Mary H.K. Choi Quotes
For my first job interview out of college, I wore a cream-colored cotton suit with cap sleeves and an inverted box pleat skirt that was appropriate for the late-August heat - and wildly discordant with the Red Hook offices of the graffiti magazine I had called twice to find.
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Deal-making goes on with any job.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes - the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America is about.
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The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
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I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.
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I'm a psychologist. I was a psychology faculty member, and then I became an administrator of the department, then the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. At the time of the presidential search, I was the dean.
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My job is not to give you all the answers. My job is to ask the questions.
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The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job - that was through Mike Figgis.
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In the Foo Fighters, my main job is to be the drummer, and that's enough.
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The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer.
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We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult.
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Nothing personal - I am just doing my job.
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The guys have told me not to quit my day job.
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I have goals and ambitions, and I see myself as a lifelong baseball student. I have certain philosophies that I'd like to test at some point at the big league level. The job of manager appeals to me, a coach appeals to me, at a different time frame.
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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.
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We can't accept that it's O.K. if only some kids get to go to college.
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I started doing yoga in college, so that has just become a staple of a self-care routine for my mind and my body. My body craves it at this point, so I do it two to three times a week, sometimes more. I practice Vinyasa style yoga and sometimes mix it up.
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I don't have a job, so I sit in the studio all the time and think of stupid stuff to do.
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As an actor, you always think your last job is your last job, and you're always doubting yourself and worried that people will see you're a fraud.
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For reasons I do not fully understand, some power is released through setting positive goals that would otherwise remain dormant.
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I met five presidents. I had dinner with a president of the United States in the White House. I played golf with a president of the United States. I made money. I mean, when I look at it, I had a unbelievably fabulous career. And I'm extremely grateful.
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I recalled how a lot of my older siblings would go to a friend's house and borrow records to play and sometimes borrow a turntable because we didn't have a turntable in the house until I was 8, about the same time we had a TV.
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A movie with nothing but violence is not a good movie. But one that is actually entertaining around the horror is one that people will remember and watch again and again.
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For my first job interview out of college, I wore a cream-colored cotton suit with cap sleeves and an inverted box pleat skirt that was appropriate for the late-August heat - and wildly discordant with the Red Hook offices of the graffiti magazine I had called twice to find.
