Working Quotes - page 4

I don't know how it is that you start working at something you don't like, and before you know it you're an old man. (Herman J. Mankiewicz)
For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time. View quote
Anne Enright
I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue. View quote
Manuel Puig
I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms. View quote
Manuel Puig
Usually people look at you when they're talking to you. I know that they're working out what I'm thinking, but I can't tell what they're thinking. It is like being in a room with a one-way mirror in a spy film. View quote
Mark Haddon
They always said on TV you could do anything you wanted, but here I was trying to do something and it wasn't working. I would never be able to do it. View quote
Ned Vizzini
But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance. View quote
Norton Juster
Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills at and eat at. It's going to be nice to have actual space. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it. View quote
Pierre Loti
More immediately, I'm currently working on another Dracula in which there will be connections with ancient Egypt. That's about as far as I want to go in commenting on current work. View quote
Fred Saberhagen
There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair. (Arthur C. Brooks)
In many ways, being pregnant and working were more difficult than motherhood. View quote
Bethenny Frankel
John Wells let me write a couple of West Wings, which was an incredible gift. I loved it once I got past the brain injury part of it, and so I'm working on a couple of things that are far from fruition, but what I want to pursue. View quote
Bradley Whitford
I don't think it should be allowed for people to start working at a young age and not take the time to just be living as themselves in the real world, especially now in this new age of new media and the obsession with celebrity. I think it's a real crime. View quote
Gaby Hoffmann
I had a great time on The Shield. From working on it I have a totally different view of law enforcement. View quote
Glenn Close
The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day. View quote
David Eddings
I just love the process of working with other actors. View quote
John Cusack
In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion. View quote
John Hume
Working mothers' laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at any time, invariably on our own head. View quote
Allison Pearson
Sometimes I get a little tired of it. But you know, what a privilege, to get tired of working with Ingmar Bergman. View quote
Liv Ullmann
I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism. (Lisa Bonet)
It's nice to know you're working on something that will mean something to kids. View quote
Lucas Grabeel
As far as my dreams go, all I want to do is be a working actor, and I happily achieved that. View quote
Lucas Grabeel
However, I don't feel the world is looking over my shoulder when I am working - I never think about this at all. What I think about is trying to make my work pure, and if it is pure then it can be accessible. It is quite straight forward really. View quote
Ian Hamilton Finlay
I've had three novels published, and I was working a little bit in theater in Ireland. I wrote one film script just to see what it would turn out like. View quote
Neil Jordan