Working It Quotes - Page 34

• I like people who are working on practical things and who are working in teams. It's not so important to get the glory. It's much more important to get something that works. It's a better way to live.

  Freeman Dyson

  Team, People, Important

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• I've heard that Alfred Hitchcock said that by the time he was ready to shoot a film, he didn't even want to do it any more because he'd already had all of the fun of working it out. It's the same thing with these Frank comics.

  Jim Woodring

  Time, Fun, Want

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

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• I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of it. However, this is the first attempt I have ever made & yet I perceive I shall soon & easily acquire a fine facility in its use. ... The machine has several virtues. I believe it will print faster than I can write. One may lean back in his chair & work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around. Of course it saves paper.

  Mark Twain

  Believe, Writing, Typewriters

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• I find the light and work it, work it, work it.

  Janice Dickinson

  Light

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• At best, the relationship between drama critic and playwright is a pretty twiggy affair. When I'm asked whom I write for, after the obligatory, I write only for myself, I realize that I have an imaginary circle of peers - writers and respected or savvy theatre folk, some dramatic writers and some not, some living, some long gone. . . . Often a writer is aware as he works that a certain critic is going to hate this one. . . . You don't let what a critic might say worry you or alter your work; it might even add a spark to the gleeful process of creation.

  Lanford Wilson

  Hate, Drama, Writing

  "The Critic On My Shoulder" by Lanford Wilson, www.nytimes.com. December 29, 1996.

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• Work done for the Self gives no bondage. Neither desire pleasure nor fear pain from work. It is the mind and body that work, not I. Tell yourself this unceasingly and realise it. Try not to know that you work.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Pain, Self, Giving

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

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• He was an Afghan Hound name Kabul. Since him I have had other Afghan Hounds.... Perhaps I am looking for his ghost. He is the only one that I sometimes think about. Often, if he comes in to my mind when I am working, it alters what I do. The nose on the face I am drawing gets longer and sharper. The hair of the woman I am sketching gets longer and fluffy, resting against her cheeks like his ears rested against his head.

  Pablo Picasso

  Dog, Thinking, Hair

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• You've got to realize that in any competition there is always a winner and loser. When it turns out that you're the loser on a given day, you can be a graceful loser, but it doesn't mean that you're a loser in the sense that you're willing to accept losses readily. Concede that on that day you weren't the best and that you were beaten in competition. But that should make you more dedicated and hard working. It's wrong to accept defeat as a loser. Be graceful about losing, but don't accept it.

  Nolan Ryan

  Leadership, Sports, Hard Work

  Nolan Ryan, Joe Torre, Joel H. Cohen (1977). “Pitching & hitting”, Prentice Hall

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• Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise.

  Claire Danes

  Exercise, Discipline, People

  Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2012.

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• As soon as I step on that stage, nothing matters. I don't think of it as work. It's just so much fun.

  Miley Cyrus

  Fun, Thinking, Matter

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• Hosting is work. It means you don't get to go up to your room and disappear and take a nap. Like everybody else does after lunch. I'm talking about hosting, not hosting a dinner party, but hosting people staying in your home.

  George Clooney

  Party, Home, Mean

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• Motherhood is an amazing feeling, and if you get to relive those special moments while working, it works as an icing on the cake. Kids have always been close to my heart, and working with them is a pleasure for me.

  Kajol

  Heart, Kids, Motherhood

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• I was terrified to do 'G.I. Joe.' I had no idea how to do one of those movies. I was kind of scared. You know, if one of those doesn't work, it's a huge hit on your career. People are like, 'Well he couldn't make a $170 million movie work. I don't want him in my film.'

  Channing Tatum

  Careers, Ideas, People

  "Channing Tatum Interview DEAR JOHN, Plus Info on Dito Montiel’s SON OF NO ONE and THE EAGLE OF THE NINTH". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. January 31, 2010.

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• Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.

  Michel Foucault

  Mean, Justice, Doe

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• The red carpet is not something I really know how to work. It intimidates me. I feel very tiny.

  Vanessa Paradis

  Red, Tiny, Intimidating

  "What intimidates Johnny and Vanessa?". www.express.co.uk. October 9, 2008.

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• I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.

  Sally Hawkins

  Art, Lucky, Actors

  "Lady luck" by Maddy Costa, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2008.

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• Recessions are the best time to start a company. Companies fail. Others hold back capital. If you are willing to do the preparation and work, it is the best time to invest in yourself and start a business.

  Mark Cuban

  Business, Preparation, Failing

  Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com.

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• It's one thing in this business to actually work. 5 percent of the Screen Actors' Guild works. It's another thing to do work that's satisfying and that people are loving.

  Julianna Margulies

  People, Actors, Things To Do

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• I drink maple syrup. Then I'm hyper so I just run around like crazy and work it all off.

  Rachel McAdams

  Running, Crazy, Syrup

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• If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.

  Thomas Huxley

  Mean, Men, Hands

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxley (1900). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”

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• The secret to it all is just to enjoy what you're doing. This is not working at the coal face, this is not sweeping behind a restaurant. It's work, but it's not work. It gives me a different type of energy. I'm grateful for that.

  LL Cool J

  Grateful, Giving, Secret

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• It's impossible to make a movie out of 'Naked Lunch.' A literal translation just wouldn't work. It would cost $400 million to make and would be banned in every country of the world.

  David Cronenberg

  Country, Countries Of The World, Lunch

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• Some people have a terrible stretch between family and work. It is a difficult thing to achieve.

  Julie Walters

  People, Achieve, Difficult

  "Julie Walters: An actress in her prime". Interview with James Mottram, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2001.

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• Church is missing transcendence. My generation was raised on a religion of moral control. Do this. Don't do that. And a lot of self-help religion. Feel better. Get out of debt. Six ways to overcome your fears. Seven ways not to lust. Ultimately that message didn't work. It was empty. There was no transcendence. The omniscient, omnipresent, all-powerful God of the universe wasn't the focus.

  Matt Chandler

  Powerful, Feel Better, Self

  Source: skyejethani.com

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• But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Destiny, Challenges, Society

  The Great Society, delivered 22 May 1964, Ann Arbor, MI

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