Ellen Goodman Quotes
I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.
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I always watch the work I do.
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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I was a little, uh, incorrigible as a kid, so the kitchen was a good place to give me structure and balance. It taught me hard work, but then I grew to love it.
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If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.
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The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced and out of breath. There isn't time for reflection or critical self-examination.
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There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.
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I love doing impressions of politicians because the task is always to imagine the private lives of these people whose job it is to project an image of staunch, unflinching leadership and grace, and that's just not how human beings, in their heart of hearts, work.
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I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.
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I'm shy. I am. I mean, if I get around, you know, in a room of a bunch of people especially I - you know, I don't know or - it takes me a while to warm up. I'm - and the real me, I'm not as witty as, you know, as the comic Wanda. The comic, she's had time to work on some things.
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To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.
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I need to work to feel well.
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A mate of mine told me recently, 'It's the first time I've seen you work, Worthington.' I thought that was quite funny, but he was right.
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When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.
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However careful a tramp may be to avoid places where there is abundant work, he cannot always succeed.
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Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.
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Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
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The reason why I'm a conservative is because conservative policies work and they improve opportunities. They are the avenue for climbing the economic dream.
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Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work.
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Performing in the theater is a very ethereal profession because you do it once and it goes out into the ether and it goes into people's minds and that's the only place that it ever exists. And it never exists truly; it only exists in the way that people think they remember it. But it's a really powerful way to tell a story and to pass something on.
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And because of these programs like Medicare, Medicare prescription drugs, Social Security, we now have the healthiest and wealthiest group of senior citizens that the world has ever seen. This is a continuing commitment to that.
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I was no good at anything else at school. But I was good at one thing, which was creativity.
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And somewhere in heaven, Versace sheds a single, perfect tear.
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Perfect self-expression will never be labor, but of such absorbing interest that it will seem almost like play.
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I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.
