Assistants Quotes - Page 8

• I could do nothing without my problems; they toughen my mind. In fact, I tell my assistants not to bring me their successes for they weaken me, but rather to bring me their problems, for they strengthen me.

  Charles Kettering

  Mind, Facts, Problem

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• I don't have lights, I don't have assistants, I just go and meet somebody and take a photograph. That's really basic, and that's how I used to work when I was 17 or 18 in Holland.

  Anton Corbijn

  Light, Photograph, Used

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• Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon Johnson is assistant leader of his party. In four years he is the leader of his party.

  Robert Caro

  Party, Two, Years

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• I have my team. Like if you see everyone around me - I have my hair and makeup girl, my assistant. They're very calm, they're all about positive energy. There're no drama queens. Everyone wants everyone else to have a positive experience. There are no agendas. I think it creates a healthy environment and there are no boundaries to cross.

  Fergie

  Girl, Queens, Drama

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• Indeed, most magicians catch the bug as kids. My first audience was my family in Long Island. My first 'assistant' was my mother, whom I levitated on a broom in our living room.

  Criss Angel

  Mother, Kids, Islands

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• Here's my feeling: For everyone, men and women, it's important to be a feminist. It's important to have female characters. It's wonderful for women to mentor other women, but it's just as important for women to mentor men and vice-versa. In my line of work, having Greg Daniels be such a great mentor to me is fantastic. Finding a writer's assistant, be it a man or a woman, and encouraging them to think with a feminist perspective, is key.

  Mindy Kaling

  Character, Men, Thinking

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• I must have assistants who will solve their own problems and tell me later what they've done.

  George C. Marshall

  Done, Problem, Solve

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• Dress your best on your execution day. Be extremely courteous to your assistant when you lose money. Try not to blame others for your fate, even if they deserve blame. Never exhibit any self-pity. Do not complain.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Adversity, Fate, Self

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• I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves of books.] As I read them I highlight certain passages. Then I have an assistant write down each quote on an index card and note where it came from.

  Lawrence Wright

  Book, Writing, Feet

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• If left alone in labor, the body of a woman produces most easily the baby that is not interfered with by its mother's mind or the assistant's hand. If left alone, just courage and patience are required.

  Grantly Dick-Read

  Mother, Baby, Hands

  Grantly Dick-Read (2006). “Childbirth Without Fear”, p.371, Pollinger in Print

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• My first real kiss was actually on the set of The Vampire's Assistant, with Jessica Carlson who plays my crush in the movie. I was 15, she was 14. It was actually her first kiss too, so it was an interesting situation!

  Chris Massoglia

  Crush, Real, Kissing

  Interview with Julie Miller, www.seventeen.com. October 21, 2008.

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• Talk to the assistant press secretary, the deputy to key administration officials.

  Steve Scully

  Keys, Administration, Deputies

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• To a student: Dear Miss - I have read about sixteen pages of your manuscript . . . I suffered exactly the same treatment at the hands of my teachers who disliked me for my independence and passed over me when they wanted assistants. . . . Keep your manuscript for your sons and daughters, in order that they may derive consolation from it and not give a damn for what their teachers tell them or think of them. . . . There is too much education altogether.

  Albert Einstein

  Daughter, Teacher, Son

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• I know that Martin Johnson [the England coach] was in the stands, but I didn't feel it was up to me to impress them. He and his assistant [Brian Smith] were here to support me.

  Jonny Wilkinson

  Support, England, Rugby

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• Be a mere assistant to your unconscious. Do only half the work. The rest will do itself.

  Jean Cocteau

  Half, Unconscious, Mere

  "Cock and harlequin: Notes concerning music". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1921.

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• My occupation is assistant storyteller. It is not "icon."

  Harrison Ford

  Icons, Occupation, Storyteller

  "Letter from LA" by Anne Thompson, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2003.

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• A friend of mine was married to an assistant church pastor who regularly beat her up. He was smart ?- he'd do it in a way that the bruises didn't show. For the longest time, she dealt with it. Who would believe the minister was a wife beater?! Meanwhile, my friend ? - An attorney! ? - Suffered in silence.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Smart, Believe, Wife

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• I went to Bergdorf Goodman as an assistant in the fashion office and that was really my first exposure into the world of retail. Dawn Mello was president at the time and she had just left Gucci where she found Tom Ford.

  Roopal Patel

  Fashion, Office, President

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Being an assistant in a computer lab was the worst job I ever had. It was boring. That was when I was in college.

  Chris Carmack

  Jobs, College, Labs

  "Nashville's Chris Carmack on The O.C. and the rules of the death row meal". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. September 22, 2015.

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• I have a secret goal with my editor - he has asthma and uses his inhaler, and after I send him a new manuscript, I'll have his assistant phone me and tell me how many times he had to get his inhaler out while reading a draft. It's my secret laugh meter.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Reading, Phones, Editors

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• I don't have an assistant. I make a lot of people around me my slaves, but no assistant.

  Shirley MacLaine

  People, Slave

  "Shirley MacLaine talks about Bernie, Alfred Hitchcock, and Dean Martin". Interview with Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. April 26, 2012.

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• I didn't go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.

  Agnes Varda

  School, Thinking, Cameras

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• Clint Eastwood is so fair and consistent. It does not matter who he is talking to, he is always nice. It doesn't matter whether he is with a production assistant or Steven Spielberg, he is friendly and never seems superior. I think it is hard for people to realize that he is accessible because they are caught up in the image and can't talk to him because he is 'Clint Eastwood', so they get tongue-tied. They get terrified. It is funny watching people with him.

  Paul Walker

  Nice, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.fanpop.com

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• Well, I tried being in front of the camera as a student and that was terrifying. But the press stuff about me growing up on his [film] sets has been exaggerated. I was an extra as a kid and I was also a PA [production assistant] on one of his movies, so I was lucky to get production experience. But I was nowhere near him.

  Nicole Holofcener

  Growing Up, Kids, Stuff

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Well, that would be a title [the busiest guy in Hollywood] still reserved for Ryan Seacrest. I have one assistant; he has about nine. I don't have a food taster yet, I don't have a fluffer either. But, yes there are some days when I don't know if I am coming or going.

  Joel McHale

  Guy, Would Be, Nine

  Source: www.tribute.ca

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