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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.
fascination watches horror
I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been something I've wanted to watch and wanted to make. Edgar Wright
fascination kind certain
One person in the 60s fascinated me more than anybody I had ever known. And the fascination I experienced was probably very close to a certain kind of love Andy Warhol
fascination fame secrecy
Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination. Don DeLillo
fascination kill-me personal-life
But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives. Calista Flockhart
fascination fantasy immersion
For me, part of the fascination with making animation is you go to a place; it's a complete immersion in someone else's fantasy. Chris Wedge
fascination twins
I always had a fascination with twins. Francine Pascal
fascination ends mindless
The visual is essentially pornographic, which is to say that it has its end in rapt, mindless fascination. Fredric Jameson
fascination vote
I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science. Joshua Lederberg
fascination doe paper
I still read the British papers, but I've never been a Royalist, ever. It's funny, there always seems to be much more of a fascination with the Royal Family over here then there does in England. Paul Bettany
illusion
Change is an illusion because we're always at the place where any future can take us.
illusion should ends
At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming. Aprilynne Pike
illusion fame given
Fame is an illusion. Things can be given to you quite easily, but they get ripped away so quickly as well. Ashley Olsen
illusion lover shakespeare theatre
Shakespeare was such a lover of theatre, and theatre is an illusion. Dean Gilmour
illusion
I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury. Sydney Smith
illusion thousand ten
Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths. Alexander Pushkin
illusion
Time is an illusion. Albert Einstein
illusion maybe people understand
Maybe it was an illusion to think people would understand after 23 years that we are unbiased. I can't understand why we've been targeted.
illusions rich
I don't have any illusions that I'll become rich off this project.