#work

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. ↗

— J. Paul Getty

#early #formula #hard #oil #rise

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort. ↗

— William Gibson

#also #bad #description #dreamers #dreaming

A lot of scientists hate writing. Most scientists love being in the lab and doing the work and when the work is done, they are finished. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#doing #done #finished #hate #lab

I make films about working class people. ↗

— Taylor Hackford

#class #films #i #make #people

Right from the start, I loved the works of Mark Twain. Every time I read about Tom Sawyer, I'd go out and do something low-level naughty, just like him. ↗

— John Grisham

#every #every time #go #him #i

I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s. ↗

— Lionel Hampton

#growing #growing up #hard #harmony #i

I love actors, both my parents were actors, and the work with actors is the most enjoyable part of making a film. It's important that they feel protected and are confident they won't be betrayed. When you create that atmosphere of trust, it's in the bag - the actors will do everything to satisfy you. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#bag #betrayed #both #confident #create

It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going. ↗

— Harriet Harman

#benefit #better #bring #children #direction

Richard Chamberlain on The Slipper and the Rose was lovely to work with. He wore the clothes so beautifully and sang his songs so well. ↗

— Julie Harris

#chamberlain #clothes #his #lovely #richard

I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#everybody #i #just #marriage #married