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jobs words-of-wisdom deception
"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones." Charles Dickens
jobs character air
"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."
jobs reading years
I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead! Charles Stross
jobs reading writing
What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.
jobs moving careers
It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are. Alan Watts
jobs film hard
Film-making is a physically hard job. Alan Parker
jobs asking way
I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available. Alan Patricof
jobs two together
One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right. Alan Rickman
jobs home feet
I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.
minorities majority looks
Look at all the minorities around here! I'm the only majority. Louis C. K.
minorities vegan enough
I recently became vegan because I felt that as a Jewish lesbian, I wasn't part of a small enough minority. So now I'm a Jewish lesbian vegan. Carol Leifer
minorities rewards fool
The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money. Adam Smith
minorities plenty
There are plenty of opportunities for minorities on campus, you've just got to take them. David Hillery
minorities done proud
How proud I am to be compared to Oprah. I really admire her. She's a minority woman and she's done all this by herself... I'm very happy to be Oprah with salsa and not Donahue in drag. Cristina Saralegui
minorities purpose majority
The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority. James Madison
minorities association triumph
At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has sometimes been disastrous. Lord Acton
minorities arms behavior
The behavior of the minority warranted the sergeant at arms being called. Jim McCrery
minorities mistreated terrible women
It's a terrible place. Women are mistreated there. Minorities are mistreated there.
point woods
The point is, we're not out of the woods yet,
point stop
The point is to stop it (illegal immigration), and if we have to do it ourselves, we're going to do everything we can to stop it.
point
The point is to get it right, not necessarily to get it done early.
point
The point is that we are not at a place yet where we can say one way or the other.
point
The point is, it's now or never. You try to make the playoffs. Livan Hernandez
point reach
The point here is it could have been avoided. It didn't have to reach these proportions. Jan Egeland
point succeeded
We are at the point where we have succeeded in accomplishing what we wanted to do.
point thinks
We have to get to the point where he thinks he could play, and I don't think we're at that point. Tom Renney
point state
You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel. Michael Ondaatje