- 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
- Salary
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- Nov 07, 2020
Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps the mistake I made at the start of my mandate is not understanding the symbolic dimension of the president's role and not being solemn enough in my acts. A mistake for which I would like to apologise or explain myself and which I will not make again. Now, I know the job.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't want to do Chekhov or Shakespeare. So I switched my major from acting to costume design. Eventually, I got a job working as a wardrobe assistant for a theater company. I would dress the actors, fix their costumes, do the quick changes for them and all that stuff.
- Fifth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Superstore' is, like, my fifth acting job.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a rough start when I moved to L.A. I couldn't find a job, so I couch-surfed for the first two years.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never in a million years would I have imagined that this is how my life would have ended up. I just thought I would be living in the States, doing a regular job.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody wants that spot: everybody wants to beat Nicola Adams. Everybody wants to be the Olympic champion; everybody wants to beat the Olympic champion. It's made me train that much harder and stay that much more focused. I guess, in a way, I've got them to thank for keeping me motivated and focused on the job I need to do.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a writer, it is my job to tell a story. I don't want to get involved in social commentary; I just want to show issues from a different point of view. I want to show issues from a perspective that may not be highlighted.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 12, I got a manager, but my mom was against it. It took a lot of convincing. But when I got a job at Manhattan Theatre Club, I think she saw how passionate I was about it and that I worked really hard - and now she's super supportive.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're working, you're in the present, but you've always got one eye on where your next job might be coming from, and I don't think that will ever go away.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
We bought a sofa with the money I made from 'Thunderbirds,' and I've still got it, and we call it Thunderbird 1. That's literally all I got out of the job.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's now become a joke in my family that as soon as I finish a job, I'm on a loop saying, 'I'm never going to work again' - it drives everyone mad!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started when I was 21, and it was always about getting the next job - like most actors, that's all it's ever been for me.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I carry both a Blackberry and an iPhone. But for my job, the iPhone is essential because of picture-taking and because of picture sharing.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020