I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.
I play a curator, the most American part you can think of. My work is to protect the Declaration of Independence. I work at the National Archives in Washington.
We all have the temptation to be backseat drivers when it comes to decisions that don't work out the way we want.
At this point in my career, it doesn't bother me much that I'm probably hopelessly typecast. I like to work, and horror films definitely keep me working.
Joe Gibbs helped define what the Washington Redskins stand for - integrity, hard work, determination, winning and championships.
You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.
Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.
So, in a way I was hedging and saying that if the Olympic stuff doesn't work out at least I can be a lawyer.
There have been countless times where I've worked out with my kids crawling around all over the place. You just make it work.
There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still.
I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.
I work out two, two and a half hours a day. For 'Immortals,' it was body-weight stuff: crunches, pullups, and martial arts-based cardio.
When you talk about 'doing the work', that's the work I'm interested in. What can I contribute as a human being?
Everyone wants to be a movie star or a model, to be in the papers, but few realise just what hard work it is, getting up early, and so on.
Balance is if you try hard, you work hard then the rewards are in balance with what you put in and what is available.
Instead of me telling them what they need to work on, I wanted to hear from them what they needed to work on.
Living in different cultures helped me work out who I was going to be, separate from where I came from.
For my part, I plan to work out a fair and adequate redistribution of city services to all city neighborhoods.
It's got too much hard work slapping them and telling them to shut up.
Futures thinking is hard work. Fortunately, you do get better at it with practice. It's worth the effort.
I have one message for young musicians around the world: Stay true to your heart, believe in yourself, and work hard.
