David Letterman Quotes
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
Rachel Cusk -
I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.
Otis Redding -
Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.
Manny Pacquiao -
I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.
Paige VanZant -
Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.
Uday Kotak -
I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living. And 'Castle' has that. He gets this opportunity to tail these homicide detectives, and he's driven by that. He's a little immature, but he's obviously loving life.
Nathan Fillion
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My favorite moments? Where it's all going swimmingly, the sun's out and I've got a fire going and a nice snake on the barbecue.
Bear Grylls -
I'm all about the drugstore beauty products. They're affordable and get the job done.
Tamara Tunie -
I started off as a juggler. I used to do a half-hour show on the weekends to make money as a kid. Then I went to Cleveland, Ohio in 1983 to the international jugglers competition junior division and came second. So that was my first job, being a juggler.
Patrick Dempsey -
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
G. M. Trevelyan -
A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
Wendy Carlos -
It's nice to stay up nights worrying about the material, and not about the investors who gave you $10 million to do your musical.
Harold Prince
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It's nice to see more of those meaty female characters emerging because so often in the industry, it's always about the males.
Yvonne Strahovski -
When I did 'Grease,' I took good care of myself. I treated it like a job. I approached it very professionally because I wanted to make a good reputation and hopefully continue on in the Broadway community and continue to do shows.
Laura Osnes -
I had a good job as a printer in the East End. Before the unions destroyed it, that job was very lucrative.
Eddie Marsan -
The nice thing about writing at home is that it's almost as though I'm doing it already. I get out of bed thinking of my work, and I don't have to go anywhere to do it.
Patrick deWitt -
I find it odd that people will go to a nice restaurant or to the theater in jeans and T-shirts.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
For an entrepreneur with 'improbable' and 'impossible' dreams, the alleged stability that comes from getting 'a real job' is nothing but a sign of slavery.
Fabrizio Moreira
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Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.
Nat King Cole -
I'm really obsessed with this idea that we're living in this environment where there's always magic around us that we are not perceiving.
Reid Carolin -
Every time a young girl comes in and asks me for advice, if you start your conversation with, 'How hard is it as a black woman,' or, 'How hard is it as a woman,' I turn you around. Because I cannot - we cannot look at the roadblocks and see the road at the same time.
Tamron Hall -
There are now more teens going into treatment for marijuana dependency than for all other drugs combined.
John Walters -
Nice job…what the hell is U2 supposed to play?
David Letterman