Quotes 21 till 40 of 388.
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A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.
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A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.
Source: The World According To Garp (2012) -
A writer's job is to tell the truth.
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About 100 firefighters a year die in the line of duty in the U.S. Heart attacks on the job and vehicle accidents on the way to the fires account for about half. The other half are traumatic deaths while fighting fires.
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Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us.
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Acting is our job, not talking about it. In France, they know me like I belong to their family. I go somewhere and I feel like I'm sometimes the aunt, the grandmother, the mother, the sister. They all know me. But it's not supposed to be that way.
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Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn't mine.
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All comedians are, in a way, anarchists. Our job is to make fun of the existing world.
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All I've done is my job, and I intend to continue doing it. And I'm not especially worried about the criticism that comes from the bench.
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Although Senate Bill 1556 has received attention for its perceived focus, my job is to look at the actual substance of the legislation.
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An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.
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And for a very special group of people, we've provided their only job. I'm speaking of course of the disabled. They have stated they don't want a hand out just a hand. We are happy to give them one.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.
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As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.
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As animation directors, you're the first one on the film; you're the last one off, and you get to learn from and touch every department throughout the whole journey. I don't know any other job in the world that's like that. I don't think live-action is like that. It's a very different sort of experience.
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As far as the job of President goes, its rewarding and I've given before this group the definition of happiness for the Greeks. I'll define it again: the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. I find, therefore, that the Presidency provides some happiness.
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At one time he was employed on one of the Yiddish dailies, but lost his job during a political campaign, when he refused to write two editorials advocating the election of two opposing candidates, both to appear in the same issue of the newspaper.
― Abraham Cahan
Belarusian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician -
Barack Obama likes to point to General Motors as the poster child for the job creation success of his economic policies. However, whatever your sentiments about the government's bailout of General Motors, for every job Barack Obama 'saved-or-created' in the U.S. there were two jobs off shore.
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Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom.
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