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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.
faces looks morrow
...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it
faces always-alone sad-face
I'm always alone. Sad face emoticon. Al Madrigal
faces gain meet opportunity rest season stage successful
We want to set the stage to be successful the rest of the season in Arizona. This is an opportunity to see new faces and gain some big meet experience. Chris Hanson
faces turns
At some point you just have to turn around and face your life head on. Chris Cleave
faces helping praise
You must ingratiate yourself with those who can help you. Flatter them to their faces. Praise them to others who will carry your words back to them. Chin-Ning Chu
faces fingers
What did the 5 fingers say to the face. S L A P! Dave Chappelle
faces way spit
He looked as though his life had not only passed him by but paused along the way to spit in his face. David Sedaris
faces problem disappear
Staying occupied displaces preoccupation and problems, and when we face our problems, they disappear. Carlos Slim
faces never-forget forget
One never forgets faces one wholeheartedly detests. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
portraits creation
To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation. Alexander Smith
portraits demand motion-pictures
To demand the portrait that will be a complete portrait of a person is as futile as to demand that a motion picture be condensed into a single still. Alfred Stieglitz
portraits portraiture paint
Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject. Jamie Wyeth
portraits danger methodology
The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology.
portraits bookcases
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait. Anatole Broyard
portraits firsts recognition
Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I'm sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place. Chuck Close
portraits process sat
Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on. Anthony Powell
portraits remain
I would also like the portraits to remain in Austria.
portraits
Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait. Lucian Freud