'Trilogy' was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn't left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that's probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that's what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.
— The Weeknd
Queering don't make the world work.
— The Ultimate Warrior
I think that is where my success lies - for whatever I lack in talent, I make up for in hard work.
— The Miz
Wrestling toughest sport. We never take day off. We never have the offseason like the hockey or the football. We work year-round, and we never complain because you fight to be with biggest company in the world and you never ask for the time to rest.
— The Iron Sheik
I work hard all my life and now I show the people how I come from oldest country in the world to live the America dream.
The big cop-out would be to accept popularity rather than opting to try to create potent work. It's so easy to do the popular thing, the expected thing, and that's where you start to cheat yourself - and your fans, in the end - because there's an inherent dishonesty in pandering and dishing up what everyone's expecting.
— The Edge
When I am out and about I feel watched. It's become second nature. The only time I get to be private is in my work. That is when I liberate the ego. The blessed-out sensation of liberating the ego.
— Thandie Newton
Kids just want to have one song. They don't care about a body of work; they don't even care about a whole album - they just want whatever's hot right now. They download that song, and that's it.
— Thalia
Whatever it is you do, study it, learn the ins and outs of it, and really work on building your craft.
— Teyonah Parris
There's no easy way to the top of anything, but it's a lot of hard work and I feel maybe I have the confidence in that recipe, or the confidence in myself.
— Tessa Virtue
I'm sort of obsessed with Harlem. Just its history. My father did the music for a play called 'The Huey P. Newton Story,' and they did a lot of work in Harlem. So as a little girl, I spent a lot of time in Harlem Library.
— Tessa Thompson
On numerous different occasions I have had people tell me that I am only booked because of my dad, because of who I was dating, or any other exceptions other than my hard work, so in my mind I wanted to put in the extra hours in the ring.
— Tessa Blanchard
I love hard work and proving people wrong.
The best ideas are those that really affect me emotionally - those are the ones you never forget. You think to yourself, 'I want to write that book', for years; those are the ideas that I love to work with, and 'The Bone Garden' was one of them.
— Tess Gerritsen
A good script and perfect casting, that's 90 percent of the work.
— Terry Zwigoff
Useful though they are, the vast majority of dictionaries and encyclopedias are poker-faced pieces of work that stick to the facts and present them as soberly - and unstylishly - as possible.
— Terry Teachout
Just as most of us prefer to watch a trapeze artist work without a net, we like to be absolutely sure that a virtuoso is giving us our money's worth, and a seemingly effortless performance, no matter how spectacular it may be, deprives us of that slightly sadistic thrill.
When I developed the Ultimate Warrior character and kept evolving the character, I knew, there was no question that it would work because it was working.
How real can your music be if you wake up in the morning hearing birds and crickets? I never hear birds when I wake up. Just a lot of construction work, the smell of Chinese takeout, children screaming, and everybody knocking a different track from 'Ready to Die' as they pass down the street.
— The Notorious B.I.G.
I always put dance stuff out because you have to work, man. You have to eat. You have to compromise sometimes to make it. I had to make sacrifices, and I had to raise my children.
— The Mighty Hannibal
The Ric Flair, I am his teacher from the Minnesota. We work together. He great performer, he great talker.
I only work with the real Punk, like the CM Punk or the Chance the Rapper.
As an actor, I was just satisfied to work.
— Thayer David
I use the film industry as a pleasure for work and that kind of thing and it's not a pursuit to make me feel happy in my life.
I've enjoyed my time as an actor, but felt work was becoming repetitive.
— Thalaivasal Vijay
I always want to work with people that I can grow with.
— Teyana Taylor
When I'm not on the ice, I do interval work on the bike or the elliptical, trying to mimic a four-minute routine. But it doesn't come close.
I think I've realized that when you are aiming to create a real body of work, you are as much defined by the things you don't do as by the things you do.
I wanted to go and I wanted to drive the miles for no pay, I wanted to set up the rings, I wanted to set up the chairs, I wanted to go to training six-seven days a week for hours upon hours and blow myself up to where I can only work on instinct. I wanted to sleep in my car. I wanted to do all of that.
When I first started wrestling I knew that I wanted to work as long and as hard as it took to be able to have a great match with anyone.
I think my father kept struggling to get us into better neighborhoods, better schools. One of the worst jobs he had was folding shirts under these fluorescent lights all day at the equivalent of a Kmart. I remember visiting him at work, thinking, 'When I grow up, I've got to do anything else.'
The first scene I ever shot for 'Louie Bluie,' on that first day, I had never seen the camera before. I didn't know where to put it. I just knew what was strong about these guys and what I wanted to capture, so I tried to work backward from there and figure it out. Trial and error. Hopefully I got a little bit better at it.
Whether they know it or not, most American playgoers owe an incalculably great debt to translators. Were it not for their work, comparatively few of us would be able to enjoy the plays of Chekhov, Ibsen or Moliere.
Copland was the first important American classical composer to go to work for Hollywood.
I could have been in a house show the day before being flown in to do the Survivor Series. I'd do that pay-per-view, then fly out the next day to go do another house show. The pay-per-view just happened in the middle of a 30 or 40-day road tour. For us back then, the WWF talent, it was just another day of work, another day of being on the road.
I cleaned up my act, and I made this rap thing work for me. I thought people would respect me for that. But instead, it's, 'Oh, he's sold all these records, and now he thinks he's all that.'
The CM Punk is No. 1 in the world, bubba. He work hard. He love the wrestling business.
Respect to the Smashing Pumpkin the Black Key and the King of the Leon. They all have the real heart and work to make the people happy.
My mind was inclined to work and to support my parents.
— The Great Khali
I'm not being cynical, but I have to find work that is allowing me to pay bills and keep our lives going in a way that we're used to and trying not to betray my political beliefs while I'm doing it. Listen, it's a tough thing to do.
Since I was a little girl, I have witnessed the strength and courage that energized my mother, who left every sorrow and pain in the past, who would work unyieldingly to obtain her goals, who was the great warrior from whom I learned all the values that are today fundamental pillars of my every day.
For me, it's always about the work and the stories I'm telling and the slices of life I feel should be illuminated.
I can work my butt off and create an album that's wonderful, but if it's never played and never given the outlet, it won't succeed.
— Tessanne Chin
I've felt this real need to ground my work in my ideals.
You got to be able to work hard. And that's what I do. I work hard, because that's what's necessary. You have to go that extra mile.
Impact is such a fun place to work, I enjoy it so much I can't stress that enough.
It's what all writers dream of, that our work finds a measure of immortality that long outlives the words of any critic.
Just to get the actors to relax, listen to each other, and actually affect each other, there are a number of techniques you have to learn, and they don't all work on every actor.
My life has been a happy accident. Anybody who succeeds in anything should count their lucky stars, because that's the biggest element. It's not hard work; it's not necessarily talent.
— Terry Wogan
I'm not rigid about directorial changes: I judge them on a case-by-case basis. In the case of a play whose text is widely familiar, I'm open to drastic changes that may alter the author's meaning, perhaps even considerably. If the results don't work, then I say so.
