Job Quotes
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I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.
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I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.
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I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid to play a game, and what a cool lifestyle that was.
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I've had to write a column an hour after I've come back from a funeral. A deadline is a deadline, I mean, that was just what my job was.
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Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went.
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I almost took a job in Italy. It was really a great opportunity, but they didn't think I had enough international experience.
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I have my dream job! As a young person training as an actor, walking on the WB studio lot is a dream in itself.
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One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.
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The church's job is to provide permanent solace and spiritual leadership to the people as a whole, whatever their government at the moment, so long as it stays within the bounds of moral decency.
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I have a family I love. They tend to say, 'Great job!' Or 'You work really hard! Good for you!' Or 'You look nice today!' Or 'Don't be ridiculous, order the fries!' Or 'You are hilarious.' That's all the family I need.
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A skilled worker, regardless of the job description, remains a treasure.
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A relationship is like another job, you know, you have to work at it all the time.
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A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.
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Just to live in the country is a full-time job. You don't have to do anything. The idle pursuit of making a living is pushed to one side, where it belongs, in favor of living itself, a task of such immediacy, variety, beauty, and excitement that one is powerless to resist its wild embrace.
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I've tried to do that for my top assistant wherever I've been, but this is even better because it'll be for my son. I will feel like I've finished the job I was called to do in coming here.
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Private equity funds a substantial amount of new businesses and is the source of capital to rejuvenate failing businesses, which are major drivers of job growth in this economy.
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With a project like 'The 5th Wave,' you do something you would never do in your normal life; I would never have had S.W.A.T. training or boot camp, and there's something really cool about learning stuff like that that's really fun about our job.
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I'm all about the drugstore beauty products. They're affordable and get the job done.
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After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.
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My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job.
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I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nonstop since I was 19. I realized very early on that I would need a day job, and I wanted one that was in books.
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Write what you want to write, write what people want to hear, and write about what they're going through, because if you could connect with the people who are listening to your music and coming to your concerts and coming to your meet and greets, then you're doing your job well.
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I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.
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Working in Hollywood for the orchestra world is a very time consuming and laborious job.
