Working It Quotes - Page 11

• I love to work. It's the idea of having someone else tell you how to make your film or how to sell it - that's the part I can't really deal with. I would rather do 1,000 things that are work than deal with one thing that's a political problem.

  Shane Carruth

  Ideas, Political, Problem

  "Shane Carruth, Indiedom's purist, on new movies and old regrets". Interview with Steven Zeitchik, articles.latimes.com. April 10, 2013.

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• I'm never gonna go into a studio and work for a whole year non-stop. Just every day on my own in the studio working, it's just too damn hard.

  Imogen Heap

  Years, Damn, Whole

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• In America, with education and hard work, it really does not matter where you came from; it matters only where you are going.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Hard Work, America, Doe

  Text: Condoleezza Rice at the Republican National Convention, www.washingtonpost.com. August 01, 2000.

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• Passion--it's the driving force that you just can't ignore. It's what will make your new adventure seem more like fun, than work. It's the difference between wanting to start a business and craving it.

  Mac Anderson

  Fun, Adventure, Passion

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• Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption.

  Paul Lafargue

  Pain, Facts, Misery

  Paul Lafargue (2016). “The Right to be Lazy and Other Studies”, p.8, Library of Alexandria

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• When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level.

  Xavier Rudd

  Powerful, Mean, Play

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• Christianity isn't true because it works; it works because it's true.

  Lynn Anderson

  Christianity

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• Keep in mind, you can use Auto-Tune and you can know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to know how to write a good song.

  T-Pain

  Song, Writing, Auto Tune

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• Human connection is the way things work. It's like a patronage system. You know somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows the district governor, and it's okay.

  Ian Frazier

  Connections, Way, Human Connection

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• Fifteen years ago tomorrow I had open heart surgery, a quintuple bypass surgery. Thanks to all of my doctors. Because of them, in 15 years of life I've been able to experience, well, acid reflux, short-term memory loss, and erectile dysfunction. Thanks for all your work. It's great to be alive.

  David Letterman

  Memories, Heart, Loss

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• I think that very often younger writers don't appreciate how much hard work is involved in writing. The part of writing that's magic is the thinnest rind on the world of creation. Most of a writer's life is just work. It happens to be a kind of work that the writer finds fulfilling in the same way that a watchmaker can happily spend countless hours fiddling over the tiny cogs and bits of wire. ... I think the people who end up being writers are people who don't get bored doing that kind of tight focus in small areas.

  Diane Ackerman

  Hard Work, Writing, Thinking

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• If you're going to make a law, make a law that actually works. It's extraordinarily difficult.

  Eric Schmidt

  Law, Difficult, Ifs

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• All the lawyers and the business stuff is work, but actually creating stuff isn't work. It's good effort. It's hard work. But, it's not work. It doesn't feel like work because the result is very rewarding.

  David Copperfield

  Hard Work, Creating, Effort

  "David Copperfield Talks NOW YOU SEE ME on Blu-ray/DVD, His Collaboration on the Film, Drawing Inspiration from Cinema, and Being a Good Showman". Interview with Christina Raddish, collider.com. September 8, 2013.

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• When I'm working, it's great. When I'm not working, it's great.

  Josh Radnor

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.

  David Bowie

  School, Artist, Thinking

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.33, Melville House

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• You want to be in a movie where your part works. That's the main thing. No matter how you beat yourself working on the thing, if it doesn't work, it doesn't work.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Want, Matter, Beats

  "Jeff Goldblum Talks THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL, Being Part of Wes Anderson’s Universe, Preparing for His Role and Its Challenges, MORTDECAI, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. March 20, 2014.

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• I write what I write and I honestly don't care if it gets on or not. I'm writing to see if I can find out some of what I think about any number of situations. I work it out in the writing.

  Larry Gelbart

  Writing, Thinking, Numbers

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• As I work day after day, inspirations from different places go into the work. It's combination, but it's also comparative. I'll be reading two books at the same time that are totally different [and] then have two stories mix together.

  Ali Banisadr

  Inspiration, Reading, Book

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The all-volunteer army works. It works particularly when we pay our troops well.

  George W. Bush

  Army, Volunteer, Troops

  George W. Bush at the second Presidential Debate in St. Louis, Missouri, www.cnn.com. October 9, 2004.

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• To know how to structure the joke perfectly so that the narrative information is given in the right tempo, in just the right dose - it sometimes takes quite a lot of work. It seems easy when you hear the joke.

  David Salle

  Narrative, Information, Sometimes

  Interview with David Salle, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 9, 2013.

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• Society never progresses because the majority one day wakes up and says, “Let’s do things differently.” The majority didn’t wake up and say, “Oh, let’s just free the slaves.” ... Society always progressed because a relatively small group of people — usually considered outrageous radicals by the status quo of their time — had a better idea and articulated another way. That’s simply how evolution works; it’s the mutation — the member of the species who does things differently - that points the way to the future because they’re better adapted for survival.

  Marianne Williamson

  Ideas, People, Survival

  "Marianne Williamson on Consciousness, Women and Politics". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2012.

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• I'm a good counter comedian. I can just work it off with looks, or have something crazy to say back. That works for me.

  Ice Cube

  Crazy, Comedian, Looks

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 12, 2014.

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• It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.

  Epictetus

  Men, One Day, Principles

  Epictetus “The Golden Sayings of Epictetus”, Lulu.com

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• If one is the kind of creature I am and wants to do the kind of writing I want to do, an undisturbed bourgeois existence with no distractions seems in order. A single meeting outside the family upsets one's whole inner web, makes one start off on two-days' thinking and weighing, destroys a delicate balance etc. etc. ... I now have enough friends to last me a lifetime and that is enough. I am going to close the doors and hibernate at least for a couple of years. I am frightfully depressed about my work. It seems to me perfectly mediocre.

  May Sarton

  Couple, Writing, Thinking

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• Keep everybody out your business, that's how you do it. And I mean everybody. It ain't about having a relationship outside of the house. It's about having a relationship within each other. When something go down don't be calling your sister or your mother; I'm not gonna be calling my brother or uncles. We're gonna work it out.

  Ice Cube

  Mother, Brother, Uncles

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