A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the 'Modifier's Madness.' A lot of adjectives working overtime.
You shouldn't just work on your jump shot. You should work on being a better person, a better teammate, and a better friend.
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
I don't repeat myself and I don't look back because everything is hard work and the only way forward is to continue to be creative.
Fun is when you're writing a song and you're trying a rough shot at a demo and... it works. That's when it's fun. After that, it's work.
The system in Germany is different, as you sign up with a company for two or three years, and you work exclusively with them; you can't do any film work on the side.
Everything must work in concert. Composition is important, but so are many other things, from content to the way colours work with or against each other.
I work very fast and steadily, and I don't hardly ever notice that I'm working. It feels like just breathing or walking when I do films.
I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up.
I'm more interested in having a place to work out my voice and my body than I am in having furniture.
I don't want to name any names, but I've worked on television shows where there's a guy writing for my generation who's, like, 60 - and it doesn't work.
A divorcee is a women who got married so she didn't have to work, but now works so she doesn't have to get married.
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