Working It Quotes - Page 7

• If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.

  Albert Ellis

  Mean, Irrational, Ifs

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• It's about mass immigration at a time when 21% of young people can't find work. It's about giving £50 million a day to the EU when the public finances are under great strain.

  Nigel Farage

  People, Giving, Immigration

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• If you do good work, it tends to stick around. People still come up to me and say, "'The Ref' is my favorite Christmas movie."

  Denis Leary

  People, Sticks, My Favorite

  "'Rescue Me': A Final (Quite Funny) Conversation". The Hollywood Reporter Interview, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 6, 2011.

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• If you're a fan of my work and I'm a fan of your work, it just seems logical for us to work on something together.

  Ali Shirazinia

  Together, Fans, Logical

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• Now that other people have my works, it's really important to me that what they have has longevity.

  Patricia Piccinini

  People, Important, Longevity

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

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• I work very fast and steadily, and I don't hardly ever notice that I'm working. It feels like just breathing or walking when I do films.

  Werner Herzog

  Breathing, Film, Feels

  "Werner Herzog Talks Teaching Lock-Picking, Being A Living Legend And 'Into The Abyss'". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.indiewire.com. November 14, 2011.

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• Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

  Mark Twain

  Peace, Thinking, Race

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.504, Courier Corporation

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• Some readers and commentators really want to scrape your insides out to make sense of your work. Others say, there's the work, it speaks for itself. Personally, I fall somewhere in the middle.

  J. K. Rowling

  Fall, Want, Speak

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• So it sort of dawned on me that you have to build into your work the fact that it's going to be shown in different kinds of places and different kinds of light. And the fact that the surroundings and where you're going to be shown is always changing, so that should really not affect the meaning of the work. It should be part of what the work is about.

  Robert Barry

  Light, Different, Facts

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)

  Mercedes Lackey

  Stupid, Ifs

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• What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few weeks; or if it seems good at all you are convinced that it is the last you will be able to write; and if it seems bad you wonder whether everything you have done isn’t poor stuff really; and it is one kind of agony while you are writing, and another kind when you aren’t.

  T. S. Eliot

  Writing, Agony, Trying

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• Feelings are facts. Look straight at 'em and deal with 'em. Work it through, as honestly as you can. If God is anything like a middle-class white chick from the suburbs, which I admit is a long shot, it's what you do about what you feel that matters.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Class, White, Long

  Mary Doria Russell (1996). “The Sparrow”, Random House

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• I need what I'm thinking to come out into the world, even if it's a two-word approval, like, "Yeah, I agree," I need that approval so that in the morning I can get up and use that when I go to work. It's a weird version of focusing.

  Anton Yelchin

  Morning, Thinking, Two

  Source: waytooindie.com

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• Someday, the realm of liberty and justice will encompass the planet. Freedom is not just the birthright of the few, it is the God-given right of all His children, in every country. It won't come by conquest. It will come, because freedom is right and freedom works. It will come, because cooperation and good will among free people will carry the day.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Children, People

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• That’s how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It re-creates some forgotten terror. Something we’d like to think we’ve grown beyond. But it can still scare us to tears. It’s something you’d hoped was healed.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Thinking, Echoes, Scary Stories

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• Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.

  Dean Koontz

  Pieces, Desperate, Humans

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• Criticism shouldn't be a performance that upstages the work it's talking about.

  Darryl Pinckney

  Talking, Criticism, Performances

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2016.

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• Film work is hard work. It's long days, and quite often quite dismaying locations you have to be in.

  Joanna Lumley

  Hard Work, Long, Location

  "The Women of Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie on Killing Kate Moss and Wooing Jon Hamm". Interview with Anna Silman, www.thecut.com. June 30, 2016.

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• I am convinced Pope Francis' Exhortation can help. The effort must be made to read it because an exhortation can only help if you know it. It is valuable to know the work. It is so rich and I can only encourage our pastors and our communities to work on it, study it, read it, and taste the joy of this beautiful document.

  Christoph Schonborn

  Beautiful, Effort, Community

  "Cardinal Schonborn on 'Amoris Laetitia': Pope Francis Knows What He Is Talking About". Interview with Deborah Castellano Lubov, zenit.org. April 12, 2016.

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• When I'm in touch with the idea that there is a higher power and that there is, you know, other factors at work, it - it kind of quells my narcissism.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Ideas, Kind, Narcissism

  "Comic Jim Gaffigan On Stand-Up, Faith And Opening For The Pope". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 24, 2015.

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• Advertising agencies come to you and they are great fans, they are great creative people themselves, but they ask you to do something, and you say, "Well, we will, we'll create something together." And it is work. It's like you're doing something and they're saying, "Change this" and "Change that." It's not hard, horrible work, but creatively it's not just freedom.

  Wayne Coyne

  Agency, People, Creative

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• The more you love, the more loving you become. That's just the way it works. It is a generosity of spirit.

  Jean Houston

  Generosity, Loving You, Way

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• You know that the formula is askew when even if the formula is working, it's not; when even if everything's going right, something is wrong.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Formulas, Knows, Ifs

  "A Revolution Is What's Called For Here" by Neale Donald Walsch, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• Consider surgeons and their work. It's unthinkable to put your hands in the warm blood of another human's gut. Even with rubber gloves on. Who'd want to do that? But surgeons get over it.

  Park Dietz

  Blood, Hands, Gloves

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• It's tough though because of the whole part about getting sponsors and people out to watch women's cycling. I think the only way that women can really work it is that we have to work our way more into these big grand tours that the men have like the Tour de Georgia, Tour of Utah, and Tour of California.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Men, Thinking, Cycling

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