- Book
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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
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a director, my job is to spend money, and the producer's is to save money. Masoom, Bandit Queen and the first Queen Elizabeth have been my most uncompromised films.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have had almost every job under the sun, it feels like. One of the first jobs I took was as a door-to-door pest control salesman in Raleigh, North Carolina.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't say that I have a job. I have a gig, or a piece, or a film, or a show, but it's never a job.
- Figuring
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's kind of up to the actor to deconstruct the scene and deconstruct the character and figure out how to make it real. That's what I love about this job: It's sort of a puzzle each time, and figuring that out is sort the key, whether I'm playing a cop or a killer.
- Leader
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever it takes, the job of the director is to be the leader and to get your actors where they need to go. That's a philosophy that I have.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just don't really like starting a job if I don't know where it finishes. I want to know where something begins and ends so that you can invest something in it.
- Nov 07, 2020
With all due respect, I have a job to do, and that is to try and make 'Endeavour' the best it can be.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's what people want to watch - somebody telling a story. So if you go in and tell a story that makes sense to them, that touches them, then they're going to watch; then they'll tell a friend and that type of thing. In terms of how many people are watching in a given week, it's more the advertiser's job, not mine.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every major summer blockbuster that is released is essentially a product line being launched across multiple verticals. However, the centerpiece of the product launch is a big, beautiful story whose job is to entertain.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very afraid that I wouldn't be able to do this job well. And the time never came back.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tried for modelling work but it was a bit slow and that's when I took a part-time job at McDonalds. It gave me income while I was waiting for my big break and at the very least I could eat.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can make more money on unemployment than you can going down and getting one of those jobs that is an honest job, but it doesn't pay as much. And so, that's what's happened to us is that we have put in so much entitlement into our government, that we really have spoiled our citizenry and said you don't want the jobs that are available.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
They keep extending these unemployment benefits to the point where people are afraid to go out and get a job, because the job doesn't pay as much as the unemployment benefit does.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020