#work

I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#fallow #felt #i #never #sense

You take a vacation to a place like Thailand and you're ready for the excitement of something new and foreign. But when you're working 14-hour days, all you want is something familiar to ground you. And there's just nothing there. ↗

— Ed Helms

#excitement #familiar #foreign #ground #just

My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If I wasn't doing this I'd be making documentaries about wildlife and other subjects that interest me. ↗

— John Cleese

#alimony #always #become #business #compulsion

I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know what I was going to do with myself. And then fate reached in and took me in its hands. I was discovered right out of high school and started getting work. ↗

— Sally Field

#discovered #fate #getting #going #hands

The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work. ↗

— Sally Field

#best part #had #i #kind #nice

I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#i #person #pragmatic #very #which

I think the issue of North Korea is one where the international community as a whole has to work to resolve the crisis. ↗

— Helen Clark

#crisis #i #i think #international #international community

I've been round Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, and China in the last few months and the message that I've been taking is that New Zealand is building an up market dynamic into a connected economy. And that we are not the old-fashioned, ship mutton kind of product the people associate their export in work. ↗

— Helen Clark

#been #building #china #connected #dynamic

It's fair to say that, for much of my lifetime, New Zealand certainly was a property-owning democracy and working people, ordinary people, had assets. ↗

— Helen Clark

#certainly #democracy #fair #had #lifetime

There is also a marked global trend towards sustainable agriculture, building on traditional methods which use fewer chemical inputs, carefully manage soil and water resources, and work hand-in-hand with nature. ↗

— Helen Clark

#also #building #carefully #chemical #fewer