I would be happy if they just gave out nominations and there weren't any Oscars. But winning them is definitely an experience - to get up there and make a speech. Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level.
— Walter Murch
Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level. If you didn't do the hard work, you wouldn't be standing there. On the other hand, people do a lot of hard work and don't get Oscars, so it's a mixture of glory and injustice at the same time.
Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
— Walter Kirn
I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.
— Walter Jon Williams
I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.
— Walter Hill
It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.
— Walter Gilbert
Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.
— Walter Cronkite
Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
— Walter Benjamin
We try to write things that work on a variety of levels at the same time: A sleek exterior with a turbulent lyric.
— Walter Becker
Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.
— Walter Annenberg
I actually think it's against the rules at Vox Media to work there if you've never dropped an iPhone.
— Walt Mossberg
I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
— Walt Disney
You reach a point where you don't work for money.
It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Gov. Hickenlooper to find a solution to fix our ailing pension system.
— Walker Stapleton
All my life, I had loved music and been in choir, and I have a degree in music, but I never planned on doing it as a job. I had a realistic perspective on that. I thought maybe work at a church or be a teacher if you wanted to work in music.
— Walker Hayes
I try to consider each body of work on its own terms, discretely, so terms like 'sculpture' or 'photography', in their broad sense, don't really enter into my thinking.
— Walead Beshty
I've become a workaholic. When the shows slow down and there's no press and I can get my time to myself in the studio with my music, I get into this zone, man. I enter this incredible space where I'm just making music. And I feel like I can work with anybody - with Elton John, with Hanson - and I can make something incredible.
— Wale
I believe that one of the secret engines that allows cinema to work, and have the marvelous power over us that it does, is the fact that for thousands of years we have spent eight hours every night in a 'cinematic' dream-state, and so are familiar with this version of reality.
Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
— Walter Koenig
I like to think that I could praise the good book of someone I personally dislike. I try not to comment on the person, to be insulting, but I have no trouble being insulting to the work.
Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.
The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no distinction between monumental and decorative art.
— Walter Gropius
I admired the work ethic of the cowboys I read about. The idea of these young people taking on this much responsibility was impressive. I would like modern readers to have an appreciation of this.
— Walter Dean Myers
I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.
— Walter Chrysler
In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
— Walter Bagehot
Some people find an interest in making money, and though they appear to be slaving, many actually enjoy every minute of their work.
I work hard at my job, and I guess hard work pays off.
— Walt Handelsman
Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
Gerry Dow - he's like a fourth member. He lives in Sweden; his art work is more important than... it's just as important as the music and the stage show.
— Walshy Fire
I've never been afraid to work for money; it's just - it got tough there to work and to write songs at the same time.
You create something, and when it doesn't work, it's kind of like people make fun of your kid or something.
I certainly like it if the work is beautiful, but that's a surplus effect. I can only think about that after I consider how it's made.
I worked at a hot dog place, a bagel place, the Jersey Store and the hottest fashion joint around. I was getting too famous to work there anymore. I was almost showing up as a joke. I made $2,000 on my show the previous night and I'm going to go shopping during my five-hour shift.
My job as an editor is to gently prod the attention of the audience to look at various parts of the frame. And that - I do that by manipulating how and where I cut and what succession of images I work with.
The success that Americans are said to worship is success of a specific sort: accomplished not through hard work, primarily, but through the ingenious angle, the big break. Sit down at a lunch counter, stand back up a star. Invest in a new issue and watch it soar. Split a single atom, win a war.
I studied English at Princeton in the early eighties in what I consider a period of high obscurity. Professors and students ran around discussing the work of critics and philosophers that I doubt they'd read or understood.
I've learned that I get blocked when my subconscious mind is telling me that I've taken the work in a wrong direction, and that once I start listening to what my subconscious is trying to tell me, I can work out the problem and get moving again.
Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
I record it here today to establish my early predisposition to editorial work - to be both pontifical and wrong.
Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.
When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's going to happen when you have a difference of opinion. Most attempts at collaboration never survive the negotiation. Merely being agreeable is not enough.
The real essence of work is concentrated energy.
Open-minded tech tinkerers may still prefer traditional PCs for work because they allow much more customization than, say, an iPad.
I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.
Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.
The actor's role in the community is quite unlike anyone else's. Businessmen, for example, don't take their clothes off or cry in front of strangers in the course of their work. Actors do.
— Wallace Shawn
One of the most humbling gigs I've ever had was I was paid by a neighbor to go get a dead bird out of her house. She was kind of a high up in the music business, and she knew that I needed cash, and I used to do some yard work for her.
The violence and burnings in Lebanon were the work of Syrian soldiers and workers dressed in civilian clothes.
— Walid Jumblatt
I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
