- Nov 07, 2020
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job - that was through Mike Figgis.
- Nov 07, 2020
I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
- Gaming
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always enjoyed gaming, but even as I got older, and I started to get deeper into writing and all this stuff that is my grown-up job, I couldn't play as much as I used to.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone can like their job... To love your job is not enough, you must give your passion to your job.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie 'Die Hard.' I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns and blowing stuff up, and I thought, 'I wanna do that.' It really had nothing to do with acting; I just wanted a job that allowed me to do fun, bigger-than-life stuff.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's cool to have critical success because it's always nice for your peers to say, 'Good job.' But who cares about them?
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
TV chefs are not responsible for people's consumption of fibre; this is not our job.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I'm a disciplined mom versus a strict mom. But also, that job - the disciplining was from birth until about 12, and at 12, I set my kids free, and they learned to become independent human beings.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
When done with heart, commitment, and integrity, every job is equally important.
- Pride
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took the same pride in my dishwashing job as a child as I take in running my company today.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Right now the problem in Thailand is we have high debt, but we don't know how to earn the new source of revenue back to Thailand. This is my job.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I graduated, I promptly took a job in finance, making both my pre-med and poli-sci years essentially useless - or so I thought.
- Travel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can have a job where I get paid to travel around the world in shiny pants. Why would anyone want to do anything else?
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just a player who wants to work and who does my job every day, the same as I always did.
- Good Lord
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thank the good Lord for a job.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a manager is so different to being a footballer. It's a very difficult job, but, of course, it's very exciting as well.
- Dugout
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- Nov 07, 2020
My job has changed over the years, 22 years roughly I've been cooking professionally. When I was younger, I aspired to be the star player. Now, it's more I like to sit in the dugout and make sure the team wins the game.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I finished grad school, I sort of fell into journalism. Someone mentioned that there was an entry-level job at the Reuters News Agency. I applied, and, to my amazement, I got the job.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have loved hosting over the years, simply because I love working with people. It's the perfect job.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Later on in life, I discovered that in order for me to be successful, I had to have a challenge. I can't do a nine to five job.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
Strangely, when I was a kid, my first acting job, at 5 years old, was a performance of 'The Three Little Pigs.' They cast me as the Big Bad Wolf.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Practically, the desirable situation ought to be one in which any reasonably responsible person willing to accept available employment can find a job paying a living wage within 48 hours.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Spencer Tracy was a man who did very much what I do on a set, and that is, he comes down and he does his job, and then he goes back to his dressing room.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we are doing is satisfying the American public. That's our job. I always say we have to give most of the people what they want most of the time. That's what they expect from us.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we get involved in the ratings, then we're doing the network's job. We need to focus on our work.
- Inspire
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the job of an original designer is to inspire.
- Miss
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the job. That's what I'll miss the most... I'm not sure anybody ever liked this as much as I've liked it.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1900 Americans on average lived for only 49 years and most working people died still on the job.
- Said
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got an agent. He said, what do you wanna do, and I said, I want an Oscar nomination. That's your job, that's what I'm paying you for. And I got it.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you start focusing on the next job, then you're probably not going to do the one you have very well.
- School
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no problem having any actor from anywhere play a role. I'm excited for any actor that gets a job, I truly am. Even if it's a role that I'm up for and I don't get it, I never begrudge any actor having it work out for them.
- Good-Paying
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- Nov 07, 2020
More effective than giving away half my fortune before I die is finding a way to help people have a good-paying job.
- Powerful
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it.
- Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Manufacturing still has the greatest multiplier effect, in terms of job creation, of any sector of the economy.
- Consulting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean there are tons of reasons. Well first of all. I write my own record. I don't take other people's materials. And I have a job which is being Willa Ford on top of getting back in the studio and writing and recording.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes it occurs to me that the job of a serious cultural critic mostly consists in telling the generality of people that their opinions - on films, on books, on all manner of widgets, gadgets and even the latest electronic fidgets - simply aren't up to scratch.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only proper suit-and-tie job I've had in my life was the two years in the late 1980s when I ran a small corporate publishing company. I even had a Ford Sierra!
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is my job to know the difference between information and intelligence.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's more pressure as a writer. As an actor you usually just go, do your job, and go home.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's our job to make sure the players are ready to play at a high level. Part of that is making sure that the emotion is in check.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't do a lot of strategizing, career-wise. I was approached by Chris and Phil, the guys who did 'The Lego Movie.' They gave me my first job on 'Clone High.' We've been friends forever, and they asked me if I wanted to write something with them.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I had a job pitching for the Giants, I probably wouldn't be manning my own Twitter account.
- Everybody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody that's an actor leaves it for a while 'cause they ain't got a job.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned to take the first job that you have in the business that you want to get into. It doesn't matter what that job is, you get your foot in the door.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
My job is to kind of nudge them. Who said it, where, like, '90% of the job is casting,' so all I do is try to come to set and focus on getting all the best shots to cover the story; that's really it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from.
- Nov 07, 2020
When you compare mayors to Washington insiders, Americans see that mayors actually get the job done.
- Bottom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I liked being CEO of Blockbuster, but my job is to put it on the bottom line for shareholders.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I would change anything. I think we've done a fairly good job of remaining sane and making the right decisions.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
My job was to find interesting material that would give us a quality television show.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
My job as an editor is to gently prod the attention of the audience to look at various parts of the frame. And that - I do that by manipulating how and where I cut and what succession of images I work with.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.
- Brave
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only guy that was ever affected by climactic conditions in his acting was Kirk Douglas. He did a superb job in 'Lonely Are the Brave' because we were shooting that picture up at about 12,000 feet, and the rarefied atmosphere sapped him of any energy or strength that he had. That was his best performance.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.
- Articulating
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think Congress, in general, has done a good job articulating to the American public how inextricably linked our credit markets are to our entire economic system.
- Eliminated
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Japan, a company worker's position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present job is eliminated by productivity improvement.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
What should be the aim of management? What is their job? Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
At first, I wanted to start my own label, but it was such a full-time job that it became too much.
- Content
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing a book is usually a full-time job that takes years. I didn't have years. So I decided to crowdsource content for the book.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like he inherited one of the worst economies than any president has ever, ever inherited. I have met Mr. Obama, President Obama. I supported him in his first campaign, and I feel that he deserves four more years to finish up the job that he started.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made a better decision in choosing my team. Sure, I had a bigger choice of players to choose from - but I couldn't have asked for a harder working group of players who did an incredible job.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whereas most technologies tend to automate workers on the periphery doing menial tasks, blockchains automate away the center. Instead of putting the taxi driver out of a job, blockchain puts Uber out of a job and lets the taxi drivers work with the customer directly.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the field you are writing about, but writing is what you are doing.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to put a little spin on traditional styles as I see them now, probably somewhat inspired by my current job on 'Boardwalk Empire.'
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw a '60 Minutes' piece on Google as a place to work. It was such a foreign concept from what I understood as a regular job. There's free food, sleeping pods, Ping-Pong. I'm the kind of guy who likes to get involved in everything - I'd be all over the Ping-Pong.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020