Tamora Pierce Quotes

I class myself as a manual laborer.

My dad had this rock hard body and would work 12- to 13-hour days. The guys he worked with were scrap-iron guys. Nobody on that road crew had read a book in 10 years, but there was something about the way they lived I really admired.

I've always been a blue collar guy, and I think it shows in my body of work and the way my career has developed.

I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow.

A lot of what we do at Fox is blue-collar stuff.

Dad was a machinist who had to work hard - harder than any man I have ever known.

I like being outside and I like hard work.

I'm a working man in my prime cleaning windows.

I come from a pretty working-class neighborhood in Chicago. Hard work was just expected of you. It wasn't some noble thing you did; it was a prerequisite. It's what a man did. You get up, you put on your boots, and you work hard. We've lost a lot of that, I'm afraid.

My family were really hard-working, blue-collar people, and I didn't know the idea or concept of working and having fun. I thought you just worked and made money to support your family.

To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.

People say writing is really hard. That's very unfair to those who are doing real jobs. People who work in the fields or fix roofs, engineers, or car mechanics. I think lying on your back working under an oily car, that's a job.

I was working on boats as a teenager, sweating like a pig during a summer job.

I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.

There was a time when you could make a living by the sweat of your brow. Those days are over!

I was raised as a real worker: you know, you get out and get a real job.

Only by the sweat of my own brow. I am a totally working man.

All of the guys I know from Jersey held onto this feeling of, 'We're always just working.'

Me, I'm a working-class man, and I go to my job, put in the work, and walk away clean and unscathed, and I like it that way.

I come from south Louisiana where everyone has a blue-collar work ethic.

I've never felt like a pop star - this is a nine-to-five sort of gig. It comes from working in the factories, that world. You don't forget it.

I figure I can be artistic, but I work like a blue-collar person, too, and I'm serious about that.

He that hath a trade hath an estate; and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them.

I think a lot of blue collar people related to me because a lot of people work for their money.