Job Quotes
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With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the text, but the text - when I'm doing it right - acts as the perfect 'blueprint', and all the architecture is there. The poet has done the heavy lifting, so my job is to find the soul of the poem and then somehow translate that into music.
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I just wanted to play tennis. It wasn't a job. It was an ambition. I knew I could make money at it. I was 18 - old enough to think I could do it, young enough not to consider the consequences.
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You can shave your head, but I've had to gain a lot of weight for movies, I've had to drop weight really fast for movies. I've had to learn accents or embody physical behaviors or twitches and things like that. And sometimes you take to some things easily and sometimes not. That's the challenge of the job.
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I think my mom and dad did a great job with that, because we with brother never had any competition in baseball. We always tried to help each other.
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What I love about this job is it's literally a different day every single day, isn't it? One day you're a nurse, the next day you're in a band - you can just make it up. I'm just a big kid, and that's really what this job is - just playing dress-up every day.
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That's the job of our line. Get it deep, cause some commotion, be physical and try to get some garbage goals.
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Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America.
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We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
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I think, as an artist, part of your job is being aware of what's going on around you and not selling out and not following the trend, which I'm totally against.
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If you ask people why they move to the city, they always give the same reasons. They've come to get a job or follow their friends or to be at the center of a scene. That's why we pay the high rent. Cities are all about the people, not the infrastructure.
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In any job, you can come under attack or have a door slammed in your face. You do want to listen to critics; you don't want to be in a cocoon and never change. Get a second opinion from coworkers and friends. Know that criticism can be valid, but don't take it personally.
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Going through all of this physical stuff, it's been a tough job. But I've loved every second of my life.
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If you're not having fun with your job, it will show.
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Although I have to admit I have despised a couple of people simply because they have never had a job in their lives.
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My first job in the film business was working as a production assistant, and then a production manager on a documentary about Townes Van Zandt.
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I haven't been in a position to have the luxury to pick roles for most of my career, so I'm not practiced in that. Usually, when you want to be an actor, you take whatever comes along. If there's an audition, you go for it. If you get the job, you do it - just to get experience, to act, to meet people.
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Infrastructure investments lead to jobs. And quality of life starts with a good job.
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Ultimately, it's not my job to judge the 'Housewives' - we don't editorialize on the show; we really leave it to the audience. We have a certain wink, which is the Bravo wink. We may linger on a shot or we may let something play out longer, but we leave it to you.
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My dad takes care of me as a manager and as a dad. That's his job, you know, to take care of me. He has my best interests at heart.
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I'm talking to anyone who has been dumped - have not gotten the job you really wanted or have received those horrible rejection letters from grad school. You know, the disappointment of losing, or not getting something you badly want. When that happens, show what you are made of.
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No one in my family was a journalist, and it didn't seem like a real job. Part of me still doesn't think it is.
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My dad has always been vocal about critically appreciating me. If I have done a bad job, he will definitely try to correct me with his inputs.
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A woman needs to be put together more than a man. If she isn't, she looks like she's not up for the job. There's a different standard. Those are the rules, and I have to live by them.
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My job always is to play a person, not to judge her.
