I come from a pretty working-class neighborhood in Chicago. Hard work was just expected of you. It wasn't some noble thing you did; it was a prerequisite. It's what a man did. You get up, you put on your boots, and you work hard. We've lost a lot of ...
I know that I'm going to have to work hard, keep working hard, and not because of this victory think, 'I'm back.' I don't think like that. I'll definitely work hard. Things are not going to be easy. I might lose first round next week. You never know.
Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a writer, you have to sit down and wri...
Will work for food. Will work for sex. Will work for the weekend, but I won’t work five consecutive days for it.
Hard work is what you do to make ends meet, easy work is getting others to do the hard work for you.
Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching.
I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard.
No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it.
I am not the greatest actor in the world, but the reason I keep working is that I work hard and show up every day and be easy to work with.
I didn't work hard to sit down and not work.
With hard work, you can get fire out of a stone.
I've done some good work and some not-good work.
Work out to work up.
The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.
I personally do not believe in politics, hatred, or anger in my musical composition.
I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.
Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
It's important to feel beautiful; it's political to feel beautiful.
I think political people are afraid of me.
For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
I'm a Hollywood pinhead; I don't know about political labels.
