Peter Mayle Quotes
I don't have a boss. Well, I have a boss: the public. If the public doesn't buy my books, I would be out of a job.
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I do movies that I would like to go and see. I think that's a good barometer of how I choose films. I like going to these movies. Our job is to make sure the audience gets their $16 worth. That's my job.
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It is the job of our military to protect America and to hunt down and kill those who would threaten to murder Americans.
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The economy needs thriving, job-creating small businesses, but excessive and ill-considered regulations too often get in the way of growth.
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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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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.
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You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You don't know how to explain to them that the time when you feel alive or present is when you are writing.
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It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.
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Are you a Democrat because you're a union member? Then why, after eight years of Bill Clinton, does some Chinese guy in Guangdong province have your job?
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I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.
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Many young adults I have communicated with - both in-person and over email - constantly apologize before stating their idea, or finish each sentence with a question. Unfortunately, doing so in business puts you at an immediate disadvantage with your boss and work colleagues.
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When I'm in professional mode, I do the best job that I can.
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Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They've got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.
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My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
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I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.
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I had a good job as a printer in the East End. Before the unions destroyed it, that job was very lucrative.
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I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just really reflecting the thoughts and actions around me.
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I was a dramatic kid. I was always like, 'Watch me put on my play, Mom and Dad! You have to watch me put on all these outfits and do this play!' But my family is very academic and straightforward and normal Midwestern people, so the idea that I could act as an actual job wasn't really there.
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I think that I, Jack McBrayer, am somewhat of a people pleaser, and I do enjoy being good at my job. But I would never endanger my life with gullibility or naivete.
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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.
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I think we live a culture that's obsessed with people, you know, 'Celebrities are just like us!' Everything I do except my job is critically analyzed online.
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With my biology degree, I got this job at an environmental lab. We tested sewage runoff, we tested chemical warfare waste runoff. It's a job I'll never do again and I would never wish upon anybody.
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You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered.
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The more you believe in yourself, the faster you're going to get.
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I don't have a boss. Well, I have a boss: the public. If the public doesn't buy my books, I would be out of a job.
