Working It Quotes - Page 8

• This is why integration will not work. It assumes that the two races, black and white, are equal and can be made to live as one. This is not true.

  Malcolm X

  Black And White, Race, Two

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• You need to know what doesn't work to know what works. It's especially true in improv and stand-up.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Needs, Knows

  "Mike Birbiglia and Chris Gethard sit down and chat about ‘Don’t Think Twice’". Interview with Jeff Mitchell, thecinemafiles.com. June 13, 2016.

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• Some readers and commentators really want to scrape your insides out to make sense of your work. Others say, there's the work, it speaks for itself. Personally, I fall somewhere in the middle.

  J. K. Rowling

  Fall, Want, Speak

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Criticism shouldn't be a performance that upstages the work it's talking about.

  Darryl Pinckney

  Talking, Criticism, Performances

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2016.

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• I like doing the promotional work. It's part of the film's process. Cannes was very wonderful to premiere.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Wonderful, Film, Cannes

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Film work is hard work. It's long days, and quite often quite dismaying locations you have to be in.

  Joanna Lumley

  Hard Work, Long, Location

  "The Women of Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie on Killing Kate Moss and Wooing Jon Hamm". Interview with Anna Silman, www.thecut.com. June 30, 2016.

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• When I'm in touch with the idea that there is a higher power and that there is, you know, other factors at work, it - it kind of quells my narcissism.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Ideas, Kind, Narcissism

  "Comic Jim Gaffigan On Stand-Up, Faith And Opening For The Pope". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 24, 2015.

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• At the beginning it wasn't to do with the work, it was more the experience.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

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

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• I am convinced Pope Francis' Exhortation can help. The effort must be made to read it because an exhortation can only help if you know it. It is valuable to know the work. It is so rich and I can only encourage our pastors and our communities to work on it, study it, read it, and taste the joy of this beautiful document.

  Christoph Schonborn

  Beautiful, Effort, Community

  "Cardinal Schonborn on 'Amoris Laetitia': Pope Francis Knows What He Is Talking About". Interview with Deborah Castellano Lubov, zenit.org. April 12, 2016.

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• It's tough though because of the whole part about getting sponsors and people out to watch women's cycling. I think the only way that women can really work it is that we have to work our way more into these big grand tours that the men have like the Tour de Georgia, Tour of Utah, and Tour of California.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Men, Thinking, Cycling

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• I'm very flattered when people I respect like my work. It's like a dream of a little kid when somebody I idolised likes my work.

  Nan Goldin

  Dream, Kids, People

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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• There is no secret to a long marriage - it's hard work...It's serious business, and certainly not for cowards.

  Ossie Davis

  Hard Work, Long, Secret

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• Trickle-down did not work. It got us into the mess we were in, in 2008 and 2009. Slashing taxes on the wealthy hasn’t worked. And a lot of really smart, wealthy people know that. And they are saying, hey, we need to do more to make the contributions we should be making to rebuild the middle class.

  Hillary Clinton

  Taxes, Wealthy, Mess

  "Presidential debate transcript: Trump and Clinton, verbatim" by Evan Vucci and Julio Cortez, www.macleans.ca. September 26, 2016.

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• The more you love, the more loving you become. That's just the way it works. It is a generosity of spirit.

  Jean Houston

  Generosity, Loving You, Way

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• Obamacare will never work. It's very bad, very bad health insurance. Far too expensive. And not only expensive for the person that has it, unbelievably expensive for our country.

  Donald Trump

  Obamacare, America, Bad Health

  Donald Trump during Presidential Debate at Washington University St. Louis, Missouri, www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.

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• Sometimes you're not in the best environment. Sometimes you're not speaking the same language and it's not a good place to work. It's a lot to give, actually. And for not a lot of money.

  Parker Posey

  Giving, Language, Sometimes

  Source: www.elle.com

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• When we think about our work it deals with our motivations, our desires, our sense of security, purpose, and status. Our work deals with a whole host of relationships. Work impacts the flourishing of individuals, communities, and nations.

  David Kim

  Motivation, Thinking, Impact

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• For me personally, I don't go onto Twitter or Facebook, my hubby helps me out because sometimes I'm concerned that I'll see something that will upset me, and I don't have a way to work it out with that person.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Upset, Hubby, Way

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• As soon as I step on that stage, nothing matters. I don't think of it as work. It's just so much fun.

  Miley Cyrus

  Fun, Thinking, Matter

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• My 'go to' workout is called the Asylum from Beach Body. It's intense training with lots of intervals, core work. It's hard! I travel a lot, so I can take it on the road with me and do it in a hotel room.

  Apolo Ohno

  Beach, Workout, Intense Training

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• Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship; you are very much in love with someone, but it's making you unhappy and you think things can change and you can work it out.

  Vanessa Paradis

  Thinking, Unhappy, Sometimes

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

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• Women's bodies are used to sell anything and everything because it works, it grabs people's attention, and advertisers aren't going to stop using something that works.

  Liz Phair

  People, Attention, Body

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• You respect all of these people that you know in the business as actors. And they sort of turn around and say, we really like your work. It's a nice acknowledgment.

  Lucy Liu

  Nice, People, Actors

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• I definitely want to go back to the theatre. It is hard work, it is repetitive, but it is intensely rewarding.

  Matthew Rhys

  Hard Work, Theatre, Want

  "Matthew Rhys on Brothers and Sisters". www.telegraph.co.uk. January 21, 2010.

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• As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude.

  Sigmund Freud

  Discovery, Decision, Solitude

  Sigmund Freud (2016). “SIGMUND FREUD Ultimate Collection: Psychoanalytic Studies, Theoretical Essays & Articles: The Interpretation of Dreams, Psychopathology of Everyday Life, Dream Psychology, Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Totem and Taboo, Leonardo da Vinci…”, p.1441, e-artnow

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