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Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure. — Colm Toibin

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour. — Horace

I usually balance out autobiography with goofy, amusing stuff to help keep the humour in my more serious work. — Jeffrey Brown

Work? It's just serious play. — Saul

If my name was on a serious work like this it would never get fair treatment. They would all say I had tried to be funny and failed. — Jerome K. Jerome

To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Even though my work is whimsical. I have a very serious job. I cry more than I laugh. — Richard Simmons

Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking. — Francis Crick

I'm serious. I don't know how you work like that. My school shit is better organized, and I'm not in the business of World Domination. — Zadie Smith

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world. — Benjamin Franklin

It is bizarre that some people can't understand how a serious poet could work at a finance firm. Goethe was a bureaucrat. Eliot worked as a banker. — Katy Lederer

I am not an optimist. I'm a very serious possibilist. It's a new category where we take emotion apart and we just work analytically with the world. — Hans Rosling

On the very instant that we know that our assailant intends us serious physical harm, we must work just as fast as we can. — Jeff Cooper

The rule for every worthwhile man is that no serious job ever shall receive less than his best thought and effort. — William Feather

My work is a game, a very serious game. — M.C. Escher

Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all. — Erica Jong

In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen. — Oscar Wilde

Consciously and unconsciously, an artist engaged in serious work is always raising or dealing with the question, 'What really matters?' — Freeman Patterson

It's not that I'm a serious person; I'm playful and stuff like that, but I take characters very seriously and the work very seriously. — Bryce Dallas Howard

I have serious adult acne, am almost legally blind and have to work at controlling my weight. — Georgette Mosbacher

Without great solitude, no serious work is possible. — Pablo Picasso

Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work. — David Remnick

an arsenal of serious tools that needed to be sworn at to work properly. — C. Bard Cole

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious. — John Irving

To be diligent means to be serious and devoted to the work of God — Sunday Adelaja

To be serious, if we were only interested in earning big money then a politician would have to go and work in industry. — Angela Merkel

This impeccably researched study of the classic black insult game may be the funniest work of serious scholarship ever published. — Terry Teachout

Serious writers pretend they don't care about film adaptations of their work, but it's a colossal lie: We all care. — Jean Hanff Korelitz

I am a serious artist in my own right, in the sense that I've spent my entire life being an artist and trying to be an artist and making work. — David Shrigley

Doodling serves as a means of keeping the hand or fingers limber, so that they are always ready for serious work. — Charles E. Burchfield

On email and the first instance of spam: This is not for advertising! This is for serious work! — Vinton Cerf

The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something. — L. Ron Hubbard

If only one fifth of your spells work you have real power. If only one fifth of your divinations work you have a serious disability. — Peter J. Carroll

A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work. — Karl Abraham

Only an atmosphere of quiet hard work and dull, serious conversation were appropriate to him. — Anthony Powell

My philosophy of life is that I am deeply, deeply serious about my work and for the rest I like to have a few laughs. — Maggi Hambling

I try to deal with my serious reading before work. — Donna Shalala

A good rule of thumb is if you've made it to 35 and your job still requires you wear a nametag, you've probably made a serious vocational error. — Dennis Miller

Serious critics, serious librarians, serious associate professors of English will if they read this work dislike it intensely; at least I hope so. — Edward Abbey

I've been a writer for 42 years and, yes, it is a full time job for me. Not a hobby, but serious work. — Donald McKay

Jesus, he wasn't a dick, he was an asshole and he had some serious fucking work to do. "She — Kristen Ashley

My experience has been that most really serious creative people I know have very, very routine and not particularly glamorous work habits," Adams said — Mason Currey

I'm very serious about what I do. I practice every day for three hours. I work on my scales; I work on my tone. But otherwise, I like to have fun. — Kenny G

Life is so short, so beautiful. Don't be so serious about work. Enjoy the lives. — Jack Ma

I'm serious when I do my work. I'm not serious when I'm home with my kids. — Bill Gates

Choosing to laugh doesn't undermine the serious work we have to do. It enables us to do it. — Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

Most important, for openers, work six hours a day, seven days a week for six years. Then if you like it you can get serious about it. — Alex Katz

I never work until I have a deadline. You have to fit so much in a given day that you just don't get serious until you know when the deadline is. — William Monahan

Serious work gets done ... in congenial surroundings, which tend to make you laugh. — Ian McDiarmid

I never took the work less than serious, my work ethic is ingrained in me. But I've always had a sense of humor about myself. — George Hamilton

Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff. — Bob Keeshan

I have a serious lady boner for the guy I'm supposed to work for. — Lauren Layne

With the development of the Christian Lacroix house in Paris and my work notably for the theater, it wasn't serious doing things by half. — Christian Lacroix

The computer is down. I hope it's something serious. — Stanton Delaplane

To justify our likes and dislikes, we generally say that the work we dislike is not serious. — Walter Sickert

If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we have ever prepared for war. — Wendell Berry

I'm positive and I smile a lot, and I'm kind of a banana, but serious work just seems to find me, so I'm not going to argue with it. — Mireille Enos

When you come to actually act, it's a game. It may be a very serious game, but it's still a game. If you lose that sense of play, the work suffers. — Michael Sheen

Bringing a pot plant to the office, I believe, is a sign of quite serious commitment. — Danielle Wood

I want to make serious work that engages with serious subjects. I'm very lucky: I get to more or less make what I want. — Scott Rudin