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"The constant variety is the most interesting part of my job."


"Why would I lose sleep when I really need valuable sleep just to recuperate and come back and do my job?"


"As an actress, I have to be objective about myself. If I don't criticize myself, there are plenty who will do a find job of it for me!"


"I sometimes feel like I could do another job. Anything. Maybe because as an actress you're playing different characters, everything feels possible."
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"I got a job immediately after leaving high school; I was lucky - three dollars a week and all I could eat, working on a vegetable truck."



"What you do is get the right director and the right screenwriter and the right cast. It's a fantastic job."


"I thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United States."


"That was kind of scary. You got the sense as a little kid that you might be at risk now, and then you're like, 'Why are we at risk? It's because my grandfather is in charge of all of this.' You can't really realize the magnitude of a job like that when you are eight."


"The characters emerge from my rather twisted mind. That's another enjoyable part of the job making stuff up."


"I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda; that would be simplistic. We have to explore our situation further before we will understand it."


"The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not."


"It's a full on job just looking for human social responsibility."


"I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then I got a full-time job as a technical writer for a large scientific research laboratory."


"The presidency is not an entry-level electoral job."


"This is my job and I respect it enough to concentrate on it."



"When you walk away from a really wonderful job like that, you start messing with everyone's priorities. It's like you're dissing them."


"Later in that administration, I was asked to take a job which I had to turn down as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs because we were just then putting together the merger of two small law firms that became this law firm. I couldn't leave them at that point."



"I always wanted to be a full-time musician. Every television job I had was a means to buy a grand piano, or to put in a recording studio, or something like that."


"All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only ones who can do the job."


"The personal thing is something I have never talked about. And I never will. That is prohibited. My job is public. But that's it. When you're not working, you don't have an obligation to be public."


"We met and married when both of us knew exactly what our jobs were. He was only 32, but he'd been all over the place. I'd been working on films and television shows all over the world."


"Well for six years during Cheers I couldn't get another job."


"I tell ya, I could have got some more jobs if I'd tried, but I went to Sweden instead."


"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."


"Until the Chinese decide to compete fairly it will be up to us to do what we can to further protect our manufacturing base, and ensure we keep the good paying jobs we already have."


"It's my job to get us in good plays, or more importantly, out of bad plays. That's what I did."
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