Shifts Quotes

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Being successful doesn`t change things. There`s a painful, lonely part of acting because you`re always waiting. The thing about being a performer is doing, and when you have to wait, it`s the same pain as when you`re starting out and have no job. You think that thing will go away, but it doesn`t. It just shifts. I remember Robert Duvall saying that being a successful actor is all about finding interesting hobbies, because if you don`t have the right hobby, you die. It`s very hard to maintain interest. Most actors don`t. They become a little clichéd. You learn how to do tricks and stuff.

- Val Kilmer

All love shifts and changes. I don`t know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.

- Julie Andrews

It`s a lesson I learned in drama school: the teacher asks, how do you be the queen? And everybody says, `Oh it`s about posture and authority.` And they said, no, it`s about how the air in the room shifts when you walk in. And that`s everyone else`s work.

- Meryl Streep

(on why he became an actor): "You know, it shifts. When it starts out in the beginning, I think it`s purely a social thing. The thing you get reinforcement for, it`s a way of acting out. It`s a way of getting attention. It`s a way of just fitting in socially. And then, as I get older, it transforms into something else."

- Willem Dafoe

You get up about 2-3 o`clock in the morning and get through about 7 or 8 and 12 hours later you start all over. That`s the worst kind of work a person can do. You have to do these two shifts to get one day.

- Buck Owens

If they asked me, I did two shifts. I did sports, I did news, because I loved it.

- Larry King

That`s one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music.

- Steven Curtis Chapman

The first game was better than the second game, I was excited to be back. The important thing was to try to keep it simple, try to work hard when I was out there and try to keep the shifts short. Overall it was all right, and I`m looking to improve now.

- Josh Green

Our full attention with Sarah now shifts to qualification for and then competition in the Commonwealth Games.

- Michael Flynn

It`s tough to get any momentum when you`re killing for the first 10 minutes. We came out the first four or five shifts pretty good and pretty hard. But when you get back on your heels because of the PK (penalty kill), the momentum seems to swing very easily.

- Ryan Johnson

(Consultants say direct account shifts are more likely to be made by entrepreneurial companies or those in which the marketing chiefs work closely with top management.) It`s an organization where marketing is leading the agency relationship management rather than purchasing, ... The CMO is closely aligned with the CEO`s objectives.

- Arthur Anderson

If she`s confirmed, the Bush administration will deliver what it promised to the religious right. The entire court shifts to the right on this issue.

- Martha Davis

That was one for the ages. There was a winning team but nobody really lost this game. Both goalies were great. Everyone used every player on the bench. We got great shifts from all four lines. This was a special team effort. This was a battle of guts, will and character out there.

- Tim Taylor

Obviously we knew we were going to be playing a lot so we had to keep our shifts short. It`s tough to jump up into a play and get involved in the offense because you just can`t expend too much energy.

- Sean Collins

(Three custodians work eight-hour shifts every night during the school year at Brooks.) There`s 10 people (working) right now, ... more because of the construction.

- Randy Bennett

Being a typical Pisces, I might have experienced mood shifts, but I don`t remember any depression, or needing to do anything, or to have someone bring me out of being depressed.

- Julius Erving

I thought it was a hard-fought game ? real back-and-forth with a lot of momentum shifts. What else could you ask for in a lacrosse game?

- John Hayden

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- Terry Sweeney

This world is clearly emerging before our eyes. The shifts ahead, the opportunities ahead are massive.

- Alan Brody

Art and money are closely related. Try sitting down with a group of artists and ask them what`s on their mind. Very quickly the topic shifts to money. And it can be very hard to get them off that subject.

- Alan Ray

I think what we`ve learned is that the terrorist threat is serious, but it shifts. You cannot make a single person the sole focus of your counterterrorism.

- Amy Baker

This is extremely important. There is a phase shift under way in Congress, which is timely. Many things are coming together with this. If this country is going to survive, it`s going to have to change its ways, without DeLay. This gives the Congress an opportunity to make the necessary policy shifts?without DeLay.

- Anita Dunn

Four meals a day were being served to two shifts for almost two weeks,

- Anne Knutson

It was like a ghost town when we played at home. Everything closed -- barber shops, restaurants, everything would literally close down for the game. Coal mining was what everyone did. People would actually call off their shifts to come and watch us play.

- Ashu Kakkar

We currently run production over two shifts in the body shop, three shifts in the paint shop and operate normal single day shifts for general assembly.

- Autraulia Harris

She would pull double shifts when we were short staffed. She took care of her patients. Never got a complaint on her. Never. Tommy was motivated. Anything he was needed to be done, he got it done.

- Avraham Burg