So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.
— Stephen Sondheim
I don't think it's a secret that New York tastemakers don't love my work.
— Stephen Schwartz
I'm lucky I get to work a lot.
— Stephen Root
It's fun to do voiceover work, although you still have to act. But it doesn't involve memorizing lines, and you don't have to dress up.
The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story's flaws before you invest a lot of time writing the first draft, and it's almost impossible to get stuck at a difficult chapter, because you've already done the work to push through those kinds of blocks.
— Stephen R. George
I think business, government and unions have to work together, and the common enemies to the global economy. We're being beaten by the global economy, and we've got to unite together to win.
— Stephen Pagliuca
If the Left really wants to preserve family structure and advance cultural values such as work, why do they oppose reforms to a welfare system that pays teenage girls to have babies out of wedlock and disparage conservative proposals that require able-bodied Americans to work for their welfare benefits like food stamps?
— Stephen Moore
The great American work ethic has not been lost, but it has been eroded by years of dumb government policies that Mr. Trump and Congress can correct.
The typical jobs that a lower-skilled immigration worker might do might be construction work, it might be hospitality work, it might be restaurant work, or might be not working at all and just going onto the welfare system if there isn't a job for that individual.
— Stephen Miller
You can work very hard on a crappy movie.
— Stephen McFeely
When you're sitting in the theater watching your own work be performed, you get to see people's reactions immediately. Unlike with a book, you don't have to wait for responses. That's very satisfying. Unless it's a joke that falls flat.
— Stephen McCauley
A lot of work - unattributed, with no dollars - goes into taking care of kids.
— Stephen Malkmus
You can play anyone if you're open enough. It's a form of possession. Each time you work on something, you allow yourself to be possessed by creating the environment for it. Then you allow the possession to happen - but not at the expense of your sanity or of your identity.
— Stephen Lang
Since German reunification in 1990, historians and researchers have been free to work in the East, where the lost Nazi art collection disappeared.
— Stephen Kinzer
To see professional actors do my work, to take it seriously - that was the thing that made me think playwriting could actually be what I do. It's not a profession that has some sort of clear career track, like, 'This is what you do to be a playwright.'
— Stephen Karam
I worry that I will lose control over the projects I get to work on.
Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology and mineralogy. But he was quite bitter at the way in which many scientists refused to grant him a hearing because he was a poet and therefore, they felt, he couldn't be serious.
— Stephen Jay Gould
If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.
Aspen's investment in TesoRx will assist in the work being undertaken to bring this product to market and in investing behind TesoRx's pipeline and technology that has the potential to be used for a wide range of different applications.
— Stephen Saad
My goal as an actor was to work - to be a working actor, whether it was in theater, and, well, I didn't even consider film and television when I was in New York, but what came along, came along.
Rick Rubin's undulating face hair is just as famous as his body of work. In homage to the yogis he read about as a boy on Long Island, Rubin hasn't shaved since he was 23. It's long been his registered trademark.
— Stephen Rodrick
I got up with my wife, I sat down at the computer when she went to work, and I didn't stop until she got home.
I always get excited over James Murphy's work and everything that comes out of DFA. I really like the way that Murphy and LCD Soundsystem mix electronic, dance and rock together.
— Stephen Morris
The women tennis pros don't really want equal pay for equal work. They want equal pay for inferior work.
We need national economic policies that have been shown to work at the state level.
Remember that film 'Sliding Doors,' when John Hannah woos Gwyneth Paltrow by reciting Monty Python sketches? I can tell you now that doesn't work, so that film's wrong.
— Stephen Merchant
It's hard to describe the work of the British-born Australian writer Elizabeth Jolley without somewhat misrepresenting it.
I'm not a particularly disciplined person in terms of my work habits.
What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.
— Stephen Leacock
Revolutionaries who come to power by force of arms usually have great crimes in their background. Leaders who survive campaigns by great powers to destroy them do not survive because they observe the niceties of law. Subversives who shape world events by covert action and violence work in shadows and detest the light of day.
Some major American publishing houses still seek work by foreign writers.
Everyone will always have ideas about how to make your work better. Everyone has advice about how to end your play differently. Start it differently. And it's not about right or wrong. At the end of the day, it's your baby, and you know what's best.
I don't know how to produce work if it's not something that's deeply scaring me or troubling me.
I leave everything in God's hands and continue to work on playing basketball.
— Stephen Jackson
The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.
The more you work, the more people see your work and would like to work with you, and vice versa.
In TV, when you're doing guest roles, you're gliding into a zone where people are already very comfortable. They go in and go to work every day. You're coming in, and it's a brand-new environment, so you have to get it... and then you're gone again.
Robert Downey Jr. doesn't work out like us regular folks. Adulation bathes him from the moment he arrives at his Los Angeles martial arts studio.
My father was a veteran and my mother a schoolteacher. They taught me the value of a good job and an honest day's work.
Stacks of job-killing Executive Orders and regulations from the Obama era need to be repealed or rolled back. At the top of the stack is the Clean Power Plan, which has put tens of thousands of American coal miners out of work.
One of Trump's reforms is to limit the time that workers can use on the job at taxpayer expense working on union activities. What does this have to do with public service? So taxpayers have to pay overcompensated federal employees while they work on union activities so they can get even more taxpayer money.
Especially for the young and the lowest-skilled, minimum wage becomes a toll that prevents many from entering the work force and gaining the skills that can make a low income or middle class worker a high income worker. This is so obvious that one wonders why liberals keep championing the minimum wage cause.
People who work in diamonds and in oil wreck a lot of the Earth and a lot of the people on it.
— Stephen McHattie
Jill Eisenstadt's comic second novel, 'Kiss Out,' is a work of such extravagant wackiness, eccentricity, and exuberance that any attempt to squeeze it into the confines of a simple plot summary seems doomed to failure and is possibly pointless.
I think libraries give the feeling that people are there to work. It's a little bit like an artist's colony in the sense that there's some sort of shared experience. There's respect for quiet, more or less, but otherwise, there's activity.
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
The United States has means to wound Latin American countries deeply, chiefly by altering trade policies to cut imports in ways that would throw thousands out of work.
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
— Stephen King
I think being gay has resulted in gay characters standing front and center in all of my work.
A lot of scientists hate writing. Most scientists love being in the lab and doing the work and when the work is done, they are finished.
