- 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
- Nov 07, 2020
I sing and dance. That's my job.
- Champion
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I auditioned for 'Bye Bye Birdie' on Broadway, Gower Champion said, 'You've got the job!' I said, 'Mr. Champion, I can't dance.' He said, 'We'll teach you what you need to know.'
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to go from one job to another. I started at seven years old in theater and used to go from one job to another.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
My teachers encouraged me to audition for some professional work during our summer vacation. I landed my first job. It was for the National Theatre Company's Mimika Pantomime troupe. I ended up touring with them for the next two years.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
First job I had, I was 17 years old. I was primarily the mail room boy at the radio station. An FM station. And in those days, nobody listened to FM.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1993, as House Democratic Leader, I led the fight to pass the Clinton-Gore economic plan - a plan designed to slash the deficit, invest in education, cut taxes for working families, and ask the wealthy among us to pay their fair share... Not one Republican voted for that plan. They said it was a job killer.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is interactive... It's a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not going to rule out running for a second term. But, I think you have to be psychologically prepared to walk away from the job after four years. It's the only way that you cannot be influenced by those special interests.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Going from sharing a one-bedroom place to living in a loft to two people living in a house to me having my own place by myself has kind of mirrored my career... small steps to bigger, to bigger, to now having a steady job.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Motivation is not hard at all because it’s such a fun job and everything about it is so exciting so you never really lose motivation.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
In terms of asking questions, I plead guilty. I ask a hell of a lot of questions. That's my job.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I can help one person in this world, then it's enough, and I've done my job.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lost many a role to actresses who couldn't do the job one-hundredth as good as I could.
- Integrity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some days I want to get the boob job, some days I want to get the eye lift. Then other days, I'm like, 'Absolutely not! Have some integrity!'... But it's all about what makes you happy.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never thought that I would treasure doing my job, and I have reached that point. I've gotten to a point where it's like the priesthood: this is what I was called to do.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020