"I always keep moments that were defining for me in my past and challenged me in my past - from getting evicted out of my apartment when I was 14 years old, to being cut from the CFL [Canadian Football League] and only having 7 bucks in my pocket, to bouts with depression - I keep moments like that very close to me because it continues to be great motivators for me. It helps keep me grounded, and it's a good reminder of how things work, and I never want to go back to that."

"I stopped working a few years ago because I just lost a spark that I'd had before. I thought I'd just try writing, and maybe start directing, but I did it very quietly."

"I love working, I'd be dead if I hadn't found myself as an actor I didn't have to be successful."

"I have a great, great company. I employ thousands of people. And I'm very proud of the job I did."

"I always look at it that I work with my employees as opposed to them working for me."

"Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders."

"My industry colleagues and I remain eager to work with the Department to support the homeland security mission. We look forward to working with you to pursue opportunities for technology to make cyberspace, and the homeland, more secure."

"We must be prepared to face our responsibilities and be willing to use force if necessary."

"You can't get work without working."

"I had worked my whole life. Until I became a mother, that's the only way I measured my value."

"My perfect day is to work incredibly well in the morning and write something wonderful, then take the dog for a walk and go for a swim in the ladies' ponds on Hampstead Heath or work in my allotment. Then I get tarted up in the evening and go out in London to dinner or the cinema."

"My first novel, 'You Must be Sisters,' was started in Pakistan. I've wrote several novels and a TV drama set or partly-set there."

"I know what it's like to struggle for cash. When I went to drama school, I worked as a chambermaid to make ends meet."

"It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there "so "I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake. They live all over Cornwall and all over Devon."

"I had to wrestle daily with both my inadequacy and my uncontrollable jealousy. I didn't want to kill her, but hoped someone else might do the job for me."

"Clatter of a typewriter suggests that you're actually building something."

"In other parts of the country people tried to stay together for the sake of the children. In New York they tried to work things out for the sake of the apartment."

"Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance."

"One hand has surely worked throughout the universe."

"I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse."

"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."

"Inspiration comes of working every day."

"In Russia I went to a great yeshiva, and in America I work in a carnival."

"Every time we sit at a table at night or in the morning to enjoy the fruits and grain and vegetables from our good earth, remember that they come from the work of men and women and children who have been exploited for generations…"