- Living
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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
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never overtly analyse my own movies, I don't think that's my job to do that. I just muddle through and do what I think is best for the movie.
- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't got a real job.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
My job now, as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, is to take this process forward, and that I'm determined to do, whatever old clippings you dig out and whatever old quotes you put before me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can get on with your job. I'm going to get on with mine. And mine is to deliver for the people of Northern Ireland, that's what they expect from me and I'm not going to be deflected by interesting academic or media speculation or attempts to take the whole debate back.
- Nov 07, 2020
My abilities grow with each job, whether it's writing or directing. When I stop learing, I'll stop working.
- Circumstance
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- Nov 07, 2020
The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Positive social awareness among the South African educated half-caste is zero. Teaching is a mechanical job. The best way of earning a living.
- Commonwealth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being born white in South Africa or anywhere in the empire and Commonwealth automatically conferred this special status. You had no problem finding a place to live, a job, trade union membership, access to social services. Being white, speaking English, you were accepted as English, entitled to all the rights of citizenship.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
At last, someone came to tell me I'd been selected as commissioner, which gave rise to the line that I took the job with clean hands. I was then taken downstairs to a press conference, and the reporters were as surprised as I was.
- Better Job
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- Nov 07, 2020