Jobs Quotes - Page 37

• Directors are the captains of the ship, and it's your job as the lead actor to make sure that the rest of the cast understand that by doing whatever he says.

  George Clooney

  Captains, Ships, Directors

  "Again, with 20% more existential grief". Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2003.

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• Part of my job is to make sense of all that I hear, and to retell it in a forceful way so that the decision-makers at Treasury can hear it. At least that's how I see it.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Decision, Way, Makers

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• I get heartfelt thanks from all kinds of people. Today I heard from a waitress in Georgia who has lost her job and is trying to figure out how her local bank can change the terms on her credit card, and I heard from a physicist at a major research university who wants to explain a better theory of financial stress tests.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Stress, People, Heartfelt

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• Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.

  Ted Cruz

  Government, Entrepreneur, Doe

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• I was raised on, 'You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Pay, Nine, Way

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• If it were up to me, every job would be somewhere in Canada.

  Jay Baruchel

  Would Be, Canada, Ifs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was an only child for 16 years. I didn't realize it at the time, but that experience definitely turned me into a people pleaser. I always tried to do what was expected of me, and I constantly sought reassurance from the adults around me that I was doing a good job.

  Chandra Wilson

  Children, Years, People

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

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• In Irish law, busking is considered vagrancy - you can be arrested for it. It's risky asking people for money in public. So it's not like it's a high-art job. And people who do it as a high-art job make very little money.

  Glen Hansard

  Art, Law, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, music.avclub.com. January 17, 2008.

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• I have everything that I could possibly want in life, from a gorgeous granddaughter and a wonderful wife, brilliant students, the best job anyone could hope for, and about half of my hair. Not the half I would have kept, but no one consulted me.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Hair, Best Job, Wife

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• It's much easier to work on other people's music and play in other people's bands as a guitar player instead of being the main songwriter and singer. That's a really big job to do that.

  James Iha

  Player, Guitar, People

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• When for so long you can't get a job for reasons that seem specious, you you finally do have it, you are constantly afraid of losing it.

  Jessica Savitch

  Long, Literature, Losing

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• What I have found is that my fan base will follow me to whatever I'm doing. They gave me a big tune-in for Hallmark. They were just happy to see me working again, and my job is not to disappoint them, not to cheat them.

  Genie Francis

  Tunes, Fans, Follow Me

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

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Writing, Day Jobs, Projects

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• When I was working in my first job engineering construction, what I liked the most was working with architects and making buildings that had this creative side coming from the architect and that were making them a big success.

  Bernard Arnault

  Engineering, Creative, Firsts

  "Chairman of LVMH, Bernard Arnault". "Talk Asia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. February 12, 2005.

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• I try to stay in shape just to handle things like the stress of a job or everyday life.

  Erin Andrews

  Stress, Everyday, Trying

  "Up Close with Erin Andrews". Interview with Kristen Aldridge, www.shape.com.

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• My first job was a Greek tragedy, and ever since, one job just seemed to roll onto the next. I've been terribly lucky.

  Hayley Atwell

  Greek, Tragedy, Lucky

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

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• We need to focus on getting people back to work, focus on jobs, the economy, the debt and the spending. That's what will improve the quality of life for American families and for hard-working taxpayers.

  John Barrasso

  Hard Work, People, Focus

  "Interviews with Senator John Barrasso & David Plouffe". "State of the Union" with Candy Crowley, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 20, 2013.

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• Smart, sustainable, inclusive growth is the key to job-creation and the future prosperity of Europe.

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Smart, Keys, Europe

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• I actually wrote my first zombie book way before I got the job on 'Saturday Night Live.

  Max Brooks

  Book, Night, Zombie

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

  Ned Beauman

  Day 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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• Twin Peaks' was the best job I ever had as an actor.

  Richard Beymer

  Best Job, Actors, Twins

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• That's the job of the entertainer, to entertain, not to motivate or inspire people to get violent!

  Kurtis Blow

  People, Inspire, Violent

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• What I try to do is to appreciate every job I have while I'm working on it.

  Adam Baldwin

  Appreciate, Trying

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

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• It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very boring place, that I thought: 'Why not try writing a novel?' partly out of youthful arrogance and partly because there had been a long line of writers in my mother's family.

  Antony Beevor

  Mother, Writing, Army

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• My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching staff. We have to have the financial resources to make things happen and that's my job.

  Arthur Blank

  Player, Agency, Support

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