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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
Aaron Paul
Business
Job
Some
Picking
Longevity
Trying
Just
While
Working
Means
Right
Right Job
Quite frankly, I think if a man or a woman likes their American job, wherever they were born, they should be able to keep that job. We need a clear path to citizenship for workers who are already here and a fair and efficient on-ramp for those who want to come here.
Aaron Schock
Man
Woman
Path
Job
Think
Those
Frankly
Citizenship
Able
Born
Clear
Fair
Come
Likes
Were
Efficient
American
Quite
Quite Frankly
Want
Wherever
Workers
Should
Who
Keep
Here
Need
When you're done with a job, even if you do stay in contact with certain people, it's never quite the same. It's a unique experience when you're working on a film or a television show together. You're together for 16 hours every day, sometimes six days a week. You're just never going to have that proximity again. So you miss people.
Aaron Stanford
Day
You
Together
Experience
Every Day
People
Sometimes
Job
Every
Television
Television Show
Stay
Week
Never
Contact
Miss
Days
Hours
Proximity
Same
Done
Going
Quite
Six
Six Days
Just
Again
Certain
Working
Show
Unique
Unique Experience
Even
Film
'Rent' was my first professional job, ever.
Aaron Tveit
Job
First
Rent
Professional
Ever
An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.
Aasif Mandvi
You
Job
Face
Mirror
Give
Point
Take
Simply
Answers
Any
Artist
Front
Hold
Your
They wanted to audition people for the Middle East correspondent on 'The Daily Show.' They wanted to hire somebody ethnic for that slot. Helms had left, Cordry had left, and they felt that they needed an ethnic face. So, I went in and auditioned, and I got the job.
Aasif Mandvi
Daily
People
Job
Face
Somebody
East
Correspondent
Slot
Had
Felt
Got
Audition
Hire
Left
Middle
Wanted
Middle East
Ethnic
Show
Daily Show
Needed
I was already in a band, and the teachers called my mum in and said: 'Abbey's so clever, it's a total waste if she follows her dream'. But I never wanted to do a job I didn't love, and I'd always wanted to be a model or an actress or a singer.
Abbey Clancy
Love
Job
Clever
Band
Abbey
Dream
Total
Follows
Never
Singer
She
Said
Always
Model
Wanted
Teachers
Waste
Actress
Mum
Her
I had this job where I had to cold call people, and that was terrifying to me, and that was on a far different level than invading their space.
Abbi Jacobson
Me
People
Space
Job
Cold
Invading
Had
Call
Terrifying
Than
Where
Different
Far
Different Level
Level
The abortion industry and their workers are under unique pressure and constantly in the spotlight because abortion is so controversial, and people on both sides are considerably passionate. This isn't a typical nine-to-five job. It's on a whole other level of intensity.
Abby Johnson
People
Abortion
Job
Pressure
Other
Considerably
Sides
Nine-To-Five
Typical
Constantly
Both
Both Sides
Industry
Because
Spotlight
Passionate
Intensity
Controversial
Workers
Unique
Whole
Level
My first March for Life was in 2010, three months after I left my job in the abortion industry as clinic director at a Planned Parenthood in Texas. It was intensely emotional, shocking in many ways, especially the outright love I saw in the faces of people who I once considered enemies.
Abby Johnson
Life
Love
Director
People
Abortion
Enemies
Job
Three
First
Once
Saw
Considered
Months
Ways
Faces
Parenthood
Emotional
Outright
Industry
Clinic
Texas
Left
Shocking
Intensely
After
Planned
Planned Parenthood
Who
Many
March
Do your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.
Abby Lee Miller
Best
You
Waiting
You Can Do It
Sometimes
Job
Somebody
Best Friend
Take
She
Because
Friend
Up
Screw
Place
Your
Right
I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Life
Try
Will
Job
Whatever
About
Talking
Course
Occupation
Influence
Children
Want
Wanted
Succeed
Them
Choose
Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.
