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"Masochism is a valuable job skill."
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"One of the greatest challenges in collecting child support is that deadbeat dads move from job to job and state to state. it's hard to keep track of them."
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"The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do."
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"What you do is get the right director and the right screenwriter and the right cast. It's a fantastic job."
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"Lawyers have a dangerous job in Iran."
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"We ask for way too much stuff - way too much stuff. You got a job making $100 a year and bought a house for $3 million. Talking about, 'I don't know what happened with the payment.'"
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"The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon."
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"You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It's hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that's great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we'll see."
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"The public don't know what they want; it's my job to tell them."
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"Sometimes I have to accept a job I don't really want. Hardly anybody comes up to you with a commission; it's all competitions these days."
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"It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I'm working for another editor, I'm obliged to follow their vision."
Food
"People who were more concerned with themselves and looking good to their readers then they were with the characters sacrificed a series for the sake of a story."
People
"I try not to violate what came before me and to leave lots of wiggle room for those who will follow."
Will
"When I got my first glimpse of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, my breath caught. In that single instant, he was Wolverine."
First
"I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core."
Character
"You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end."
Beginning
"In these litigious times, if you're a beginner, it's becoming harder and harder to get your work to the people who might actually be able to hire you."
Work
"Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback."
Thought
"The most unrealistic thing I've ever read in comics is when some group of characters calls themselves the Brotherhood of Evil or the Masters of Evil. I don't believe any character believes their goals to be truly evil."
Character
"In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home."
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