Job Quotes
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A barrister's job is to put the case for the defence as effectively and clearly as would his client if he had an advocate's skills. The barrister's belief or disbelief in the truth of this story is irrelevant: it's for the jury to decide this often difficult question.
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It's not at all uncommon for a writer to get a ton of publicity for one book and then not get as much for the next one. I don't worry about that because I try to worry about the one single part of the job I can control: the writing of the book. If I do that well, I feel, good tidings generally will follow and readers will stick with me.
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If you're doing your job right, some substantial group of people [is] going to be mad at you.
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Whenever there is a hard job to be done...
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Both my parents are professors, and I never really saw people do any other jobs, so I didn't really know how to want a different kind of job.
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I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week.
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The one job that machines cannot do is be a cruel plutocrat. That’s why humans are still needed.
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...the best definition that I heard of that is that a bureaucrat is a Democrat who has a job that a Republican wants.
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First ladies are doing a lot. But the job remains undefined, frequently misunderstood, and subject to political attacks far nastier in some ways than those any President has ever faced.
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So at 16 I got a job at the local radio station. And I was working after school and weekends. I did the news; I did everything. I did - played records.
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Making films has never just been a job to me; it is my life. I have some interests outside of acting - I sing and I've written books, for instance - but acting is what keeps me going: it's what I do; it gives life purpose.
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An actor's job is about putting across the author's intention; I don't think of myself on the same level as a creator.
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I grew up a happy kid in Toronto. I've never suffered. I've never even had a real job! But I understand sadness and striving, and those two things tie into all the roles that I've played.
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He had a sense of irony that ruled his life, made it impossible for him to use his considerable brains in any kind of serious job. Kind of like me.
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Less regulation plus less taxation plus less litigation always equals more innovation and job creation.
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If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig.
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Music never felt like a job.
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I let the song come to me. Then that thing comes to you, and you just know what that thing is. Music isn't like a 9-to-5 job. You never know. It's just the most unpredictable thing.
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All day I wait for my job, which I do at night, and once I get there, I walk a tightrope, jump through hoops, and take breathtaking dives.
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Beware of the man who praises women's liberation; he is about to quit his job.
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The computer can do a much better job than the human eye, as it is much more systematic in analysing tissues.
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Somehow we must reintegrate the scientific with the popular and reconnect the future to the present. This is less a job for scientists, engineers, bureaucrats, and administrators and more a job for novelists, moviemakers, popularizers, and politicians.
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Your job is to point that rifle into the other guy's face and shoot him dead.
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You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles. Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide.
