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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
- Nov 07, 2020
I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a director, you have to know what actors are doing. You're the one telling them what to do. The actors' job is to come prepared to the set, but sometimes, if they're beginning actors or people who are non-actors, you have to teach them how to act.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am so lucky to do the job I do.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I am incredibly generous with how much I give to my projects, but that's my generosity with the job.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not that there are no masters, but that there are many. And the job of the solicitor general is to balance those masters and to accommodate them all, each in their proper places, wisely and well and in so doing to represent the people of the United States.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I am working, I have two shows on Saturday, and when I wake up, and it's a lovely day, I just cry. I'm joking: I love my job.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1981, Ms. Ebtekar was made editor-in-chief of the English-language newspaper 'Kayhan International.' The man who gave her the job was Mr. Khatami, who was then head of the Kayhan publishing house.
- Condoleezza
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1991, only two years into the Bush administration, Condoleezza Rice suddenly left her powerful job as the top Russia expert on the National Security Council and went back to California - to get a life.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I joke that I've always had this sort of insatiable 'big sis' complex - which is odd given that I am the baby of the family with no sisters! It's the reason I have such a powerful desire to connect with girls and encourage them. So, it's a natural fit for me to have a job that's like the editorial version of an older sister to a million girls.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up in comedy, there were maybe 10 comics in the whole country. Everyone had a day job. You worked free for years in little clubs, then you got your big break and became a star.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't funny as a kid. I remember enjoying comedians, but I never understood it was a job choice or a profession.
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- Nov 07, 2020