I've worked since I was 11 years old, playing music and following the dream, and shaking and moving and doing it. And then, you have cancer and it was like 'Ooooohh.' It was like a big eraser. It was the only thing in my life that had ever made me ju...
I just work - however people feel about it, I mean, at the end of the day, if I'm waiting for accolades, I could be waiting all my life, but I don't need that stuff to validate me. I just do what makes me happy.
For a writer, children make life needlessly hard. I've muddled through a lot of things, but I have not muddled through my writing life. I work absolutely flat out, giving it my all.
To have someone who never makes a mistake, never finds her personal life in disarray, never worries about work-life balance? I think that would be unreal. What I'm writing is real.
I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life. I try to keep that as much in balance with work as I can.
I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years.
In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people's perspectives... I really try and live the mission of the company and... keep everything else in my life extremely simple.
Your life would become a journey of unstoppable blessings, if you start to work on your dreams with an unshakable faith in God's ability to make every impossibility to become possible in your life.
Work for what you want, the pursuit of life.
Work on your character, let life fall into place.
I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
There is no vacation for a writer! Every moment of his life is work!
Work is worthwhile only if there touch somebody's heart ,somebody's life.
I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.
No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.
I idolize my father. I mean, he has worked so hard in his life.
Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years.
My optimism for life carried through my work.
Working with Bernardo Bertolucci was one of the greatest highlights of my whole life. It was such an incredible opportunity for me.
The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine.
My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.
