#work

And basically I always said when I was little that if I ever became successful or a celebrity, I would buy her this huge house and she would never have to work anymore. And I've done that. So I feel happy about doing that. ↗

— Missy Elliot

#always #anymore #basically #became #buy

If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#means #something #unrealistic #usually #won

Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#book #every #exorcism #feelings #me

I got bored with the old way - it came too easy. I worked until I could play and chord changes at any tempo in any key, and then said 'What else is there?' Now I'm finding out. ↗

— Don Ellis

#bored #came #changes #chord #could

You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character. ↗

— David R. Ellis

#alone #because #character #doing #funny

The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of all to herself. It is at that level, and at no other, that she ought to begin to think about the world situation. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#back #begin #first #first of all #go

Well, I'm working all the time to stay out of trouble! ↗

— Eminem

#out #stay #time #trouble #well

A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#begin #find #may #more #new

When you're working well, you don't do research. Whatever you need comes to you. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#need #research #well #whatever #working

American workers are first rate. ↗