James Garner Quotes
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Deal-making goes on with any job.
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I'm trying to focus on my job as I see it, which is to write the next thing and to remain, to the degree that I ever was, a noticer.
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Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.
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For me, I thought I had the best job in the world.
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The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits working on the General Livestock Corporation assembly line putting udders on cows.
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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.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.
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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 got a job as soon as I could - 11 or 12. I started babysitting and then I got a part-time job at a pharmacy in England. I just remember loving the feeling of going out and buying my own clothes! I'd go bargain-hunting and get secondhand vintage stuff.
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After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.
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My focus has been and will continue to be on doing my job.
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Every job is important because each one represents an American's livelihood and ability to raise a family. Yet spending our time building walls around America will do nothing to help us compete for the millions of new jobs being created.
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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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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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Every era needs a genre through which it understands itself.
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Every time I do something, I worry it's my last job.
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I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.
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I was 18 when I got my first acting job.
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Michael is the kind of guy who has rhythm; he has rock'n'roll in his soul, whether he really plays it or not.
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With kids you can take a chance but casting a guy at 45 is different. You don't discover somebody that age. If an actor hasn't made it by that time he probably has no talent.
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Always remember... How you handle obstacles will always be a key factor in determining your ability to achieve success.
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I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played.
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My goal has always been longevity. Not fame and fortune, just get a job and keep it.
