Kwong was denied employment there because of his ethnicity, so he worked as a hotel bellhop.
For a year or so, he worked mainly in stainless steel, a material whose impersonal, reflective brilliance he found "intoxicating".
Even so, "he worked at strengthening it so that he could attract attention to himself without doing show-biz mannerisms.
Djokovic is the best baseline player in today's game, so he worked to move him out of his comfort zone.
Jack's two companions were sick that day, so he worked alone.
One day, he looked round and thought, "I know I'm better than this", so he worked his guts out and got into Oxford.
In treatment, he discovered that romantic drama had led to his self-destructive drug use, so he worked on learning to cope with heartache.
At the time, there was widespread fear that construction under the street would cause buildings to collapse, so he worked in secret.
"He knew his life would be short, so he worked a lot through the night, painting and drawing, writing poems.
He wanted the widest possible audience, so he worked at mambo, pachanga, Latin boogaloo, salsa, bolero doo-wop, Latin rock; he used hard-hitting percussionists, romantic crooners, soul choruses, electric guitars.
At first, he used Waterman's, but he found that it didn't fade fast enough to simulate hundred-year-old inks, so he worked out a formula of his own, which involved mixing pulverized nutgall or rust filings with water.
