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"An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it."
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"Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers."

"I like to make everything my friends are involved in a little better. I should have just become a manager."

"For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio."

"If something that needs to be done that we don't feel confronting, we do it through the manager."

"I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried."

"Our entire team is focused on managing this company for value - fixing or eliminating those operations that lessen value and expanding or adding those that enhance value."

"Great leaders understand the importance of assigning the right people to the right positions. If you put the wrong person in the wrong place, no matter how talented or earnest they are, they will never reach the peak of their potential. Their strengths will be underutilized and they may never measure up to your expectations. Reassign to get the best out of others and the situation."

"We had a very energetic floor manager and he was always jumping around all over the place. The director would send down messages like, Can you tell that actor to calm down?"

"My style will be management by being on the street, management by walking around. Third persons won't have to tell me what's going on in our city. I'll hear it, I'll see it, I'll touch it myself."

"I, in fact, have been involved in the construction of and the management of wastewater treatment plants."
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"The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you're always asked to do what you've already done."

"Paris Hilton, that's very interesting what she did. I've never done that. I haven't really sort of ever got into that. As time passes, maybe I should record it and put it in a vault so that when I get a little old don't have the energy I can remember how life used to be."

"I succeeded on sort of chutzpah and charm. No technique at all, didn't know what I was doing, but it worked and the character suited me."

"I was the youngest. The yule lamb. The one who always got away without doing the washing up. My sister was four years older, and my brother six years."

"I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly."

"I had done a fair bit of traveling during the holidays in my school days with my guitar and discovered that I could live on it. Admittedly, I traveled with a sleeping bag but I could always find somewhere to lay my head."

"So I continued through my next school, which takes me up to the age of 17, moving from the bottom stream of one year into the bottom stream of the next year, all the way through. I showed other talents which gave me self-respect, which is fine."

"A trip to the mainland was a big event and happened maybe once a year, although now you can get across in a speed boat in seven minutes but then it was a long way away."
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