Job Quotes
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'Survivor' is a game that's designed to be played with strangers, people with varied backgrounds from all parts of the country. The greatest part is that you can go into the game as anyone you want, hold any job you desire, and portray any personality you can think of.
Jenna Morasca
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We have to wrap this imperative of addressing climate change in a prosperity framework, and secondly we have to do a much better job of putting forward an American jobs agenda that's a match for the climate challenge.
Martin O'Malley
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Before I wrote my first novel, 'The Expats,' I spent nearly two decades at various arms of publishing houses such as Random House, Workman, and HarperCollins, mostly as an acquisitions editor. But a more accurate title for that job might be rejection editor: while I acquired maybe a dozen projects per year, I'd reject hundreds upon hundreds.
Chris Pavone
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If you're going to be a model, what's going to get you the job on a go-see and makes you stand out, it might not be your lipstick or your portfolio or what you're wearing, it might come from your core being.
Andre Leon Talley
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You get thought of in terms of your last job. So if my last job is that of a meat cleaver-wielding character, I will hardly be cast as some benign, older gentleman.
Ben Cross
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Dad has worked as a banker at the same firm in Boston, living in the same suburban neighborhood for over 50 years. Later in life, when I got out of graduate school and imagined myself living the life of a writer like Hemingway or Kerouac, his practical self inevitably encouraged me to get a steady a job and raise a family, just like he did.
Amor Towles
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If you're writing a thriller, and you don't make it compelling, then you've really not done your job. So it's easier for me not to set out with certain goals, and then I can't see them as unmet. It's like life generally: If I'm not aiming to be physically fit, then I'm not always thinking about being unfit.
Claire Messud
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You say, Wait a minute, God, you spared me from a slave job in an office, and now I have a slave job onstage. I am not on that clock no more.
Lauryn Hill
Fugees
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Meyer did a tremendous job. He brought through young players, which I am grateful for. I will be talking to him in the weeks to come.
Allister Coetzee
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There's a different set of writers and a different director for the films, but Marvel has turned it into a pretty spectacular job.
Clark Gregg
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I worked in an office. I was like an assistant. So, I would just answer phone calls, coordinate events. It was a great day job. I worked with amazing people, but obviously, whenever you are doing something that's not your dream, you kind of feel like, 'Oh, I'm on this grind.'
Kelly Marie Tran
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One of the great things about my job is I get to do all of these things that I may not experience had I not been an actor.
Hilary Swank
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In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there was flexibility so teachers could become social workers, or foster carers become teachers.
Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
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I've gotten into such weird jobs just by word of mouth... Like I didn't try to be an accessory designer, but I had a friend working at the company and I needed a job so that's where I ended up.
Nicolas Cowan
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All of a sudden one of my guys noticed they were doing this, ... And then after a little reflection, my team started thinking 'how can we do a better job of this?'
Craig Newmark
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Social-enterprise employees earn wages and pay taxes, reducing their recidivism rates and dependence on government assistance. They also receive crucial on-the-job training, job-readiness skills, literacy instruction and, if necessary, the counseling and mental-health services they need to move into the mainstream workforce.
George R. Roberts
