Working It Quotes - Page 37

• When I started understanding how science works, it occurred to me that there just is no evidence that there is a God.

  Ben Bova

  Understanding, Evidence

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• I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say that I've read very little of David Foster Wallace's work. It's a huge gap in my education, one of many.

  Ben Fountain

  Littles, Gaps, Ashamed

  "Interview with Ben Fountain, Author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 30, 2012.

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• To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.

  Eudora Welty

  Writing, Story Writers, Doe

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• I went out a couple of times with Pierce. He's totally recognizable, and he makes no effort to tone it down. Some people were glancing over at us in the restaurant, and he just went over and introduced himself. And it does work. It dissipates all the attention. Me? I just crawl under the table.

  Robert Pattinson

  Couple, People, Effort

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• As a working actor, all I want to do is work. That's it. It's terrifying when you don't work. It's very hard when you don't work. There have been times when I've been out of work for like six months. I feel theatre to me is like manna.

  Sandra Oh

  Hard Times, Scary, Theatre

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• I never even wanted to be an actress. I studied mass communication and wanted to study law in Newcastle, for which I even got a scholarship. But by then, I had started modelling. So, I took a year off to decide what to do. But once you are used to working, it's difficult to get back to studies.

  Esha Gupta

  Communication, Years, Law

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• I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It's horrible.

  Ava DuVernay

  Prison, Horrible, Abolitionist

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

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• I do think my old fella wasn't much of a... I don't remember him ever being a 'dad' dad. He was too busy working. It was a hard life, man.

  Noel Gallagher

  Dad, Men, Thinking

  "The Gallagher interview in full". www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2005.

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• Stop judging life! Look at every event as blessed. It is offering you the fastest track to get onto your highest, happiest and most successful state. Your soul is working it all out perfectly. When you accept this you will make life amendments easily and lovingly. Then the pain stops and the joyous creation begins.

  Melanie

  Pain, Blessed, Successful

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• Movies are magical. Sometimes it just works, it catalyzes, and everything falls into place, and no one knows exactly how or why.

  Roman Coppola

  Fall, Sometimes, Knows

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Marriage can be work, it can be difficult, it can be hard, but I think working through those times makes you stronger as a couple and as a unit.

  Brian Littrell

  Couple, Thinking, Stronger

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• What a lot of work it was to found the Roman race.

  Virgil

  Latin, Race, Found

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• I'm so an all-or-nothing person in dating, always. I'm big on not wasting time. And so, yeah, if something's not working, it's time to not hold people back.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  People, Dating, Wasting Time

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Making movies is not rocket science. It's about relationships and communication and strangers coming together to see if they can get along harmoniously, productively, and creatively. That's a challenge. When it works, it's fantastic and will lift you up. When it doesn't work, it's almost just as fascinating.

  Julia Roberts

  Communication, Challenges, Together

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• Most of the time you don't even know they're there. Now, that's the scary thing. It's really strange and invading, but I'm still working it all out. I try to not let it bother me. And if I want to swim naked in my pool, I'm still going to do it. I certainly don't want to feel that I have to change everything in my life that I do to cater to them. I just won't let it happen.

  Heath Ledger

  Scary, Swim, Trying

  National Post, May 2001.

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• I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Funny, Work, Humorous

  Three Men in a Boat ch. 15 (1889)

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• Many women have made the mistake of changing their beliefs to accommodate their work; it must be the other way around. No circumstance is so unusual that it demands a double standard or separates us from our faith. No matter how fast the world changes, exemplary values must remain constant.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Mistake, Double Standard, World

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• A building is hard to judge. It takes many years to find out whether it works. It's not as simple as asking the people in the office whether they like it.

  Helmut Jahn

  Simple, Years, People

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• Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Anger, Trying, Comedy

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• When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.

  Lady Gaga

  Strange, Breathe, Gaga

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• It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

  Alan Arkin

  Doubt, Done, Murder

  "Alan Arkin: Random Advice from an Older Gentleman". www.esquire.com. January 31, 2013.

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• Whatever I decide will not work.  It's what people want that will work.  So no one decided whether you become a vegetarian or anything else.  What determines that is the availability of food.  If we run out of vegetation due to floods or natural disasters, people will consume meat and if we run out of meat they will consume vegetables.  I have no control over that.  That would be up to people.

  Jacque Fresco

  Running, Vegetables, Availability

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• I have no plans to retire. It's the perfect combination of work and play that keeps you young. If I quit work it would be the beginning of the end for me.

  Hugh Hefner

  Play, Perfect, Would Be

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• I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.

  Harold Ramis

  Respect, Self, Laziness

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May - November 2005.

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• It is that fundamental belief, it is that fundamental belief, I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper that makes this country work. It’s what allows us to pursue our individual dreams and yet still come together as one American family. E pluribus unum. Out of many, one.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Country, Brother

  2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 27 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

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