Work Quotes

"Since Israel does not differentiate between attacking this group or that, we are saying our people can work individually or collectively to face this aggression"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning"

Charles de Lint, Writer

"From the beginning, I imagined I would have a long work life"

Bruce Springsteen, Musician

"Censors are energetic and righteous people but they just couldn't work a room like Abbe Lane"

Audrey Meadows, Actress

"But then there is the one who seems to have a hard time separating the actor's work from reality"

Audrey Meadows, Actress

"We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work"

Alvin Ailey, Dancer

"It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems"

Angela Davis, Activist

"But, in addition, there is, all through the tragedy, a constant alternation of rises and falls in this tension or in the emotional pitch of the work, a regular sequence of more exciting and less exciting sections"

Andrew Coyle Bradley, Judge

"That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days"

Buffy Sainte-Marie

"I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I've got a lot of work to do, let's put it that way"

Bjork, Musician

"There've been many a season where I couldn't get work, and I think that you learn character development and you learn how to really want what you do in life when you can't really do it"

Anthony Michael Hall, Actor

"In a work capacity I'm only interested in acting and producing"

Charlie Hunnam, Actor

"If I went to them all dressed up and flashed a nice smile for the cameras it would probably be easier for me to get work. But I just can't tolerate it"

Charlie Hunnam, Actor

"Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision"

Bill Sienkiewicz, Artist

"He who knows how will always work for he who knows why"

David Lee Roth, Musician

"I connected very much with all the work of Joan Crawford because she started as a flapper. She used to dance and sing and she was very cute. She had something that was so different from what she is at the end of her life and she started in the silent movies and then went into the talkies"

Berenice Bejo, Actress

"I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out"

Bo Jackson, Athlete

"I'd rather say no and have said no and do say no often. I walk away from projects if it doesn't feel right; if it's not the right team of people pulling in together or if the script isn't right. It could be a great idea but the script doesn't work"

Blair Underwood, Actor

"I heard we'll get you a pass because we know you're married to a black woman. You're married to a sister so we'll give you that pass but also, those who know me but also if they look at the body of work, it is the bigger picture"

Blair Underwood, Actor

"I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general"

Angela Davis, Activist

"You know, right now, they say - I don't know who says this, but somebody told me - there's three male roles to every female role. And I guess I'd work on evening that up. Making great roles for women. It's just such a huge challenge"

Anna Faris, Actress

"I was never the class clown or anything like that. When I was growing up and doing theatre in Seattle I was always doing very dramatic work. Now I can't get a dramatic role to save my life!"

Anna Faris, Actress

"It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a life, much more of a life, than on a drama"

Adam Arkin, Actor

"I want to continue doing as big a variety of things as I can do, and if that means I have the honor of getting to do more feature work, I would love that. I know that if I make any other long-term TV commitments, it's not going to be on a drama"

Adam Arkin, Actor

"I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows"

Barry Mann, Musician

"At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck"

Alanis Morissette, Musician

"The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is"

Meryl Streep, Actress

"That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown into a status that involves work in alternative economies and increasing numbers of people who are incarcerated"

Angela Davis, Activist

"I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement"

Angela Davis, Activist

"Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some of her best work was in Dangerous Liaisons and that's what I believe as well"

Anthony Anderson, Actor

"The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time"

Angela Davis, Activist

"Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work"

Angela Davis, Activist

"This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof"

Neil Gaiman, Author

"We are also in the process of defining how best to work together with food and other companies to address diet and physical activity factors in order to prevent chronic diseases"

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Politician

"This syndrome, SARS, is now a worldwide health threat... The world needs to work together to find its cause, cure the sick and stop its spread"

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Politician

"I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too"

James Dean, Actor

"I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?"

Jackie Kennedy, First Lady

"In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work"

Cathy Guisewite, Cartoonist

"Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work"

Booker T. Washington, Educator

"Democrats always assure us that deterrence will work, but when the time comes to deter, they're against it"

Ann Coulter, Journalist

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