Working It Quotes - Page 17

• Faith doesn't mean you don't have to do the work; it just means you're absolutely certain the work will pay off.

  Marianne Williamson

  Mean, Pay, Certain

  Twitter post from Dec 26, 2014

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• Listen, I know how old I am and that I'm just a shoulder injury from losing roles like the one in Taken. So I stay with the training, I stay with the work. It’s easy enough to plan jobs, to plan a lot of work. That's effective. But that’s the weird thing about grief. You can’t prepare for it. You think you’re gonna cry and get it over with. You make those plans, but they never work.

  Liam Neeson

  Jobs, Grief, Taken

  "Liam Neeson Turns 60!", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2012.

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• For me, it’s like playing the same instrument but in a different context. TV work – it’s really about getting it just right. You have a chance to try again if it’s not. Theatre is like playing a rock show. It doesn’t really matter if you make a tiny mistake. It’s the whole vibe and getting people to feel you. It’s about carrying the moment through all the way with you in an hour and 20 minutes of the narrative.

  Evelyne Brochu

  Mistake, Rocks, People

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• The physical environment of L.A. is really beautiful. It's actually kinda fun, too, if you're working. It's just not really fun if you're not working and you don't know anybody.

  Rose Byrne

  Beautiful, Fun, Environment

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The land belongs to those who work it with their hands.

  Emiliano Zapata

  Hands, Land

  "Mexican Social Movements and the Transition to Democracy". Book by John Stolle-McAllister, 2005.

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• The land belongs to the people who work it.

  Emiliano Zapata

  Land, People

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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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• 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 like having my own style; love my work or hate my work, it's my own.

  Don Watson

  Hate, Style, My Own

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• The primary problem is to learn to be your own toughest critic. You have to pay attention to intelligent work, and to work at the same time. You see. I mean, you’ve got to bounce off better work. It’s matter of working.

  Garry Winogrand

  Mean, Intelligent, Attention

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• I am an avid follower of the news, and sometimes you just can't take any more war, any more disasters, and you want to remind yourself there's beauty in the world. I wanted to show a more poetic side to my work. It was all about... a feeling of sadness, but in a cinematic kind of way. I find beauty in melancholy.

  Alexander McQueen

  War, Sadness, Avid

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• What is hard work? It takes strength, energy, and stress to truly care about others enough to place oneself last, but it is easy to wrap oneself up and selfishly scramble on the heads of others.

  Criss Jami

  Stress, Hard Work, Energy

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.119, Criss Jami

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• The brave view is that talking it out helps work it out. Maybe the realistic view is that talking it out inflames the issues further. But that is America, especially these days.

  Jane Smiley

  Views, Talking, America

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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've always felt England was a great place for a comic to work. It's an island and the audience can't run very far.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Running, Humorous

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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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