#workin

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#authorities #autocracy #dictatorship #envied #freedom

Obviously I've spent most of my working life with men and they have this way of operating which seems a bit alien to me. ↗

— Janet Street-Porter

#bit #his way #i #life #me

There's no point in working if I'm not involved and interested. ↗

— Gloria Stuart

#interested #involved #no point #point #working

My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#bit #does #dreams #instruct #me

You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it, and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately, you would be able to do it. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#field #find #how #keep #learning

When I'm not working I try to stay out of the public eye as much as possible. ↗

— Donna Summer

#i #much #out #possible #public

I have been able to play a lot of guys and they have kept me working. ↗

— Donald Sutherland

#been #guys #i #kept #lot

To me, working out is literally like eating a meal or drinking water or breathing. ↗

— Hilary Swank

#drinking #drinking water #eating #like #literally

In the 'Nike Economy,' there are no standards, no borders and no rules. Clearly, the global economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States. ↗

— John J. Sweeney

#borders #burma #china #clearly #economy

Working people are under the worst attack in 80 years. Never has there been a stronger need for a stronger union movement. ↗

— John Sweeney

#been #movement #need #never #people