- Life
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really think a good host is just a connector. I'm more traffic cop than star. My job is to get people on and off the program, and hopefully keep the audience entertained.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't always done a good job, and I haven't always been successful - but I know that I have tried.
- Conduit
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- Nov 07, 2020
The artist's job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery. To intuit it, and recognize that the story-germ has some inherent mystery in it, and sort of midwife that mystery into the story in such a way that it isn't damaged in the process, and may even get heightened or refined.
- Irritating
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
- Component
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2008, Barack Obama did a phenomenal job of reaching out to minority groups, to younger people, and a lot of newer voters, Hispanics being one component of that definition of newer voters.
- Secret
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have my sympathies and also my critical views, and they aren't much of a secret, but my first job is to see and hear and think about what I've seen and heard.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a meritocracy, actors who act well get good roles. They don't get to be journalists, too - a job that, in a meritocracy, should go to those who do journalism well.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know anybody else who lives 1,000 miles away from their job and gets to commute back and forth. The owner said, 'You can live in your beloved Swifton, but don't you dare miss a game.' I had a few close calls, but I didn't miss any.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
All I wanted to do was to perform my music, so I never really thought about photo shoots or music video shoots or interviews. You can't anticipate those things - you just can't plan this as a job.
- Auditions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I didn't have a job, I studied acting, I sent out tapes, went on auditions.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020