Working It Quotes - Page 29

• I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field of law. They may have faded from view over the last couple of decades, but they are fighting the good fight.

  Tayari Jones

  Couple, Fighting, Thinking

  "Tayari Jones Knows Why She Sings". Interview with Ru Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 09, 2012.

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• The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out.

  Solomon Burke

  Grace, Secret, Being Cool

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• Maybe people have no idea how much work is behind a picture. It can seem very effortless but there is a lot of work. It’s exactly like doing ballet. It’s hours and hours but when you go onstage it’s just the pleasure of dancing.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Ideas, People, Dancing

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• Everybody believes in innovation until they see it. Then they think, 'Oh, no; that'll never work. It's too different.'

  Nolan Bushnell

  Believe, Thinking, Innovation

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• I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.

  Truman Capote

  Fake People, Writing, Reality

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.70, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I feel like I am campaigning door to door. You just can't step out of a band like Brooks & Dunn and assume that it is just going to be business as usual. You have to work it. It does feel like a campaign where you would have Obama, Romney, or Newt beating the bushes right now. That's what I'm having to do.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Doors, Usual, Doe

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• Things have slowed down considerably since the new series has started airing and I am currently looking for work. It has been a nice year-long vacation nonetheless.

  Rob Mariano

  Nice, Vacation, Years

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• I'm interested in reaching the masses with my work. It's one of my goals.

  Ryan McGinley

  Goal, Reaching, Mass

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• Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our cities safe, it doesn't educate our children properly.

  Harry Browne

  Children, Simple, Government

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• The classic, quote/unquote, craft of songwriting still works; it still is relevant.

  Ryan Tedder

  Crafts, Classic, Relevant

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• I've always been happy just to be working. It doesn't really matter for me how many people are familiar with my name or my picture, or whatever.

  Michael Shannon

  Names, People, Matter

  "Michael Shannon Talks BOARDWALK EMPIRE, MAN OF STEEL, and Future Projects" by Christina Radish, collider.com. October 31, 2011.

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• Buffy the Vampire Slayer showed the whole world, and an entire sprawling industry, that writing monsters and demons and end-of-the-world is not hack-work, it can challenge the best. Joss Whedon raised the bar for every writer - not just genre or niche writers, but every single one of us.

  Russell T Davies

  Writing, Challenges, Vampire

  "Mindy Newell: It Was Twenty Years Ago Today…". www.comicmix.com. April 3, 2017.

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• I would say most comedians have a very cynical worldview of the way the world can work. It's almost like if you didn't, you couldn't be a comedian.

  Colin Quinn

  Cynical, Comedian, World

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• As a producer you have creative control, and that's what is so exciting about it. At the end of the day, if you have made a film it's totally your responsibility, and if it works it's your responsibility and if it doesn't it's also your responsibility.

  Teresa Palmer

  Responsibility, Creative, The End Of The Day

  "Teresa Palmer Producing A 'Very Angelina Jolie'-Like Project About Big Pharma; DreamWorks in Talks" by Oliver Lyttelton, www.indiewire.com. July 11, 2011.

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• My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company.

  Larry Page

  Thinking, Iron, Grandfather

  "How Google's Larry Page became a responsible entrepreneur" by Carol Sanford, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2014.

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• Work takes up a lot of my brain space. So when I work, it's one thing. I don't have a lot of time to think about dating.

  Chris Pine

  Thinking, Space, Dating

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• The joy of 'Crash' was that it was all about the work. It was my first real part. Before that, it was a line here and there, maybe a scene. 'Crash' was five scenes, a beautiful arc, a little vignette of my own. It really meant something.

  Michael Pena

  Beautiful, Real, Joy

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It's such a strange and fascinating country, and instead of learning about it through a textbook, I would rather discover its history and traditions and institutions through fiction and nonfiction writers.

  Hope Davis

  Country, Cities, United States

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Memories, Writing, Giving

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• I believe that earning your living doing something you enjoy is one of the very best ways to nourish yourself. But even if you are employed at something that is not your ideal work, it is important to find ways to take as much pleasure in it as possible. Living in the present moment can make ordinary activities more interesting and joyful; you may be surprised, if you only look, at what you will find. If you try to stay connected with why you are doing what you are doing, for example, then even the parts of your life that aren't especially interesting can become more meaningful.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Meaningful, Work, Believe

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• I've always felt England was a great place for a comic to work. It's an island and the audience can't run very far.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Running, Humorous

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• I think of her every time I judge myself or someone else too harshly. How do we really know the worth of our work? It's not our job to judge the worth of what we offer the world, but to keep offering it regardless. You might never know the true worth of your efforts. Or it could simply be too soon to tell.

  Regina Brett

  Jobs, Thinking, Offering

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• When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Business, Bed, Needs

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• If you marry the wrong person for the wrong reasons, then no matter how hard you work, it's never going to work, because then you have to completely change yourself, completely change them, completely - by that time, you're both dead.

  Anne Bancroft

  Matter, Wrong Person, Reason

  The Associated Press interview, 1997.

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• I loved Luke Skywalker and I loved Darth Vader and I loved watching them work it out.

  David Fincher

  Vader, Luke

  "David Fincher: The Complex Mind of 'Social Network's' Anti-Social Director" by Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 2, 2011.

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