Working It Quotes - Page 20

• When I think of some of my earlier work, it really seems a fortunate coincidence that I succeeded.

  Helmut Jahn

  Thinking, Coincidence, Fortunate

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• You can tell when an actor or actress cares about their work. It's really clear.

  Jeffrey Katzenberg

  Actors, Care, Actresses

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• Things have slowed down considerably since the new series has started airing and I am currently looking for work. It has been a nice year-long vacation nonetheless.

  Rob Mariano

  Nice, Vacation, Years

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• I'm interested in reaching the masses with my work. It's one of my goals.

  Ryan McGinley

  Goal, Reaching, Mass

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• I once had half a cup [of coffee], twenty years ago, and I'm still working it off.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Coffee, Years, Cups

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• The joy of 'Crash' was that it was all about the work. It was my first real part. Before that, it was a line here and there, maybe a scene. 'Crash' was five scenes, a beautiful arc, a little vignette of my own. It really meant something.

  Michael Pena

  Beautiful, Real, Joy

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

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• Work takes up a lot of my brain space. So when I work, it's one thing. I don't have a lot of time to think about dating.

  Chris Pine

  Thinking, Space, Dating

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• My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company.

  Larry Page

  Thinking, Iron, Grandfather

  "How Google's Larry Page became a responsible entrepreneur" by Carol Sanford, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2014.

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• As a producer you have creative control, and that's what is so exciting about it. At the end of the day, if you have made a film it's totally your responsibility, and if it works it's your responsibility and if it doesn't it's also your responsibility.

  Teresa Palmer

  Responsibility, Creative, The End Of The Day

  "Teresa Palmer Producing A 'Very Angelina Jolie'-Like Project About Big Pharma; DreamWorks in Talks" by Oliver Lyttelton, www.indiewire.com. July 11, 2011.

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• I would say most comedians have a very cynical worldview of the way the world can work. It's almost like if you didn't, you couldn't be a comedian.

  Colin Quinn

  Cynical, Comedian, World

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• Buffy the Vampire Slayer showed the whole world, and an entire sprawling industry, that writing monsters and demons and end-of-the-world is not hack-work, it can challenge the best. Joss Whedon raised the bar for every writer - not just genre or niche writers, but every single one of us.

  Russell T Davies

  Writing, Challenges, Vampire

  "Mindy Newell: It Was Twenty Years Ago Today…". www.comicmix.com. April 3, 2017.

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• I've always been happy just to be working. It doesn't really matter for me how many people are familiar with my name or my picture, or whatever.

  Michael Shannon

  Names, People, Matter

  "Michael Shannon Talks BOARDWALK EMPIRE, MAN OF STEEL, and Future Projects" by Christina Radish, collider.com. October 31, 2011.

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• The classic, quote/unquote, craft of songwriting still works; it still is relevant.

  Ryan Tedder

  Crafts, Classic, Relevant

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• Even though artists of all kinds claim to put their hearts and souls into their works, it will only confuse you, for example, if you try to discern a painter by his paintings. His masterpiece may be the master because of its iridescence; it may display a hundred different perspectives through his single face.

  Criss Jami

  Heart, Artist, Perspective

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.61, Criss Jami

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• I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.

  K. D. Lang

  Emotional, Thinking, Singing

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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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• I don’t have a problem with recognition ... It’s very, very rarely about who I am, it’s always, ‘I love your work.’ ... It’s always in relation to my work, which I think is a really lucky thing to have happen as opposed to, ‘Oh, you’re a famous personality’.

  C. C. H. Pounder

  Love You, Thinking, Who I Am

  "CCH Pounder On Going From TV Victim To Law-Enforcer With ‘The Shield’ & More For ‘Isn’t That ...?’". Interview with Chris Harnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 27, 2013.

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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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• Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.

  Hans Haacke

  Wall, Museums, Jacuzzi

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• You can't throw money at the Internet to make it work - it really is all about the quality of the content.

  Chris Hardwick

  Quality, Internet

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• Once you become a producer, you're really selling something. It is a control issue, because you don't really know how it's going to pan out, but the creative control makes it work it.

  Scott Cohen

  Issues, Creative, Selling

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