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Job Quotes
"After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years."
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"Whenever I fill out the job description I put 'songwriter,' never 'singer' or 'artist.' Singers come and go."
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"If kids come to educators and teachers from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important."
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"An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful."
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"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."
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"It's our job as economic developers in the state to make sure any prospect receives all available incentives."
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"The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up."
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"If you're an employer, you want to hire an employee who'll do their job, not do your bidding."
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"The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are."
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"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!"
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"We've been doing this for 10 years and it's been a hobby for a lot longer than it's been a job."
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"And you know, I said yesterday, you know, you know, if they're not going to - if the feds aren't going to do their job, well, then, I'm up to suing the feds to make them do their job! I mean, they sued Arizona, you know, we can sue them back! I mean, they're not - they're not enforcing the laws!"
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"I could never hold a job for more than three months, which works out well because that's how long a movie shoots."
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"Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along."
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"I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club."
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"Not to sound too pathetic, but there have been long stretches where I haven't been able to get a job."
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"There's only one shot you have at a movie, and that's your best shot. If you can't give it that, don't go. They're paying you! You gotta do a job for them."
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"No individual has a vested right to a job when that individual fails to perform adequately."
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"Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor."
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"The designated driver program, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, drop them off at the wrong house."
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"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."
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"I am evidence that you don't have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job."
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"Jean's whole job is to protect Victoria. Jean is a very practical, very orderly, very disciplined person; she is the personality called the gatekeeper."
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"Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is."
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"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."
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"I tell ya, I could have got some more jobs if I'd tried, but I went to Sweden instead."
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"It's a full on job just looking for human social responsibility."
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