Abe Fortas
Man
Job
Lonely
Entire
Judging
Island
May
Which
Near
I hope my pieces have an authenticity to them, but my job is to filter the world and tell a story, not to define and recreate exactly what's going on.
Abi Morgan
Hope
World
Job
Filter
Define
Tell
Exactly
Recreate
Pieces
Authenticity
Going
Story
Them
I think that, as a writer, while it's your job to construct stories, you have to navigate your way through them with your heart.
Abi Morgan
You
Heart
Job
Think
Way
Construct
Through
Writer
Stories
While
Them
Your
Navigate
No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done. Every day, you get up and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.
Abigail Johnson
Day
You
Every Day
World
Matter
Organization
Job
Pressure
Every
Changing
Perceived
More
Beat
Never
Putting
Well
How
Doing
Up
Get
Trying
Expecting
Done
Senior
Customers
Your
Here
Competitors
My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays the bills.
Abraham Verghese
Good
Day
You
Writing
Good Day
Job
Pressure
Advice
Writers
Takes
Day Job
Off
Get
Pays
Bills
Lest it sound as if I resent my day job, I have to say that my day job is the reason I write, and it has been the best thing for me as a writer.
Abraham Verghese
Best
Day
Me
Job
Say
Has-Been
Write
Writer
Day Job
Sound
Been
Reason
Resent
Lest
Thing
The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.
Ad Reinhardt
Art
Best
Job
Country
Everywhere
Worst
Brooklyn
Point
Because
Reflects
Department
Departments
Happened
Interesting
Might
Now
University
An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.
Ada Louise Huxtable
Saying
Great
Job
Would
Would-Be
Excellent
Like
Dubious
Undertaking
Which
Awful
What I try to do is to appreciate every job I have while I'm working on it.
Adam Baldwin
Try
Job
Every
While
Working
Appreciate
It is not hard to see why the FBI wants wiretapping backdoors. It would certainly make its job easier. But rejiggering the Internet so government can conveniently monitor everything we say and do online is too high a price to pay for making law enforcement more efficient.
Adam Cohen
Government
Law
Internet
Job
Pay
Too
Everything
Say
Easier
High
Would
See
Law Enforcement
Online
More
Price
Make
Making
Efficient
Conveniently
Wants
Enforcement
Hard
Certainly
Why
Monitor
Journalists, whose job is to pull back and tell dramatic stories that bring power into focus, find it impossible because things like economic theory are both incomprehensible and, above all, boring. The same is true of 'management science.'
Adam Curtis
Science
Management
Impossible
Job
Focus
Power
Dramatic
Back
Tell
Find
Boring
Above
Both
Economic
True
Economic Theory
Journalists
Like
Because
Same
Stories
Theory
Whose
Things
Incomprehensible
Bring
Pull
Throughout the western world, new systems have risen up whose job is to constantly record and monitor the present - and then compare that to the recorded past. The aim is to discover patterns, coincidences and correlations, and from that, find ways of stopping change. Keeping things the same.
Adam Curtis
Change
World
Job
Past
Aim
Ways
Systems
Find
Constantly
Record
Risen
Recorded
Throughout
New
Discover
Western
Up
Western World
Same
Stopping
Patterns
Then
Compare
Whose
Keeping
Things
Monitor
Present
Coincidences
When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.
Adam Davidson
You
Disagree
Job
Easy
Finding
Part
Economists
Economy
Always
Cover
Reporter
Who
I always wanted to be a comedic actor - that's what I wanted from the job - to do comedy and to create my own comedy. But I still love doing stand-up and will probably be doing it forever. I'd love to be an old guy who can't really walk, can't really stand-up, and I have to sit on the stool and tell jokes.
Adam DeVine
Love
Jokes
Comedy
Walk
Old
Will
Job
Sit
Own
Tell
Guy
My Own
Comedic
Always
Still
Doing
Forever
Stool
Wanted
Old Guy
Create
Really
Who
Actor
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