#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

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

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

— Hilary Swank

#drinking #drinking water #eating #like #literally

I always believe someone somewhere is working harder than me and that motivates me to work harder, give 100%. ↗

— Sheryl Swoopes

#believe #give #harder #i #i always

From my father, I learned the importance of working sincerely at things to which I had committed myself, and to persevere untiringly even in the face of little progress. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

#even #face #father #had #i

The issue of remittances where we have millions of Mexicans working in the United States sending back dollars. He said they send back 10 billion dollars a year. ↗

— Tom Tancredo

#billion #dollars #issue #mexicans #millions

It was mind-blowing. It was a small place with 2,000 standing-up tickets. It's great to have your band back and working and playing again, people have been so generous. ↗

— Andy Taylor

#back #band #been #generous #great

I had everything working my way, strong as a bull. And still I ignored the rules of the game of life. ↗

— Lawrence Taylor

#everything #game #had #i #ignored