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It's what's left in life, to work with interesting people.
For most people, life would be boring without meaningful work.
I focus on my work while some people unnecessarily complicate life.
I've been lucky in my life to work with people who I consider master singers.
It's unfortunate how people assume so much about your life based on the work you do.
Well, my life is so centered around the people I care about, my animals, and my work.
Throughout the course of my life, I've been blessed to work with extremely talented people.
As a director, it just makes my life fantastic to work with people like Elizabeth Hawthorne.
People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is.
Some people are inherently likeable. If you're not - work on it. It may even improve your social life.
It's really nice when life comes full circle and you get to work with people four years down the line.
Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.
These parks are our life's work, not the clothing chains we created, selling people clothes they don't need.
The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.
I make no apology for the fact I like to hear people talk about work. It's the acceptable way of talking about life and people.
People go through life and make personal decisions and sometimes they don't work out. I won't be the first person to be divorced.
I should tell you that many people think that authors just cut and paste from real life into books. It doesn't work quite that way.
When it comes to the work, I'm excited to see what people think. When it comes to the private life, that's when I don't pay attention.
Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.
Some people are born and train their whole life to be an NBA player. But some people, if it doesn't work out, then they have no other option.
The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness.
Life's too short to be spending all your waking hours doing something you're not excited about. And when people are that excited, you can see it in the work.
Children are part of the natural pattern of life. For centuries people have been having children and going to work. You get on with it, that's what life's about.
Life, work - it's all very organic and fluid, a laboratory. I always tell people: whatever your thing is, you just have to be in it. Jump in; you'll figure it out.
You have to have something in your life that's more important than the work. People don't really like to admit that. They say, 'Oh, my work is my most important thing.'
I've been involved in social activism my entire life, and I would argue that many people involved in social activist movements have done very little work on themselves.
People often get very entangled in their work and life, so de-stressing is very important to keep generating fresh ideas and provide satisfaction with one's activities.
A huge part of making something work is getting along with people you work with. You want them to succeed; you want them to bring their ideas to life as much as possible.
People hear the examples of kids who work when they're young, have bad experiences, and then have a rough life after that, but a lot of it is just about the people around you.
In Paris, we call the people who make clothing 'couturiers' - they develop new clothing items - but actually, the work of designing is to make something that works in real life.
One of the true pleasures of my life has been the work of John Steinbeck. He was one of the people who turned my life around. I had no direct relationship with him, unfortunately.
I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written; one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's work and all of a sudden you've got a very full life.
When you spend seven years of your life working on something that you're really passionate about, and other people end up loving it, too, that just makes all of the work worthwhile.
It's things I wouldn't normally do in my real life, so when I go to work and get to beat people up and shoot guns and get waterboarded, those are things I find completely interesting.
How many people just get up on Monday and do the same thing they've done every single Monday - go to work and just turn on route automatic and no longer have any meaning in their life?
There are certain things that make restaurants work and a certain kind of DNA that people who excel in restaurants need. But it's a lot like life, in the sense that you get out of it what you put into it.
Poverty is about people lacking the tools they need to get on in life. And solving it is about tackling educational failure, antisocial behaviour, debt problems and addiction, and of course it's about work.
I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but two or three. Life is much simpler ignoring reviews and the nasty people who write them. Critics should find meaningful work.
After people work hard and cope with the pressures of life throughout the week, going out to a show or tuning in to watch some characters in cowboy clothes, singing and playing songs about real life is something I relate to.
Like a lot of people, I have been a leader in some things, and I've been a follower in some things. I know how to work on a team. And most of life, frankly, to get things done you have to get done, you've got to work as a team.
You have to, in your own life, get people to want to work with you and want to help you. The organizational chart, in my opinion, means very little. I need my bosses' goodwill, but I need the goodwill of my subordinates even more.
Pretty much anybody who does creative work in China navigates the gray zone. People aren't clear about where the line is any more, beyond which life gets really nasty and you become a dissident without having intended ever to be one.
I think most people have a general sense that when you're released from prison, life is hard, but, you know, if you work hard and apply self-discipline and stay out of trouble, you can make it. But that's true only for a relative few.
I came in the gate as an African-American poor kid wanting to be a neurosurgeon but - with American life and the places I was put due to American history and laws and the oppression of black people - I had to make it work in other ways.
The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame will provide a center where the lives and the artistry of the greatest jazz musicians will be celebrated, and where people will come to learn about jazz, something to which my brother devoted his life's work.
Wherever I go, I just try to show normal life. If the work helps to dispel stereotypes, it's because I seek not to portray the extremities of a place, but the vast majority of people who are quite normal and are having normal life experiences.
I see the Conservative party becoming more and more attractive to people from all different backgrounds, particularly because so many of the immigrant communities are people who work hard and get on in life... so I think they are naturally Conservative.
The issue of terrorism must be dealt with firmly. We must work very hard to avoid loss of life. We must work very hard to avoid civilian casualties. And those terrorists and Baathists are holding the people of Fallujah hostage. We must release the hostages.
I certainly don't feel any more super than any of the other people I knew in my working life... Quite the reverse. In fact, guilt is my middle name, and I think anybody who does do that thing with work and children and everything knows exactly what I'm talking about.