Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
I was never overexposed and work never became a chore. I was a very good girl wanting to do a good job.
I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.
I used to hate, with a capitol H, making videos. It was nothing but a chore. It was something you had to do to have your music accepted in the visual medium.
My list of chores is a little too important to include in my list of life’s goals.
Sometimes as a parent, you have to give your child that doesn't do his or her chores some tough love and withhold the allowance.
Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving.
I have fun writing. I don't make it a chore. I don't have to struggle with it.
I held a nail in place and slammed it with the hammer. Best. Chore. Ever.
They shared the chores of living as some couples do --she did most of the work and he appreciated it.
I'm a big advocate of a work-for-pay setup rather than an allowance that isn't attached to chores - it's a great way to impart the value of money to your children.
Really, I don't like to do any household chores. There was a time when I loved to cook, but that was when I wasn't writing books.
You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.
I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be.
To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a 'home' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.
If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.
If a cow walked into this room, I'd probably walk out. I could milk it, but my dad never forced me to do a lot of chores like that, mostly because he loved doing it himself.
If everyone is good at something different, assigning chores is easy. If your partner is great at grocery shopping and you are great at the laundry, you're set. But this isn't always - or even usually - the case.
To write lyrics and sing stuff used to be a real chore for me, especially before this 'Diamond Eyes' record. I was spending years making records.
Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.
It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their...
