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- Nov 07, 2020
Job Quotes
What a job costs, and what it takes.
Quotes about "job" here focus on careers in the arts — a warning that a comfortable day job can quietly end a musician's ambitions, and advice to take any first job just to get into the industry. For work-focused reflection, see Doing quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you first start, you just want to get a job. It goes from that to really deciding what kind of work you want to do and what kind of actor you want to be - and it only gets harder.
- Longest
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a dog groomer. I delivered radiators; I was a photography producer. I typed classified ads for many years. It was my longest term job - years of typing classified ads while I was in bands.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're unemployed for six months or a year, it is hard to qualify for a lease, so even the option of relocating to find a job is often off the table.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Individuals out of work for an extended period can become less employable as they lose the specific skills acquired in their previous jobs and also lose the habits needed to hold down any job.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I became a mother, there was no doubt in my mind that it would be the most vital and important job I would ever have because I knew firsthand what it was like not to have a mother.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The autobiographer works in a treacherous terrain. The journalist has a much safer job.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, because I'm an artist, part of my job is to be a barometer, an antenna. It's in the air and it resonates with a lot of people to lighten up.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
Redemption isn't giving a bank robber a job as a teller.
- Caliber
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I failed miserably on NewsRadio. I was very nervous because of the caliber of the cast - especially Dave Foley - so I think I did a terrible job.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
The main reason why historians have skated over the relationship of Victorian PMs with the press is that they haven't been looking for it. It takes a lecturer in media studies such as Paul Brighton to point out that media management was part of the job of a Victorian prime minister.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
My job as a human being as well as a writer is to feel as thoroughly as possible the experience that I am part of, and then press it a little further.
- If I Could
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I could do theater during the hiatus and then do '30 Rock' in the winter, that would be my ideal job.
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- Nov 07, 2020