Day Jobs Quotes - Page 5

• Cultural wisdom says 'Don't quit your day job.' Yet I think these desires represent our psyche's stretch toward wholeness. And to be whole, as many religious tranditions teach, is to make manifest a unique face of God in the world. We don't want to be irresponsible, yet for every accountant who deserts his family and sails for Tahiti, ten American men have heart attacks at their desks, after hours.

  Mary Rose O'Reilley

  Religious, Jobs, Heart

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• You don’t get rich off your day job, you get rich off your homework.

  Daymond John

  Jobs, Homework, Rich

  Daymond John (2007). “Display of Power: How FUBU Changed a World of Fashion, Branding and Lifestyle”, p.9, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I decided I would rather have a day job and love music than to play music that made me hate it.

  David Torn

  Funny, Inspiring, Jobs

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• My life is not separate from my music, you know? It's not like a day job that I leave and go home. It's who I am as a person and how I am trying to grow, come closer to God, be a better person.

  Matisyahu

  Jobs, Home, Who I Am

  "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly" with Kim Lawton, www.pbs.org. December 10, 2009.

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• I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films. I got grants from NYSCA and NEA for an idea, which later became 'Huckabees,' about a guy in a Chinese restaurant who had microphones on every table and heard every personal conversation and would write perversely personal fortunes.

  David O. Russell

  Jobs, Writing, Class

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• Put it this way: singing is not my day job.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Jobs, Singing, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm pretty darn happy with my day job.

  Rick Santelli

  Jobs

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• My day job is making TV shows.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Jobs, Tv Shows, Tvs

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• I call 'Community' the best day job in the world, because between takes, I get to write music. I get to write sketches. I get to write movies. It's the best job ever.

  Donald Glover

  Jobs, Writing, Best Job

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, tv.avclub.com. March 19, 2010.

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• I would recommend, definitely, developing a 'day job' that you like - don't expect to make money writing!

  Lydia Davis

  Jobs, Writing, Making Money

  The Transcript of Our Live Chat with Lydia Davis, www.newyorker.com. December 16, 2009.

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• Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.

  Ted Rall

  Jobs, Hated, Stills

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• We all exist in similar systems that mirror and reproduce the same American culture for the most part. What Oscar Wilde said about the lucky author who has a non-literary day job no longer holds, if it ever did. Artists seek validation as much as they seek money. The creation and invention of culture and canon is where most of the trouble lies.

  Fady Joudah

  Jobs, Lying, Artist

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Reporting is pretty vital to me. It keeps me connected to the world. A 40-hour-per-week day job may be less feasible as time goes on.

  Laura Lippman

  Jobs, Goes On, World

  Interview with Jon Jordan, www.bookbrowse.com.

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• I always wanted to write. While I was on a long surf trip, supporting myself with various day jobs, I was working hard on a novel. My third novel, in fact.

  William Finnegan

  Jobs, Writing, Long

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Writing responds well to some gentle scheduling. A day job not only promotes solvency, it promotes creativity as well.

  Julia Cameron

  Jobs, Writing, Creativity

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.176, Penguin

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• There were so many bands in New Orleans. But most of the musicians had day jobs, you know -- trades. They were bricklayers and carpenters and cigar makers and plasterers. Some had little businesses of their own -- coal and wood and vegetable stores. Some worked on the cotton exchange and some were porters. They had to work at other trades 'cause there were so many musicians, so many bands. It was the most musical town in the country.

  Zutty Singleton

  Country, Jobs, New Orleans

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• My day jobs... I knew I was bad at those, so I didn't really have the confidence to think that I could do comedy. But I knew I hated the day jobs.

  Dave Attell

  Jobs, Thinking, Comedy

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• I don't have a day job, so I read any time of day.

  Ned Beauman

  Jobs, Time Of Day

  "Ned Beauman: 'What sticks in my mind is praise from the wrong people'". Interview with Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2012.

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• I'm still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been able to make a living at it is astonishing.

  Dorothy Allison

  Jobs, Facts, Want

  Dorothy Allison, Mae Miller Claxton (2012). “Conversations with Dorothy Allison”, p.87, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Jobs, Writing, Projects

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• I think I started lip-synching about halfway through the first day, and it's not as easy as you think it would be. But it's definitely better than a day job.

  Bo Bice

  Jobs, Thinking, Would Be

  "Bo Bice's debut video to Include Smurfs, Fairy Dust (Just kidding!)" by Corey Moss, www.mtv.com. February 22, 2006.

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