Jobs Quotes - Page 39

• Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no.

  Jose Carreras

  World, Singers, Saying No

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• My job is to play many different roles with all sorts of different backgrounds and orientations.

  Josh Charles

  Play, Different, Roles

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

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• Slow and steady wins the race. I feel like I know in my bones if we're doing a good job and continue to do a good job, the ratings will come.

  Julie Chen

  Winning, Race, Bones

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• You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.

  Kaley Cuoco

  Used, Shows

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

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• So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked.

  Lee Child

  Real, Book, Feelings

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• For my first acting job I played the role of Ensign Pulver in 'Mr. Roberts' at the Manitoba Theatre Centre.

  Len Cariou

  Theatre, Acting, Roles

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• There are not that many jobs as an actor where you don't get to know what your character will be doing from episode to episode.

  Linda Cardellini

  Character, Actors, Episodes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Every acting gig isn't the same, every writing job isn't the same, every live performance isn't the same - the challenge is the level of difficulty or ease, and that may vary.

  Ricky Jay

  Writing, Challenges, Acting

  Interview with Geoff Nicholson, www.sfgate.com. May 21, 2011.

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• I feel like part of your job as an actor is you're going to get noticed, and the more successful you get, the more noticed you are. It's kind of like a Catch-22.

  Lynn Collins

  Successful, Actors, Kind

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

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• It's not a very secure industry. I've spoken to a couple of people recently who had a successful TV show and then found themselves absolutely skint and struggling to find a job.

  Mackenzie Crook

  Couple, Struggle, Successful

  "Goodbye cruel Slough" by Sam Wollaston, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2004.

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• We have to get away from the class warfare and recognize that we are growing jobs by helping small business.

  Norm Coleman

  Class, Warfare, Growing

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• People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is that India's economy continues to grow at clipping pace, 8% and above, that itself brings host of benefits to the people. It brings better roads, it brings better schools, brings more money to the communities, it brings more jobs.

  P. Chidambaram

  Running, School, Long

  "​Tax Residency clause may have been clumsily worded: P Chidambaram". Interview with Supriya Shrinate, Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar, economictimes.indiatimes.com. Mar 1, 2013.

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• There is $1.4 billion a day in trade that goes back and forth across the border. That means millions of jobs and livelihoods for families here in Canada and for families in the United States.

  Paul Cellucci

  Mean, United States, Borders

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• I've already felt that I want to direct. Being an executive producer is like the best job in the world because you make all these executive decisions and then you leave the money to other people. You don't have to be on set and counting beans.

  Robbie Coltraine

  Best Job, People, Decision

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I can drink on the job if I want to. I can go on stage with a beer and it's OK. I can say whatever I want. It's a great job to have.

  Rodney Carrington

  Beer, Goes On, Want

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• You don't take a job in acting at all expecting 25 years in and a pension.

  Sarah Wayne Callies

  Years, Acting, Expecting

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• Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.

  Stanley Crouch

  People, Violence, Firsts

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• Writing a book is such a full-time job. If you're away for a few days, you have to start again.

  Stephen Collins

  Book, Writing, Ifs

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• The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision.

  Stewart Copeland

  Vision, Opera, Genre

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• I'm insatiably curious about human nature. I feel very lucky that as a writer I get to learn so much about it just to do my job right.

  Susan Cain

  Writing, Lucky, Human Nature

  "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking," by Susan Cain". Interview with Jeff Glor, www.cbsnews.com. January 26, 2012.

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• In most job interviews, people say they are looking for people skills and emotional intelligence. That's reasonable, but the question is, how do you define what that looks like?

  Susan Cain

  Emotional, Skills, People

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• What we've been hearing over and over again is that the reason Republicans are opposed to the surtax is because of the concern of its impact on job creation. Well, if you carve out employers, you take away that argument.

  Susan Collins

  Impact, Hearing, Argument

  "Sen. Susan Collins: Tax The Rich To Fund Payroll Tax Cut For Workers" By Michael McAuliff, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 30, 2011.

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• I really do believe most people understand raising tax rates is bad for the economy, it costs jobs. It actually in the long term undermines revenue.

  Tom Cole

  Believe, Long, People

  "Rep. Cole: I'm not for raising tax rates on anyone". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. November 28, 2012.

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• In my job I meet many outstanding, world class, British based companies. But we need more companies and more jobs in the companies we have.

  Vince Cable

  Class, Needs, World

  "Liberal Democrat Conference: Vince Cable Speech in Full". www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2010.

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• My job is to support businesses, that means promoting British commerce in the big emerging markets that have been neglected in the past. It means keeping Britain open to inward investors, trade and skilled workers. It means cutting red tape which is suffocating growing companies which create jobs.

  Vince Cable

  Mean, Cutting, Past

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