Job Quotes
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I did well in school, was the captain of the wrestling team and the football team, and always got along well with people, so I'm sure I would have gotten a job in the real world. I probably wouldn't have liked that, though.
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The way I write, I work on a song, and I don’t really force myself to finish it. I finish it when I feel like finishing it. I’ve got dozens of songs going at once. That’s the way I preserve my happiness in writing: by doing it because I want to do it, not because I’m trying to finish a job.
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She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, she’d been caught up in one such collection of people and their doings after the next…The pleasure of this sort of life – bookish, she supposed it might be called, a reading life – had made her isolation into a rich and even subversive thing. She inhabited one consoling or horrifying persona after another…That she was childless and husbandless and poor meant less once she picked up a book. Her mistakes disappeared into it. She lived with an invented force.
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I had a lovely experience once in Africa working with the U.N. when a president of a country met me about refugee issues and said ‘What do you do?’ I said ‘I‘m an actor.’ He replied ‘I heard that was a very difficult job and might not be the smartest job to do.’ It was lovely.
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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.
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I liked watching myself on TV. My first job was hosting the 'Roommate Game'.
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There is nothing to regret with a job well done.
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Our job is to help people take ownership of the process of electing their government. As leaders, our job is to inspire others and not discourage them.
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The story is everything, which means it's our job to tell better stories.
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A simple job for simple people.
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It's a great place to be as an artist: if you confuse your label, you're doing your job.
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If somebody walks in to me and says, 'I'm a gay person, I want a job in your office,' I would say that's inappropriate, and they wouldn't be hired because that would mean they are promoting their agenda.
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Working a job I love is mentally less stressful than punching in a clock everyday, but it's a lot busier.
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There's a lot of directing within the stunt coordinator's job.
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The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
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I have to stay humble. I'm just a normal human with a job that is televised.
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Any that is why I think any kind of a stimulus package is going to have to help people who are without work, without a job, help them have health insurance.
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I've done so many jobs because I've had to, not because I've wanted to. And it's honourable to do a job because you need to feed your children, and maybe there is also something in it for your development as an actor. But only up to a point.
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YA does a fantastic job of being socially aware and, at the same time, entertaining.
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I think it's important to take a look behind the numbers, ... As the economy gains steam and people gain confidence about their job prospects they will declare themselves back in the job market and the unemployment rate may increase. That's I think what we're seeing today.
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But for every hour and a half on stage, you have a five hour long bus ride, waiting for five hours at the airport, five hours of interviews... I know, it's part of the job, but that doesn't imply I have to like it.
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Being an assistant in a computer lab was the worst job I ever had. It was boring. That was when I was in college.
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I think that life is difficult. People have challenges. Family members get sick, people get older, you don't always get the job or the promotion that you want. You have conflicts in your life. And really, life is about your resilience and your ability to go through your life and all of the ups and downs with a positive attitude.
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History teaches us these lessons for the interveners: leave your prejudices at home, keep your ambitions low, have enough resources to do the job, do not lose the golden hour, make security your first priority, involve the neighbours.
