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I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether youre a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, youll win – if you dont, you wont. – Bruce Jenner

I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I dont want people to think that Lets Move is about complete, utter deprivation. Its about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families. – Michelle Obama

Confidence doesnt come out of nowhere. Its a result of something… hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication. – Roger Staubach

I wasnt born a fool. It took work to get this way. – Danny Kaye

I dont think I am evangelical in my work. – J. K. Rowling

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but thats not the way to produce good work. – J. K. Rowling

My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and its like therapy. – Pamela Anderson

I dont pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself. – Ted Nugent

The people that make this country work, the people who pay on their mortgages, the people getting up and going to work, striving in this recession to not participate in it, theyre not the enemy. Theyre the people that hire you. Theyre the people that are going to give you a job. – Rush Limbaugh

When youre a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They dont actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing Ill do, and especially when Im in New York, Ill go for a run. And Ill run 10 or 15k on my – and I run to gain my appetite. – Gordon Ramsay

An idea isnt worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work. – William Feather

Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesnt work. You can be politically incorrect if youre smart. – Mel Brooks

Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top – I think thats the main thing for me to work on. – Charlotte Gainsbourg

To me, as long as weve known each other, Ive always thought Micks most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance. – Keith Richards

But Im pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people. – David Bowie

I suppose for me as an artist it wasnt always just about expressing my work I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go. – David Bowie

The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that youre not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, youll make yourself unhappy, because life doesnt work like that. So much is luck. Its much better to let yourself off, to think, Theres nothing I can do. – Matthew Macfadyen

What I had to prove was that I had a dedication and a desire and a passion to do the work and everything else would fall in place because I have a vision that I want to portray and it did and I do it. I dont sell anything. – Kim Weston

Another Black Label motto. Thats what I think life is. Its just another bridge to cross. You ask no questions. Whatever work it is you gotta do, you gotta go over it, under it, through it, around it, to do it. – Zakk Wylde

I dont think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think theres some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything. – Emma Thompson