- 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
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each other's houses. My brother and I are actors and are traveling a lot of our job.
- Detailing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were many years when I was hand-to-mouth and didn't know how I was gonna make rent. I've done every job under the sun, from busing tables, temping, and working in factories to SAT prep and detailing cars. So to be able to make a living where all I do is write is absolutely liberating.
- Better Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
We, all of us, could do a much better job of evoking what someone has called the universal principle of human altruism: the urge in us all to help others who are in danger.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not the kind of person who makes his bread and butter on how hyped I am. I am an actor, and I do my job.
- Actor
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- Nov 07, 2020
The transition from TV to films wasn't overwhelming, since an actor's ultimate job is to act.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a writer is good at what he does, it's not easy to do a good job every day... To invent something new is almost an impossible task.
- Respect
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- Nov 07, 2020
With respect to keeping your sanity, the more you are dedicated to your job, the more you think about it. And there is so much to think about for the director.
- Nov 07, 2020
It seems kind of nutty to send up something new when there's something already there that can do the job.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Baseball is just my job.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an expert in baseball and I don't even have a job. I'm an expert, more so than a lot of people out there. It should be my career until I'm dead. I should be one of the instructors. I think I've earned it.
- Essence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for the screen, maintaining its essence in a different vehicle.
- Build
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- Nov 07, 2020
A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.
- Creation
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- Nov 07, 2020