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For me, going away to work is the hardest part of my life and career.
For me, having a balance between work and personal life is very important.
Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
What I have to work with is the life that's ahead of me right this minute.
Sure Start transformed my life as a mum and allowed me to get back to work.
My short attention span has allowed me a life of diversity in work and place.
Work has never really been work for me. It's been a natural extension of my life.
I had to know that for me to be successful in all aspects of my life, I have to work.
My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.
My parents and my grandmother inspire me every day and, every day, in my work and personal life.
I don't like the idea of separating life and work. That notion seems dated and a bit alien to me.
If you work and you want to see your children, something's got to give and for me, it's my social life.
The last 16 years of my daddy's life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that.
My parents instilled in me that life was going to be very difficult and that I'd have to work for everything.
I think villainy just comes naturally to me. I get to work it out naturally so I can be a nice person in life.
For me, it's always about the work and the stories I'm telling and the slices of life I feel should be illuminated.
The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!
Look, I don't care if anyone likes me when it comes to my work. But I can be massively insecure in other parts of my life.
I don't want anything handed to me, I want to work for everything I have... that's the way I've done everything in my life.
There are many females in my life I couldn't function on a daily basis without who I've purposely put there that work with me.
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 went through a pretty big David Bowie period when I was younger, and that has affected me profoundly in my life and my work.
My parents were strict and taught me the proper fundamentals that I would use in my life. They taught me commitment to work hard.
There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.
I think the work ethic will take me wherever I want to go in life. It's my mindset that determines how, when, and if I'll get there.
Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.
Professorship is not a career, but rather a life's pursuit. The people with whom I work daily exemplify and remind me of this promise.
In my real life, hard work, doing my job, working well with others and finding solutions without drama has never gotten me fired before.
A social life is just as important to me as my work life because I think if you have a healthy balance of the two, you'll be really happy.
I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.
The thing that really stands out is that my parents taught me right from the start, if you want something in life, you need to work for it.
I don't think people want to see me as a regular guy; besides, I'm a regular guy in real life. I guess I just want to be reckless in my work.
I think maybe the rural influence in my life helped me in a sense, of knowing how to get close to people and talk to them and get my work done.
It's hard for me to play this loving, supportive father/husband/ friend on TV but be the guy in life that is telling everyone, 'I can't. I have to work.'
There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
Some stresses are unavoidable - it's just part of life. One of the things I do to avoid stress is not work with people that I don't really like or drive me crazy.
He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed.
I've had the tremendous fortune to work on games like 'Life is Strange' and 'Horizon Zero Dawn', where there was a lot of collaboration between me and the developers.
I have always done things that made me happy. I work with people I like, and I do the job I like. I only see people who I like to be with. I have led a wonderful life.
Everything that has happened to me is of value to me. As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there's a use for those things in my life and in my work.
I like being a mother. For some people, it's so much work that it can be a burden. But it's not for me, maybe because I had my daughter, Valentina, later on in life, at 41.
Life is too short to be doing work that doesn't make you feel happy and fulfilled. I'd rather wait for the right project, as opposed to just taking whatever is handed to me.
'Be passionate about your work and your life' was instilled in me by my mother Dada, who was a potter. She also introduced me to the arts and encouraged me to embrace the new.
I don't like my whole life dragged out. I don't want anyone to know about me, because I don't think I'm very interesting... I like my work. I like what I gave. And that was it.
There is something else at work here that is beyond me - and that is Laura. She has a life of her own. There is a magic in her. The muse is in her. And I'm lucky to have her in my life.
My priority in life is my whanau, followed by my work as an artist, which has blessed me with the ability to provide opportunities working with others to advance the well-being of Maori.
My children are the thing that make life work because, you know, I screwed up my life, and I know it was me, and it was really hard because it was so public, and that was very, very hard.
I've never cancelled any public appearance, simply because that's what my life is; it's doing my work, and I never want to stop doing my work unless it becomes impossible for me to do it.
I often get references to 'slight' or whatever, and my weight's been a thing for me my whole life. I have to really, really work. I train six times a week to just be normal and not be fat.
What I'm resistant to is the 'Walk the Line' biopic, where you have this redemptive life done in two hours. It just doesn't wash with me. I've been there and things don't work out that way.