Jesse Kellerman Quotes

There was a time, after I earned my graduate degree and before I sold my first novel, when it looked like I might have to get an office job.

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• I learn something in the interviews from time to time.

  

  Samantha Bee
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• If you start lifting weights, you will expect to put weight on, as muscle is heavier than fat. But you have to look more at your body shape - you will get heavier - but you might get smaller and heavier at the same time, which is fine. And it doesn't really matter what you weigh as long as you are happy with your shape and size!

  

  Victoria Pendleton
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• I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
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• I remember the first time my mind was blown by an actor was Tim Curry, because I loved 'Clue' when I was a kid, and then I was watching the movie 'Legend,' and the Devil suddenly smiles, and I was like, 'It's the same guy!' It was a total Keyser Soeze moment.

  

  Oscar Isaac
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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.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
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• I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.

  

  G-Eazy
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• If I get a script that's set in the jungle it goes to the bottom of the pile because I don't think the playgrounds are going to be very good there! I'm really aware of how lucky I am but I have the kind of job where I can bring my child to work.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
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• A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it.

  

  Lana Wachowski
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• Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.

  

  Nas
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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.

  

  R. Kelly
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• When I first started modeling, they used to bleach my eyebrows all the time.

  

  Cara Delevingne
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• Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff.

  

  Irvine Welsh
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• Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• 7 Mile is like an Ave. Back in the days it was poppin' in the summer time.

  

  Obie Trice
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• I got a horse when I was eight or 10 years old. And dad used to take me to the rodeo back home. I got into it big time.

  

  Sam Hunt
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• My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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• But I'm very happy with my life the way it has been turning out. A little time in the country, a little time with the animals and working on behalf of them.

  

  Mary Tyler Moore
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• I think you choose how you walk through this life. I think if you choose to participate in a paradigm that is looks-based, if you're an actor, then it can be empowering in some ways, and it can be really limiting in some ways in terms of time and longevity.

  

  Bellamy Young
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• Everyone gets excited when they see her.

  

  Paul Williams The Temptations
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• Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming -- weren't our dreams what gave us strength, hope, and desire?

  

  Lisa See
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• I think we all like to see ourselves as good dads, but there's also that fear, 'Oh, I don't want to be like my father,' or, 'I hope my kid doesn't turn out like me.' You know, I have those feelings too. So the key is optimism.

  

  Ben Affleck
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• There was a time, after I earned my graduate degree and before I sold my first novel, when it looked like I might have to get an office job.

  

  Jesse Kellerman
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  • Job