"Time goes a lot quicker when the work is a lot more enjoyable."

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Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Simon Baker

#Enjoyable Quotes

“I guess it would fall into the stalker category more or less. I was being stalked by a mime - silent but maybe deadly. Somehow, this mime would appear on the set of Bringing Out the Dead and start doing strange things. I have no idea how it got past security. Finally, the producers took some action and I haven't seen the mime since. But it was definitely unsettling.”
“Ireland, as distinct from her people, is nothing to me; and the man who is bubbling over with love and enthusiasm for "Ireland," and can yet pass unmoved through our streets and witness all the wrong and the suffering, shame and degradation wrought upon the people of Ireland-yea, wrought by Irishmen upon Irish men and women, without burning to end it, is, in my opinion, a fraud and a liar in his heart, no matter how he loves that combination of chemical elements he is pleased to call Ireland.”

Source : James Connolly (1987). “Labour in Irish history ; The re-conquest of Ireland ; Socialism and nationalism”
“What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.”
“Because I'm sort of an honorary Canadian, I don't think the others grasped the cultural significance of who the Tragically Hip were before the tour. Talking to Sheryl Crow and her people and the guys in Wilco, everyone was ecstatic to be on the tour, it was a lot of fun. But it even took me a while to grasp the idea that this is not just a band, this is a cultural artifact, what the Hip means in Canada. There is nobody else like them.”
“He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think of himself in this way.”
“The whole result of continued labour is not often consumed and enjoyed in a moment; the result generally lasts for a certain length of time. We must then conceive the capital as being progressively uninvested.”
“I'm hoping my presence alone in Russia will be a show of strength for the Russian LGBT community,”
“What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!”

Source : Robert Harris (2006). “Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

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