Conan O'Brien Quotes

I dont need a pardon. I need a job.

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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 love doing impressions of politicians because the task is always to imagine the private lives of these people whose job it is to project an image of staunch, unflinching leadership and grace, and that's just not how human beings, in their heart of hearts, work.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • Work
  • Heart

• When you work on a movie, especially an independent movie, it's a lot of work to make it! It's not just our job as actors - so many people are working so hard, and even the littlest movie takes a lot of work.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits working on the General Livestock Corporation assembly line putting udders on cows.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Job
  • High
  • Health

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

  

  Larry David
  • Job
  • Drove
  • Cab

• 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
  • Money
  • Job
  • Always

• A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • World
  • Job
  • Vision

• It's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Job
  • Child
  • Speak

• It's not the job of the U.S. military to do nation-building or produce democratic utopias.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Job
  • Military
  • Democratic

• 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
  • Writing
  • May

• Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Time
  • Job
  • Want

• I got along with people very well at every job I had, people liked me and I liked them and I loved being on my feet.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • Job
  • Me

• 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

• The good reviews that people have told me about through the years haven't really helped me do my job. So it's kind of like, if your hair turns out right you want to go out, you don't just want to stay in and look in the mirror. That's kind of what reading a review is like to me; it's like reveling in something that's just one night.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • Good
  • Job

• There's consciousness in my music, and my music comes from a conscious place. And when people say that, I certainly take it as a compliment. But my job, in terms of selling my music, is to be universal and to try to get it to everybody.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Music
  • Job

• Hosting is a thankless job.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Job
  • Hosting
  • Thankless

• The job of the president of the United States is to talk to the public, is to explain to them. Now, some presidents talk too much, like Bill Clinton. Some presidents try to talk but don't know how, like George Bush senior.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Job
  • Know
  • Try

• 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.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Job
  • Present

• I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie 'Die Hard.' I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns and blowing stuff up, and I thought, 'I wanna do that.' It really had nothing to do with acting; I just wanted a job that allowed me to do fun, bigger-than-life stuff.

  

  Zach Gilford
  • Job
  • Movie
  • Fun

• 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

• There are very few people at the decision-making table to argue for minimum-wage workers. Very few people.

  

  Elizabeth Warren
  • People
  • Decision

• I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Writing
  • Doing
  • Research

• It's a grave mistake in publishing, whether you're talking about Internet or print publication, to try to play to a limited repertoire of established reader interests.

  

  Denis Dutton
  • Mistake

• I dont need a pardon. I need a job.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Job