Work In Progress Quotes - Page 3

• This city, all they want us to be is ourselves. You love us how we are. We’re all a work in progress as men and you still love us and I thank you so much for embracing us.

  Kevin Durant

  Men, Mvp, Nba

  Kevin Durant's MVP Acceptance Speech, newsok.com. May 13, 2014.

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• Im such a work in progress at the moment, its crazy, and life wants me on edge, I swear to you. But as long as I dont forget the past, Im cool. One must always be mindful, just like you might forget that old girlfriend who tried to slit your throat, but shes really still hot. If you remember the stitches more than you remember the pussy, youre going to be just fine.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Girlfriend, Crazy, Past

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• I go on at least 2-3 auditions a week in the pursuit of more work. So I'm constantly working on material and constantly honing and trying to perfect a craft that is never perfectible - it's always new, and it's always different. It's always a work in progress.

  Jake Busey

  Perfect, Trying, Progress

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• Congratulations to the Auburn team and coach Malzahn. The piece for us was that we took some first and ten's and could not get a third down conversion. We kept putting the defense on the field. We tackled, we played hard, but offensively we did not execute. We are a work in progress. Certainly a group of men that are committed to fixing things. But frankly we did not get it done today.

  Les Miles

  Congratulations, Team, Men

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• Retirement is a work in progress. I try to figure out my day, and what I know about myself is that I need structure.

  Pete Sampras

  Retirement, Progress, Trying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I believe that every writer evolves with every successive novel. I view myself as work-in-progress.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Believe, Views, Progress

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• The story, I like to say and remember, is always smarter than you—there will be patterns of theme, image, and idea that are much savvier and more complex than what you could come up with on your own. Find them with your marking pens as they emerge in your drafts. Become a student of your work in progress. Look for what your material is telling you about your material. Every aspect of a story has its own story.

  Lucy Corin

  Ideas, Progress, Looks

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• If you notice phrases, ideas, and anecdotes that closely resemble those that appear elsewhere in my writing, it's not a matter of sloppy editing. I'm repeating myself. I'm reshuffling words in the hope that just once I might say something exactly right. And I'm still wrestling with dilemmas that are not easily resolved or easily dismissed. I run at them again and again because I am not finished with them. Any may never be. Work-in- progress on a life-in-progress is what my writing is about. And some progress in the work is enough to keep it going on.

  Robert Fulghum

  Life, Running, Hope

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, p.28, Ivy Books

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• Your brain - every brain - is a work in progress. It is 'plastic.' From the day we're born to the day we die, it continuously revises and remodels, improving or slowly declining, as a function of how we use it.

  Michael Merzenich

  Brain, Progress, Use

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• But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Thinking, Democracy, Progress

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• I've never been trained as an actress, so it's all instinct. I just let myself go into this kind of a free fall. Sometimes I feel scared, or out of my element - like everyone else knows what they're doing but me. I don't know . . . Maybe I function well with fear or I like to be faced with a challenge . . . I think I'm just a work in progress.

  January Jones

  Fall, Thinking, Challenges

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Writing by hand is a way of letting mystery into my writing. But I'm constantly trying to figure out how to do this job. It's a work in progress.

  Lauren Groff

  Writing, Progress, Trying

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• You have to figure out as a band how a band becomes a business, and then you have to keep that business mentality separate from the creative one, which is good for the songs. It's always a work in progress.

  David Longstreth

  Song, Creative, Progress

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• I don't discuss works in progress.

  Tom Clancy

  Progress

  Interview with Sacha A. Howells, CheckOut.com, June 27, 2004.

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• The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if it's just a few notes in a file. I dread not having work in progress.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Progress, Superstitions

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• What surprised me was the angst at our democracy. And I understand it - I teach at a university and feel it in my students - but what I've tried to say to people is that we have amazing institutions, but nobody ever said we were perfect. We struggled before and we're struggling now, and we're going to struggle every day. We're a work in progress. That's why the American experience is so important for us to remember, and for us to be a beacon for others to enjoy those same rights.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Struggle, Perfect, People

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• For some reason at Sundance, more than other festivals that I'm aware of, you find filmmakers rushing to screen works that sometimes aren't completed. In my seven years of programming at Toronto, I'm not aware of any documentaries that went back for serious editing after their premiere - other than those presented as works-in-progress. But at Sundance every year there seems to be a few films that push the deadline so hard that they get taken back to the edit room afterwards.

  Thom Powers

  Taken, Editing, Years

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• While I am rehearsing a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Play, Progress, Trying

  "The Quality of Mercy".

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• I've been every size in the world. Parts of my 20s, I was in great shape, but I didn't appreciate it. If I was a 6 or an 8, I thought, "Why aren't I a 2 or a 4?" Now I feel like I have two great kids and the dreamiest husband on the planet, and everything else is just a work in progress.

  Melissa McCarthy

  Husband, Kids, Two

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• Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up.

  Walton Goggins

  Growing Up, Pain, Views

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• The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to look at our work-in-progress as if it were previously unseen.

  Robert Genn

  Sight, Progress, Looks

  Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.21, Studio Beckett Publications

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• The church was custom built by Jesus, and we are all works in progress. We do not expect people to get their sin in order before attending church any more than a hospital expects people to get healed before they show up.

  Mark Driscoll

  Jesus, Order, People

  Mark Driscoll (2013). “A Call to Resurgence: Will Christianity Have a Funeral or a Future?”, p.193, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I have been supporting the European Union, but we are still a work in progress. We have to become more of a United States of Europe. We should talk about electing a president of the E.U., rather than having one selected from the heads of government.

  George Papandreou

  Europe, Government, President

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• I mean, comedy's hard. If you go back and look at the first season of Seinfeld, it's a work in progress and that's what happens. It just take time for people to figure each other out, and figure out timing, and to develop creatively with the writers.

  Zachary Knighton

  Mean, People, Progress

  "Elisha Cuthbert, Zachary Knighton 'Happy Endings' interview: 'This is the anti-romantic comedy'". Interview with Morgan Jeffery, www.digitalspy.com. September 7, 2011.

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• I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Progress, Horror, Novel

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