- Quality
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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
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would never describe football as a job because it doesn't feel like a job.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can be the hardest-working, most talented person in Hollywood and never book a job. Or you can not be able to act your way out of a box and be making $20 million a year.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never attended any acting school, though I've done theatre workshops a couple of times, and it has been an extremely enriching experience. But beyond that, I don't want to acquire the skills of acting and use them on camera. I'd rather learn on the job.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I finally had to go to the American Civil Liberties Union here in northern California to get my reply published to what I considered to be a hatchet job done by Stanley Crouch.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never had the chutzpah to just come to L.A. and make it. I didn't have that confidence. I'm always surprised when I get a job.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be an icon is a big job - it's beyond acting. And sometimes it pays, and sometimes it doesn't.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you do something that's going to get somebody a job, then they'll be able to pay for their kid's school, and then their kid is going to be a doctor, and then that doctor is going to probably help who knows how many other people, so it's very motivating. Much more fun than going to the beach.
- Comfortable
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very comfortable having a steady job on a hit show, and who knew if 'The Jeffersons' would catch on?
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to watch 'The Office' over and over and over again. It's great, one of the best shows in the history of television. But also, I like to read. I honestly don't like to socialize, because my job is to socialize.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
With four women commentators, the IPL have shown they have faith in women commentators to do a good job.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.
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- Nov 07, 2020