Assistants Quotes - Page 4

• I was an assistant director for a year, and I realized, 'God, this is a lot of hard work. This is going to take time. So what's the shortcut? What's the better option?' Then thankfully, someone said, 'Why don't you become an actor?'

  Emraan Hashmi

  Hard Work, Years, Directors

  "Emraan Hashmi: I Like to Kiss in First Scene". "The Front Row with Anupama Chopra", blogs.wsj.com. October 18, 2013.

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• I'm so excited for my son. On Christmas morning I want to see his face, to be there when he opens the gifts. I want the see what my assistants got him for Christmas.

  David Letterman

  Morning, Son, Want

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• I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do.

  J. J. Abrams

  Jobs, Dad, Mean

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The fighter (like the writer) must stand alone. If he loses he cannot call an executive conference and throw off on a vice president or the assistant sales manager. He is consequently resented by fractional characters who cannot live outside an organization.

  A. J. Liebling

  Character, Organization, President

  A. J. Liebling (2014). “The Sweet Science”, p.5, Macmillan

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• The Daily Telegraph reported on April 9, 1937: 'Since M. Litvinoff ousted Chicherin, no Russian has ever held a high post in the Commissariat for Foreign Affairs.' It seems that the Daily Telegraph was unaware that Chicherin's mother was a Jewess. The Russian Molotov, who became Foreign Minister later, has a Jewish wife, and one of his two assistants is the Jew, Lozovsky. It was the last-named who renewed the treaty with Japan in 1942, by which the Kamchatka fisheries provided the Japanese with an essential part of their food supplies.

  Arnold Leese

  Mother, Japan, Two

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• Stupidity is a factor to be reckoned with in human affairs. The true leader always expects to encounter it, and prepares to endure it patiently so long as it is normal stupidity. He knows that his ideas will be distorted, his orders carelessly executed; and that there will be jealousy among his assistants. He takes these inevitable phenomena into account, and instead of attempting to find men without faults, who are non-existent, he tries to make use of the best men at his disposal - as they are, and not as they ought to be.

  Andre Maurois

  Men, Order, Ideas

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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• I had a certificate that said, 'Doctor of Mixology, Harvard University,' that I actually got from Harvard University. A friend of mine was a research assistant over there and it was one of those student or university perks and she brought me in on that. So I am a doctorate from Harvard and it only took me one afternoon.

  Ronda Rousey

  Doctors, Research, Afternoon

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• Think like a head coach, but act like an assistant coach

  Tommy Amaker

  Thinking, Coaches, Assistant Coaches

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• To this day, I've never had an assistant. I really insist on doing everything myself because I value the role of the artist's hand so much in the process. But that means I have to learn it personally in order to do it.

  Dario Robleto

  Mean, Artist, Hands

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I have assistants that use the internet a lot more than I do. I use the internet for photo research, but for me personally, probably just because of my age, I'm not that mechanically inclined.

  Colleen Atwood

  Age, Use, Research

  Source: collider.com

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• A good executive goes around with a worried look on his assistants.

  Vince Lombardi

  Looks, Worried, Executives

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• I always stayed away from the studio environment as much as possible. But I just wanted to see if I could work in one. It's not easy. Just having an engineer's assistant around is enough for me to be uncomfortable. With more than one person there in the room, it feels strange.

  Jack White

  Rooms, Strange, Environment

  "The Raconteurs". Interview with Jonathan Durbin, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2008.

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• One of my assistants was on Instagram and showed me how it was working. I thought it was playful, the way you go through images, a little like cinema. It's a bit like a filmstrip that's animated by your finger.

  Camille Henrot

  Cinema, Littles, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In my childhood, I had a religious assistant who always told me, if you can really laugh with full abandonment, it's very good for your health.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Laughing, Childhood

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• We have to be plumbers, electricians, construction engineers, or workers, on the space station, but at the same time running a laboratory, being scientists, being the best laboratory assistants we can be. It's all in a bundle; it's very exciting, it's a lot of fun.

  Thomas Marshburn

  Running, Fun, Space

  "Rocket To ISS Lifts Off With American, Russian, Canadian Astronauts" by Clara Moskowitz, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 19, 2012.

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• My very first professional job was with a theatre company in 1965 and the first job they gave me was literally shovelling sh*t. I was an assistant stage manager and they told me to clear out the prop store. I opened it up and no-one had been in there for 25 years and it was inches deep in rat sh*t. So before I could get anywhere I had to clear it up. I thought, 'All these years of training, the best drama school in the world, and this is what I'm doing.'

  Martin Shaw

  Jobs, Drama, School

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I grew up on the sets of Bonanza and most of my (childhood) memory is (on the set of) Little House. I was actually an assistant cameraman on Highway to Heaven. So, I observed my father working for many years. He was a very giving person. I really respected the way he ran his sets. He never treated anyone differently - whether you were the guest star of the show or the grip. Everybody was treated with respect.

  Michael Landon, Jr.

  Stars, Memories, Father

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• You can't have assistant coaches who aren't loyal - but you can learn a lot from your assistant coaches.

  Tony DiCicco

  Loyal, Coaches, Assistant Coaches

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• I put myself around good people, including my assistant coaches. A lot of head coaches are intimidated by their assistant coaches, they'd rather get people that are far less talented than them because it's not threatening.

  Tony DiCicco

  People, Threatening, Coaches

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• I went to drama school but it was very hard to get work until I was made assistant stage manager.

  Brian Blessed

  Drama, School, Made

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• The basic skill of an actor is, in fact, empathy, and that's maybe not a skill, it's a disposition. I am an assistant storyteller. I enjoy feeling useful to a team effort. It's my way of finding a use for myself, a utility in this world.

  Harrison Ford

  Team, Skills, Effort

  "Star Wars Archive: Harrison Ford, Solo Artist". Interview with William Thomas, www.empireonline.com. June, 2002.

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• The only episode which was completely my idea was for Mitch Pileggi, the actor who portrays Skinner, the Assistant Director of the FBI. He appears often in the series, but only for a few scenes. You know virtually nothing about him. I wanted him to have an episode that was his alone, so I wrote Avatar for him. He even has a scene that's pretty . . . hot [knowing smile]. He was very happy.

  David Duchovny

  Knowing, Ideas, Directors

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• Speaking of happy successes, after years of struggling to lose those few extra pounds every mother puts on during adoption, particularly when the doctor orders bed rest, in 2004 I sent my assistant to the Gap in dark glasses with a fake ID to purchase my first pair of Easy Fit jeans.

  Paula Poundstone

  Mother, Struggle, Dark

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• In school we did all sorts of things, molds, slab building. We were not very proficient on the wheel because the woman who taught was not proficient on the wheel. And so we learned from her assistant who had learned from her assistant the year before and so on, and that was not very good training.

  Warren MacKenzie

  School, Years, Training

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Remember, this is back in the '40s, and the idea of a museum being a place where interested people could come in direct contact with works hadn't arrived on the scene yet. That, I think, I first ran into at the Freer Gallery in Washington, D.C., where a man named Marty [Martin] Amt decided that he really felt his job - part of his job, as an assistant [to the] director was to make the collection available to interested people.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Jobs, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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