Ellen Willis Quotes
Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence.
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I am just like Dr. Armaan - fun-loving, flirtatious, and tension-free. I am serious about my work, but apart from that, I am always playing pranks on people. As a viewer, I relate more to 'Dil Mill Gayye.'
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I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.
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How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.
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Getting into the residential investment business entails lots of renovation work.
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Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.
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If you are playing someone living, it is a different type of judgment. However much work you do, it is not a documentary. There will be things you can't get right, and ultimately, you have to take a leap because - you weren't there.
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I saw a '60 Minutes' piece on Google as a place to work. It was such a foreign concept from what I understood as a regular job. There's free food, sleeping pods, Ping-Pong. I'm the kind of guy who likes to get involved in everything - I'd be all over the Ping-Pong.
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As a grandson of farmers in downstate Illinois, I have long admired the dedication of farmers to their work and have written about the role of agriculture in American innovation.
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I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.
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You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.
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I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.
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I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats.
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I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.
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The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
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The drills we do, where you're telling kids to memorize things, don't actually work. What works is engaging them and letting them do things and discover things.
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I was growing up with a single mom who'd be at work when I came home from school. So I'd just turn on the TV. I grew up watching old Clint Eastwood westerns. I adopted him as one of my male role models.
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I love to work with performers that are very different to me.
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I really do feel now that the way I dress onstage and for work is a true reflection of my own sense of style as well.
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In my career, I'm always trying to do something different.
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You gotta be able to take criticism if you want to be anything close to great. Even if it's not true. You use that as an advantage for yourself. You can use that negative energy and turn that into an energy that drives you to be something more than you thought you could be. That's one thing I did.
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But I want people to understand that poker's not all glamorous, it's not all being on TV and making tons of money. It's a hard life. It's a lot of travel. It's a lot of weird hours.
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No one knows how much we went through to finish 'Furious 7.'
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Don't listen to me. I'm not a politician. I know nothing about politics. But people are cheering when something very bad happens to him [Donald Trump]. So that's got to make you think before voting for him.
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Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence.
