Amish Tripathi Quotes

Since I don't come from a privileged background, I couldn't afford to be irresponsible with career decisions. I wrote two books alongside my job and resigned only when I realised I can make a living.

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

  

  Rachel Cusk
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• It didn't help my career to be living in Appalachia.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Help
  • Career
  • Living

• The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Career

• For me, I thought I had the best job in the world.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • World
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• I never was happy with the job I did in 'Ed Wood.'

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
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  • Wood

• 'Twin Peaks' is the one thing in my career that I can really look back on, that I really respect and love and honor as something that's different. The one thing that I can hang onto.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Career
  • Respect
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• I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
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• I had a job as a paralegal. I drove a cab.

  

  Larry David
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• A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.

  

  Harold Ramis
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• I have to remind myself when I'm on a job and I'm feeling a lull in attitude or confidence or whatever, I'm there for a reason. I have to constantly remind myself of these almost corny Pinterest mantras, like 'You are worthy.'

  

  Paloma Elsesser
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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.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
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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.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Time
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  • May

• My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Life
  • Family
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• We've got a long career ahead of us and it's going to be great. Trust me.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Great
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• Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.

  

  Wally Schirra
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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.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Time
  • Job
  • Remember

• People in my hometown voted for President Reagan - for many, like my grandpa, he was their first Republican - because he promised that tax cuts would bring higher wages and new jobs. It seemed he was right, so we voted for the next Republican promising tax cuts and job creation, George W. Bush. He wasn't right.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Job
  • Creation

• I'm a career prosecutor. I have been trained, and my experience over decades, is to make decisions after a review of the evidence and the facts. And not to jump up with grand gestures before I've done that. Some might interpret that as being cautious. I would tell you that's just responsible.

  

  Kamala Harris
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• I don't think I was a hero. I was just doing my job.

  

  James McCloughan
  • Job
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• I sold 'Time Life' books on the telephone. It's probably the only pure skill job I've ever had. When you're on and you're good, you get 'yes' after 'yes.' When you're slightly off, you get rejection after rejection. It was one of the greatest jobs I ever had. It was brutal.

  

  David Nevins
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• I sometimes suffer from insomnia, and one of the first times it ever happened, I was like, 'I don't know what to do with myself,' so I started writing a song, and by morning, it was finished. It was about how I couldn't sleep... I was 14.

  

  Eliot Sumner
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Morning

• I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.

  

  Emmanuel Jal
  • Family
  • Lost
  • Football

• The Israelis have suffered a great deal, we must condemn suicide bombers, and we must never say that the plight of the Palestinians justifies this terrible thing.

  

  George Carey
  • Great
  • Suicide

• Since I don't come from a privileged background, I couldn't afford to be irresponsible with career decisions. I wrote two books alongside my job and resigned only when I realised I can make a living.

  

  Amish Tripathi
  • Job
  • Career