- Love
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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
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
My plan was always to leave school and live in a flat with some friends, have a 9 to 5 job, and try to get as many gigs as I could. I wanted to keep writing and then eventually, in my twenties, head to a record label and hope they'd sit down and listen to my book of songs, sign me as a songwriter and maybe an artist in development.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
This was what you did in the '50s: You get married, get a job, put your husband through graduate school, and have two kids - a girl and a boy.
- Professional
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first play I ever did was with Michael Langham, Brian Bedford, and Colm Feore, at Stratford Festival. That was my first professional job, and I got to work with Garland Wright and so many great artists.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
OK, so I'm a working mom that also gets to kiss George Clooney. That's a little bit of a perk of the job.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
So the English approach to show business and their work is more - and this is a big generalization, I hasten to say - but it's more, they work on it as a craft job.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lots of people want to have written; they don't want to write. In other words, they want to see their name on the front cover of a book and their grinning picture on the back. But this is what comes at the end of a job, not at the beginning.
- Fat
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's definitely part of my job description not to be too fat.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me to do my job effectively, we need to continue to earn public confidence. That involves transparency and accountability.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.
- Congress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our most important job in Congress is to provide for our national defense, and therefore, every year, Congress allocates funds and determines defense priorities in a bill known as the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA.
- Get A Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
After I graduated high school and came out to do 'Buffy,' I was enrolled at my mom's university, and I was going to go get a real job. I never thought of acting and never really wanted to be an actor.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being the chief minister of a regional government is just a pastime compared with the hellish job of being prime minister of two different communities brought together.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020