#work

The day before the Queen's Ball, Father had a visitor--a very young girl with literary aspirations, someone Lord Lytton had recommended visit Father and sent over–and while Father was explaining to her the enjoyment he was having in writing this Drood book for serialisation, this upstart of a girl had the temerity to ask, 'But suppose you died before all the book was written?' [...] He spoke very softly in his kindest voice and said to her, 'One can only work on, you know--work while it is day. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#charles-dickens #death #old-age #work #writing

I am still working on patter and presentation. ↗

— Paul Daniels

#i #i am #patter #presentation #still

One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series. ↗

— Ted Danson

#case #cheers #ensemble #good #great

You have to work with the auto industry, the oil companies, you have to work to develop renewable fuel, whether it's solar or different kinds of fuel or whatever. ↗

— Ted Danson

#auto industry #companies #develop #different #different kinds

Everybody thinks I'm at death's door, but I'm not. There's nothing seriously wrong with me, and my heart is in 100 percent working order. Anything else you may hear is a damn lie! ↗

— Bobby Darin

#damn #death #door #else #everybody

I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction. ↗

— Bobby Darin

#comedians #comics #distinction #great #i

I'm a farm boy. If we need five people to haul in hay, we don't take one and just work them to death. ↗

— Lincoln Davis

#death #farm #five #haul #hay

I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#day #down #drink #every #every day

It's really all about family, love and the children for me. I work at that every day. ↗

— Celine Dion

#children #day #every #every day #family

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition. ↗

— Paul Dirac

#how #i #i do #man #opposition