Working It Quotes - Page 28

• A bad short story or novel or poem leaves one comparatively calm because it does not exist, unless it gets a fake prestige throughbeing mistaken for good work. It is essentially negative, it is something that has not come through. But over bad criticism one has a sense of real calamity.

  Rebecca West

  Real, Fake, Criticism

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.161, Open Road Media

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• My taking pictures means I'm taking a series of pictures which become an essay and then get extended into a book. That's what's exciting, to take an idea and work it through to completion.

  George A Tice

  Photography, Book, Mean

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• [The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.

  William E. Gladstone

  Constitution, Parliament, British

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• Enough of this foreign fiasco distraction. Get back to work. It is time to bomb Obamacare.

  Sarah Palin

  Health, Obamacare, Democracy

  FaceBook post by Sarah Palin from Sep 09, 2013

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• I'd be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as long as I was writing songs. She said, 'As long as you're seriously working on music, I'll support you. Don't get a job, because if you work, it will crush you.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Crush, Mom, Song

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• I learned that I could not do enough work; it's always incomplete. When you ask a question, the answer will raise four more questions, and those four will become eight.

  Tobin Bell

  Eight, Answers, Four

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• The Gospel does not require anything good that man must furnish: not a good heart, not a good disposition, no improvement of his condition, no godliness, no love either of God or men…….. It plants love into his heart and makes him capable of all good works. It demands nothing, but it gives all. Should not this fact make us leap for JOY?

  C. F. W. Walther

  Love, God, Work

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• Grace is not against good works! It simply does not bless on the basis of good works. We receive blessing from God based solely on the merits of His Son--blessings freely given to us in Christ and nowhere else. The completeness that is in Christ mean deliverance from trying to 'be good' and 'do right' in order to be accepted by God.

  Richard Jordan

  Life, Freedom, Mean

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• There's no such thing as too far. If it works it's funny, if it doesn't work it's too far, it's stupid. Really there's no such thing as "too far." You're joining the politically correct when you use words like "too far." You don't want to join the army of politically correct.

  Mel Brooks

  Stupid, Army, Joining

  "Mel Brooks Remembers the Funniest Movie He Ever Made". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.esquire.com. May 21, 2014.

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• You just have to do the thing that you feel is true to your vision, and then the audience will make the decision. But as soon as you feel like you're creating a product to just cater to what you think they want, it never works. It always feels phony. And the audience can tell immediately.

  Rob Zombie

  Thinking, Creating, Decision

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The most important thing to me is my work, and reaching people through my work. It's so important to me. It's my passion.

  Adelaide Kane

  Passion, People, Important

  Source: collider.com

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• I just try things. And the things I like, sometimes they work, and sometimes they don't. You can look at pictures where I just look terrible. But the older I get, the more I know what works. It's for the better.

  Andre Benjamin

  Trying, Looks, Sometimes

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Sometimes you're working in highly emotional scenes and you'll get lost in the moment. You're having fun with your friend at work. It's an opportunity to give to them as much as they've given back to you.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Fun, Emotional, Opportunity

  "Adrian Pasdar and Milo Ventimiglia Talk Heroes". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. November 10, 2006.

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• Usually, when special effects get in the way, it's because the story isn't strong enough. If you don't start with a strong screenplay, it's easy to fall back on special effects, thinking it's going to carry you. But it never works. It's just tiresome.

  Ridley Scott

  Strong, Fall, Thinking

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• No, I like normal life but I will go crazy if I'm not working. I'll say to my mom, "I'm going crazy! I'm going stir crazy!" I love my house. I love my family. I love my animals. Sometimes, I just want to work whether its on location here in Michigan or back in LA. I just want to work, work, work. It's what I want to do with the rest of my life so, yes, I do go a little bit crazy when I'm not working.

  Joey King

  Mom, Crazy, Animal

  Source: collider.com

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• Usually, you get a script and you have the whole story. All the acts are there, for a play. You know what happens in the first, second and third acts, and you know how it starts, where you go and where it finishes. [With American Horror Story: Asylum], it's a whole new experience. I don't know where it's going, and I don't know what's going to happen next. It's been an interesting way to work. It's made me work in a much more fluid, braver way, just taking every chance that comes along.

  Jessica Lange

  New Experiences, Horror Stories, Play

  "Jessica Lange Talks AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM, Her Psychological Work on the Show, Her Characters in Each Season and Returning for Season 3". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 12, 2012.

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• In America, with education and hard work, it really does not matter where you came from; it matters only where you are going.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Hard Work, America, Doe

  Text: Condoleezza Rice at the Republican National Convention, www.washingtonpost.com. August 01, 2000.

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• Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour rode.It offers all its kingdoms to man as the raw material which he may mould into what is useful. Man is never weary of working it up.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Men, Raw Materials

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.46, Penguin

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• I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

  R. K. Milholland

  Matter, Ready, Happens

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• Whenever possible, I like to have the supreme head of a company show me over the works. It is extremely illuminating to note the attitude of workers towards their boss, and equally interesting to note the attitude towards the workers. It is tragic to notice how many chief executives of large concerns are absolutely unknown, even by sight, to the rank and file of their workers.

  B. C. Forbes

  Attitude, Sight, Interesting

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• Our success has come from the lack of oversight we've provided, and our success will continue to be from a lack of oversight. But if you're going to provide minimal oversight, you have to buy carefully. It's a different model from GE's. GE's works - it's just very different from ours.

  Charlie Munger

  Different, Oversight, Models

  "Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor". Book by Tren Griffin, September 15, 2015.

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• First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design work. It's what I love.

  Nate Berkus

  Book, Design Work, Television

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• If something ain't working, it ain't working. You can't stick with it.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

  Sticks, Ifs

  Source: collider.com

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• I think just vocally I have a little timber in my voice that God gave me that does work - it puts my own DNA onto it.

  Danny Gokey

  Thinking, Dna, Voice

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• It's hard work. It's really hard work, but it's really interesting. We have this camera, I think it's called a SimulCam, and when you play it back, you can see the giant in the scene you just shot. It's incredible. You're reacting to a tennis ball that's way up there, then when you watch it, it's this huge giant's face on it. Wow. That's cool. I just can't wait to see it when it's all edited together and the special effects are all crystal clear. It's going to be, hopefully, amazing.

  Eleanor Tomlinson

  Hard Work, Thinking, Play

  Source: collider.com

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