You can't please everybody. All you can do is really just try to work from the heart and do the best job that you can and hope for the best.
Christians already? It seems to me that it takes a lifetime of work.
Don't expect others to do your work for you.
When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
Even in the civil rights movement, there were so many unbelievable women. They never, ever received the credit that they should have received. They did all of the, and I cannot say it, they did all of the dirty work. Hard work.
How can you have a director that doesn't go to work with the crew every day and talk to them?
I feel like all the artists that I really love, they've had a strong contingent of people who really hate their work as well.
I scarcely remember any writer who has ever ventured to say that the half of the work of the world is actually accomplished by women; and very few husbands who would be otherwise than greatly startled and amazed, if not indignant, if not derisive, at the suggestion of such an idea as that the work of their wives was equal to their own.
A lot of musicians aren't proud; they'll do other work, just to be able to play music. I guess that's the way it's always going to be - musicians will have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.
Codex Orféo is something you won't see coming at you, but it does. It's all about kindness to other species, and to one another. If we can work that out, the world will take care of herself.
Whenever I go to work I wear a jacket and a tie, because I'm inherently quite lazy, and my books take so long to do, and my publishers don't bug me, so it's so easy to fool yourself into thinking you're working harder than you really are.
I work hard and fight easy.
I'm learning how to work my voice. I got some songs that you probably wouldn't even know it's me singing on there. I will sit there and take 20 takes until I hit that note right. It's different on stage - you've got to hit the notes that one time.
"Dream big, work hard. " My parents brought up Kylie [Jenner] and me to be workaholics. That's something I really appreciate.
If I can surround myself with hilarious people every day, I will always want to go to work.
I think anybody starting any new career needs work.
Committing great work does not necessarily feed you.
There are many comedians who are afraid to work outside the coasts and the casinos because they're afraid they'll bomb.
Work at not needing approval from anyone and you will be free to be who you really are.
Whenever I'm asked to identify my best work, or my favorite, my answer has always been the same - 'My next one!'
