Working It Quotes - Page 2

• Is it harder having kids and working? It definitely is, but the payoff is you get to go home to your kids, and it all balances out. And I know I'm a better mother when I'm engaged in something outside of the house.

  Edie Falco

  Mother, Kids, Home

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• Chemistry is a hard thing. I don't think you can force it, and it doesn't necessarily mean that you have to have great chemistry outside of work. It's just something that sparks on screen or doesn't.

  Tricia Helfer

  Mean, Thinking, Sparks

  "Tricia Helfer Interview DARK BLUE Season Two". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 3, 2010.

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• If you want to kill time why not try working it to death.

  Sam Levenson

  Time, Trying, Want

  "You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson".

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• Names generate meaning in a short amount of space — they provoke thoughts, questions. That's something I like doing. Of course, you have to be careful. Sometimes it can alienate the reader, it can be another level of mediation, to make a character carry the great burden of a metaphoric name. The character can be a device before he or she becomes a person, and that can be a bad thing for a writer who wants to offer up a kind of emotional proximity in the work. It's a constant struggle, the desire to be playful and the desire to communicate on some very stark emotional level.

  Joshua Ferris

  Struggle, Character, Emotional

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• I am comfortable with my body and embrace who I am. I love to work it.

  Chanel Iman

  Who I Am, Body, Embrace

  "Chanel Iman on Body Confidence, Beauty Tips, and Victoria's Secret Pink". Interview with Phillip Picardi, www.teenvogue.com. October 26, 2010.

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• People think it’s easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it’s incredibly hard work. It’s much easier to be hopeful.

  Michael Robotham

  Hard Work, Thinking, People

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• Advice: Don’t wait until someone you have issues with — especially someone you’re related to — gets shot before you work it out.

  James Patterson

  Issues, Waiting, Advice

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• There always has to be someone to take the punches. That's how it works. It isn't fair, it isn't right, but that kid licking slop off the floor over there means that we get to eat in peace.

  Alexander Gordon Smith

  Mean, Kids, Licking

  Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown”, p.65, Faber & Faber

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• Even with some of the best action films like 'The Bourne Ultimatum,' which is a great action film with a great chase sequence, so much of it is computer-generated. But that doesn't bother me. I think it works. It's fantastic.

  William Friedkin

  Thinking, Action, Computer

  "Inside the Forgotten Movie Masterpiece 'Sorcerer'". Interview with Bryan Reesman, www.esquire.com. April 30, 2014.

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• I write a line and then I revise the line and then I write two lines and then I revise lines one and two and then I write one, two and three and I revise one and two and then I write seven and eight and then I see that should be line four and I continually work it over as I go.

  Edward Hirsch

  Writing, Eight, Two

  "Embracing the Mess of Poetry". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays. From my point of view, I would ban religion completely. Organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into really hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.

  Elton John

  Gay, Views, People

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• ...treasure what it means to do a day's work. It's our one and only chance to do something productive today, and it's certainly not available to someone merely because he is the high bidder. A day's work is your chance to do art, to create a gift, to do something that matters. As your work gets better and your art becomes more important, competition for your gifts will increase and you'll discover that you can be choosier about whom you give them to.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Art, Business

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• Maybe you could casually mention to Zoe that I'm not now, nor have I ever been, an axe murderer." "I'll see if I can work it into our next conversation," Flynn promised.

  Nora Roberts

  Next, Conversation, Murderer

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Key Trilogy”, p.281, Penguin

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• It is so important to see that we are all converted, that we have in our hearts a conviction concerning this great work. It is not a matter of the head only. It is a matter of the heart. It is being touched by the Holy Spirit until we know that this work is true, that Joseph Smith was verily a prophet of God, that God lives and that Jesus Christ lives and that they appeared to the boy Joseph Smith, that the Book of Mormon is true, that the priesthood is here with all of its gifts and blessings.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Jesus, Book, Heart

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• As an actor in the classroom, you're revealing so much, and teachers are, you know, they're just critiquing like a painting or a piece of work; it's like, it's you, and it's your emotions that they're working with.

  James Franco

  Teacher, Actors, Pieces

  "James Franco: The Method Of 'Milk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 27, 2009.

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• There is a growing recognition that the death penalty simply can't work. It's a complex system that arbitrarily selects defendants for death and creates more stress and appeals, even as it is plagued by serious error. Each new exoneration reminds us of the unacceptable possibility of wrongful execution.

  Robert Cecil Martin

  Stress, Errors, Growing

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• So if we can't express it or repress it, what do we do when we feel angry? The answer is to recognize the anger, but choose to respond to the situation differently. Easier said than done, right? Can you actually imagine trying to strong-arm your anger into another, more amicable feeling? It would never work. Determination alone won't work. It takes a new intelligence to understand and manage our emotions. By getting your head and heart in coherence and allowing the heart's intelligence to work for you, you can have a realistic chance of transforming your anger in a healthy way.

  Doc Childre

  Strong, Determination, Anger

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• Freedom works, it turns out; the Constitution codified and structured freedom at a level unparalleled in world history.

  Oliver $

  World, Levels, Constitution

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• Malander had an idea and was trying to work it out, but it would take him time. Sometimes people never saw things clearly until it was too late and they no longer had the strength to start again. Or else they forgot their idea along the way and didn't even realise that they forgotten.

  Tove Jansson

  Ideas, People, Trying

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• The barn where I work, it's only 15 minutes or so from Harvard square, so It's very close to the center of Boston, but it happens to be a total oasis. It's completely quiet in there.

  Tod Machover

  Squares, Oasis, Boston

  Source: bigthink.com

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• That's how Darkness works. It turns love into something bad.

  P. C. Cast

  Darkness, Turns

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2011). “Destined”, p.201, Macmillan

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• If it works, it works,' Kat told him. 'And if it doesn't?' he asked. She looked at him. 'If it doesn't, then I've heard Monaco has the nicest prisons in all of Europe.' 'It does,' both Hamish and Angus said in unison. And with that, it was decided.

  Ally Carter

  Europe, Doe, Prison

  Ally Carter (2011). “Uncommon Criminals”, p.252, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Luck is buying a lottery ticket along with your Yoo-hoo and striking it rich. Nothing about my life is lucky- it is all about hard work, it is all uphill struggle.

  Emily Giffin

  Struggle, Hard Work, Luck

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.38, Macmillan

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• There is no bleaker moment in life of the city than that one which crosses the boundary lines between those who have not slept all night and those who are going to work. It was for Sabina as if two races of men and women lived on earth, the night people and the day people, never meeting face to face except at this moment.

  Anais Nin

  Men, Night, Two

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• My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea; My heart is gladder than all these, Because my love is come to me. Raise me a daïs of silk and down; Hang it with vair and purple dyes; Carve it in doves and pomegranates, And peacocks with a hundred eyes; Work it in gold and silver grapes, In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys; Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.

  Christina Rossetti

  Life, Work, Eye

  Christina Georgina Rossetti, “A Birthday”

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