Working It Quotes - Page 29

• The only thing I can hope the viewer will get from the work is something about the structure of the work. It would be asking too much, I think, for them to get my exact intention. But if - through the construct of language, the way things are juxtaposed - there is some sort of disruption of the way you would normally go about reaching photographic images... if that is happening, that's fine.

  Lorna Simpson

  Thinking, Too Much, Way

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• The blessing in life is when you find the torture you are comfortable with. That's marriage, it's kids, it's work, it's exercise. Find the torture you're comfortable with and you'll do well. You've mastered that, you've mastered life.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Kids, Exercise, Blessing

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• Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read - my own or other people's works - it all seems to me not short enough.

  Anton Chekhov

  People, Enough, Shortness

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• Prayer is not a preparation for work, it IS work. Prayer is not a preparation for the battle, it IS the battle. Prayer is two-fold: definite asking and definite waiting to receive.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Two, Waiting

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• We think we're doing it all. But the animals are doing the real work of holding it all together, and keeping us on our path. As are the plants. It's as if we think the stars and sun and moon and the earth itself aren't doing any work. It's as if we think that all of nature is unintelligent except for us.

  Jane Caputi

  Stars, Real, Animal

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• Howard University holds something called "Heart's Day," an all day ceremony in which a writer is honored. I was the recipient of this honor. It's a wonderful ceremony that Eleanor Traylor chair of English at Howard University organizes for writers. Writers from around the country came to pay tribute to my work. It was very flattering.

  Ishmael Reed

  Country, Heart, Honor

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Carlyle must undoubtedly plead guilty to the charge of mannerism. He not only has his vein, but his peculiar manner of working it.He has a style which can be imitated, and sometimes is an imitator of himself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Style, Veins, Peculiar

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• The ballpark is the star. In the age of Tris Speaker and Babe Ruth, the era of Jimmie Foxx and Ted Williams, through the empty-seats epoch of Don Buddin and Willie Tasby and unto the decades of Carl Yastrzemski and Jim Rice, the ballpark is the star. A crazy-quilt violation of city planning principles, an irregular pile of architecture, a menace to marketing consultants, Fenway Park works. It works as a symbol of New England's pride, as a repository of evergreen hopes, as a tabernacle of lost innocence. It works as a place to watch baseball.

  Martin Nolan

  Baseball, Stars, Quilts

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• 9 to 5 made people aware of equal pay for equal work. It hasn't really happened, but it has come closer.

  Lily Tomlin

  Equal Pay, People, Made

  Interview with Randy Shulman, www.metroweekly.com. April 26, 2006.

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• I only ever privately tell people stuff for the scene. And I often ask what they feel is right. Normally, by the time that we're filming, if it doesn't work, it always the script.

  Richard Ayoade

  People, Stuff, Scripts

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• I don't know why the world has changed so much that writers are now expected to appear in public and talk about their work. It's something I find very difficult. And yet, one does have some sense of responsibility towards one's publishers, to the people trying to sell the book.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Book, Responsibility, People

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• If you want to understand what you're thinking, you kind of have to work it through and write it. And the only way to work it through, for me, is to write it.

  Joan Didion

  Writing, Thinking, Want

  Interview with Sheila Heti, www.believermag.com. December, 2011.

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• Whatever girl you are, every girl needs a really killer peg skirt in her closet. I don't care who you are. If you're the bohemian and you're wearing your big boyfriend sweater you need a peg skirt to reclaim your body. If you were the movie star, you might wear that with the push up tank like we have in the spring collection. It's all about body, body body. If you're the power player you put a jacket over that and work it that way. That item is for every girl, and every boy appreciated her in it.

  Byron Lars

  Girl, Stars, Spring

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• Real life, raising kids and trying to raise them to be good people takes a lot of work. It's all about (appearing) effortless, yet there's so much effort. You do it the best you can.

  Kelli Williams

  Real, Kids, People

  "Kelli Williams talks about starring in UP TV’s first scripted series (updated)". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. August 2015.

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• Sometimes when you're tired you just do what you know works. It makes me force myself to push my mind to a different place or to try spontaneous things instead of just coasting. For me that's when I'm most aware.

  Guy Wilson

  Tired, Mind, Trying

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• I'm a Christian. Years ago, I went broke, so I decided to run every part of my life according to the Bible. It sounds hokey, but it works. You run your marriage that way, and it works. It will work with business, too, and finances. Treat people like you want to be treated.

  Dave Ramsey

  Christian, Running, Years

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• I think the immigration system we have now is terrible for the United States of America. We have a legal immigration system that does not work. It does not reflect the economic needs of this country in the 21st century. It needs to be modernized.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Thinking, America

  Source: alter.newsweek.msnbc.com

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• I've always been business-minded. I worked in corporate America before becoming an actress and knew that acting wasn't the end but a means to an end. It gave me the platform and the exposure I needed to do my philanthropic work. It also gave me the financial security to focus on my other businesses, start new businesses, and even help other people start businesses.

  Eva Longoria

  Mean, Helping Others, America

  "Eva Longoria on Business, Beauty, and Mastering Her Signature Smoky Eye". Interview with Patricia Reynoso, www.glamour.com. March 17, 2015.

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• I'm just in the business of creating; creating new work inspires you to create new work. It's kind of funny.

  Karen Walker

  Creating, Inspire, New Work

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• Even though there's reasons to try things that may or may not work, it's still a real intimate way to finish the song with everybody right there in the band just locked in.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Song, Real, Trying

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• I taught writing for a while and whenever somebody would tell me they were going to write about their dad, I would tell them they might as well go write about killing puppies because neither story was going to work. It just doesn't work.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Dad, Writing, Stories

  "The Best Jokes Are Dangerous, An Interview with Kurt Vonnegut, Part Three". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.mcsweeneys.net. September 18, 2002.

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• The only thing that does change, to some degree, is [that] you have some life experiences, you suffer a certain amount and you incorporate that into your work. Not in the content of your work, but in the sensibility of your work. It's nothing that you try and do; it just happens. And if you're lucky, people buy tickets to see it, and if you're not lucky, [then] they don't like it. But that's all.

  Woody Allen

  People, Suffering, Trying

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• I don't try to take a person out of our world and put them into my world; that wouldn't work. It's sort of like bad Photoshop: If you see something Photoshopped together - and even if it's done pretty well - the eye catches on it. That happens a lot when people try to cut and paste people from our world into their fourteenth-century historical romance novel.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Eye, Cutting, Our World

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• The Gita is not an aphoristic work, it is a great religious poem.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Gita, Great Religious

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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• Prayer can come in only when fasting has done its work. It can make fasting easy and bearable.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Fasting, Done

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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