I don't think there was ever a moment when I was like, 'Yeah, I want to be a singer!' I guess it just happened. I performed a lot when I was younger and stuff, but I remember getting to the point where I thought I might have to get a normal job.
I remember standing outside of the dorm by the little terrace. I was going to do this job that I wasn't 100 percent certain of, which ended up being much more fun than I expected [in So Notorious].
Scientists should be doing a better job of guarding their own reputations and of the general scientific community.
Part of the job of being human is to consistently underestimate our effect on other people.
Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner.
The export market is based, on high-paying jobs. I`ve seen statistics that show that people make over 88 a year generally benefit from this because these are export jobs.
Donald Trump's life has born fruit in jobs and generosity. He cannot be bought. He is not a puppet on a string like other candidates.
My dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating.
I suppose the danger when you have a job that involves writing is you can be a bit isolated.
It is necessary to learn how to do a systems analysis of your life, to learn about the effects of places, people, jobs. There are millions of things that go into the study of meditation.
From a very young age my mother persuaded me that I could write for fun, but I had to have a proper job - very good advice.
You could generally inform a real close friend: when you have manufactured a idiot of on your own he does not truly feel you've finished a long lasting job.
My wife and I, we met making a movie. This is not just our job, it's our life. It's what we do naturally whether we're working together or not.
I think it's important to keep an element of fear about yourself because it makes you appreciate the jobs.
Someone comes and drags you in front of the camera, and they're already saying, "Okay, we got it. Moving on. " You get one or two takes. So it's a tough job.
The writer's job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Yes! I did [grow up on a Christmas Tree farm], so this is a good season for me. I was too young to help with the hauling of the trees up the hills and putting them onto cars. So, it was my job to pull off the preying mantis pods off of the Christmas trees. The problem with that is if you leave them on there, people bring them into their house. I forgot to check one time and they hatched all over these people’s house. And there were hundreds of thousands of them. And they had little kids, and they couldn’t kill of them because that’d be a bad Christmas.
If I can convince others that there is a God and that they need to know Him, then I have done my job.
In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote, they sit like stale bread and mutton on the page. In a well-made book, where designer, compositor and printer have all done their jobs, no matter how many thousands of lines and pages, the letters are alive. They dance in their seats. Sometimes they rise and dance in the margins and aisles.
I believe I do my job the way I have to do it.
