Joshua Leonard Quotes

I would love to direct some day. It's a good job for a control freak.

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• What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Up
  • Job
  • Writer

• I try to get in people's heads. My job is to get the ball, so if I'm talking trash to an O-lineman or quarterback or receiver, and they start thinking about me, that's good, because they aren't thinking about the game anymore.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • People
  • Good
  • Thinking

• I try to have a normal life since I have an abnormal job.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Life
  • Job
  • Try

• My job is not to give you all the answers. My job is to ask the questions.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Job
  • Answers
  • Questions

• It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.'

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • People
  • Job
  • Politics

• Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • People
  • Done
  • Job

• I've always been interested in the office. I was a secretary a long time ago, and I've always been into paperwork. My first secretarial job was 1965 or 1966.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Time
  • Long
  • Job

• A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Good
  • Job
  • Book

• Nothing personal - I am just doing my job.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Job
  • Personal

• The guys have told me not to quit my day job.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Job
  • Me
  • Day

• When I'm in professional mode, I do the best job that I can.

  

  Natassia Malthe
  • Job
  • Best
  • Professional

• After you do this for a while, you get used to things not working the way you want them to. There's a job you want, and you don't get it. There's a movie you'd like to get made, and it doesn't get made. You become inured to it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Job
  • Movie
  • Want

• I could have easily never worked again after 'Precious.' I could be back at my receptionist job and no one would be surprised, but I'm having a very crazy little career that no one thought would happen. Although that was never the plan.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Job
  • Career
  • Crazy

• I think it's important to be able to say that you did live a normal life and struggled to make ends meet. It all has to do with work ethic and how I apply myself to my awesome job now. I've always been used to working because I've been working since I was four.

  

  Naya Rivera
  • Life
  • Work
  • Important

• The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Country
  • Art
  • Job

• Any job is wonderful.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Job
  • Wonderful
  • Any

• Sometimes at night, when I leave and ride by the front of the White House and the lights are on, it is so beautiful, I have some sense of, 'Hey, that's where I work, and Jimmy is President now.' But day in and day out, it's a job.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • Work
  • Job
  • House

• We have finished the job, what shall we do with the tools?

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Job
  • Tools
  • Finished

• I am a control freak but it's important to feel strongly about the material you're working on.

  

  Shane Carruth
  • Important
  • Feels
  • Materials

• We need to develop clean, affordable, and reliable energy sources, and frankly, we need to license that technology to the rest of the world.

  

  Elizabeth Esty
  • World
  • Energy
  • Technology

• I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Feelings

• A woman once rang me up and said, 'Mr. Escher, I am absolutely crazy about your work. In your print -Reptiles- you have given such a striking illustration of reincarnation.' I replied, 'Madam, if that's the way you see it, so be it.'

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Up
  • Work
  • Crazy

• Music has to be written while people are still excited about a particular melodic or rhythmic sequence. The idea doesn't come out the same if we're not really excited about it.

  

  Brandon Boyd Incubus
  • People
  • Music

• I would love to direct some day. It's a good job for a control freak.

  

  Joshua Leonard
  • Job
  • Direct
  • Freak