Anna Deavere Smith Quotes
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In 1994, after four years of talking about travel on my first show, I realized I knew so little about the world - I knew so little about myself. I decided to quit my job and pursue a postgraduate degree in New York.
Yang Lan
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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.
Hannah Kent
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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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Just for you to know, people, models, are very smart. We're investing money in the right way, and, you know, a modeling job I'm taking as a businesswoman. So it's not fun for me; it's work.
Irina Shayk
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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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The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job - that was through Mike Figgis.
Zuleikha Robinson
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Nothing personal - I am just doing my job.
Manny Pacquiao
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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
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I have goals and ambitions, and I see myself as a lifelong baseball student. I have certain philosophies that I'd like to test at some point at the big league level. The job of manager appeals to me, a coach appeals to me, at a different time frame.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done. Every day, you get up and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.
Abigail Johnson
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I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.
Sally Ride
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If history judges society for how it treats those in need, so markets judge economies by the incentives they provide for private investment, the infrastructure that supports growth, and the burdens placed on job creation.
Victor Ponta
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Everyone knows that I have just accepted, with short notice, the worst job in politics.
Jacinda Ardern
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This is a letter of hate. It is for you my countrymen, I mean those men of my country who have defiled it. The men with manic fingers leading the sightless, feeble, betrayed body of my country to its death.
John Osborne
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Don't take rejection personally.
Lauren Shuler Donner
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Before broadcasting for 50-some years, I did TV, played 10 years in the big leagues, won a world championship - and played a big part in that, too, letting the Cardinals inject me with hepatitis. Takes a big man to do that.
Bob Uecker
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To get health insurance, you give up your dignity - that's what I thought being an actor was. So when 'GLOW' came along, I was shaking reading it because I hadn't really allowed myself to dream of a show like this.
Betty Gilpin
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I don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.
Anna Deavere Smith
