Working It Quotes - Page 20

• Screenplays are not writing. They're a fake form of writing. It's a lot of dialogue and very little atmosphere. Very little description. Very little character work. It's very dangerous. You'll never learn to write.

  Ray Bradbury

  Character, Writing, Fake

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.181, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• That's how a good story works. It changes how you feel. It brings you to a greater appreciation, a greater joy, of your own existence.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Appreciation, Joy, How You Feel

  Source: www.lightspeedmagazine.com

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• My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life. So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.

  Al Pacino

  Joy, Grandfather, Kind

  Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino (2008). “Al Pacino”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Attention is a strange sort of being, anyway, the idea of attention if someone appreciates your work. It's always nice that someone appreciates your work.

  Johnny Depp

  Nice, Ideas, Appreciate

  "Johnny Depp dishes Rango". www.sheknows.com. March 01, 2011.

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• In my work, it's simultaneously realities, instead of parallel. Simultaneous avoids the problem of alternate reality. In parallel reality, there's always a hierarchy, and there doesn't necessarily have to be a hierarchy. When you're in a palace like Blenheim, you're supposed to be in awe - why not be in awe of something different than the stuff they're showing you? It's about finding your own existential place.

  Lawrence Weiner

  Reality, Why Not, Alternate Realities

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Life is continued work. It's constant learning. The whole concept of retirement I don't even buy into. We should constantly be working. Maybe not physically working, but we could be spiritually, emotionally working toward bettering ourselves and bettering the lives of others around us.

  Lauryn Hill

  Retirement, Life Is, Should

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• When my films don't work it's usually because I tried some very experimental idea. I tried new ideas and they just didn't work, as opposed to trying to do something conventional and having it be so conventional nobody wanted to see it.

  George Lucas

  Ideas, Trying, Film

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• Prayer can come in only when fasting has done its work. It can make fasting easy and bearable.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Fasting, Done

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• I don't know why the world has changed so much that writers are now expected to appear in public and talk about their work. It's something I find very difficult. And yet, one does have some sense of responsibility towards one's publishers, to the people trying to sell the book.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Book, Responsibility, People

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• In the general sense, there's a journey to be had. You either start at the top or the bottom for a journey to happen. Our movie has to start at the top and work it's way down. Or start at the bottom and work it's way up.

  David Duchovny

  Journey, Way, Bottom

  "David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson Re-Open The X-Files". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. February 26, 2008.

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• If something ain't working, it ain't working. You can't stick with it.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

  Sticks, Ifs

  Source: collider.com

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• And above all, above all, honest work must be rewarded by a fair and just tax system. The tax system today does not reward hard work: it penalizes it. Inherited or invested wealth frequently multiplies itself while paying no taxes at all. But wages on the assembly line or in farming the land, these hard-earned dollars are taxed to the very last penny.

  George McGovern

  Hard Work, Land, Lines

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• Fame invades your private life. It takes away from the time that you spend with friends, and the time that you can work. It tends to isolate you from the real world.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Real, World, Fame

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• When you finish a thing you ought to be able to say to yourself: 'There, I am willing to stand for that piece of work. It is not pretty well done; it is done as well as I can do it; done to a complete finish. I will stand for that. I am willing to be judged by it.'

  Orison Swett Marden

  Done, Pieces, Able

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “An Iron Will, He Can Who Thinks He Can & Pushing To The Front (Wisdom & Empowerment Series): How to Achieve Self-Reliance Which Leads to Vigorous Self-Faith, Personal Growth & Success”, p.388, e-artnow

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• And then there are difficulties. Computers are famous for difficulties. A difficulty is just a blockage from progress. You have to try a lot of things. When you finally find what works, it doesn't tell you a thing. It won't be the same tomorrow. Getting the computer to work is so often dealing with difficulties.

  Ward Cunningham

  Progress, Trying, Tomorrow

  "The Simplest Thing that Could Possibly Work". Interview with Bill Venners, www.artima.com. January 19, 2004.

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• We take fabulousness for granted sometimes. We forget what hard work it is. Indeed, when you consider the grueling hours your average celebrity puts in on the movie set and in the recording studio, when you think of them returning to their mansions so dead tired their drivers have to help them out of the car, well, it just makes you want to cry.

  Leonard Pitts

  Hard Work, Tired, Thinking

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• I'm surrounded by a lot of live-action movie professionals, and I'm just taking their lead, as far as what to schedule to do next. I'm guessing the challenge is going to be not having two characters together, and shooting the live-action without having the animation. In animation, you get to get in between every frame and you work it all out together.

  Chris Wedge

  Character, Two, Challenges

  "Director Chris Wedge Talks EPIC, the Road to Finally Getting a Greenlight, the Oscars, Branching into Live-Action with MONSTER TRUCKS, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 15, 2013.

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• From film to film, even documentaries, I was learning the medium and learning how to bring form into some kind of relationship with the content, how to work it, and above all, how to create some kind of order out of chaos.

  Pawel Pawlikowski

  Order, Documentaries, Chaos

  "Writer/Director Pawel Pawlikowski Talks IDA, Returning to Poland, His Visual Style, Shooting in Black in White, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. May 1, 2014.

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• Whatever grade I get, even though I do try my best, I'll be happy with. I feel so lucky to have done all the jobs I've done to this point. So, if I continue to work it will be amazing. But I'm going to see how it goes.

  Yasmin Paige

  Jobs, Trying, Lucky

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• When I first started working it was as if I didn't understand myself. The fact that I didn't understand myself was tied up with not understanding where I came from, where I began.

  Rirkrit Tiravanija

  Understanding, Firsts, Facts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient's belief.

  Hippocrates

  Prayer, Amulets, Belief

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• If my forward arrives in a one vs one situation, I always say: 'let him work it out.' Then my players say: But we can help him!'. My reply is: First, there's a good chance you'll only run in his way, and as a second attacker you're drawing a second defender with you, and two vs two is harder than one vs one.'

  Johan Cruijff

  Running, Player, Two

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• Really, voice-over IS great. If it paid as much as on camera work, it's all I'd ever do.

  Diedrich Bader

  Voice, Cameras, Paid

  "Collider Confirms Rumors: BATMAN BRAVE AND THE BOLD to Feature Green Lantern Guy Gardener!". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. August 18, 2008.

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• First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design work. It's what I love.

  Nate Berkus

  Book, Design Work, Television

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• If you are a leader, the true measure of your success is not getting people to work. It's not getting people to work hard. It is getting people to work hard together. That takes commitment.

  John C. Maxwell

  Hard Work, Commitment, People

  John C. Maxwell (2014). “Good Leaders Ask Great Questions: Your Foundation for Successful Leadership”, p.37, Hachette UK

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