Best Work Quotes - Page 13

• Some of the best work done to combat the Republicans has been wit and humor.

  Julianna Baggott

  Done, Wit And Humor, Republican

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• It's really inspiring to know that your publisher is so behind you. It makes you want to put forth your best work.

  Eric Wight

  Want, Behind You, Really Inspiring

  Source: www.ign.com

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• You can go out and try to do the best work that you can do within the context of what that is, but it's really gotta be about the work and what you're focusing on.

  Johnny Depp

  Trying, Do The Best, Can Do

  "Johnny Depp on His Varied Career, Jack Sparrow, and “Torturing” Leonardo DiCaprio". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 6, 2016.

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• I do know that people tend to do their best work when they're challenged and stimulated by their peers.

  Thomas Jane

  People, Peers, Knows

  Source: collider.com

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• The best work that I am able to do is when I am willing to write about questions I haven't quite figured out, or things I'm really wrestling with, things that keep me up at night.

  Stephen Karam

  Writing, Wrestling, Night

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

  John Darnielle

  Angry, Seems

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Working with Moschino, a real high fashion Italian brand, maybe I'm under tighter deadlines, but sometimes under tight deadlines you do your best work.

  Jeremy Scott

  Fashion, Real, Italian

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I don't know that I'm unique in that people relate to my music, but I would hope people would say that I'm honest and that I do the best work I can possibly do instead of coasting.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Unique, People, Honest

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

  George MacDonald

  Thinking, Quality Not Quantity, Literature

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• Making art, being creative, is risky, especially for actors, but everybody on the set is being creative. You're putting yourself out there with ideas, and to have your brain be free of stress so that it can actually do its best work, it feels like you want to have a real sense of intimacy and connection and trust with everybody.

  Lynn Shelton

  Art, Real, Stress

  Source: collider.com

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• The Capitol is the best work I have ever done, or shall ever do, and I am glad to have Given it to St. Paul.

  Cass Gilbert

  Done, Given, Glad

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• Our best works are shot through with sin and contain something for which we need to be forgiven.

  J. I. Packer

  Needs, Sin, Shots

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• Rest in reason. Move in Passion.

  Khalil Gibran

  Work, Moving, Passion

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• My best works are erotic displays of mental confusions.. with intrusions of irrelevant information.

  Marlene Dumas

  Confusion, Erotic, Information

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• Theatre is where my heart is. It's where I can do my best work. And even if I do films and TV, that's what I want to come back to.

  Kelly Reilly

  Heart, Theatre, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do every day - every morning or every night, whatever time it is that you have. Ideally, the time you decide on is also the time when you do your best work.

  Walter Mosley

  Morning, Writing, Night

  Walter Mosley (2009). “This Year You Write Your Novel”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• The best work of artists in any age is the work of innocence liberated by technical knowledge. The laboratory experiments that led to the theory of pure color equipped the impressionists to paint nature as if it had only just been created.

  Nancy Hale

  Artist, Color, Age

  Nancy Hale (1975). “Mary Cassatt”, Doubleday Books

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• I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Men, Thinking, France

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you can create an environment where people are invited to do their best work and the best ideas always win, then the project itself will win.

  Jennifer Carpenter

  Winning, Ideas, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I want to go out there and do the best work I can.

  Will Friedle

  Want, Do The Best, I Can

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• Some people burn out, and some people like Clint Eastwood, he was a wild, international movie star in his 30s, and he's doing the best work of his life now. Go figure.

  Ethan Hawke

  Stars, People, Figures

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• And you know, whether it's drama or comedy, the best work is based on truth. It's just that, with comedy, the circumstances are just crazy-heightened, and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still have to do it truthfully, because that's where the humor comes from. So it's not that difficult to cross over.

  Tony Hale

  Crazy, Drama, Comedy

  "Veep's Tony Hale talks about Arrested Development and creeping out James Van Der Beek". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2012.

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• I think I grew up, stopped worrying about what people thought of me, and whether things were going to turn out OK. I'm concentrating on doing the best work I can do and letting it go at that.

  Janis Ian

  Thinking, People, Worry

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• I think I really produce my best work in Iran.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Thinking, Iran, Produce

  "Landscapes of the mind". www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2005.

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• The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how dreaming can be tainted by reality, and that if you don't compromise, you may suffer.

  Azar Nafisi

  Dream, Reality, Suffering

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