Assistants Quotes - Page 5

• I spent a year and a half working for an art fair. I worked as a post-production assistant for a documentary film company for a while. Then I worked at the Apple store because I wanted a discount to be able to buy new gear to edit things while I was figuring out whether or not I wanted to go to film school. Those were the main things.

  Meera Menon

  Art, School, Years

  "Meera Menon and the Women of Wall Street". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2016.

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• The secret is to get a good cinematographer and a very good assistant director. If you get those and stay out of their way, and have good actresses, the script doesn't even have to be that extraordinary.

  Lester Persky

  Secret, Way, Scripts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• From the Cooperative League, I suppose, with the Depression lingering as long as it did, the next step in terms of, as you call it, professional relationship, was to go to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP]. I went there as an assistant field secretary, and so forth. So, I suppose that was the first organized step.

  Ella Baker

  Long, People, League

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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• I can still remember the day, as an assistant U.S. attorney, when I stood up in court for the first time and I proudly said, "My name is Samuel Alito and I represent the United States in this court." It was a great honor for me to have the United States as my client during all of those years.

  Samuel Alito

  Years, Names, Honor

  Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006

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• I finally gave up my little law practice and stayed home for about three years. You have to do what you can to keep the family going. But I wanted to get back to work. So I got another babysitter and went to work as an Assistant Attorney General.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Home, Years, Law

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• The biggest thing is online shopping. So that you don't have to dress up, go down Bond Street or Rodeo or wherever, go and be intimidated by shop assistants to buy Gucci shoes or a Prada dress. You can just go online and, if it doesn't fit you, send it back. And I think that is the biggest, biggest difference, because that means everybody can do it.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Mean, Thinking, Shoes

  Source: nymag.com

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• With the RED, I didn't have this impression at all. I felt that it was as heavy as a film camera. Having this great crew, with the DP and his assistants, I found it making as much of an impression as a very big film camera. I didn't relate to it as much. I remember avoiding it during the shooting rather than paying attention to it.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Cameras, Attention, Shooting

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. March 17, 2011.

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• I do select a soundtrack for each of my subjects and again my assistants you know they make fun of me because that is more important to me than the lighting, which I just do in a minute right before, but I spend a long time on the soundtracks.

  Carol Friedman

  Fun, Long, Important

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 21, 2010.

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• I feel like one of the things I'm trying most to do is stretch my empathetic reach, as far as it will go. I got as far as Gilles de Rais' assistant, for example, and not really as far as de Rais himself.

  Jim Shepard

  Trying, Example, Feels

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I loved teaching and I did a lot of work as a teacher's assistant in college, and my favorite experience was basically getting a laugh from a bunch of people because they had just understood something. Because I had shown them something they hadn't seen before, and it amused them. That's the combo platter. That's a perfect moment.

  Joss Whedon

  Teacher, Teaching, College

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I do have someone that I work with and she is amazing and I definitely don't have unmitigated abusive tendencies towards her. She is very sweet. I also know what that is like. I have heard my agent thinking he has hit mute on the phone before he, you know, physically unleashes broken glass and cellphones at his poor assistant. It is a tough job under the best of circumstances. I understand that.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Sweet, Jobs, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I had to leave school at 14 because my father got injured in the mines and I had to support my family. I was an undertakers assistant, then a plasterer, before doing my military service in the RAF. All the while, I was doing amateur dramatics and dreaming of getting a scholarship to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

  Brian Blessed

  Dream, Father, Military

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• I think that I was lucky that I was 30 when I did 'Love Story', which came with this extravagant pop celebrity. I had already done 15 years of what I call 'real' work.' I was a waitress, chambermaid, and a photographer's assistant, so I knew that I was tremendously lucky as a novice actor to have that big hit.

  Ali MacGraw

  Real, Thinking, Years

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• I was an assistant once. I worked for Rob Reiner and his family. I did sign a confidentiality agreement, though.

  Cheryl Hines

  Agreement, Confidentiality

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• I know that you observe Christmas Day as you learned it at home. I do not observe it. However, as assistant director of this prison, I allow all the Catholics to observe freely and with some joy this day in this home.

  Odilo Globocnik

  Home, Joy, Catholic

  "In Tito's Death Marches and Extermination Camps" by Joseph Hecimovic, John Prcela, (p. 163), 1962.

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• how many times would a defendant's lawyer enter the courtroom before a session and ask each of the male clerks and paralegals around me, 'Are you the assistant in charge?' while I sat there invisible to him at the head of the table?

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Clerks, Males, Tables

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, Vintage

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• It is always the sign of the second-rate man when the decision merely meets the present situation. It is the left-over in a decision which gives it its greatest value. It is the carry-over in the decision which helps develop the situation in the way we wish it to be developed. The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them; they have a vision of the future.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Past, Men, Visions Of The Future

  Mary Parker Follett (1957). “Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett”

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• The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them, they have a vision of the future.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Leadership, Past, Visions Of The Future

  Mary Parker Follett, Pauline Graham (1996). “Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s”, Harvard Business Press

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• People can criticize Microsoft for supporting this TV thing for the past eight years, but it is a long-term bet, There is not any other software business that is as dedicated to the vision of the TV and the PDA [personal digital assistant] as we are.

  Bill Gates

  Past, Years, Pda

  "Gates touts interactive TV" by Laura Rohde, www.cnn.com. October 14, 1999.

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• It is preferable to regard labour, including, of course, the personal services of the entrepreneur, and his assistants, as the sole factor of production, operating in a given environment of technique, natural resources, capital equipment and effective demand. This is why we have been able to take labour as the sole physical unit which we require in our economic system, apart from units of money and of time.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Entrepreneur, Technique, Demand

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.193, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• I have been accused of being ignorant of economics (although I am the founder and Chairman of the Board of a company which publishes seven professional economic newsletters), of being ignorant of sociology (although I am trained in sociology and was C. Wright Mills' research assistant at Columbia), of being unable to use statistics (although I earned my living as a professional statistician for five years) and of ignoring political factors (although all my graduate training was in political science).

  Lloyd deMause

  Years, Political, Ignorant

  Lloyd DeMause (1975). “The New Psychohistory”, New York : Psychohistory Press

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• It's true, I do sometimes suspend myself over the canvas, but mostly I work at a table when I'm making a painting. When I use 'The Rig,' my feet are firmly anchored. I lower myself horizontally just long enough to make a brush stroke - a matter of seconds - and then I'm upright again. My assistant then erases the painting quickly with a squeegee and I go for it again... until I get it right. It's like trying to hit a home run.

  James Nares

  Running, Home, Feet

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• In Washington, a confidential assistant is someone who, if you don't want to know something, you go and ask him and he won't tell you.

  Andy Rooney

  Government, Want, Confidential

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• The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Education, Book, Mind

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• The subconscious is like having a laboratory assistant who pretends to love you and help you, but after you go home to go to sleep it goes back into the lab and starts fumbling with the data and destroying it. It's a very tricky thing. People think our minds are us, but that's not true at all. The mind is not us.

  Emo Philips

  Love You, Home, Sleep

  Source: www.avclub.com

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