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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• When I realized that people actually wrote comics, that it was a job people could do, I thought, 'Gee, these things are only 17 pages long! I could probably finish one of those and find out whether I suck before I've spent five years of my life on it.' In stumbling into comics that way, I discovered that I loved the form.

  

  Kurt Busiek
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• It's interesting because diversity doesn't just happen by garnishing your omelet with a little bit of parsley. Diversity happens because the people that are telling the stories - the writers, directors, storytellers - want to tell their story.

  

  Kelvin Yu
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• One of the great things about a celebrity pro-am is that you get to play along with the very best professional golfers in the world.

  

  Cheech Marin
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• Now, I'll tell you something that might interest you. Casino Royale was the first Bond book that Ian Fleming ever wrote. And he couldn't get anybody to touch it, to publish it - he couldn't do anything about it at all. Nobody wanted to know.

  

  Val Guest
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• Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.

  

  Fred Hoyle
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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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