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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
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women's Affairs. Man, who'd she have to show her ankles to to get that job?
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in Chicago, I was working as a carpenter while I was doing plays. I thought it'd be a fun set construction job, but it turned up to just be a straight-up factory.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's much harder to get a job if nobody wants you around.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unless you're playing a historical figure, a writer or director can change their minds. And sometimes your job is to make them change their minds - to make them believe that you're the one that can do it.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
In acting, you are fulfilled if you give justice to your role... if you are able to do a credible performance and touch the audience. Same with directing. If you are able to draw out the best from your actors, then you fulfill your job as a director.
- Forest
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ideal job letter starts with a brilliant light. Then we realize that this brilliant light is actually sunlight, shafts of it, pouring through trees onto a thick bed of pine needles. Soft dusty resin floats in the sun shafts, invitingly. The smell of pine and sap rises from the forest floor. A twig snaps underfoot.
- Detect
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our border patrol does a great job under these very dangerous conditions. They use very sophisticated equipment, including gamma rays, to detect drugs and illegal immigrants as they enter the U.S.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember years ago being on the set of 'Dreamcatcher' and not only did I have such great admiration for Morgan Freeman and was just thrilled to be around him, I was struck by the fact that he seemed to be having perhaps more fun than I was at his job. And I thought, 'Well, that's very promising.'
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Studio 60' was a magical experience, as I directed six episodes, was a series regular and a producer... Dream job.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
During Governor Jennifer Granholm's administration, Michigan has experienced job losses, declining personal incomes, diminishing home values, and the highest unemployment rate in the nation.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Carlos Condit does the best job of being the counterstriking guy that is very elusive.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get approached to do a lot of commissioned art. Sometimes I do it, but I usually don't, given the day job and everything I've sort of got going on. I'm really passionate about it; there's not that much time left over for the other commissioned projects.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are people who own cars and are getting free cell phones. A car helps one find a job, too. Where do you draw the line?
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020