M Quotes
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“My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.”
“My work is trying to at least define myself on my own terms, and then if other people enjoy things that's a lovely addition.”
“My work is very bodily. It's not a shell, but a body.”
“My work is very controlled. I leave nothing to chance. Chance comes afterward... Making a film is like cooking a pot au feu. You choose the best carrots, the best potatoes the best meat, etc., and you throw all that together - but if there's no soul, so to speak, it won't yield much.”
“My work is very dear to me, and certainly I have had all the emotional highs and lows that go with trying to get it to an audience. But I do have some kind of detachment that seems somewhat unusual in my trade. I'm a writer who writes every day. I don't have a period of months where I can't get anything done and I wander around tearing my hair out. When I come back from a book tour, for instance, I might have one day where I sleep late and then check my e-mail, and then go for a walk, and then the next day I'm really itching to get back at writing a story.”
“My work is very eclectic. I write books that range from writing fiction, writing fable where I am very directly trying to imagine alternate worlds, to writing about [Buckminster] Fuller who was the ultimate world man creating all sorts of alternate worlds and believing that they were imminent to my own work of - for instance, a project that I've been working on for some year and a half, two years now that continues to evolve has been what I call Deep Time Photography.”
“My work is very much like the restaurant critic's - a number of factors come together to make for a strong review.”
“My work is whatever I want it to be, and I report to no one regularly. The head librarian -- the man in charge of the University's entire collection -- is a figurehead, well-to-do and poorly read, with whom I have only perfunctory contact.”
Source: The Archivist
“My work is writing, but my real work is being.”
Source: The New Saroyan Reader: A Connoisseur's Anthology of the Writings of William Saroyan
“My work isn't about form. It's about seeing. I'm excited about seeing things, and I'm interested in the way I think other people see things.”
“My work isn't any more important than anything else in the family”
“My work knocks people out; you've not seen the best of me yet.”
“My work life is intense. But I love what I do.”
“My work life makes much less sense now than 20 years ago. It's Humpty-Dumpty-like in a way; I can't put the pieces back together.”
“My work makes people understand things in a visual way that I could never understand in a literal way - like the way you deal with and break down problems, and don't come up with answers, but [find] a pathway that becomes clearer.”
“My work may feature brown faces but it could be anybody's story.”
“My work means everything to me.”
“My work never directly addresses the literal subject matter of the photograph, but attempts to ask questions about vision itself.”
“My work often begins as little internal dares, wondering if I can pull something off. So I spent a few years drawing these stories together, trying to build a Pangea of what began as separate continents.”
“My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.”
Source: The Economic Way of Looking at Behavior: The Nobel Lecture
“My work on hyper instruments started with simple instruments, like the piano.”
“My work on Orange has taught me this: Human beings are not categorically bad because of their mistakes. They can learn from their errors and get back on track. No one should be forever written off because of one part of his or her history.”
Source: In the Country We Love: My Family Divided
“My work on prime gaps lead to lots of media coverage, some good, some bad, some ugly, and some merely ridiculous. For example, a reporter of our university newspaper, who admitted that he is still learning English, wrote that "Prof. Goldston solved one of the most controversial problems in the prime number theory last month with support from his Turkish partner."”
“My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.”
“My work sanitizes it (emotion) but it is also symbolic of commercial art sanitizing human feelings. I think it can be read that way.... People mistake the character of line for the character of art. But it's really the position of line that's important, or the position of anything, any contrast, not the character of it.”
“My work schedule has changed over the years. The one constant is, when at work on a novel, I try to work seven days a week, so as not to lose touch with that world. Within that, I'm flexible on hours and output.”
“My work seen in its totality is a statement about the integration of the contemporary artist into an industrial society.”
“My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.”
“My work shows the beauty in so many different kinds of people because I never photograph anyone who I don't think is beautiful. I never take an intentionally mean picture.”
“My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the "natural" order of things in the history of post war NY painting.”
“My work sometimes can be abstract and appear not to have a direct relationship to Afro-American concerns, but, in fact, it is based on that.”
“My work speaks for itself, and that's enough.”
“My work speaks for itself.”
“My work speaks of the finite and the infinite, of the macroscopic and the microscopic, the internal and external, by the masculine and feminine powers, but sex is like a snake, it slithers through everything.”
“My work stops at publication. If the books don't contain in themselves their reasons for being - questions and answers - it means I was wrong to have them published.”
Source: Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey
“My work throughout my life is always representative of the time we live in. It's all about keeping it in order and keeping it in gear.”
“My work to me is more like what the Native Americans say: When we walk upon the earth, we always place our feet very carefully upon the ground, because we know the faces of our future generations are looking up at us from below, and we never forget them. I think as a culture today we've forgotten them. This work is a way to help us remember them. It's a way for us not only to find meaning in our individual lives, but to extend that approach all across the planet. Because if we don't, we won't have a planet.”
“My work to promote education and literacy in remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan has become my life's mission. This takes a full-time commitment 365 24/7.”
“My work upheld me, for I had chosen to do what I could do well, did better daily, and liked doing;....”
Source: Brideshead Revisited
“My work was done, so it was time to start digging my grave again.”
Source: Scar Tissue
“My work was entirely nonfiction.”
“My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of computational complexity. I got involved in real computers and programming mainly by being - well, I was interested even as I came to graduate school.”
“My work was my life, and my life was my work, and there was a kind of blur between reality and what was being created.”
“My work was not embraced for many decades. I would have killed myself if getting embraced affected me so much.”
“My work was very meticulous and very slow as a painter and so the difficulty was—the question that my graduate thesis program had—was “how are you going to make a living doing this?” After I graduated, I continued on in the same way, but I discovered that I was progressing very quickly as an artist, and that before my pieces were done, I was getting tired of them. So I knew I had to find something that moved along quicker, that followed my natural path of growth as an artist.”
Source: Shimmering Zen
“My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.”
Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
“My work with churches has led me to the conclusion that the single most important element in having an effective and life-changing ministry is to capture God’s vision for your ministry.””
Source: You The Leader
“My work would have the impact of my unreality - my doubts.”
“My work's never been accepted by my family, but it's something I'll always carry on with.”
“My work... is my legacy.”
Source: The Time of My Life