mood of my various labels, I am never overly concerned with being 'on trend.'
~ Giorgio Armani