Working It Quotes - Page 30

• Military is a great place for a jock. That's the first thing they test you, they test you physically. If you can run, if you can do the pushups, it's not as hard a transition. If you can't do that, you're going to have a problem because they're going to really work it out of you or work it into you.

  Ice T

  Running, Military, Transition

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• You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.

  Gary Cole

  Cylinders, Results, Knows

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• Yeah, well when I first started working, it was $5 a show; it was probably a little higher by the time I got to my own show, but I remember that they put me under contract at $100 a week, which to me was really an astronomical price.

  Jim Henson

  Littles, Firsts, Remember

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• When I work, it can be a 16-hour day.

  Linda Evangelista

  Hours

  "Shorter cuts: news doesn't get any smaller". www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2012.

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• Eat what you want to eat, but just be willing to pay the price. If you know you want to eat more cake or more cookies, be willing to work out a lil bit more. I think that's the problem people have is you want to eat bad, but yet you don't want to pay the price to work it off.

  Herschel Walker

  Thinking, Pay The Price, Cake

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• Activism, to me, I don't know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for me.

  Tommy Chong

  Doe, May, Activism

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• I'm very happy I get to keep working - it's an insanely fortunate thing.

  Hank Azaria

  Very Happy, Fortunate

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• For me, writing never gets easier. It's always hard work. It doesn't matter how many words you wrote the day before, or how many novels you've completed in the last decade: every day you start fresh again with that same blank page, or that same blank screen.

  Lincoln Child

  Hard Work, Writing, Pages

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• I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.

  Samantha Bee

  Thinking, People, Shy

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• Big government doesn't work! It just doesn't work!

  Lou Barletta

  Government, Bigs, Big Government

  "The end of the GSA? House committee chair: We've seen only the 'tip of the iceberg'". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. April 17, 2012.

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• The Recovery Act is working, but it's going to continue to work. It's not over. A lot's going to happen this summer. And even after the summer, there's more to come with the act.

  Joe Biden

  Summer, Recovery, Happens

  "Gov. Tim Kaine on Recovery Summer, Midterm Elections". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. September 5, 2010.

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• I have been in the business long enough to know what an intense amount of work it takes to operate a theater company.

  Demian Bichir

  Long, Intense, Enough

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• What has changed is that when I photographed, most people that I photographed didn't have the right of refusal on their work. It would take a Marilyn Monroe at her height to be able to dictate that.

  Eve Arnold

  People, Height, Able

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• I have a website because it's an interesting tool, very - and quite unexpectedly - useful for my work. It's become an archive and a fairly complete on-line portfolio, as well as offering an opportunity to write a little.

  John Howe

  Writing, Opportunity, Offering

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• I believe that we all need to do charitable work. It should be taken seriously in the area of education, as someone from the industry.

  Goldie

  Believe, Taken, Charitable Work

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• I am an actress, I earn money, I am well-known. I don't think it is altruism to become engaged in humanitarian work. It's the least one can do.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Thinking, Actresses, Well Known

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Art, Passion, Joy

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• It is stern work, it is perilous work, to thrust your hand in the sun
  And pull out a spark of immortal flame to warm the hearts of men:
  But Prometheus, torn by the claws and beaks whose task is never done, would be tortured another eternity to go stealing fire again.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Heart, Men, Fire

  Joyce Kilmer (1917). “Main Street, and Other Poems”

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• Once I started working, it became better and better. I really felt that I was back into the work. I was glad I was alive. Just being able to draw and paint - even if I can't walk - is worth living for.

  John Newman

  Gratitude, Alive, Able

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• If you stick to your work it will take care of you somehow.

  Kiki Smith

  Determination, Care, Sticks

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• I trust my work. It's a collaboration with the material, and when it's viewed, it's a collaboration with the world.

  Kiki Smith

  Collaboration, World, Materials

  Siri Engberg, Kiki Smith, Linda Nochlin, Walker Art Center, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2005). “Kiki Smith: a gathering, 1980-2005”

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• I have a hard time waking up. No alarm clock works! It sounds childish, but I seriously have my manager, my mom or a buddy of mine wake me up if I have to be somewhere. It's a serious issue! I've been very late for some serious gigs because of it!

  Jesse McCartney

  Mom, Hard Times, Issues

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

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• If you work it will lead to something. It's the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things.

  Corita Kent

  Work, People, Ifs

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• I love America. We've got the only system that works - it keeps everyone hustling.

  J. R. Simplot

  America, Achievement, Hustle

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• You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Being Happy, Unhappy, Kind

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