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I tried for modelling work but it was a bit slow and that’s when I took a part-time job at McDonalds. It gave me income while I was waiting for my big break and at the very least I could eat.
Sharon Stone
Income Job Waiting Work
No, I’m happy to go on living the life I’ve chosen. I’m a university teacher and I like my job.
Antonio Tabucchi
Job Life Living University
We haven’t done such a great job, so I don’t know why God couldn’t have started over somewhere else. I don’t necessarily believe in aliens coming to the States, and I don’t buy into the government cover-up.
Jeri Ryan
God Government Job states
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Freedom Independence Job People Security
At heart, this job is about continuing to make great theatre for the people of Sheffield – a city I’ve known and loved since childhood.
Samuel West
Childhood Heart Job People Theatre
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
Job Losing
By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job.
Robert Quine
Job Summer Tax
When you see people suffering and dying and hungry, this job gives you the ability to do something about it.
Frank R. Wolf
Ability Dying Job People Suffering
I had to produce a complete page – or two or three – in one day. I took a lot of pride in my work, and I hated to do a mediocre job. Evidently, some of the writers enjoyed my work best of all for that very reason.
Joe Shuster
Day Job Pride Reason Work Writers
The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco.
Armstrong Williams
Family Father Job School Work
I don’t have a normal job, so I really appreciate having friends who are writers and artists. It’s fun to have a group of people you can call in the middle of the day to go for a hike.
Natalie Portman
Artists Day Friends Fun Job People Writers
As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
Sam Neill
Job Men People
I think a lot of times it’s not money that’s the primary motivation factor; it’s the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you.
Martin Yan
Job Money Motivation Passion Satisfaction
I don’t very often think I’ve done a good job. I don’t like the majority of what I do. I shouldn’t say I don’t like it, but I’m not satisfied with almost everything that I do.
Paul Simon
Job Majority
It’s a job – someone’s gotta kiss Jennifer Aniston. The reality is, Jennifer and I can do our job well because we truly are friends. But when the day’s over, she goes home to her boyfriend and I go home to a magazine.
David Schwimmer
Boyfriend Day Friends Home Job Kiss Reality
I quit the tax job then and decided that I was going to play in a band. I answered ads in the Village Voice and went through two days of auditioning for bands.
Robert Quine
Job Play Tax Voice
Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures – it is the designer’s job to select and fit this material together and make it interesting.
Paul Rand
Ideas Job Meaning Needs Words
It’s part of the job to compensate for outfit.
Victoria Pratt
Job
A guy gave me a job at an information booth – no questions asked.
Jay London
Information Job Questions
But the problem with coaching is that it is a full-time job. By that I mean for at least 40 weeks in a year you have to be with the player, either travelling or training. Right now I don’t want to do that.
Richard Krajicek
Coaching Job Now Right Training Want
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Job Leading
There is no social program in this country that is as important as a good job that pays well, that gives someone an opportunity to go to work, have some security, have benefits, and take care of their family and have a good life.
Byron Dorgan
Benefits Care Country Family Job Life Opportunity Security Work
I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young man. It was like holidays with pay to me.
James Herriot
Holidays Job Love Man Writing
Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job.
Christopher Durang
Act Acting Job Resentment
You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don’t matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you’ll find a way to get it done.
Jack Youngblood
Circumstances Job Life Obstacles Pain Want
Ummm, there is not just one good thing about being a VJ, it is a package deal. It is a fun job and you get paid to party and have a good time and make people have a good time, which is great.
Nafisa Joseph
Being Fun Job Party People Time
Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer.
Jose Saramago
Job Possibility Time Worth Writer
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
Thomas Hardy
Age Job Men Old Performance Value
It will be great when it’s not such a big deal when a woman gets a good job.
Susan Sarandon
Job Will Woman
At last, someone came to tell me I’d been selected as commissioner, which gave rise to the line that I took the job with clean hands. I was then taken downstairs to a press conference, and the reporters were as surprised as I was.
Pete Rozelle
Job Press
Running an airline is a normal job. Racing is more.
Niki Lauda
Job Racing Running
The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won’t hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.
Earl Weaver
Hurt Job Manager Umpire
When someone writes to tell me something I’ve written made them laugh or cry, I’ve done my job and done it well. The rest is all semantics.
Len Wein
Job Rest Semantics
I would say that one of the things that we are proud of is that we are attracting very interesting guest stars. One is Tyne Daly, who has done a wonderful job.
Michael Biehn
Guest Job Stars
This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.
Walter Murch
Film Job Jobs People
So it was sort of an odd time because I had been hired, but my paperwork hadn’t gone through. So I worked as an intern during the government shutdown, as an intern, but I already had a job.
Monica Lewinsky
Government Job Time
My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children’s things, is that whenever they were asked they responded. They always responded with sincerity, and they did a good job.
C. Everett Koop
Children Experience Job Sincerity Years
I went to night school and summer school, I made that whole year up and I actually graduated on time. Also, I got a part-time job at the radio station.
Angie Martinez
Job Night School Summer Time
I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history. And there are some teachers who could use a little more help in that area.
Anne Sullivan
Culture Help History Job Teachers
Well, I’ve thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don’t know what I’d do.
Aaron Eckhart
Career Job Thought
But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job and they are entitled to security.
Arlen Spector
Job Judges Security Society
Well, I liked it – that was the main thing. I liked it, but I didn’t think of it in terms of a career. I didn’t really know; I didn’t really think about it. One thing just led to another until finally I quit my job as a salesman and found myself working as a photographer.
Herb Ritts
Career Job
But it’s true, it’s nothing new that decisions about what movies are to be made, and how they’re to be made, and who’s to be hired to do what, and whether you hire somebody to do their job, or whether you hire somebody to fill a position and you tell them what to do.
Jeffrey Jones
Decisions Job Movies Nothing
Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.
Fran Drescher
Job Time Want Weight
This is not a showman’s job. I will not step out of character.
Herbert Hoover
Character Job Will
When I teach and meet a class for the first time, you realize that there are people there that have exceptional abilities or have the potential to do exceptional things and you never know who those people are. My job is to provide the best information I can.
John Sexton
Class First Information Job People Potential Time
Then I started graduate school at UCLA. I got a part time research assistant job as a programmer on a project involving the use of one computer to measure the performance of another computer.
Jon Postel
Computer Job Measure Performance Project Research School Time
I’m lucky because I have a job I love. I really miss being away from home, being in my own bed, seeing my animals and siblings, having my moms cookies. I have a couple cats. I got a kitten about a year ago and now Im going on the road so I wont see him for a while. I feel bad.
Michelle Branch
Animals Bed Being Cats Home Job Love Now Road
In the beginning I had a real work problem. Every time I had job I had to convince the immigration authorities I was the only man for that job and get a special work permit until I went under contract to MGM.
Rod Taylor
Beginning Job Man Time Work
I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.
Gael Garcia Bernal
Job Parents Religion School
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