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• What they told us about 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' when we first started was that we were guaranteed 26 episodes, so that was the longest job I've ever had. And that was basically it - we didn't know what the premise of the show was going to be and we waited, week by week, to see a script.

  Marina Sirtis

  Stars, Next, Scripts

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• The five different areas in which boys are in crisis - education; jobs; emotional health; physical health; and fatherlessness - are handled by different portions of the government.

  Warren Farrell

  Boys, Emotional, Government

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• In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don't think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school.

  Gillian Anderson

  Children, Dad, School

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• Man, coaching is a hard job, and it requires a lot of time... I hear stories from coaches who tell me that players call them in the middle of the night not knowing where they parked their car.

  Joe Montana

  Player, Night, Men

  "Interview: Joe Montana blood pressure". www.askmen.com.

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• I left school at 16 and my mother got me a job as a trainee wine taster. But one day I followed some girls into St Martin's art school and saw a voluptuous woman sitting on a stool being sketched. I decided to get myself fired.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Girl, Mother, Art

  "Portrait of the artist: Malcolm McLaren, musician". Interview with Amy Fleming, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2009.

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• I think I'm an actor. You can hire me. I can do a good job. But you also have to get lucky now and then. Every film-maker knows how hard it is to do a good film. You have to just make many, and see how lucky you get.

  Rutger Hauer

  Thinking, Lucky, Actors

  "Rutger Hauer on Hobo With A Shotgun" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2011.

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• The parents' job is to be there for their kids, not the other way round. Troubles between parents need to be talked through with friends and not visited on the children.

  Susie Orbach

  Children, Kids, Parent

  "In messy divorces, somebody has to be grown up and it's not the children" by Susie Orbach, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2012.

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• A Student is the most important person ever in this school...in person, on the telephone, or by mail.
  A Student is not dependent on us...we are dependent on the Student.
  A Student is not an interruption of our work..the Studenti s the purpose of it. We are not doing a favor by serving the Student...the Student is doing us a favor by giving us the opportunity to do so.
  A Student is a person who brings us his or her desire to learn. It is our job to handle each Student in a manner which is beneficial to the Student and ourselves.

  William Watson Purkey

  Education, School, Opportunity

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• When I used to model, the job description is 'shut up and pose.' There are people today who would really like me to go back to that old job description and 'just shut up and pose.

  Kathy Ireland

  Old Job, People, Today

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• I won't give up my day job of design.

  Kathy Ireland

  Giving Up, Design, I Won't Give Up

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• As an actor, you always have to reinvent yourself or you end up in the gutter somewhere. It's my job to always change people's minds. I've known that for a long time and I've had to do it.

  Dylan McDermott

  Long, People, Mind

  "'The Campaign's' Dylan McDermott Reveals How He Broke the Ice His First Day on Set" by Rebecca Ford, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 10, 2012.

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• People who eat potatoes will never be able to perform their abilities in whatever job they choose to have.

  Richard Cobden

  People, Able, Potatoes

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• I got fired when I was a dishwasher at Denny's. That set me back a little bit. You don't realize how important dishwashers are until you do the job.

  Kelsey Grammer

  Important, Littles, Realizing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Part of my job is to try and seduce people. It's what I get paid for, and if people get in the way of me doing my job I can be very difficult.

  Robert Powell

  People, Trying, Way

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• We are in a democratic society. It's our job to question.

  Kurt Russell

  Democratic, Democratic Society

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• I'm famous. That's my job.

  Jerry Rubin

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• I've never enjoyed sleep as much until I got the 'Today' job. There is something about early sleep that's much better than late sleep. I feel myself going to sleep; I don't just plonk my head on the pillow. It's a sort of winding-down thing.

  Evan Davis

  Sleep, Today, Late

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• The script is the coloring book that you’re given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And also when and where to color outside the lines.

  James Spader

  Book, Color, Lines

  "James Spader on His Eccentric Lincoln Character". Interview with Bilge Ebiri, www.vulture.com. November 21, 2012.

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• I'm so blessed to have as many jobs that I have, but I do agree that there needs to be some downtime.

  Tori Spelling

  Blessed, Needs, Downtime

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• Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think.

  Kate Moss

  Thinking, People, Rooms

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

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• Classical scores go up and down; they're kind of hysterical in a way. And movie scores are much more - they just drive and move forward, and they build and can't go up and down at that same speed. It's a big job to turn that into something that pushes the movie along.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Moving, Way, Kind

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• Players have responsibility, and if they don't do their job, certain things happen. Coaches have responsibility. If they don't do their job, things happen.

  Mike Singletary

  Responsibility, Player, Certain

  "Mike Singletary: short fuse and short leash" by David White, www.sfgate.com. October 10, 2010.

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• I don't think you understand what a job really is when you're a teenager.

  Tiffani Thiessen

  Teenager, Thinking

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• I think it's still hard for me to turn down work if it's really good because for so many years I was desperate to get a job and couldn't, so I think it's anathema for me to turn down work if I think it's really good.

  Matt Damon

  Thinking, Years, Kind

  "Matt Damon - Exclusive Interview - The Bourne Supremacy". Female First Interview, www.femalefirst.co.uk. March 2, 2005.

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• I couldn't get any jobs, and when that happens, you get so humble it's disgusting. I didn't feel like a man anymore -- I felt really creepy. I was bumping into walls and saying, Excuse me.

  Joe Pesci

  Wall, Work, Humble

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